Davao Delicious

Of all the eat-all-you-can-crab buffet restaurants that have sprouted all over Davao City, Let’s Crab Eat! is one of the best in town. They serve crab in two types of sauce: Szechuan and Sate. Personally, I prefer the former — the taste is more agreeable and the crab meat is still moist. The Sate Crab [...]

From my first time there and up to now, Picobello Ristorante Italiano has always been one of my most favored restaurants in Davao City. Their unfailingly delicious Italian dishes are a mainstay in the city’s culinary culture, and the restaurant now holds the distinction of being a gastronomic institution hereabouts. It was entirely unsurprising, therefore, [...]

The first time I had the chance to taste Richie Ferrazzini‘s Paella Negra was way back in 2008, when his open-air restaurant was called “My Brother’s Kitchen”. It was superb! I didn’t blog about it then, since the friends who brought me there, Mandy Dinglasan and Maej Villanueva, told me it was a mostly by-invitation-only [...]

Handuraw, a restaurant chain from Cebu, is now one of my favorite pizza places in Davao City. Their thin-crust pizzas are expertly made and they have various toppings that are flavorful and adventurous.

The area in Davao City called Barrio Obrero is fast becoming commercialized, what with its proximity to Victoria Plaza Mall, and a university right in the middle of it. I’ve been noticing that a lot of different types of businesses have been opening up in Obrero — Internet cafés, massage clinics or spas (on one [...]

This delightful little restaurant is a proud addition to Davao’s culinary landscape. Their paella and pasta offerings are highly recommended, and they are also well-known for their bread and pastries.

Claude’s Café will be transferring very soon to its very own space, just across the street to the Oboza ancestral home on Rizal. I was quite thrilled to learn of this, because I had long wanted to see the inside of that enigmatic house. It’s one of the few remaining pre-War-era residences in the city, and it’s welcome news indeed that Mr. & Mrs. Claude Le Neindre are going to preserve it and open its gates to Davao’s restaurant patrons.

A few pizzerias have opened up in Davao since last year, and I’ve tried them all, but I’m afraid to say that none of them have made the grade, so to speak. When I ate pizza at those new places, I felt like I should’ve gone to Pizza Hut instead… But there’s one, which opened [...]

It’s been too long that I’ve kept Davao Delicious wallowing in blog limbo — but that’s partly because of all the travels outside of Davao that I was doing in 2010. So, to get the cooking pot stewing again, I changed the site’s theme once more (with an excellent one called CityGuide by WooThemes) and [...]

Izakaya 【居酒屋】 /n/ tavern, pub; traditional Japanese bar. Nonki 【呑ん気】 /adj/ carefree, optimistic; happy-go-lucky. I don’t know exactly why the owners decided on the “Nonki” name, but one of the Japanese characters for it does carry the meaning for drinking, so… At any rate, I’m glad that we now have a branch of Nonki Japanese [...]