The best restaurants Zamboanga

Established for many years in Zamboanga, Mano-Mano is a very good popular restaurant! With its bamboo and nippa roof, it always seems to be crowded. People come here mainly for seafood and fish, but you'll also find all the Filipino specialties based on pork and chicken (adobo, crispy pata, pancit...). Dishes are served on bamboo plates covered with large banana leaves. The al fresco veranda lets in a gentle breeze that's not to be sniffed at!

This is undoubtedly one of Zamboanga's most popular restaurants. The establishment is renowned for its bagoong and curacha (endemic shellfish), as well as for its seafood platters arranged on banana leaves, in the Filipino fashion known as boodle fight. They are as beautiful visually as they are tasty. You can dine al fresco, in the shaded patio at the back. Service can be a little slow, but no one's in a hurry, right?

This Chinese-inspired restaurant focuses on seafood. Here, everything is fresh, from curacha (a type of crab endemic to the region, in a delicious garlic sauce) to latu salad (a type of seaweed), lapu-lapu (grouper) and lobster. There's no set menu here: waiters present the day's fish according to the catch and arrivals. You choose your fish and it's prepared directly for you in the kitchen. All fresh and tasty, this is a good address.