Filipino businesses in Canberra

Filipino food truck on Beecroft Street in Coombs, Canberra, run since November 2022 by Pampanga-born owner Rossel Buan Mariano. It serves pork and chicken adobo, sisig, kwek-kwek and barbecue skewers, and caters local events.

Filipino restaurant at the Chisholm shops in Canberra’s south, trading at night in the Black & White cafe space. The menu includes pork barbecue skewers, pork sisig, chicken inasal, kare-kare and lumpiang shanghai.

Filipino eatery and bakery at the Watson shops in Canberra that started in a shipping container at Westside Acton Park in 2015. It is known for its ube cake, bagnet and sisig, adobo-glazed chicken wings, kare-kare and halo-halo, with weekly specials.

Filipino craft bakery, restaurant and bar in the Highgate building on City Walk in central Canberra. It serves Filipino breakfasts such as tapsilog and longsilog, lunch and dinner dishes such as chicken inasal, cocktails, and baked goods from an on-site baker, including ube cakes, pan de coco and Spanish bread.

Licensed cafe in the Gold Creek precinct of Nicholls, in Canberra’s north, serving traditional Filipino food and cafe breakfasts with specialty coffee, plus catering. The same team runs Cafe Luzon in Lyneham.

Filipino restaurant in Gungahlin, Canberra, serving home-style regional dishes since late 2022, including Cebu lechon (roast suckling pig), sisig and Luzon specialties. Owner Sharon May is known in the Filipino community for desserts such as ube flan, crinkle cookies and dulce de leche cake.

Asian grocery at the Fyshwick Fresh Food Markets in Canberra, founded by Emma Francisco, who started the business from a garage in Banks in 2000 and opened the market shop in 2003. It stocks Philippine and Japanese goods that are hard to find elsewhere in Canberra, plus groceries from across Asia.