Filipino businesses in Vancouver

Association of Aklanons in British Columbia that keeps up the Ati-Atihan tradition of Kalibo, Aklan. It holds a yearly Ati-Atihan and Sto. Niño celebration in Vancouver, its 45th in January 2026, and supports hospitals in Aklan.

Vancouver non-profit for British Columbians of Igorot heritage from the Cordillera provinces of Benguet, Ifugao, Bontoc, Abra, Apayao and Kalinga. It holds a yearly Grand Cañao, an anniversary gala, a seniors’ tribute and a Christmas party.

Independent, non-commercial digital newsmagazine for Filipinos in Canada, published by the Maple Bamboo Network Society, a volunteer-run Vancouver non-profit. It covers community news, people, business, culture and opinion, with a focus on British Columbia.

Community organisation for Filipinos in Metro Vancouver who trace their roots to Cebu or speak Cebuano. It runs social events, cultural programmes and outreach that celebrate Cebuano language and festivals.

Kapampangan hometown association founded in 1985 in Metro Vancouver. It holds an annual anniversary gala and picnic, and funds disaster relief and scholarships for students in Pampanga and Tarlac.

The Vancouver chapter of El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Fellowship International, the Philippine Catholic charismatic movement, has served Filipinos in British Columbia since 1992. It holds its Sunday gathering at St Jude's Parish on Renfrew Street, with an El Shaddai Mass on the first Sunday of the month, and has a cell group in Langley.

Families for Christ Community is a Catholic community of families based in Metro Vancouver, listed by the Archdiocese of Vancouver's Filipino Ministry among its Filipino Catholic associations. It holds regular community assemblies at parishes such as Holy Eucharist Cathedral in New Westminster and St Monica in Richmond, and is affiliated with The Sword of the Spirit.

Vancouver non-profit, registered as the Filipino Canadian Community and Cultural Society of BC, that runs Filipino community and cultural programmes and is planning a community and cultural centre in Vancouver. In 2025 it ran a donation drive with the Canadian Red Cross for typhoon victims in the Philippines.

Modern Filipino restaurant and bar on East Hastings Street, opened in June 2025 by the four friends behind the Bigboy's Chigs to-go and catering business. Its chef-driven menu reworks dishes such as chicken inasal, sinigang and caldereta, with Filipino-inspired cocktails, brunch and event bookings.

Filipino restaurant on Victoria Drive serving home-style Filipino cooking and ihaw-ihaw grilled dishes for dine-in, takeout and delivery, plus party trays.

Vancouver restaurants of Jollibee, the Philippine fast-food chain, run as company-operated stores by Jollibee Foods Corporation's North American arm. The Granville Street store opened in 2022 as the first in British Columbia and hosted Philippine President Marcos and Prime Minister Carney in July 2026; a second Vancouver store is on Cambie Street.

Family-run Filipino restaurant on East Broadway near Fraser Street, run by Emil and Rizha, serving Bacolod-style chicken inasal, pancit, grilled pork and all-day breakfast. It also offers boodle fight platters and party trays for dine-in or pickup.

Filipino restaurant on Commercial Drive co-owned by Rose Samaniego, cooking traditional dishes such as kare-kare, crispy pata and bicol express, with kamayan feasts and party trays. Since August 2026 it also hosts TASA, a Filipino coffee counter serving pandesal and kare-kare lattes in the mornings.

Turo-turo style Vancouver outlet of Kumare Restaurant and Bakery, the Filipino restaurant group run by owner Mary Loa, serving Filipino comfort food for dine-in, pickup and delivery near Joyce-Collingwood Station. Kumare's main restaurant and bakery is in Richmond.

Filipino family-owned lechon business in Vancouver, serving since 2019, that roasts whole lechon, lechon belly and lechon de leche to order with delivery on short notice.

Barbecue shop and market on Fraser Street specialising in Filipino-style lechon, including whole roast pig and lechon belly to order.

Family-owned Filipino cake and dessert shop specialising in ube and Filipino-inspired cakes such as the Ube Rival and ube flan, with its main store and production kitchen on Nanaimo Street. A second shop serving cakes, bubble tea and ube lattes opened at Shops at New West in January 2025.

Filipino kakanin shop on Victoria Drive making puto bumbong, bibingka galapong and other traditional rice cakes, serving since 2019 with pickup and online ordering.

Bean-to-bar chocolate maker and shop on Granville Island, co-founded in 2015 by Vince Garcia with three friends after his father sent cacao from the family property in the Cagayan Valley, Philippines. Its name is Tagalog for companion, and it sources Philippine cacao alongside other origins.

Handmade donut shop in the Granville Island Public Market, founded in 1979 and owned since 2017 by Filipino-Canadian couple Allan and Celine Bacani, who have grown it to several Metro Vancouver locations and added Filipino-inspired flavours such as ube.

Filipino dessert shop on Fraser Street owned by Lory Riego, making taho (warm soft tofu with arnibal syrup and sago) from scratch for more than a decade, alongside other Filipino sweets.

Filipino bakeshop and grocery at Main Street and East 11th Avenue, the long-time Aling Mary's location, baking cheesy milky donuts, egg pies, ensaymada and other Filipino breads and treats. It also has a pickup point in Surrey.

Vancouver office of Metro Remittance (Canada), Inc., the Canadian remittance subsidiary of Metrobank, the Philippine bank, on Fraser Street. It sends money to bank accounts and cash pick-up points in the Philippines.

The first Filipino co-operative in British Columbia, launched in 2009 and registered with BC Registries in 2010. It offers members loans, a remittance service, savings and travel plans, mutual aid and help with housing.

Vancouver branch of PNB Remittance Company (Canada), the remittance subsidiary of the Philippine National Bank, on West Broadway. It sends money to the Philippines and takes bills and SSS payments.

Vancouver-based non-profit society of mainly Filipino-Canadian visual artists, with roots going back to 1968. It offers mentorship, life drawing and summer plein air painting, and runs group exhibitions and art classes, including at Art Vancouver.

Vancouver-based Filipino arts collective, active since 2002 and registered as a non-profit in 2013, that shares Indigenous Philippine music, dance, martial arts and ceremony. It runs workshops, healing circles and community performances on unceded Coast Salish territory.

Filipino store on Fraser Street selling Filipino groceries, barong and Filipiniana wear and phone accessories, with remittance, balikbayan box, phone card and phone repair services.

Filipino specialty grocery on Joyce Street selling Filipino snacks, drinks, pantry goods and baked treats, with money remittance. The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver lists it as a Filipino-owned store.

Canadian headquarters of Forex eShip, the balikbayan box forwarder that began as Forex Cargo, run by Tovi de Guzman from a unit on Ontario Street in Vancouver. It picks up boxes across the Lower Mainland and works with agents and Filipino stores in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario.