Filipino businesses in London

Independent modern Filipino bistro on Kentish Town Road, founded by restaurateur Omar Shah and reworking classic French bistro cooking through a Filipino lens. The kitchen dry-ages, ferments and slow-cooks its ingredients, and the restaurant sits in the Maginhawa Group alongside Bintang, Mamasons and Bunso. It appears in the Michelin Guide's London selection.

Filipino restaurant on Kentish Town Road in Camden, open since 1987 and describing itself as London's oldest Filipino restaurant. The kitchen cooks Filipino home food for sharing, such as kare-kare in peanut sauce and adobo braised slowly in vinegar and soy, with weekend brunch and karaoke nights. Large tables at the back are built for birthdays and group dinners, and the restaurant also takes private-hire and large-group bookings.

Family-run Filipino restaurant on Cable Street in Wapping, opened in 2008 by chef Cirilo Ragasa after more than twenty years cooking in London hotels and restaurants. The kitchen serves its own take on Filipino classics, including seabass kinilaw, sizzling sisig and a spiced pancit bihon, and the small dining room takes bookings for groups of up to ten.

Filipino restaurant and bar on North End Road in Fulham, opened on 25 April 2026 as the first franchise of the D'Cocina group and its fourth UK branch. Alongside the group's signature Filipino dishes it runs a full drinks list, live music and karaoke, and the venue can be hired for private events.

Modern Filipino restaurant in Kingly Court, Carnaby, from Florence Mae Maglanoc's 1996 Group, harmonising Filipino flavours with contemporary technique and British ingredients. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and serves a lunch and dinner menu Tuesday to Sunday, with a private hire room.

Filipino-inspired street-food business founded in 2014 by brothers Jonathan and Justice Cacho, who grew up in Peckham and now run permanent sites in Peckham, Elephant and Castle and White City. The menu is built around chicken inasal and beef adobo served as rice boxes, burritos or salads, with loaded Filishack fries.

Philippine fast-food chain's West End restaurant on Leicester Square, described by the company as its flagship Leicester Square site and the first Jollibee in the West End. It serves the chain's Chickenjoy fried chicken, Jolly Spaghetti with a sweet Filipino-style sauce, burgers and desserts, and trades for dine-in and takeaway every day.

Filipino street-food stall at the Back Yard Market entrance on Brick Lane, run by Ed, a Filipino head chef who trained and worked on international cruise ships before setting up the business. It serves chicken inasal, adobo rice boxes and barbecue, and also caters private events and weddings.

Bakery by day and pizzeria and listening bar by night on Hawley Road in Kentish Town, opened on 13 October 2026 by Omar Shah and the Maginhawa Group. The bakery laminates pastries and bakes pandesal, with items such as a mango and sticky rice Danish, pandan cream cruffin, banana turon pain suisse and adobo mushroom puff, while the evening kitchen tops pizzas with longanisa, laing and kaldereta. The name is the Filipino word for the youngest child.

Filipino-Japanese cafe and bakery on Kentish Town Road in the Maginhawa Group, serving Japanese-style milk-bread sandos built on Filipino flavours such as adobo, longanisa and corned beef, all on house-baked pandesal. The counter bakes ube mochi croissants, cookie croissants, ensaymada and Spanish bread, and the drinks list runs to Spanish and ube lattes, ceremonial-grade matcha and Milo tiramisu.

Filipino ice cream parlour in Newport Court, Chinatown, serving Manila-style dirty ice cream in flavours built on ube and other Filipino ingredients, alongside Filipino desserts and drinks. It is part of the Maginhawa Group and also trades from a Kentish Town Road shop.

Filipino bakery on Picton Place in Marylebone, the first outpost of the Panadera brand and the smaller of its two London bakeries. It bakes pandesal fresh daily and builds its menu around pandesal sandos, including the corned beef hash sando with calamansi ketchup and garlic aioli, alongside ube doughnuts, Filipino pastries and ube matcha lattes.

Balikbayan box forwarder on Hay Lane in Kingsbury, shipping boxes, wooden crates, liftvans and containers from the UK to the Philippines for the Filipino community, alongside personal-effects shipping and whole-house removals. It also arranges door-to-door delivery and provides tracking.

Filipino family-run freight forwarder in Leyton, London, founded by Richard Bagano Pooten and Conchita Balagtey Pooten. The company sends balikbayan boxes from the UK to the Philippines with door-to-door delivery, and also handles container shipments, personal belongings and house-clearance shipments for people returning to the Philippines.

Filipino folk dance company based at St Andrew RC Church Hall on Frognal Lane in Hampstead, formed in 1994 from volunteers brought together by the Philippine Centre London and directed by choreographer Ronnie del Barrio. It performs Filipino folk dance and music across London and Europe, and marked its 32nd anniversary in June 2026 with a production at St Andrews Church in Hampstead.

Filipino supper club and catering business run by brothers Mark and Mike, who grew up in Hong Kong and started cooking the Filipino food of their childhood in a flat in south-east London in 2013. They now run ticketed supper clubs and private event catering across London, with a menu built around adobo, kare-kare, lechon porchetta, leche flan and bibingka.

Filipino and oriental grocery on North Street in Romford, trading as Filipino Oriental Mart Ltd. It is a food-retail premises on the London Borough of Havering hygiene register.

Filipino and wider Asian grocery on Hogarth Road in Earl's Court, trading as Phil Ventures UK Ltd and stocking dry goods, frozen meat and fish, fresh fruit and vegetables, Filipino delicacies and prepared meals, plus an off-licence. It also acts as an LBC agent taking balikbayan box drop-offs.

Immigration law firm trading as a name of M Wong Advice Ltd and regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority under registration F202309023. Senior immigration solicitor Melanie Wong advises Filipino clients on spouse and partner visas, Skilled Worker and sponsor licences, indefinite leave to remain and British citizenship, and the firm publishes a dedicated service page for the Filipino community.

Boutique immigration, family and employment law practice founded by solicitors Crystal Dias and Chris Dias, working with employers, entrepreneurs, families and individuals across the UK. The firm advises in English, Tagalog and Ilocano and states that its team includes Filipino solicitors and the children of Filipino migrants, with Crystal Dias named among the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World.

London-based Filipino community charity, registered with the Charity Commission since 2012, that runs events, fundraising and support for Filipino women and their families in the UK. It marked 38 years of activity with a Salo-Salo gathering in 2026 and publishes an event calendar and fundraising programme.

Battersea congregation of the Philippine-founded Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ), with its place of worship on Parkgate Road. The congregation holds English-language worship services, children’s worship and Bible study, and belongs to the church’s Britain South district.

Home care agency in Twickenham providing personal care, live-in care, help at home and companion support. It was founded in 2014 by Myla Manlongat, a chartered physiotherapist with a nursing degree from the Philippines, and is registered with the Care Quality Commission for personal care; its last published inspection rated the service good.

Filipino martial arts gym in West London teaching Doce Pares eskrima, Yaw-Yan kickboxing and sport stickfighting with weapons and empty-hand training. Its chief senior instructor, Ermar Alexander, is described by the club as an eight-time world champion, and senior instructor Diana Fauner as a sixteen-time world champion. It runs group classes, seminars, workshops and screen-fighting training for all levels.