Pampanga offers not only adventures and natural wonders. This prosperous province is also home to some of the best cuisines and wine lists in the Philippines. As it becomes one of the important business and investment hubs near Manila, the need for good restaurants becomes more evident than ever. Amidst the many restaurants all over Pampanga, here are the top 5 restaurants that have served as favorite hangouts and the best dining places for locals and visitors of the province.

 

Dine like a King at Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar

Website clarkboard.com features Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar, located along Cardinal Santos Avenue in the Clark Freeport Zone.  Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar is one of the highly recommended restaurants in the province. Being an international wine club, this 80-seater restaurant is open to the public. Many business luncheons, gatherings, and other dinners are held in this restaurant.

Yats is famous for its excellent food and outstanding service that delight new and returning customers alike. Yat's never fails to disappoint because it always has something new to offer and serve. Their menu is characterized as classic fine dining a la French Mediterranean cuisine.

Each item on their menu is truly a unique experience on its own. Options like rabbit, crocodile, kangaroo, pheasant, and venison among many others are typically uncommon in the country but are simply must-tries you shouldn't miss.

The special wine pairing dinner is a particular offer that no one should miss. You get to pick your wine and they will fix you a meal to match your choice. Saturday night is bring your own bottle night. The set menu for Saturday night is truly awesome and it perfectly matches the drinks. The culinary team truly makes guests dine like royalty.

Your visit to Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar is made complete by the wine briefing, tasting, and a tour of the cellar. Their cellar holds over 5,000 labels, which is quite a remarkable collection to say the least. This exquisite list includes the best wines from every wine region the world over. They even have bottles that have the prices pegged over a million. Take note, it's actually more than just a mere wine shop.

 

Enticing Treats at Maranao Grill

Website angelescity-guide.com features Maranao Grill in Angeles City as a favorite destination of the hungry traveler. One specialty of this restaurant is the tender and juicy grilled steak. Other delicious menus includes buffet specials which are international cuisine like roast beef, sushi, and tempura, best for customers who are craving for appetizing Japanese dishes. The restaurant features a Muslim-inspired theme and design that makes it one of the most relaxing and comforting dining facilities within the area.

 

Great Mexican Resto in Zapata

Faithraagas.blogspot.com features Iguana's Cantina Mexicana (formerly Zapata's) in Angeles, Pampanga.  It still holds its reputation as one of the best Mexican restaurants in the country that seem to cater the most and finest Mexican dishes that will surely love by your taste buds.

It has moved from 480 Don Juico Avenue to 50 Meliton Road go further down Don Juico Avenue, away from Robinson's place and way past C's Italian Dining.

 

Foodtrippings at C’ Italian Dining

Blogsite frannywanny.com features C’ Italian Dining, located at 1210 Don Juico Ave., Malabanas, Clarkview, Balibago, Angeles.  C’ Italian Dining is definitely one of the most relaxing and comforting dining facilities within the area that offers services that are quite fast yet highly efficient, greatly contributing to the total satisfaction that its customers always experience.

C' Italian Dining is known for their Panizza, a unique creation of fine crisp dough topped with a blend of five different cheese and herbs, infused with tomato paste, white truffle oil and shrimps. The panizza was incredible and each order of panizza at C' Italian comes with a hefty bowl of arugula and alfalfa leaves.

 

Taste the Famous Sisig at Aling Lucing Sisig Restaurant

One place one should not miss in any Pampanga food trip is Aling Lucing’s Sisig Restaurant. Among all the dishes the province is known for, sisig stands out in terms of popularity and taste.

Lucia "Lucing" Cunanan was a Filipino restaurateur credited in some quarters as having invented or re-invented sisig, a Kapampangan dish now popular all over the Philippines. She established Aling Lucing's featured what has been said as a reinvented variant of sisig which soon became nationally famous. The popularity of her sisig had helped establish Angeles as the "Sisig Capital of the Philippines", and Cunanan herself was dubbed as the "Sisig Queen".

 

Accomodations

If you are planning to spend overnight or days in Pampanga here are some of the near accommodations that you may check into.

• Savannah Resort - Don Juico Avenue, 2009, Clark Perimeter (Angeles City), Angeles / Clark, Philippines
• Century Hotel - Century Complex, Balibago, Fields (Angeles City), Angeles / Clark, Philippines 2009
• Tune Hotel - Angeles City - Don Juico Avenue, Malabanias, Clark Perimeter (Angeles City), Angeles / Clark, Philippines
• Maharajah Hotel - 3 Texas Street, Villasol Subdivision, Angeles City, Clark Perimeter (Angeles City), Angeles / Clark, Philippines
• Affinity Condo Resort - 107A Sofia Street, Josefa Subdivision, Malabanias, Fields (Angeles City), Angeles / Clark, Philippines
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Getting to Pampanga

Motorists and commuters will arrive in Pampanga in just 1-½ hours by car or bus from Manila through the North Luzon Expressway exiting via San Fernando, Angeles or Dau Toll Plaza.

All bus lines linking Manila with Baguio, Pangasinan, and Ilocos pass through the province. Philippine Rabbit serves the provincial capital (San Fernando) from Manila. Victory Liner links Angeles City and Olongapo City. Baliwag Transit and E. Jose Transport operates route services from Olongapo City to Cabanatuan City in Nueva Ecija via San Fernando, Pampanga. Arayat Express also serves the San Fernando-Cabanatuan route. Other buses that pass through the towns of Pampanga include Dagupan Bus Lines, Dangwa Tranco, Five Star Bus Co., Farinas Transit, Franco Federico Lines, Maria De Leon Trans, Partas Trans Co. and Viron Transit.

Also, there are jeepneys and/or mini-buses in each town or city that serve inter-zonal points towards other parts of the province.