The café-bar sitting directly in front of the Cloud 9 boardwalk, where fresh coconuts, mango shakes and cold beers come with front-row seats to the island's most famous wave. Beach day-beds, a long happy hour and sunset over the tower make it as much a hangout as a café.
The smoothie-bowl spot that started Siargao's health-food wave, perched at the end of Tourism Road with a terrace looking straight out at the Cloud 9 pier and lineup. Thick, fruit-loaded bowls, cold-pressed juices and banana bread are made from whatever is fresh on the island that day.
A café, yoga shala and cluster of kubo rooms in a garden near Pacifico's surf breaks, and easily the best brunch stop on the island's north end. Homemade sourdough anchors the menu — shakshuka served on it, and latik sourdough pancakes with caramelised coconut syrup.
The restaurant of a small French-run villa resort where tables sit directly on the sand under the palms. The wood-fired pizzas compete with Kermit's for the island's best, backed by homemade pasta, a French-leaning menu and one of the better wine lists on Siargao.
The Spanish kitchen at Bravo Beach Resort, with a deck opening straight onto the General Luna beachfront and Pesangan reef. Paella, croquetas, patatas bravas and calamares share the menu with burgers and Asian plates, and it doubles as one of the island's favorite sunset cocktail spots.