A chef-owned seafood comfort-food shack across the road from the Cloud 9 entrance, famous for its Tuna Smash Cheeseburger, fish tacos and build-your-own seafood platters. Chef-owner Agnes works the room herself, and board games on the tables set the unhurried surf-town tone.
A Singaporean-run kitchen near the Jacking Horse on Cloud 9 Drive serving laksa, bak kut teh, beef rendang and handmade pork-and-shrimp dumplings. Locals call it the most consistent kitchen on the island — every plate comes out the same, every time.
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.
A tiny shack on Tourism Road that became the most famous restaurant on the island, run by chef David del Rosario, a former Manila stockbroker turned raw-fish obsessive. The menu marries Peruvian ceviche with Filipino kinilaw — the Pacifico ceviche with coconut-milk leche de tigre, roasted corn and sweet potato is the signature.
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.