Specialty coffee shop · 📍 General Luna, Siargao
A homegrown specialty roaster run by Arnie, a former Google barista, that most regulars rank as the best coffee in General Luna. The signature Creamy Cloud 9 cold brew and a famously good French toast keep the small shop rammed from early morning.
A small everything-coconut café on Tourism Road: coconut coffee freezes, Vietnamese ca phe sua, buko shakes and homemade coconut ice cream served in coconut-shell bowls. It has one of the highest ratings of any food spot on the island despite being little more than a cool, rustic room.
A roadside barbecue institution on the Dapa–General Luna road where you point at skewers — pork BBQ, chicken, tuna belly, squid, eggplant — and they hit the flaming grill on the spot. The smoke drifting over the road at dusk has been pulling in surfers and local families for years.
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 island's original pizza institution, built around a brick oven imported from Italy and attached to a long-running surf resort. Wood-fired pizzas and homemade pastas come out of a busy open kitchen to a garden full of post-surf crowds, and Condé Nast Traveler has called its pizza and pasta arguably the best in the country.