Poblacion Food Crawl in Makati, Philippines

The Poblacion area is trendy. It’s becoming increasingly popular as a food and arts hub in Makati. Cultured but unpolished, hip but a little seedy, it reminds me of what Malate in Manila used to be.

With all the interesting restaurants popping up in the neighborhood, Poblacion has recently been the subject of local lifestyle shows and blog posts. Going on what’s called a “Poblacion food crawl”, people would visit the area and go to as many restaurants or bars as they could in one night. That’s exactly what we set out to do when we stayed two nights at La Casita Mercedes. We wanted to come up with as much material for this post as possible, so we stayed an entire weekend in Poblacion to explore as many restaurants as we could.

To help us decide which places to include, Ren hopped on Zomato and listed down all the restaurants in the Poblacion area with at least a 4.0 rating. In our experience, people on Zomato are the stingiest when it comes to ratings, so we…