Top Rated Filipino Restaurants in California

What are the top-rated Filipino restaurants?

Here are some top-rated Filipino restaurants in California:

Top Picks in Los Angeles:

L.A. Rose Cafe: Offers classic Filipino comfort food with a cozy atmosphere. Try their lumpia, kare-kare, and halo-halo. Located at 3277 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles.

Neri’s Casual Filipino Dining: Authentic Filipino home-style cooking with a wide variety of options. Located at 3439 W 3rd St, Los Angeles.

Sampa: Innovative Filipino-American cuisine with dishes like adobo fried chicken. Located at 162 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles.

The Naides Menu- 13 Course Tasting Menu for $209 per person  

Top Picks in the Bay Area:

Abacá: SF’s first Filipino fine dining restaurant, offering a tasting menu with dishes like arroz caldo and lechon. Located inside the Kimpton Alton Hotel.

Restaurant Naides: Upscale Filipino dining with a 13-course tasting menu featuring unexpected takes on Filipino standards. Located in Nob Hill.

Russ Fam Kitchen: Known for its crispy lechon kawali and other Filipino staples, located in a Daly City gas station.

Mestiza: Vegan Filipino options like mushroom sisig and vegetable lumpia, with a cozy patio seating area. Located in SoMa.

FOB Kitchen: Known for its modern Filipino cuisine with innovative dishes like ube pancakes and sisig fries. Located in Oakland, but worth the trip

Tropa, Upscale Manila Dining-Located in Downtown, Lafayette, CA  

Other Recommendations:

Manila Inasal: Grilled chicken and pork barbecue skewers with unlimited rice. Located in Artesia.

Dollar Hits: Creative Filipino breakfast dishes like spam musubi and longanisa breakfast burritos. Located in Fullerton

Lasita Rotisserie & Natural Wine: Filipino rotisserie meats paired with natural wine. Located in Berkeley.

The Philippine Kitchen: Classic Filipino cuisine with dishes like crispy pata and pancit palabok. Located in Gardena.

Batchoyan Ilonggo Restaurant: Specializing in regional Filipino cuisine from the Visayas region. Located in Norwalk.

California's Filipino culinary scene in 2026 is defined by a mix of critically acclaimed fine dining, modern "Cali-pino" fusion, and traditional "turo-turo" (point-point) cafeteria-style spots. 

Abacá  in San Francisco and  

FOB Kitchen 

 in Oakland remain premier destinations with Michelin recognition. 

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