Cabalen Restaurant

Cabalen Restaurant is a casual and amiable restaurant of molave wood tables and chairs and folk songs playing in the background, Cabalen serves up traditional Filipino entrees heavy on influences from the Campanga region of Central Luzon.

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Typical dishes include bopiz (kidney), Gatang Kohol (snails in coconut milk), Ensalata Ampalaya (a bitter vegetable with garlic and ginger), and laing (a root vegetable in coconut milk. There’s also choices of pork, beef, and fish stews, as well as Chinese influenced fried Lumpia, Pinakbet (noodles), and Adobos (traditional barbeque). Finish off with some local ice cream or one of the rice-based puddings (yam, corn, or plain milk), or the fried banana.

For 25 years, the Cabalen chain of restaurants has been the standard for excellent Filipino cuisine. Combining the freshest ingredients and the most stringent quality control, Cabalen has kept its patrons coming back for more through the consistency in Taste and Quality of its dishes served in the buffet. Balikbayans and regular patrons say that dining at a Cabalen Restaurant will make you feel the aunthentic traditional home-cooked food the Kapampangan way that you have not experienced for a long time in a very reasonable priced buffet. This is why Cabalen is every family’s all-time and leading buffet favorite for 25 years now.

   Cabalen, which literally translates to a fellow Capampangan, is a group of casual - fine dining restaurants known for authentic Capampangan dishes and different Filipino specialties, originating from Pampanga. This province is known to food connoisseurs as the seat of sumptuous food and delicacies while the Capampangans are widely known as people with good taste and innate cooking talent. These factors contributed to the eventual birth of Cabalen, the Capampangan specialty restaurants.

     Cabalen family started in 1974 in San Fernando, Pampanga as a small Bahay Pasalubong Restaurant selling specialty food dishes, then grew into a restaurant called "Ituro Mo, Iluto Ko". In 1986, the first Cabalen Eat-all-you-Can, Eat-all-you-Want Restaurant was opened in West Avenue, Quezon City that ushered the expansion .to more outlets. Gradually it became the most popular buffet restaurant in the Philippines.

The selection of original and mouth-watering native food in this Manila restaurant is amazing. One may opt to have a courteous waiter attend to the native dishes ordered, or else go for for the eat-all-you-can buffet style. Most patrons of Cabalen-Manila prefer the buffet style. Aside from being fun and enjoyable, people get a chance to sample all the dishes lined up for the fiesta-style buffet in this Filipino native food classy restaurant.

Just pay the buffet fee of P300 per person and one gets to enjoy all the sumptuous native dishes on display on the long buffet dinner table of this Manila restaurant. All dishes are kept warm through a steamy-hot pot holder used in catering services.

The usual dishes served at Cabalen-Manila, a Filipino native food classy restaurant popular for having a festive dining atmosphere and native interior design theme, are beef caldereta, chicken tinola, deep fried small crabs, fish and prawn sinigang, pork barbecues, grilled pork chops, fried chicken, roasted pig, deep fried squid rings, fried and grilled sea and fresh water fish sinugba, beef or pork kare-kare, pork menudo, beef and pork sinigang, and many more.

	BRANCHES	ADULT	KID
	Robinsons Place Manila,	P368 / Head All day buffet	P210 / head 4 feet and below
	West Avenue, Quezon City	P368 / Head (Lunch Buffet) P318 / Head (Dinner Buffet)
	Ayala Mall Subic, SM City Clark, Robinsons Starmills, Pampanga, SM City Cebu	P298 All day buffet
	Market-Market Taguig,	P298 + P40 (bottomless drink) All day buffet
	SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City	P468 All day buffet	P270 / head 4 feet and below
	TriNoma Mall, Glorietta, SM Megamall

BRANCHES	ADULT	KID
	Robinsons Place Manila,	P368 / Head All day buffet	P210 / head 4 feet and below
	West Avenue, Quezon City	P368 / Head (Lunch Buffet) P318 / Head (Dinner Buffet)
	Ayala Mall Subic, SM City Clark, Robinsons Starmills, Pampanga, SM City Cebu	P298 All day buffet
	Market-Market Taguig,	P298 + P40 (bottomless drink) All day buffet
	SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City	P468 All day buffet	P270 / head 4 feet and below
	TriNoma Mall, Glorietta, SM Megamall	P398 All day buffet