Dumaguete

Cheap and tasty shawarma; the best seller is beef or chicken shawarma wrapped in pita at ₱30, or 35 with cheese. The most expensive thing on the menu is shawarma rice for ₱50; two of the sandwiches are a better buy.If you expect shawarma as you would find it in the Middle East, you will be disappointed here. For that, at slightly higher prices, walk a block north to Mediterranean Food (Turkish, listed at #Other downtown places) or go to Tarbush (Lebanese, #North of the center).

Scooby's is a chain with various locations around town. Their brewed coffee at ₱50 is both a larger serving and (at least for some tastes) better quality than most coffee offered on Rizal Boulevard at ₱70-120. They also have all the usual variations on espresso, several types of herbal tea, a range of mostly western-style baked goods, and moderately-priced mostly Filipino hot foods. There is a seniors' discount if you have a Philippine senior ID. ACR card not accepted.For Western tastes, most Filipino spaghetti sauces are appallingly sweet, and many will find the spaghetti here downright ghastly. Order the lasagna here (₱55) or go to Filomena for a much better cheap (₱45) spaghetti. For excellent pasta at considerably higher prices, try Mafioso or Pasta King.

Another location.

A small stand selling coffee, crepes, waffles & fruit shakes. All are freshly made and good quality; plum crepes and avocado shakes are remarkable. Best buy is a combo, shake plus waffle. It is only one of a group of food stands, so ordering a shake here and getting food elsewhere is possible.
The place is popular with the town's resident foreigners; it gets more younger ones and fewer drunks than their other hangouts.

New in 2019, large, clean and modern. Korean food.

Part of a chain, large with nice decor. Has good air conditioning, free Wifi, and a good selection of both baked goods and variations on the theme of espresso. Prices might be considered good by tourists but are high by local standards.

Large, with much seafood on the menu. Popular with Asian tourists. The city's resident foreigners more often go to Lantaw, listed at #North of the center.

A national chain with several locations in Dumaguete, serving mainly coffee & baked goods. Prices are high by local standards.

(listed under #Sleep) has three upmarket restaurants. All are somewhat expensive, and all have some customers who consider them worth it. There is also a moderately priced burger bar.

Spanish decor & menu, steaks a specialty. All-you-can eat lunch buffet Friday & Saturday, ₱339.

Japanese food.

Filipino food.

Small, clean & modern. Menu is limited — only burgers, fries and soft drinks — but quality is good & prices are quite reasonable for what you get. No beer and not much seating, so do not plan an evening here; just grab a burger then go elsewhere for the beer.

Two small cheap places with mostly Filipino customers, one with BBQ chicken as well as burgers. The burgers are not nearly as good as in the tourist restaurants on the Boulevard, and they are smaller as well, but then they are about a quarter the price. The waitress who brings you the expensive burger elsewhere quite likely eats here on her breaks.

Small and plain compared to other places, with no a/c but many fans, big-screen TVs for sports, sometimes live music.

Nice decor, sake and other Japanese drinks.

One of the oldest cake shops in the city. They occupy a pair of buildings on a corner with the cake shop in the smaller one on the side street and "Sans Rival Bistro" on Rizal.

Offers baked goods (surprise!), drinks, and some pasta and salad dishes.

The bistro offers a broader range including a half dozen breakfast options at ₱200-odd. All-you-can-eat breakfast buffet on Sunday 7:30-10AM for ₱285.

Good Chinese (Cantonese) food, with reasonable service and prices. Large covered patio.

European food, elegant décor, and a good wine list. Their patio is above street level and has a wall, so customers here are not bothered by beggars or street vendors as often as at other establishments.
There are several breakfast options starting at ₱230, all including unlimited coffee and a glass of juice. The American breakfast at ₱295 is bacon, two eggs, bread, and some fried tomatoes and onions.
The Austrian owner/chef sold the place to Filipinos in 2021 and some say it has gone downhill since then.

Chain convenience store with a few tables; the best-selling item is a large soft ice cream cone for ₱15. It also sells soft drinks, snacks and cigarettes; for those it is more expensive than supermarkets but cheaper than the bars. The chain is expanding; there are several other locations around town and more coming.

A building with two floors, built on the location of the Perdices family home; one family member was the provincial governor and has one of the town's main streets named for him. There are two levels, and the lower level has a large shaded central courtyard.

Part of a chain. Delivery available; they use yellow scooters.

Part of a chain. Their specialty is fried chicken. Breakfast from 7:30AM.

Their specialty is milk tea.

Second location; the first one is an in-house restaurant at Hotel Florentina.

One-stop shopping? Restaurant, deli, disco, karaoke, cyber cafe, billiard room, and travel agent under one roof. Beer here is sometimes among the cheapest in town, at ₱42 in the restaurants in the afternoon, but higher at other times and ₱90 at the disco.

Salads, pasta, other types of European and American food, with decent quality and prices. Inside with a/c or patio. The current chef is from Milan but the menu emphasizes German and Swiss specialities. There are also a few Thai dishes, competently done, for those who prefer something spicier. All-you-can eat breakfast buffet on Sundays, ₱331.

Selling meats, wines, cheese & chocolate, with many imported European items. Has a bakery with good croissants and pretzels. There are few tables inside and a small patio in front. Both offer the same menu as Le Chalet, but many customers just come for coffee or beer.

A lively and very loud disco, popular with both travellers and locals, and well known as a pick-up bar. A mix of people come for the dancing, for flirting, or to find a partner for the night or longer. Prostitution is present but not the primary character of the place. The occasional drunken brawl is not unheard of. Attitudes among resident foreigners range from enthusiastic regulars to those who avoid it entirely.

(listed under #Sleep) has a restaurant with a large patio area out front, with live music most evenings. Around the side is a small Japanese restaurant, and inside the building a disco and a sports bar.

A large restaurant offering mainly Italian and Filipino dishes. Highest prices in town for pasta.
Pool table downstairs, table is in better shape than at the one at Why Not? and there are usually fewer players competing for it.

Another place for coffee and baked goods at prices that are high by local standards.

A fine old house renovated in 2018 to become a large restaurant. Part of a large chain with reasonable quality but some unreasonable prices.

Part of a chain that advertises "Mexican-inspired" food. They offer that, various pizza and pasta dishes, and other western dishes; most of it is done competently. Good soups ₱59, burrito ₱139 (quite good, provided you tell them not to put lettuce in it!), pizza from ₱165, small but good steak ₱300. The best-buy drink is bottomless iced tea at ₱58. Other dishes, such as the "nachos" (overpriced chips & salsa) or the "enchiladas" (a salad served in a tortilla), are distinctly unimpressive. Senior's discount 20% but you may need the Philippines senior's ID to claim it; sometimes they will take an ACR card, but not always.

Live jazz on weekends

The specialty is ribs, but they have a range of other dishes.

Part of a chain specializing in barbeque chicken. Favorite among locals and tourists.

In a Silliman University building called Portal West which also has a bank, Scooby's, and several other shops. They also have sandwiches and a breakfast menu.

Many types of dim sum, plus various soups and rice or noodle dishes.

Fantastic wide-ranging menu, very reasonable prices, lovely chilled out studenty vibe and a great building to host it. Quite honestly a breath of fresh air in the Philippines. Wonderful coffee too!

Good Turkish kebabs and donair. They have distinctly unexciting hamburgs for ₱30.

Japanese restaurant. All-you-can eat buffet ₱333, Tu & Sa evenings.

This place serves and advocates healthy food, has a certified nutritionist supervising the food. It is small and a bit difficult to find, but worth the trouble. Serves great four season themed salads, a variety of scrumptious sandwiches and unique rice meals like CoFFeeCHoP (pork chop marinated in coffee) or their cheesy delightful fish dish called 'cheesy dory' a favorite among the locals. You can also try their Butter beer in variety of flavors, including vanilla and banana. It is the only place in town that serves beer (non-alcoholic) to minors.

Pizza and many pasta dishes, done very well. Pasta in two serving sizes, around ₱179 or 319. The small one will be enough for most people, perhaps with a soup or salad if you are quite hungry.

Indian and Malay food. Small, no a/c, a limited menu, and rather slow service. It is well worth putting up with these minor annoyances, though, since the food is good and prices moderate.

Excellent Sichuan food, authentic so much of it is very spicy.

Korean restaurant and grocery store. Neighborhood has a few other restaurants and some guesthouses.

Locally-produced fresh fruit ice cream. Try the fried ice cream! This is a chain with several locations in Dumaguete and a few in nearby towns.

Large shaded patio, big TV with sports, live band Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Open mic on Tuesdays, acoustic performances or karaoke other nights.

Restobar serving cold drinks and both Asian and Western food. Full meals plus a mix and match bar snack menu. Billiard and poker tables plus live music on a couple of nights.

Pool table, darts, sometimes live music.

Big-screen TV mostly showing sports. Live music and ₱250 all-you-can-eat BBQ on weekend evenings.

Offers wide a variety of European pastry, like eclairs, fruit tarts and French macarons. They also have refreshments and coffee.

Tex-Mex food, done well.

Large and popular. Often has live music, reggae every Wednesday. There are several separate places selling food within the complex; one has good pizza and another offers fine Jamaican food.

A large place with upmarket Filipino food, much of it seafood. Popular with prosperous locals and with seafood-loving foreigners. Possibly the best place in town to take a Filipina out to dinner; she will probably both like the food and be impressed by the decor.

A diner in the style of mid-20th century America. Decor includes some old cars and a gorgeous motorcycle; the bar is built inside an old VW van. Menu to match; decent burgers, small but excellent milkshakes, etc. Live music sometimes.

A fairly large place with nice decor, offering both American and Filipino styles of barbecue. Prices are reasonable. BBQ is good, burgers decent but nothing special. Margueritas are awful; have a milkshake or ₱50 beer.

Two Lebanese brothers running a small place for Middle Eastern food. Good shawarma and juices.

Another Italian place, good quality and cheaper than most of the others, with pasta dishes around ₱140.

A good variety of breakfast dishes, including some less common ones like eggs benedict or biscuits & gravy, plus a few other things like chile con carne. They rent the space from the municipality which sets limits on their prices, so they have the cheapest beer in the region at ₱40.

A tiny stand with a few tables and good Mexican food, owned by Americans. Ayla's will not complain if you sit at one of their tables and buy beer from them but get food from Paco's.

Run by a Filipino chef who trained in Mexico . If you like flavorful food, there are Mexican dishes. Cold drinks and margaritas, fresh lemonades, the only air conditioned restaurant in the town with a perfect view.

All rooms have TV.

Wi-Fi available.

A decent budget option in the center of town. Has fan and AC single/double rooms all rooms have own bathroom. Free Wifi.

AC single room with hot water bathroom and cable TV.

AC double room with own hot water bathroom. Cable TV. Free Wi-fi. Has a nice garden to sit in. Can buy breakfast.

AC double room with own bathroom and cable TV.

AC double room with own bathroom and cable TV. Free Wi-fi.

AC single room with own bathroom and cable TV free breakfast, free Wi-fi.

A/C double with queen size bed good for 2 with cable TV and free Wifi.

A/C queen size bed good for two with shared bathroom all rooms have cable TV and DVD player. Free Wi-Fi.

A/C double rooms with own bathroom and cable TV.

Fan single/double rooms with own bathroom and cable TV.

Don't let the name fool you, this is a five-storey, squeaky clean, modern building with a whip-cracking management style that can shame the Swiss. Flunky to open the door to the large and comfortable lobby and its own large generators to power the air-conditioning during frequent brown-outs. Well equipped, en-suite shower rooms and free, cooled, filtered water. 1270 m from the port terminal. This is a non-smoking, no-liquor hotel and pets are not allowed.

50 air con spacious and clean rooms in this hotel. Cable TV, free Internet in rooms, laundry, restaurant.

Local location of a national chain. Set in a colorful, low-rise building, Go Hotels Bacolod is 1 km from the 18th-century Dumaguete Cathedral, 5 km from Ang Tay Golf Course, and a 3-minute walk from Robinsons Place Dumaguete shopping center. Brand new budget hotel with 102 rooms (60 Queen, 42 Twin, some without windows) 16-22 m², free Wi-Fi, Asian Gourmet & Cafe

16 air-conditioned rooms, with hot & cold shower, cable TV, PABX telephone, Wi-Fi in the Coffee Shop, ample parking area and 24/7 standby power generator. With Restobar and Coffee Shop offering food, music and nightly fun! Complementary Filipino breakfast.

A/C, free Internet, hot & cold showers.

Near international ATM.

22 air-con rooms. Clean and modern interior, local breakfast, internet, money change

Opened in 2018 in a renovated building.

Rooms are nice, all with fridge, Wi-Fi and shower. Price includes Western or Filipino breakfast, OK but by no means great.
The same company have a beach/diving resort called Coco Grove on the nearby island of Siquijor, and the Apo Island Beach Resort on Apo Island. They have several vans for moving customers around, mainly between those.

Spanish-influenced style, very central. The building includes three upmarket restaurants (one Spanish, one Filipino and one Japanese) and a moderately-priced burger bar.

(listed under #Do) has a hotel with rooms from ₱2200.

Built on two floors with all modern-day amenities. It has four spacious bedrooms each with a private balcony, a large living room, a modern gourmet kitchen, ample parking, and an outside garden. Amenities include free high-speed WiFi, TV, Netflix, hot/cold shower, air conditioning, and utilities. The home can accommodate 8 guests. Other services can be arranged such as airport transfer, on-site chef, restaurant recommendation, grocery pickup, rental transportation, laundry service, and child care.

Good hotel for longer-term stay, central location. Large rooms with a/c, cable TV (not many channels), free Wi-Fi, fridge (but no cooking facilities), bathroom and shower (with hot water in some rooms, not in others). Rooms are on 2nd and 3rd floor and there is no elevator. No laundry facilities but nearby Silliman Road has both a do-it-yourself laundromat and a do-it-for-you laundry place.
Weekly & monthly rates are not always available; when it is busy they will rent only by the day. For weekly or monthly stays, electricity bill is extra.

Furnished, with A/C, Internet, cable TV, microwave & gas stove, swimming pool. No children. Strictly no smoking, anywhere in the compound. Inhabited mostly by retired western men with Filipina wives or girlfriends. Rent includes fast Internet and a motorcycle.

Apartments from studio to three bedroom. Fully furnished, free wired Internet, in a walled compound with security guards and parking. They have a second location further from the city, to the south, with only studio units.

Furnished apartments, owned & run by a Swedish/Filipina couple. Rent includes Internet connection, cable TV, and access to laundry area and swimming pool. There is a small eatery next to the pool.

Swimming pool plus access to the beach at the company's resort in Bacong. High-speed Internet available for 1400/month.

On the beach. All rooms studio type with queen size beds, stove, fridge, aircon, hot water shower, wifi, cable TV. Water included, and electric up to 2000 pesos per month. All rooms have their own electric meters. Kids two years plus accepted, pets possibly depending on size. Has a resto/bar with a fairly simple menu, Western and Filipino food. Great expat breakfasts.

A condo development with units from 20 to 64 sq m (220 to 740 sq ft) at prices from 1.94 to 6.29 million pesos.

Accommodation includes a backpacker dormitory, treehouses and nipa huts. Has two swimming pools.

A development with ziplines, ATVs, Segways, slide, and natural pools, a ₱12 Jeepeny ride from downtown Dumaguete.

This place has the same owner as Harold's Mansion in downtown Dumaguete; you can book and arrange transport there.

Generally cheaper than Lee or Robinson, popular with locals.

Primarily supplies bakers with all imaginable and unimaginable ingredients, but also carries an interesting selection of other hard-to-find groceries.

One large store, plus a food court.

This is a large, air-conditioned suburban mall.

A 24-hectare (60-acre) farm run by the university's College of Agriculture. High-quality milk and eggs, sometimes other products including turkeys.

Has a Savemore supermarket. Watsons pharmacy, Ace hardware, and many fast food outlets. Coffee shop.

Around this market is the best place in town to look for small services: key cutting, shoe or bicycle repair, tailors, manicure.

Has several restaurants.

A wide selection of lighters and cigarette cases.They have a range of electric lighters from around ₱250 up to ₱1800. These are not supposed to be disposable and do not burn a fossil fuel (recharged via a USB port), so arguably they are rather green. Also convenient, completely windproof and unlikely to set hair or beard afire. However, they are generally not a good buy, except perhaps for a cheap one treated as disposable. They often fail after a few months use; the vendor knows this and gives only a two week warranty.

Vaporizers, spare parts, and a good range of liquids for them