Welcome to Palay + in partnership with Megaworld Hotels & Resorts — a three-hour Filipino tasting experience shaped through regional voices, collaboration and precise editing.
This Manila residency connects food, hospitality and storytelling across a month of collaborations. Palay + is one chapter of that return: not one chef trying to define Filipino cuisine, but a table where different regional relationships can sit beside one another without losing their own character.
The point is not to make Filipino food look expensive by surrounding it with outside flavour cues. The edit is quieter: remove noise, sharpen technique and give the ingredients already belonging to the cuisine enough space to speak.
The dish should remain recognisable in flavour, memory or regional logic even when the format changes.
Precision matters only when it makes the Filipino idea clearer, cleaner or more expressive.
If an ingredient does not deepen the story, it does not need to be on the plate.
The chefs remain at the centre of the teaser, while their final dishes stay private during development.
A regional project beginning with land, staple crops and the systems behind the table.
Cavite memory and carinderia roots approached through precise contemporary service.
A chapter where grain and agricultural identity are treated as authors, not side dishes.
Heat, smoke and the balance of char and acid guide the regional question.
Place, ingredient identity and regional technique sit at the centre of the Bohol chapter.
A project looking at continuity, technique and thoughtful use of ingredients.
Direct Ilocano flavours, vegetables and preservation lead this regional conversation.
An Iloilo project where story leads and technique supports, rather than replaces, memory.
Supporting the Manila residency through hospitality, accommodation and access to the culinary teams across Megaworld Hotels & Resorts.
Eastwood City, Quezon City · Saturday, 26 September 2026 · two three-hour seatings: 3:00–6:00 PM and 7:00–10:00 PM.
Bookings are handled directly by Eastwood Richmonde Hotel.
Eastwood Café + Bar
Eastwood Richmonde Hotel
Include your preferred seating time, number of guests and dietary requirements.
fb@eastwoodrichmonde.comA QR code opens this digital companion so guests can move through the chefs, regions and stories at their own pace across the three-hour sitting.
