Barbara’s Restaurant & Casa Manila

📍Barbara’s Heritage Restaurant and Casa Manila, Intramuros

For lunch we treated Alex & Gab out to Barbara’s, a heritage restaurant popular in Intramuros for classic Filipino dishes & cultural experience.

Food was great — we loved the seafood paella, callos, pinakbet, and lechon kawali. Company (and conversations) was even better! It then started to pour outside, luckily we’re indoors already. Whilst waiting for the rain to stop, we killed time and visited the connecting Casa Manila, where we saw how typical houses look like for wealthy Filipino families during the Spanish times. Pretty cool how they preserved all of it.

Today marks many firsts for Alex & Gab as husband and wife, and we’re glad we’re with them in this 🫶Leer más