Desserts, pastries and cakes
Dessert Factory
(http://totallycebu.com/de...) - dessert restaurant in ayala center cebu
Leonas Cakes and Pastries
Cebu-based dessert and pastry shop with several outlets in cebu. try their banana walnut cake! it's simply the best!
10 Dove Street
In the village of santo nino. the owner converted a garage like structure into a cheap, sandwich bistro. real star are her fantastic cakes, very fresh, served by the slice from old-fashioned cake platters.
Cebu La Fortuna Bakery
Try their masi, a chinese filipino sweet product of crush nuts and sugar wrapped in rice paste. this is their only excellent product; the others may not be worth much for a try.
Chedz Designer Cakes
(http://www.chedzcakes.com/) - cebu-based bakeshop specializing in designer birthday and wedding cakes
La Marea
Cebu-based bakeshops specializing in cakes
Restaurants
Siomai sa Tisa
Steamed Pork Siomai served with chili sauce.
Hola Espanol
Spanish cuisine in the Philippines. Try their Paella Negra, and other paella varieties.
Alberto's Pizza
Offers a good and rather affordable locally made thin crust pizza.
Ang Manok ni Señor Pedro
Specialises in Lechon Manok or roasted chicken which is a local favorite.
The Jungle Restaurant
They serve international cuisine. Aside from dining, they too have entertainment, dances from around the world, fire dancing, Local Filipino traditional dances, Filipino culture, arts and crafts etc.
Bens Lechon
Popular for its Native Cebu Lechon, in its branch in STK Food St. they offer STK an abbreviation for sugba, tuwa and kinilaw, offering sinugbang panga, tuna belly, squid and the famous Bisaya chicken. They also offer pochero, caldertang kambing along with other Filipino dishes.
Giuseppe's
Authentic Italian restaurant.
Joule's chicken
Famous for their lechon manok roasted chicken.
Larsian Barbeque
Best and the cheapest around the city. The barbeque portions are small so you have enough space to store dessert. Try various kinds of barbequed local delicacies not for the faint of heart: innards, coagulated blood, squid, hotdogs aside from the usual pork and chicken varieties.
Casa Verde
Well known for their baby back ribs.
La Buona Forchetta da Paolo Ristorante Pizzeria
is popular among foreign residents for offering authentic Italian cuisine at reasonable prices. Equally noteworthy Italian restaurants are La Tegola with outlets in Busay and Banilad and Brescia Salinas Drive, Lahug, which also has a wide range of imported wines.
Mooon Cafe
Is a local restaurant located at the Terraces in Ayala Mall as well as in Guadalupe not far from the Capitol building. Its specialty is Mexican "inspired" food and ambiance, but they serve a wide variety of options.
Cielo
Cielo is an authentic Italian style restaurant with a contemporary bar and lounge, the interior and music is quite reminiscent of NY City. Specialties include gourmet pizzas, pasta, osso buco, scallopini ala marsala and traditional Italian desserts such as bread pudding, panna cotta, tartufo.
CNT Lechon
Serves authentic Cebuano Lechon.
Tajimaya Yakiniku
Serves Japanese cuisine.
Spice Fusion
They offer a wide selection of Southeast Asian food.
Gustavian's near Giuseppe's for steaks, euro-continental, and a pub theme. Also in Ayala terraces. Pretty good deli too.
The great thing about Cebu is that, while being an island paradise, on the one hand, it's also a sophisticated city, with a wide range of pretty decent restaurants to choose from. Street-food abounds in Cebu and is amazingly cheap. You can buy all sorts of Philippine delicacies from the many street stalls scattered around Cebu City.
cuisine
SuTuKil - An acronym for sugba grilled, tula soup-based/with broth, and kilaw raw, soaked/pickled in vinegar. This is a popular term for ordering a selection of fresh seafood and meat from the market and cooked any way you like it in an eatery.
Lechon - Roasted suckling pig. The whole province of Cebu is known for its lechon which is known to be the best in the Philippines.