26/10/2026
We won Best Café in Sydney at the Good Food Guide Awards. 🥹 Good Food
We actually tried filming a proper thank-you video, but we’re two camera-shy millennials who couldn’t quite get through it. So here’s a little hello from the Philippines, dressed for the occasion in our barongs and boxer shorts, in true Filipino fashion. Very formal from the waist up. 😂
We’re also celebrating in the best way we know how, with Yakult, our dog and one of the little inspirations behind Taguan. 🐶
When we first opened Taguan, it was just a tiny 12-seater café in Redfern. We remember someone telling us not to do Filipino food because nobody would really want it.
And now, here we are. 🥹
It’s such a lovely reminder that there’s room for everyone in Sydney’s hospitality scene, including stories and flavours from people like us who came from somewhere else.
Every morning, our team makes coffee, prepares food, and bakes the breads we grew up eating back home. One of the loveliest things is seeing people from all walks of life come in for them, especially the kids. To think that the bread that was part of our childhood in the Philippines might now become part of someone else’s childhood in Sydney is something we’ll never quite get over.
And perhaps that’s what Taguan has always been about. Finding a home somewhere new, sharing little pieces of where we came from, and watching other people make them their own.
We opened a little café hoping to find our community, and somehow, we ended up with a whole barangay.
To our most incredible team, thank you for bringing Taguan to life every single day. U da best. To everyone who’s made us part of their mornings, their routines, and their little celebrations, this belongs to you, too.
We brought a little piece of home to Sydney, and you made it come alive.
Maraming, maraming salamat. Mahal namin kayo, Barangay Taguan. 🫶
