Tasting room · Angeles, Pampanga
Filipino memory, set to fire.
Eleven courses drawn from the islands — cooked over mangrove charcoal, plated on Kapampangan clay. Twenty-four seats. Two seatings. One long evening.
The Table
We cook the food our grandmothers kept in their hands — the sour, the smoke, the almost-too-ripe — and set it down slowly, one course at a time.
From the fire
At the bar
À la carte · Wednesday to Sunday
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₱720
Kinilaw
Tanigue cured in coconut vinegar, green tamarind, ember oil
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₱880
Inasal
Chicken oyster skewers, annatto butter, burnt calamansi
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₱840
Palabok
Smoked tinapa cream, crisp pork ear, salted duck egg
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₱2,900
Lechon for the table
Three-day belly over mangrove coals, green atchara — for three to four
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₱520
Duhat & tablea
Java-plum sorbet, 70% Davao cacao, carabao-milk custard
Walk-ins welcome at the eight-seat bar, while the coals last.
The Chef
Marco Villanueva
Chef & co-owner
Pampanga-born, Marco spent ten years in Manila and Copenhagen kitchens before coming home to cook from memory: his lola’s kinilaw, sour soups eaten after rain, cacao roasted on a clay stove.
At Hiraya he keeps the techniques he trained for and the flavors he was raised on — and refuses to choose between them.
“Nostalgia is an ingredient. We weigh it like salt.”
The Room
A glasshouse on a garden lane
One long narra table under glass and vine, capiz light overhead, and the hearth in open view. When it rains, the kitchen quiets so you can hear it.
Voices
What the table says
“The sinigang course undid me a little. It tastes like being eight years old and called in from the rain.”
“Three hours went by like one. The pacing, the room, the quiet confidence of it — best meal I’ve had in Luzon.”
“I brought my mother for her seventieth. She argued with the kinilaw, then asked for the recipe. They said no, kindly.”
Visit
Find the glasshouse
Down a garden lane in Nepo Quarter — look for the brass spark on the gate. Street parking on Acacia Lane; ten minutes from Clark.
- Address
- The Glasshouse, 8 Acacia Lane,
Nepo Quarter, Angeles City, Pampanga - Seatings
- Wednesday – Sunday
5:30 PM & 8:30 PM - Phone
- +63 917 145 0021
- mesa@hiraya.ph
- Payments
- Cards · GCash · Maya · QRPH
Reservations open thirty days ahead. A ₱1,000-per-guest deposit holds the table and settles against your bill.
Salamat, friend.
Your request is in — we’ll confirm by text within the day. The ₱1,000-per-guest deposit settles on confirmation.