Filipino street-food specialist Rex De Guzman opens his first permanent restaurant, Turo Turo barbecue and grill, in Tooting next Wednesday, 14 November. A former chef at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze, Rex has operated Turo Turo – a term for fast food in the Philippines – as a market stall over the past decade, and more recently as a […]
The ‘first true Filipino’ restaurant in Leeds is to open next week in St Peter’s Square, near the BBC building, with the conversion of existing Japanese-fusion restaurant Sakku into the new Sakku Pinoy. Sakku Pinoy will showcase both modern and traditional dishes from the Philippines, including Lechon kawali, crispy fried pork belly; Sinigang, a sour tamarind-based […]
