Calgary has a thriving Filipino community and a nice collection of casual Filipino restaurants, but distinctively Filipino flavours aren’t typically seen at so-called “higher-end” restaurants in our city. There’s certainly the potential for fancier creative takes on modern Filipino fare: we have a strong cohort of Filipino-Canadian chefs working in kitchens throughout the city and the food itself, a delicious confluence of Asian, Spanish, and American influences, leaves plenty of room for playful reinterpretation. But for the most part, dishes like chicken adobo, lechon liempo, or kare-kare don’t see a lot of action on ritzy local menus in the same way we see Korean, Indian, or Japanese influences.
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