The only Filipino American dining option for NYC Restaurant Week until Feb 12th #nycrestaurantweek
Filipino cafe’s 10-course meal for NYC restaurant week 🇵🇭
Little Chef Little Cafe is a true fusion of Filipino-American flavors; combining our island flavors with notes of flavors or textures that we experience here in the states. Her tiny kitchen consistently produces delicious food that brings out nostalgic feelings for Filipinos and amazes people who have never tried it before.
For NYC Restaurant Week, she is hosting you at her community table, where you get to eat family-style and it’s BYOB. A great way to meet new people if you tend to dine alone like myself! $60 per person. This is the ONLY Fil-Am experience for Restaurant Week btw.
Restaurant Week Dinner Menu:
Palabok Deviled Egg — a homage to the toppings we enjoy on top of palabok, a noodle dish.
Kinilaw — our version of ceviche that was a dish in our culture before all the colonizers came.
Sinigang — a vegetarian/vegan friendly recipe (but that night she used patis for seasoning, fish sauce); it’s a soup with a tamarind broth.
Pinakbet salad — turned into a salad, this traditional dish typically carries nutrient-rich veggies like squash, eggplant, okra, and bitter melon (ampalaya).
Afritada — one of our many tomato stews with chicken.
Kare Kare — a peanut-based stew with wagyu brisket; usually people use oxtail, lechon… to see it with wagyu was crazy and it ended up being my favorite dish of the night.
Lechon kawali — the classic crispy pork belly.
Ube creme brulee — made with ube halaya so the consistency was different than what a normal creme brulee has.
Pandan coconut panna cotta — a brilliant way to flavor a panna cotta!!
Ginataang Bilo-Bilo — a warm coconut milk based dessert.
Book to dine here through Eventbrite. More details are on the Restaurant Week website or the cafe’s instagram. Restaurant week is until February 12th, 2026.