At Taglish, Chef Frances Tariga Imagines a World-Class Seafood Steakhouse With Filipino Flavors

The Michelin-recognized chef’s new restaurant in Makati puts a modern spin on the classic steakhouse using the Philippines’ coastal bounty.

On Jupiter Street in Makati, a new steakhouse hits the block. Created by Michelin-recognized chef Frances Tariga, Taglish is a seafood and steak concept that’s designed for business lunches, family celebrations, and late nights in the city. It sits beside her tasting-menu restaurant Tadhana.

Priding itself on its seafood program, the restaurant takes advantage of the Philippines’ over 7,000 islands, treating them as a pantry. Freshly shucked oysters, towering seafood displays, live shellfish, lobster, prawns, crab, and whole market fish, as well as crudos, kinilaw, and seasonal catches, are all to be expected on the table, putting the Philippines’ abundant seas at the center.

Taglish translates steakhouse classics into Filipino cuisine. Creamed spinach here is kangkong laing with gorgonzola, mashed potatoes is silky whipped gabi, and potato fritters replaced by saba churros. It even has its own take on the shepherd pie, taking slow-braised pork, adobo-inspired gravy, and creamy root vegetables and transforming them into Taglish’s Humba Pie.

The restaurant also pays tribute to one of the country’s most popular party snacks: the lumpia. At Taglish, a made-to-order Lumpia Bar offers different fillings, such as kinilaw, seafood, sisig, kare-kare, and lechon. To wash it all down, the restaurant also offers savory cocktails, premium wines, Japanese whisky, and sake with locally inspired flavors.

“Taglish is about honoring the food we grew up with while giving it the stage it deserves,” says Tariga. “We aren’t trying to imitate a New York steakhouse. We’re asking what a world-class steakhouse would look like if it had always existed in Manila. Every side dish, every sauce, every piece of seafood, and every lumpia tells that story.”

Tariga was the chef of Tadhana NYC, the Michelin-recognized Filipino restaurant in New York City’s Lower East Side, which she closed permanently before moving to the Philippines to open Tadhana in Makati in May 2026.

Taglish is now open on the 4th floor, Levanto Building, 389 Jupiter Street, Bel-Air, Makati City.