FILIPINO FOOD CRAWL 2025

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 This April, let’s celebrate Filipino Food Month with the Filipino Food Crawl – Bay Area!

Filipino Food Crawl – Bay Area—which will feature Filipino restaurants, cafés, bars, bakeshops, food trucks, ghost kitchens, and pop-ups—aims to mainstream Philippine cuisine in the Bay Area and support Filipino American food businesses, reinforcing their role as “Filipino food ambassadors” in the United States.

Read the invitation of Philippine Consul General in San Francisco Neil Ferrer:

 

 

The kick-off event of the Filipino Food Crawl – Bay Area will take place on 10 April 2025 (Thursday) at the Kalayaan Hall, Philippine Center, 447 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94108.

The kick-off targets all participating Filipino food establishments, Filipino Community leaders and partners, members of Filipino and American press, online content creators, and other invitees of the program’s co-organizers.

Aside from serving as a launching and promotional event for the program, the reception will also function as a B2B event where participating food establishments as well as purveyors connect with invited Filipino food and beverage importers, giving these establishments direct contacts to sources of ingredients and other food products from the Philippines.

The general public may join the program by dining in or ordering from any of the participating Filipino food establishments (restaurants, cafés, bars, bakeshops, food trucks, ghost kitchens, and pop-ups) around the Bay Area. Each visit may earn a person an entry to join the program’s raffle draw.

 Mechanics:

  1. From 14 April 2025 (Monday) to 30 April 2025 (Wednesday), the general public may order from participating food establishments. Dine-in orders are encouraged for the sake of the social media post, but pick-up orders and online orders (via Doordash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub) are also eligible for the raffle.
  2. The customer should spend a minimum of $25.00 (including drinks) for a single order, reflected in a single receipt, in one of the participating food establishments.
  3. To join the raffle draw, the customer should post at least one photo of their food order or dine-in experience on their social media account (e.g., Facebook, X, Instagram), with the hashtag #FilipinoFoodCrawlBayArea.
  4. The customer should then send a screenshot of their social media post (with the hashtag), and a photo of the single-order receipt (where the purchase date and amount paid are clearly stated, and with the customer’s name and phone number written on the receipt) via email at [email protected].
  5. The email with the two abovementioned attachments will be considered as one raffle entry. Additional raffle entries may be counted for additional increments of $25.00 spent on the single order (e.g., orders worth $50.00 as reflected in the single receipt will be considered as two raffle entries; orders worth $75.00, three raffle entries; and so on).
  6. A raffle entry will be credited to only one person (hence, the handwritten customer’s name and phone number on the receipt).

A person may email more than one entry for the raffle draw.

We will announce the list of participating Filipino food establishments  (restaurants, cafés, bars, bakeshops, food trucks, ghost kitchens, and pop-ups) soon. Stay tuned!

The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco is grateful to its partners for the 2025 Filipino Food Crawl – Bay Area:

  • Philippine Trade and Investment Center (PTIC) in Silicon Valley
  • Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) Office in San Francisco
  • Filipino Food Movement
  • San Francisco Filipino American Chamber of Commerce
  • Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Silicon Valley

Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Solano County

The annual celebration every April of Filipino Food Month (Buwan ng Kalutong Pilipino), which was institutionalized by Presidential Proclamation No. 469 in 2018, turns the spotlight on the culinary traditions of the Philippines’ 7,641 islands. Through the Filipino Food Month, it is hoped that Philippine cuisine will be “appreciated, preserved, and promoted to ensure their transmission to future generations and to support the various industries, farmers, and agri-communities” benefitting from it.

In the United States, Filipino Food Month aims to introduce more Filipino dishes, and food and beverage products to an American audience beyond the lumpia and ube, thereby deepening appreciation and understanding of Philippine cuisine and culture, and instill pride among Filipinos and Filipino Americans about their rich culinary heritage, encouraging them to patronize Filipino food establishments and products.