Eating To Your Heart’s Content At The Queen City Of The South – Part 2

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates

If food can cure all illnesses, then you will always be in the pink of health when you visit the Queen City of the South. Metro Cebu is home to many restaurants offering different types of food. A number of these restaurants offer eat-all-you-can promotions for people who really love food. The following are some of these restaurants offering eat-all-you-can promotions to both locals and visitors to Cebu.

Burrow 

Eat-All-You-Can Restos – image source: Burrow Facebook Page

​The Burrow can be considered as paradise for chicken wing lovers. The restaurant offers guests all the chicken wings they can eat for only PHP199. Located on the ground floor of the Tsai Hotel along Wilson Street, Lahug, the place is normally filled with diners for lunch and dinner. The success of the place allowed them to open a second branch at Parkmall in the North Reclamation Area, Mandaue City.

Eat-All-You-Can Restos – image source: Burrow Facebook Page

​The Burrow offers five flavors of their chicken wings, namely Classic, Asian BBQ, Chili, Mild Teriyaki, and Garlic Parmesan.  They are served in platters of 15 pieces each. You can actually mix it up with three pieces of each flavor so you have the chance of tasting each type. The Mild Teriyaki is the most popular flavor and if you are not early, you may not be able to taste it since it’s the first flavor to run out at the restaurant. They also offer an unlimited supply of rice to pair off with your chicken wings. Bottomless iced tea is also available for an additional PHP40 while the dips cost PHP20. 

Eat-All-You-Can Restos – image source: Burrow Facebook Page

The Burrow is located at the ground floor of the Tsai Hotel along Wilson Street. It is a few meters away from JYSquare Discovery Mall. They are open from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM every day. The second branch of the restaurant is located at the second floor or Parkmall, Tipolo, Mandaue City and is open from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM. 

The Original Pino Restaurant

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​The Original Pino Restaurant is known for offering good food at a reasonable price. In addition to the ala carte menu items, the restaurant also offers an eat-all-you-can fare consisting of Filipino dishes. The place touts itself as the “home of the best value buffets in town,” and many of its customers agree to this.

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​The lunch buffet with crispy pata at the Original Pino Restaurant is priced at PHP299 from Monday to Thursday and PHP399 from Friday to Saturday. Their dinner buffet with lechon Cebu is priced at PHP429 from Monday to Sunday. Customers can also have their eat-all-you-can chicken wings with unlimited rice at the Plaza Pino for PHP199. They have five flavors of their chicken wings: Butter Lemon, Chili, Parmesan, Naked Calamansi, and Teriyaki.

Eat-All-You-Can Restos – image source: The Original Pino Restaurant Facebook Page

Aside from the lunch and dinner buffet, and unli chicken wings of the Original Pino Restaurant, the place also started offering its own Pizza, Pasta, Chicken Wings, and Shrimps Buffet at its Boulangerie and Wine Cellar for PHP269. While the promo is on a limited run, it may be possible for the restaurant to continue it if it is successful.  The new buffet is available from 5:00 PM to 11:30 PM.  

AAA Diamond Tongs

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​Aside from the Original Pino Restaurant, there is another eat-all-you-can restaurant serving Filipino dishes. AAA Diamond Tongs, or simply Tongs, is located along F. Cabahug Street, Mabolo, Cebu City. The buffet of the restaurant offers mouth-watering Filipino dishes, such as the lechon Cebu, chicken pandan, and Calamares, among others.

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​But, the main come-on of the place is their baked oysters. Some customers even go to the place just for the oysters and nothing else. In addition to the baked oysters, people also love the baked scallops, steamed fish, and other seafood offerings of AAA Diamond Tongs.

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The lunch buffet of AAA Diamond Tongs is priced at PHP285 while their dinner buffet is priced at PHP315. The restaurant is open from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM for the lunch buffet and 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM for the dinner buffet from Monday to Sunday. It is located right across the Sarrosa Hotel in Mabolo. 

Sugbufe

Eat-All-You-Can Restos – image source: Sugbufe Facebook Page

​Sugbufe is a new buffet restaurant located in Subangdaku, Mandaue City. The restaurant aims to bring Filipino cuisine to new levels and encourage Filipinos to become more knowledgeable about the food, culture and heritage of the Philippines. Aside from offering great-tasting Filipino food, the restaurant also supports advocacies. One of its advocacies is to support Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), and a number of the employees in the company are PWDs.

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​Aside from the usual lunch and dinner buffets, the restaurant also has a Merienda Cena where Filipino snack items are served, including the binignit, fresh lumpia, biko, dinuguan at puto, and turon, among others. The lunch and dinner buffet consists of well-loved Filipino food, like the pork barbecue, pancit, and lechon Cebu, among others. Guests of the restaurant agree that the place offer great-tasting food at a reasonable price.

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​The lunch buffet of Sugbufe is from priced at PHP348 while the dinner buffet is priced at PHP448. The Merienda Cena of the restaurant is priced at PHP210. Customers can look forward to the lunch buffet from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, the merienda cena from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM, and the dinner buffet from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Sugbufe is open from Monday to Saturday. Sugbufe is located along M. Logarta Street, Subangdaku, Mandaue City. It is situated close to the Cebu North Bus Terminal.