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Taguan Cafe

This cafe is a finalist for best food in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Taguan is a Filipino cafe in Redfern.
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The exterior.
2 / 5The exterior. Supplied
Adobo.
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Tofu and rice.
4 / 5Tofu and rice. Supplied
The interiors.
5 / 5The interiors. Supplied

Filipino$

The coffee, batch-brewed from specialty Filipino beans, arrives in a custom-made stoneware mug resembling a smiling pomeranian. You’re instantly charmed. It’s one of several happy surprises emerging from Taguan’s small Filipino kitchen: breakfast burgers hum brighter with the sweet warmth of banana ketchup; toasties turn memorable with velvety slow-cooked beef; and chicken adobo, from a family recipe, is the impossibly tender, tart centrepiece of it all.

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