Looking for a restaurant for your reunions and food trips?
Here are some celebrity-approved eating joints to check out during the long holiday weekend.
Reunion with your girlfriends
Sunnies Cafe
From the people behind Sunnies Studios, Georgina Wilson, Martine Cajucom, Eric Dee Jr., and Bea Soriano-Dee expand their lifestyle brand to food and dining.
Offering a menu meant to serve you from "brunch to dinner, coffee to cocktails," this hip and Instagrammable cafe is the perfect place to reunite with your gal pals.
So far, it has two branches: Bonifacio High Street in Taguig and SM Megamall in Mandaluyong.
Must try: Crispy Tacos
This crowd favorite features three crispy Parmesan tacos stuffed with asada steak, fried eggs, and cilantro cream sauce.
Paper Moon Cake Boutique and Cafe
For a laid-back holiday afternoon with the squad, keep things light with Papermoon's crepe cakes and hot drinks.
Must try: Ube Mille Crepe
Eat out with balikbayan relatives
Concho's Sisig
Kean Cipriano had one goal in mind when he decided to put up a sisig restaurant: Make Filipinos fully appreciate the joys of eating.
For the Callalily front man, eating good food with good company is one of life's simple joys, and there's no better cuisine that would achieve such a festive mood than Filipino food.
Concho's has two branches: the first branch is located in Lilac Street, Marikina and the second branch is on Maginhawa Street.
Must try: Concho's Dynamites
Aside from its sisig dish, the Concho's Dynamites is a must try in the menu.
It is stuffed with cheese and minced ground beef, and complemented with honey mustard dip.
Alab
Seasoned actress Cherry Pie Picache described her restaurant a "melting pot of the best dishes across the regions."
Find the best dishes of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao all in one spot.
Must try:
The restaurant is best known for its Crispy Pata a la Lechon Cebu, a perfect dish for those who have been craving for a classic Filipino meal.
WATCH: Cherry Pie Picahe's ALAB: "Melting pot of the best dishes from across the regions."
Holiday celebration with college barkada
Kite Kebab Bar
The place was a "passion project" for fomer PBB housemate Kian Kazemi.
It used to be a residential place, which Kian converted into a Mediterranean bar which now serves modern takes on his grandmother's Iranian home-cooked dishes.
WATCH: PEP EATS. From PBB to Persia Grill and Kite Kebab Bar with Kian
Must try: Falafel salad, amixture of grapes, feta, olives, tomatoes, and deep-fried falafels.
Kite Kebab Bar is located in Poblacion, Makati.
The Armory
Looking for a chill-out space to party the night away with friends? Check out The Armory on Congressional Avenue Extension.
WATCH: PEP EATS. Martin del Rosario's The Armory
Must try: The drinks!
The bar is known for craft cocktails such as White Sangria, Whiskey Sour, and Amory's Secret Weapon.
Catch-up with best friend
Meat Kris
For a more casual hang-out spot, especially for the meat lovers and burger lovers, here are two burger joints to visit.
Up in the north side of the metro, there's Meat Kris found in the CommuniEaty Roces Food Hub along Don A. Roces Avenue in Quezon City.
Kapuso actress Kris Bernal personally prepares the patties of her flavorful burgers.
Must try: Cheese Bernal
This is Kris's take on the classic cheese burger.
What sets it apart from the rest is that this burger has a large deep-fried mozzarella stick placed inside with gooey cheese cascading down its handcrafted 100% pure beef patty.
WATCH: Kris Bernal cooks Cheese Bernal
The Burgery
For the PEPsters residing in the south, JC de Vera co-owns this burger joint which takes pride in its monstrous, stacked-up burgers.
They have a branch in Circuit Makati and another in BF Homes Paranaque.
Must try: Fat Tony
This hefty meal is made out of one-third pure beef patty, cheese sauce, sliced cheese, chopped romaine, tomatoes, and The Burgery sauce.
WATCH: JC de Vera's got something BIG and "bad" at The Burgery
Holiday dinner with the family
Naxional South American Diner
Daniel Matsunaga and his family opened their second restaurant in Bonifacio Global City.
This one offers a mix of South American dishes.
The Brazilian dishes are family recipes that Daniel and his sister Vanessa grew up with.
Must try: Elote
It's a flavorful twist to the cheese and corn snack.
A popular Mexican street food, the sweet corn is chargrilled and drizzled with mayo lime, chili butter, and crumbled cheese.
This dish is part of Spot.ph's list of 50 best things we ate this 2016.
Nikuya Grill
Craving for a new shabu-shabu and grill experience?
Go to Capital Commons in Pasig and look for Nikuya Grill.
This is Grace Lee's fourth restaurant venture and her first dive into a full Japanese and Korean dining concept.
Must try: Yukhwe Bibimbap
On top of the fresh cuts and vegetables that the restaurant offers, it also serves rice bowls.
If you are a bit adventurous like the Koreans are with their cuisine, try its bibimbap bowl with rare beef.
Dohtonbori
In case you're a fan of Japanese food, this restaurant should be in your go-to list.
It offers the first and only "cook-your-own okonomiyaki experience."
Okonomiyaki literally means "cooking what you want."
Dohtonbori Philippines launched its first branch in Greenhills.
Must try: Mixed Okonomiyaki
It has squid, pork, shrimp, octopus, tempura bits, red pickled ginger, egg, onions, and cabbage.
Botejyu
One of the newly-opened restaurants in SM Megamall is Botejyu.
It is Japan's pioneer okonomiyaki and okosoba specialty restaurant from Osaka, the country's food capital.
Botejyu Philippines first opened in SM Mall of Asia.
Must try: Original Okosoba
An original of the restaurant, the Okosoba is a "well-balanced hearty dish with thick yakisoba noodles and tons of cabbage sandwiched between batter and fried egg."
It is flavored with a secret sauce, Osaka mayonnaise and Japanese mustard.
Need more suggestions? Read our list of celebrity-owned restaurants around Quezon City here.
Happy holidays, PEPsters!