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Filomena Cafe

A very hygienic, air-conditioned cafeteria-style place with a good selection of reasonably priced dishes. Their vegetable fried rice is particularly tasty. All-you-can-eat buffet on Friday evenings for PHP 200. Visa and MasterCard are accepted. They give a 20% discount on most things for seniors with Philippine ID, such as the government ACR card which many longer-term visitors have.

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Getting there: two locations: see Bethel Guest House listing under, and Cang's under
Website: bethelguesthouse.com (opens in a new tab)

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Listing from Wikivoyage: Dumaguete, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.

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