A Taste of Home at

Kutchara in Alino Hotel

Filipino comfort food, authentic flavors, modern stories.

kutchara is the in-house Filipino kitchen on the ground floor of Alino Hotel — heirloom recipes, slow-simmered broths, and native ingredients you cannot fake. Open three meals a day, every day.

Kutchara's interior

What we serve, and when.

Three meals a day, with room for a long Sunday lunch and a jar to take home. Find your corner of the table.

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Long Sunday Lunches

Six-hour braises, whole fish, and second helpings expected.
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Quiet Weekday Plates

A bowl, a coffee, an hour off the floor. In and out in twenty minutes.
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Patient Cooking,
Honest Ingredients.

No shortcuts, no chemicals. Kalderetang kambing takes six hours, so we give it six. Batuan ripens in season, so we wait for it. Vinegar tastes right only when fermented in clay, so we don’t substitute. The food is good because the work is honest.


Most of these dishes came from the chef’s mother and lola in Iloilo. We didn’t rewrite the recipes — we just gave them a kitchen to live in.


Made for Gatherings

For the celebrations that deserve a quieter table — birthdays, anniversaries, business dinners, family reunions. Our private room sits just off the main floor, with seating for ten to fifteen guests.


The same kitchen, the same care, with the room to yourselves.

10 — 15

SEATED GUESTS

By Reservation

ADVANCED BOOKING

MEET THE CHEF

Chef Rexsan Abarquez.

Rex grew up in Iloilo, in a kitchen presided over by his mother and his lola — now ninety-four — whose cooking he still measures every dish against. He joined Alino Hotel as its fourth employee on the second of April, 2025.


His philosophy is simple and stubborn: native ingredients, no chemicals, patient cooking. He’ll happily eat at a roadside carinderia — provided the comfort room is clean.

“Kalderetang kambing isn’t hard. It just takes time. Most kitchens don’t want to give it that.”

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Tag Your kutchara Visit

Tag us if you enjoyed a dish that reminded you of someone special, or leave us a review on Google—we’re collecting moments that matter.

Find us at @kutchara.ph and share your experience using #kutcharaPH #TableAtkutchara

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VISIT US

Pull up a chair.

Ground floor, Alino Hotel. Walk in for a quick lunch, call ahead for a table of six. We’re easier to find than we are to leave.

Open hou

HOURS

6:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Reserve your table at kutchara

RESERVE

reserve@kutchara.ph

Address of Kutchara

ADDRESS

970 E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue, New Manila, Quezon City, 1112 Metro Manila | Ground floor of Alino Hotel

Your Table Is Waiting.

Whether it is a quick weekday lunch, a long Sunday with family, or a private gathering — we will save you a seat.