Filishack - Peckham
Filipino restaurant · Peckham ·
Filipino takeaway: chicken inasal, beef adobo, garlic rice
Filipino takeaway: chicken inasal, beef adobo, garlic rice
"Filishack is an order-via-iPad, wooden cutlery kind of spot. But this Filipino takeaway in Peckham is also the kind that makes incredible beef adobo. When you walk into the all-black room, you can spy chicken inasal being grilled at the back, and garlic mayo and sriracha zig-zagged across salad boxes by the pick-up till. But the thing to order here is the beef adobo and sticky garlic rice box which makes for a satisfying, moreish meal that you could eat on one of their outside tables. Although we’d suggest taking it to go for an excellent lunch or dinner. video credit: Rianne Shlebak Food Rundown Beef Adobo Rice Box The saucy, deep brown meat is rich, garlicky, and shreds apart with little effort from the disposable fork. You can get the beef in a burrito or on some salad or chips, but we’re into the fragrant garlicky rice box. photo credit: Rianne Shlebak Chicken Inasal Rice Box This chicken inasal is a little boring. The only flavour that really comes across is the char from the grill. We’d skip this and stick to the excellent beef. photo credit: Rianne Shlebak" - Rianne Shlebak
"Owned by Cacho brothers Jonathan and Justice, Filishack has mastered the art of chicken inasal. The dish, much like their approach to running a food joint, is simple and uncomplicated. The chicken is marinated in lemongrass, ginger, vinegar and calamansi before being charred: smoky and aromatic from the grill, it’s then laid out in a rice box or enveloped in a burrito. Also consider the adobo burrito, its filling braised in soy, pepper, vinegar, garlic, bayleaf, and a dash of coconut milk." - Juli Suazo
"It’s possible to buy the whole world in Peckham, but until General Store starts stocking yams, it’s unlikely that these worlds ever collide. There is one place, however, that has the distinction of being the shop everyone goes to: Filishack. Owned by Peckham boys Jonathan and Justice Cacho, who grew up on the “Yellow Brick” Bells Garden’s Estate, Filishack is the exemplar of a business which knows its audience intimately and is content to do one thing and do that one thing better than it actually needs to be. Although adobo is on the menu, pretty much everyone congregates outside Peckham Library for the chicken inasal, grilled chicken nonpareil, marinated in lemongrass, ginger, vinegar and calamansi, then chopped into pieces to give every available bit of surface area a blackened char. It’s possible to get the inasal in a wrap, with the clever addition of garlic rice to make a burrito, but it’s probably best as a simple rice box. The Cachos will soon move from their van to a permanent site round the corner, where there will hopefully be space for new dishes. If you can’t find them, no worries: just follow the scent of garlic." - Jonathan Nunn
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