Kapihan

After years, I have managed to dine at Kapihan! :) My friends was so thoughtful and we visited this cafe after his park run. I went long time ago but every pastry was sold out. So today we were early. We had bibingka, chocolate bibingka and spicy bibingka. Did a takeaway too. :) D'Original Bibingka - a rice cake baked in a banana leaf with a chewy texture, sprinkled with sugar and coconut. Chocolate Churro Bibingka - had the same base with dark chocolate chips and cinnamon sugar - i love that it was balanced, not too sweet and not super bitter. Spicy Mushroom and Queso Bibingka - same original bibingka based topped with mushrooms and queso de bola (cheese) - this one surprisingly works. Filipinos are fans of sweet n spicy too. Not very spicy - i would say warmth 😊 Ube cheese pandesal was really good - the pandesal was airy and not dense, it held its shape. Ube was not too sweet and the cheese just mellowed it all out. Classic. We wanted to try their sikwate but they were still awaiting the malagos chocolate shipment. I have more reasons to go back. If only I lived close. 🤣 I did takeaways of ube cheese pandesal and adobo pandesal -- my partner and I will review together 😊 They have 2 branches in battersea :) take your pick.

Cute little cafe to stop by for pastries or small plate for lunch prior to strolling Battersea Park. Ordered the tapsilog and longsilog which was nice - the protein was flavoursome but I would have liked more garlic in the rice. FYI There’s two stores on the same street: one is an express with just coffee and some pastries and the other is the larger cafe/restaurant

Got the iced coconut latte and ube cheese bun. The bun is perfect combo of salty and sweet with melted cheese in the middle, and latte is nice and sweet! The music is soft and room is warm.

Kapihan is a filipino restaurant that offers a range of sweet filipino pastries and coffee/chocolate/cold drinks. I was surprised that they also have traditional breakfast rice menus, including tapsilog and cornsilog. I went to the place late in the afternoon, so I did not manage to try their best seller bibingka. I recommend that you visit early if you want to try the sweet delicacies.

Very cool Concept ! Tried both sweet and savoury offer and have to admit, very delicious and also different than anyone else . I Tried also both espressos, the blend very aromatic, even if you could taste a bit of aging , it was still performing great . The single origin a bit less of my like, but anyway good to taste two completely different profiles . Service is great and both baristas were very informative. Well done 👍

We had the choc churro babinka and the ube cheese pandesal. Both delicious especially the more sweet babingka which the texture was so nice and they were warmed up for us!

Pineapple almond calamansi bibingka was off the chain. Coffee was fine too. Bought two bags of beans. I’ll be back again soon I reckon!

Price for karamelo was £4.60, paid an extra 50p for it to be iced instead of hot!!! Never seen that before. Though it was nice. I also had the philopeans special bakery, it was nicely presented on a leaf and warm but quite small and expensive for what it's worth. Felt robbed at the end to enjoy the drink and bakery. The staff was nice and helpful and so was the place.