Some Local Buffet Restaurants in San Fernando, Pampanga

There are two buffet restaurants along the MacArthur High-way in San Fernando, Pampanga that serve local traditional Filipino and Capampangan dishes that you can enjoy for about P200 pesos (PHP), excluding taxes in 2019, for Pipanganan Capampangan; and the other one is at Bale Capampangan at P295 for lunch and P195 for dinner (excluding taxes) for their November promo this 2020 if you are dining in the restaurant or shop. Most recently the meal price is now at P239/pax. The regular price of Bale Capampangan meals is between P345 to P395. The food that you can eat depends on your appetite. You can eat as much as you can until you are full. The food they serve includes several kinds of meals that some locals of Pampanga and neighbouring provinces love to eat. Pipanganan menu includes:

Some of the food at Bale Capampanganu includes: 

Adobong Balut (Adobo of duck eggs), sisig (finely chopped fried pork face with onions, soy sauce, chillis and other ingredients, crispy pata (deep-fried pork leg), lengua (cow tongue with creamy sauce and corn kernels), bistig baka or damulag (baka-cow, damulag-ox) boiled in sauces like soy sauce, fish sauce and sometimes with calamanci, fried kangkong with flour and beaten egg, Kare-kare (boiled beef with peanut sauce, string beans, and eggplant), calderata (which is sometimes beef or pork with a bit of chilli, sauces and some potatoes). They also have some mango salad and local condiments to complement it (like shrimp paste, soy sauce, fish sauce) and there are other dishes like fried catfish, and other local recipes. 

Holidayland and Partyland are other buffet restaurants that also serve unlimited (eat all as much as you can) meals. They also have some of their own version of adobong balut and also chicaron (fried pork skin), dinuguan (pork with pork blood and chillis), amplaya or bittermelon with pork, lumpiang shanghai (pork rolled up in flour or rice wraps), fermented rice dips for fresh mustard leaves and eggplants, they also have their own version of lengua, boiled tahong dish (mussels), fern salad with tomatoes, onions and salted egg, tofu with pork and some veggies and other dishes. The price of the buffet is usually at P188 per person (excluding taxes). Holidayland can be found along the JASA road (Olongapo-Gapan Road) while Partyland has a shop inside the SM Pampanga.

Holiday and Partyland Dishes

There is also the Viking's buffet restaurant inside SM Pampanga. Viking serves several kinds of dishes that may not only be indigenous to Pampanga but recipes from various parts of the world. Various kinds of sushi, meat and beef meals, steaks, pizzas, pieces of bread, cheeses, noodles, pasta, various kinds of desserts, and drinks. They also serve a variety of cakes and other kinds of baked goods. Buffet meals  (eat as much as you can promo) are at P600 pesos. They even have a promo for your birth month where you can bring four people and have one of your meal for free. 

There is also Ningnangan where food is usually grilled, barbequed or fried. The food here is usually sold or paid per piece or grams. There is a buffet table where diners (or if you want them for take-out) can pick the food they want, pay them at the counter, have them cooked in the manner they want it cooked like fried, boiled, grilled, or if they want it to have some soup (especially for the local sinigang soup - sour soup for salmon dishes that locals like). 

There is also Yakimix in SM Pampanga and Tabehoudai in San Agustin (along the MacArthur High-way) in Pampanga. If you are looking for Japanese food, then, these are the places to go to. 

Tabehoudai

Have a lovely day or night.