Hoka Brew — Restaurant in Baguio

Hōka Brew 📍 Ben Palispis Highway, Tuba, Benguet

Hōka Brew is a cafe/restaurant located at the second floor of The Podium Botique Hotel Building along Ben Palispis (Marcos) Highway near Baguio City proper. It boasts of a panoramic breathtaking view of the Benguet Mountains and true to it’s tag, it is truly beautiful!

The interior has a wood theme, inspired by nature according to the owner. It has ample seating and huge tables for big groups. It’s outdoor seating is a bit limited, so I bet it’s first come first serve. They have a little stage which performers like acoustic singers and bands would play in some nights. Better check their page for schedules.

They have a wide menu and serve numerous kinds of drinks aside from being a cafe. They also serve craft and local beers, wine and other alcoholic beverages. If you do come in the morning, they only serve their breakfast menu, and other items are available around 10 o’clock in the morning.

We ordered the Hoka Full Breakfast that consists of waffles topped with whipped cream and sliced strawberries, sausage, ham, bacon and a sunny side up egg; and their beef tapa with a side of egg and pickled vegetables. The default is sunny side up egg but you can request it to be scrambled or well done. For drinks, we had a hot Matcha Latte (cute hearts) and Watermelon Shake (fresh fruit).

While waiting for your food to be served from their open kitchen, you may take pictures in their balcony with the mountains and city as your backdrop.

Definitely worth a visit if you’ll be going to Baguio.

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I felt scammed. We had seen their banners promoting a buffet for several weeks. Today we decided to get a cab and check out their "morning buffet". After a long ride we arrived and entered only to be informed they no longer have a buffet and haven't had for some time. I asked why they didn't take down the banners. They said we could still order "ala cart". That's NOT what and why we came! Seems they are luring in people in with the "Buffet" promotion in hopes people will remain and buy their "Ala cart". We didn't as we felt totally deceived and scammed and left. We returned to again look at their banner there is a VERY small print stating a weekend buffet. However, we asked numerous people if they ever noticed that and ALL said the never noticed the small print. Again to me seem very deceptive. WHY would you put that so small that passersby are unable to see it? My initial comments stand. Go by and see...

Greeted and suggested if we wanted to sit outside, we agreed and were forgotten by the staff. After going inside and asking for a menu, we were still not greeted outside so we moved to an inside table and flagged someone to place our order.

After 30 mins, we still not received our order and noticed a table that was sat AFTER us already received food. We asked another server to check on our food and it turned out our order was never placed in their system.

After 15 mins, we finally got our food. The Mushroom Bacon burger was not bad, but the nachos and the toppings were cold. Ube Cheesecake Shake was more like a Ube Frappè.

Not sure how lack of service happens and cold food goes out to customers, considering the restaurant was only about 1/4 capacity when we got there. Oh, and half their draft options from Bulul Brewery were unavailable....