From Coldplay to Sizzling Sisig: Hotel Sogo’s Culinary Plot Twist

By Simpol |

July 25, 2025

Just like a Coldplay song you didn’t see it coming, Sogo Food Restaurant Manila’s comfort food surprises and delights at every bite.

Coldplay’s All My Love plays softly in the background. It reminds us that love often comes when we least expect it.

At Sogo Food Restaurant Manila, a new dining spot in the city, love means comfort foods like sizzling sisig, soft fluffy siopao, and plump siomai. Unlike the viral coldplay videos that catch surprises on kiss cam, the flavors here never fail to impress.

For over 30 years, Hotel Sogo has earned a reputation for clean, convenient, and affordable hotel staycation. Now, it steps up into the food scene. It opens its first in-house restaurant at four branches: Malate, Roxas Boulevard, Buendia, and Santolan.

This is no ordinary hotel café. It’s a joyful celebration of Filipino comfort foods, served fast and fresh.

A Menu Full of Surprises at Sogo Food Restaurant

Sogo Food Restaurant offers a wide selection of authentic dishes. Whether you want a quick snack or a full meal, you’ll find something satisfying on the menu.

Start with the dim sum. The pork siomai, chicken siomai, and shark’s fin siomai come in big portions. They pair perfectly with chili-garlic sauce. The mini siopao asado and jumbo siopao are soft, savory, and filling.

Dim sum favorites: Generously portioned dim sum delights, including Pork and Chicken Siomai, perfect for any craving.

Feeling adventurous? Try the tender, richly seasoned chicken feet. They go great with an ice-cold beer.

The star of the menu is the sizzling sisig series. The pork sisig is packed with flavor. The bangus sisig offers a lighter, tasty alternative. For vegetarians, the tofu sisig shines with its crisp outside and rich taste.

Sisig selection: From classic Pork Sisig, Bangus Sisig to lighter Tofu Sisig, every sizzling plate packs bold Filipino flavor

Veggie Dishes Worth Craving

Sogo Food Restaurant also caters vegans and health-conscious diners. The menu features lumpiang ubod, chopsuey, and pinakbet. These dishes are hearty, vibrant, and guilt-free.

Lumpiang Ubod is a Filipino dish consisting of a soft wrapper filled with julienned ubod and carrots, fresh green lettuce, ground meat, and shrimp. It is served with peanut sauce, lumpia sauce, crushed peanuts and green onions on the side.

The chopsuey bursts with crisp vegetables in a savory sauce. It tastes like homemade comfort food. These veggie dishes prove that vegetables deserve the spotlight too.

Sogo’s Chopsuey. A flavorful stir fried mixed of vegetables sauteed in special seasoning.

Breakfast, Bento, and Beyond

Love breakfast any time of day? Sogo serves Filipino Silog Meals like beef tapa, pork tocino, bangus, and native longganisa, all day. Each meal comes with garlic rice and a sunny-side-up egg.

All-day breakfast. A Silog Meal consisting of Native Longganisa (Filipino sausage) with garlic fried rice (SInangag) and sunny side-up egg (itLOG) served with tomato and onion salad.

Bento Box Meals offer quick, complete options for those on the go. Soups and noodles bring warm comfort with every spoonful.

A complete and balanced meal of Sogo’s Shrimp Tempura Bento Box consisting of a popular Japanese dish of breaded jumbo shrimps, white rice, sauteed vegetables, sweet spicy dilis and tempura dipping sauce.

Unexpectedly Delicious, Delightfully Fun

Sogo Food Restaurant combines its hotel legacy with an unexpected twist — great food. It’s casual dining, affordable, and satisfying. During recent floods, Hotel Sogo also served as a safe, affordable shelter. It offered clean rooms and comforting meals to those affected by the typhoons.

Whether you’re a guest, a night owl craving a snack, or just a curious foodie, Sogo Food Restaurant promises an experience that leaves you impressed — and craving for more.

The menu offers a wide selection of classic Filipino dishes which makes Sogo Food Restaurant a perfect place to satisfy food cravings.

Check in for a meal and discover a new side of Hotel Sogo.

Sogo Food Restaurant Manila operates in these Hotel Sogo branches:

Malate — Roxas Boulevard, Malate, Manila
Roxas — Roxas Boulevard, Ermita, Manila
Buendia — Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City
Santolan — Marcos Highway, Santolan, Pasig City

Hotel Sogo continues to be a popular transient hotel in Metro Manila, known for clean, affordable stays and now, its dining experience.

From Coldplay to Sizzling Sisig: Hotel Sogo’s Culinary Plot Twist

Coldplay’s All My Love plays softly in the background. It reminds us that love often comes when we least expect it.