Baguio's food scene leans toward comfort — steaming bowls of bulalo (beef-shank soup), good Filipino-American breakfasts, and the long-standing love affair with cheap Korean food (the city has a large Korean student population). Cordilleran restaurants serve pinikpikan, etag (smoked highland pork), and mountain rice.
The classic eat is at Café by the Ruins on Chuntug Street — half ruined-mansion atmosphere, half Baguio-bohemian — for organic dishes, native rice cakes, and proper Benguet coffee. Hill Station inside Casa Vallejo and Le Chef at the Manor in Camp John Hay handle the more upscale end. Good Taste Café, near the public market, is a Baguio institution for cheap Cantonese-Filipino fare that students live on.
Vendors throughout Session Road sell strawberry shakes year-round; in season they are made with real Benguet strawberries.