KaLui Restaurant

Puerto Princesa's best-known restaurant, and worth the reputation. KaLui is housed in a remarkable wooden building on Rizal Avenue — half open-air pavilion, half art gallery — with carved tables, hanging lanterns, and shoes-off seating on tatami-style mats. The food is set-menu seafood, mostly tasting plates of the day's catch: tuna sashimi, grilled marlin, shells, prawns, and a vegetable curry.

Booking essential, sometimes a day or two ahead. Bring cash. The bill, for what you get, is reasonable; for what it is, it is extraordinary value.

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A story
Diners at KaLui must remove their shoes at the door and eat barefoot on the polished wooden floor — a house rule held over from the restaurant's origins as the family home of artist Louie Ocampo, who never wanted to leave and so opened part of the house as a kitchen instead.