Hangout Cebu

From north to south, numerous tropical attractions would greet you and offer an extensive display of exhilarating beauty of Mother Nature. This tropical island is best famous for its beaches and friendly people. White sand beaches, best diving spots, scrumptious dishes, what more would you ask for? It has nature’s best offering that would surely capture the people’s devotion and aesthetic imagination. Apart form this nature’s offering, without a doubt, Cebu is the fastest growing economy in the country. Hailed as the IT and call centre hub in Asia, Cebu is now becoming to be the centre for global tourist attraction. This is mainly the reason why HangOut-Cebu.com is created --- to provide you a tangible guide that will surely cater to everyone’s knowledge about the recent pop places and activities happening in Cebu City.

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This website gives out the most desired convenience that is sought by most individuals here in Cebu especially to the party goers or to anyone who just simply wishes to recuperate from too much exhaustion and pressure brought by the strenuous schedule and nature of daily work. HangOut Cebu.com is indeed very easy to use, by just logging in to www.hangout-cebu.com. Upon entering the website and with just a series of clicking and web browsing, you can definitely get all the recent news, activities, places and spots that you need to be aware of if you are planning to go out and have some good time with your friends.

For the most part, HangOut-Cebu.com is designed to serve as an ultimate partner and guide of the pop culture and mainstream for most people who are coping with the fast paced and technologically equipped era.

Every year, Cebu City is lined up with series of events that will again give vim and vigour to all Cebuanos. These activities are always anticipated by most people as gatherings which will promote and forward unity and oneness among all Cebuanos. This particular page of hangout-cebu.com will give you a glimpse or an overview of the upcoming annual events and celebrations that are soon to come about in Cebu City.

Pasko sa Sugbo

This is an annual celebration that occurs in the Fuente Osmeña Rotunda. This is organized by the government of Cebu to uphold the typical way of merry-making of the typical Cebuanos. Pasko sa Sugbo will feature the various amazing talents of the Cebuanos. Starting early December, every night is going to be sponsored by a particular establishment or institution, may it be a school, private or non-private institution. The customary highlights of this affair are the cultural night which will feature Cebu’s cultural dances, literature and plays. Some nights would also be featuring Cebuano live bands and singers. Basically, every night is going to be a night of spectacle. The Pasko sa Sugbo will run on the whole month of December but usually it will extend until the grand Sinulog Festival on January.

Pasko sa Sugbo - cultural dance @ Fuente Osmeña

Sinulog Festival

The most grandiose and extravagant festival in the season happens in Cebu City. The celebration of Sinulog in Cebu is considered the Mother of all Festivals. Every January, when Sinulog is commemorated, the streets are filled with people from all walks of life. Street parties, street dancing, loud drumbeats are just few of the grand festivities, as the entire island of Cebu spreads its reverberating drumbeats of praise for our beloved patron, Señor Sto. Niño. The Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño de Cebu, will become the seat and centre of the fiesta celebration. Thousands of devotees will go to the church despite the inconveniences brought by some inevitable circumstances. The Sinulog Festival has always been an anticipated event for all Cebuanos more so the Sinulog Mardi Gras that has always drawn the crowd’s interest. This is greatly participated by the flamboyant dances of the different delegates from the various parts of the country. The Sinulog Festival is adhered by people in various ways, for the devotees, it’s a time to pay reverence to the Holy Child. For some, it’s a season to celebrate aesthetic vacation and amusement; but above all, it is a celebration that marks Cebu as the Seat of the Island Festivals in the country.

Sinulog Grand Parade 2006

Octoberfest and Halloween

Sooner than the highlights of Pasko Sa Sugbo on December and the grandiose festivities of Sinulog Festival on January, the whole month of October and November are packed with big celebrations. The entire month of October is being devoted to all the drunkards in the world as it celebrates a month long beer festival, the annual Octoberfest which is sponsored by San Miguel Beer. This celebration thrashes out series of concerts, gigs and parties happening at the various hotspots and drinking pubs in Cebu, for as long as the presence of beer is there.

CDUH Halloween Party 2008

Nevertheless, the end part of October and the early part of November open the commencement of the Halloween Parties. This pagan celebration has still been observed not to bring back pagan customs but just for the sake of entertainment and enjoyment. The theme would always be: “the scarier the better”. So for this two-month celebration, grab a beer and be the scariest creature you can be.

Apart from its rich culture and beautiful spots, Cebu City will also give you a mouth-watering experience when you get to visit these places which will surely satisfy your craving for food. From high-end and classy restaurants up to the most affordable foods in the street, Cebu City will treat your hunger to places that are convenient for people and Cebuanos from all walks of life as well as the tourists.

KAFAYE Coffee N’ Cream Resto

The tables have turned this time. Far much better with starting your day with a cup of coffee is to spend the remaining time of your day and longest time of your evening chilling with your friends over a cup of coffee. That is why there’s KAFAYE Coffee ‘N Cream Resto. Situated along the intersection of Barangay Mambaling and Punta, Labangon, this delightful and cosy coffee shop caters you a variety of coffee as well as cakes and pastries plus a variety of hot meals. From the name itself, it’s not just a coffee shop but it’s also a restaurant. KAFAYE offers various coffees from hot to cold. It also caters delectable and delicious pastries and cakes. And to give the place a touch of Pinoy atmosphere, they also serve authentic Pionoy dishes. KAFAYE also offers hot meals such as chicken and pork adobo which is very adoptable to us, Cebuanos. And whola! The prices are indeed reasonable. Your one hundred bucks can already satisfy you with a cup of coffee or cakes and pastries or a one hot full meal. It, for the most part, satisfies your food cravings. KAFAYE really offers a convenient and relaxing place for young, middle-aged and matured professionals who want to do away with everyday pressure. For teenagers who love to chinwag and chill with their friends, because, indeed, the tables have turned now. Far much better than starting your day with a cup of coffee is to spend the rest of your time at KAFAYE Coffee ‘N Cream Resto.

KAFAYE Coffee ‘N Cream Resto

The LARSIAN

“Larsian”—the name always rings a bell. Of course, every Cebuano knows about this very famous food hub. Professionals, non-professionals, teenagers, elders, vendors, all people from all walks of life can be spotted in this renowned home of sinugba and barbecue. Larsian, as what it is commonly and widely known is figuratively named as the food centre of Cebu City. Larsian has an approximately more or less, fifty barbecue stalls surrounding the entire vast area. Despite the suffocating smoke that may sometimes disturbs your eating; the scrumptiousness of the sizzling sinugbang baboy, sinugbang pusit, sinugbang isda and barbecue will let you forget that you are seated in a smoky area. Larsian draws a countless number of customers everyday because of its very affordable and tasty foods. The location is yet very strategic; situated at the heart of Cebu City, nearby Chiong Hua, along side Fuente Osmeña rotunda. Larsian is typically the common place that is shared by most Cebuanos, no wonder it is flagged down as Cebu’s Food Hub.

A good combo meal @ Larsian, Fuente Osmeña, Cebu City, Philippines

The Original Siomai sa Tisa

Certainly, this title can be seen in almost all signboards of stalls selling siomai. This just simply means that they are well-established and popular—of course, the number one form of flattery is imitation. As its name clearly implies, The Original Siomai sa Tisa is located in Tisa, Labangon, Cebu City. They are the original supplier of the delicious siomai with its sweet hot and spicy sauce. For the record, siomai has to be eaten with its sweet hot and spicy sauce for you to savour its authentic flavour.

Siomai sa Tisa

Pungko-pungko
If you want to be more adventurous with food, then you must try eating at the well-distributed pungko-pungko stalls. Yes, you have heard it right. Despite from the fact that these pungko-pungko stalls are situated along the streets and outskirts of Cebu, the food catered in these stalls are yummy and most importantly, very cheap and affordable. Usually, the foods that you can find in pungko-pungko stalls are lumpia, bola-bola, hotdog, longganisa, ngohiong, adobo and puso—plain foods that taste extraordinary flavor. In Cebu City, the famous pungko-pungko stalls are located nearby Redemptorist Church and in Salinas Drive, Lahug. For once, why don’t you try it yourself?

Teenager, young professionals, adult professionals; they may vary in likes and interests but they only share one common denominator—singing. Indeed, we all love to sing! Whether you are a singer or not, this place can be a refuge and comfort zone for all desirable and undesirable singers. Situated beside Autoshop Bar, along Mango Avenue, Barkadahan KTV is one of the best karaoke bars here in Cebu. This place offers amore or less thirty rooms, all exclusive for people who wish to sing their heart out. Each room is designed to accommodate ten to fifteen people, with a personal television and at least two microphones. Aside from that, Barkadahan also serves beverages and liquors. They also serve light meals to heavy meals – from the delicious hot and sizzling sisig to the famous and instant tapsilog and chicken barbecue. With its very comfortable large cushioned sofas, you will surely enjoy singing out with your friends or relatives; and take note; they will not surely mind your voice. Barkadahan KTV opens everyday, from 6pm until 3in the morning. Usually, they charge one hundred pesos for one hour on weekdays and one hundred fifty pesos on weekends.

Spend your night here for some time….

Ratsky

Widely known for its extensively distributed branches in the Philippines, Ratsky is also in the top list of the best party centres of Cebu. Ratsky is typically a music bar with live bands. It is strategically located at the Ayala Food and Entertainment Centre, Ayala Centre Cebu. Ratsky caters Continental and Filipino cuisine fusion. Yet, their specialty is their array f delectable pizzas — Supreme, Marco Polo and Ratsky Ultimate Cheese. So it is typically a best place for younger generation party goers. At 2pm until 6pm they have a special promo that is called “Eat all Drink all for only One Hundred Fifty Pesos”. This promo will include pizza or pasta, iced tea, soups and draft beer – that is reasonably great. Ratsky opens at 11am up to 2:45 am daily. They also extend other services like buffet, catering, delivery and special reservations. For more inquiries, you can logon to their website at www.ratskybar.com, or you can give them a call at +63(32) 234-2558 / FAX +63(32) 234-2113, or you can simply email them at ratskycebu@yahoo.com.

Excellent service and the food is superb @ Ratsky Bar

Sinners and Saints Restobar

Without a doubt, this is a place for everyone — everyone in the real sense of the word. For sure, this place can be visited by all sinners and all saints. This cool restobar (a combination of a restaurant and a bar) is located at Banilad, Cebu City. It is a fusion of a restaurant and a bar with live band music. The restobar’s specialty is their very mouth-watering “pica-pica”. Yet other than that, they are also serving light meals to heavy meals. What are more interesting about this restobar are their Nostalgic Night every Thursday and their Ladies’ Night every Wednesday, where there is a free one round of drinks for the ladies. The restobar opens at 7:30pm until 2am from Monday to Saturday only. They also extend buffet and special reservations. You can ring them at +63(32) 234-0317/ FAX +63(32) 234-0319 for more information.

Jazz’n Bluz
If you want to unwind, better shake off your blues at Jazz’n Bluz. This music bar with live bands caters Asian and European cuisine. Their main specialty is their infamous U.S. Angus Beef Steak and Pasta. Apart from that, Jazz’n Bluz also offers extended services like party functions and reservations. Jazz’n Bluz is nestled at 27 F. Cabahug St., Ayala Access Rd., Mabolo, Cebu City. The place opens at 6pm to 2am Monday to Saturday. For more inquiries, you can contact them at +63(32) 232-2698 /FAX +63(32) 231-4373 or you can log on to their website, www.jazznbluz.com. So learn to shake your blues away only at Jazz’n Bluz.

Jazz N Bluz in Cebu City

Club P U M P

If there is a place where you wanted to mingle, party and meet Korean nationals, then go to Club PUMP, located at the rear side of the Cebu Grand Convention Centre, Banilad, Cebu City. This discreetly situated club is the home of Koreans (most party goers are Koreans) and other party people who like to party like there is no tomorrow. Just like any other clubs and bars, Club PUMP overflows with drinks and beverages – the notion is: drink till you drop. However, aside from the drinking sessions which are the highly anticipated moments of the party people, the upbeat of the music will overturn your sanity and will eventually lead you to grab anyone and get twisted at the dance floor. At Club PUMP, the dawn of the morning is absolutely unnoticeable. Club PUMP opens at 7pm till the next day of everyday, with an entrance fee of one hundred pesos only.

Kahayag Café

It may be called a café, but more than its name, this place is a combination of a restaurant and a mini bar—most likely, it is a restobar. This cosy resto bar gratifies its customers with its light Chinese and Filipino cuisine. They also offer a fusion of Filipino-Chinese cuisine. Apart from the sumptuous food, they also cater hard rinks and more than that, you will also be serenaded with a live band that will alleviate one’s heart. Kahayag Café will surely leave you with a light feeling of relaxation.

Cebu City – the home of the aesthetic festivals of festivals; the sanctuary of beautiful and breath-taking pristine beaches; well-known for dried mangoes and an array of scrumptious foods and delicacies. Nevertheless, Cebu City has been vastly becoming to be the centre of entertainment and lifestyle in the mainstream. HangOut-Cebu.com will give you a glimpse of the few of the top hot spots and unwinding pubs that give life to Cebu and eventually what defines – night life.

one of the KTV bar here in Cebu

T.G.I.S. Thank God it’s Friday! Before, this was an expression intended to motivate anyone to end his or her weekend, but now, this is a better expression to start another weekend of chilling out and partying. Yes, it is Friday! Most of the people are going anywhere. Typically, most Cebuanos are party people. Party people not in the sense that they tend to exhaust every little centavo just to have the last drink of the beer but simply, to put things and perspective into a lighter mode, Cebuanos are just simply happy people who love to unwind after a very busy and arduous week has passed.

Known for its aesthetic sense because of the grandiose Sinulog festival, Cebu City never lacked aesthetic places that will surely give you a shake off from all the stress and tiring moments that every one encounters in his or her every day routine, may it be at school, or at work.

enjoy and have fun @ Paseo

At present, Cebu is hailed as one of the best places to unwind and to party at. As you can notice, Cebu is strategically packaged as a best party hub – a progressive city. One thing that makes Cebu a good party hub is strategic locations of each party clubs, pubs, bars cafes and restaurants. Apparently all these spots are advantageously located in areas that are most accessible to the Cebuanos and to anyone who loves to party for that matter; of course, compared to other large cities in the country, Manila for instance — it is going to be a more exhausting idea to unwind and party than just to sit at home and relax, because the time frame of your party time will all be consumed by your travel time, and not to mention the costly travel expense. Not only that, night life in Cebu is a lot safer and out of harm’s way compared to the night life in other major cities in the country. With that, we can actually claim that indeed Cebu is the best party hub in the country.

Restaurant Hallway @ Waterfront Hotel, Lahug, Cebu City, Phils.

However, these claims can all be overthrown if we cannot present proofs that Cebu could really be named such. Thus, HangOut-Cebu.com is materialized to give every Cebuano as well as every tourist and party goers, a doze of Cebu’s most excellent hotspots, party pubs, bars, and the like. This particular page of the website will give the viewers (Cebuano and tourist most importantly) an idea as to where they are supposed to go if they plan to unwind and party like there is no tomorrow. So it is basically a sort of party directory for all the party animals out there.

party place @ PUMP GrandCon…Cebu City, Phils.

Perhaps, let us bring to a standstill these claims that we have for Cebu and get down to the real gist of this topic. In the succeeding articles we will present to you a foray of bars, pubs, etc, that you might want to visit. Along with that, we will also be giving you their respective addresses and location, their particular food specialty; and we will be giving you a brief description as to what they do best offer.
So seat back, fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the exciting loading of information as we take you to an enjoyable and thrilling bar-hopping experience only here in the indisputably top party hub of the country—name it — Cebu City.

It was quite a another busy day for me at the office when something out of the ordinary caught my attention. A huge tornado can be seen outside my window, at first, I thought that it was just my imagination but when my officemate told me that it was real, I had to do one thing and that was to make sure.

Thanks God! It did not fall in the land but in the sea.  Pretty scary if you’ll ask me and lucky for us Cebuanos that it died as it made its way to the city.