Cafe Uno and Kusina Felecitas in Grandpa's Inn, Vigan

Before we explored Vigan’s Calle Crisologo, we first had late lunch in Cafe Uno, a coffeshop accessible from the street or through a connecting door in our hotel, Grandpa’s Inn. The ambiance of the cafe/ restaurant was just like the Inn itself—very cozy and quaint. As verified from Grandpa’s Inn’s website, the restaurant across the street from the Inn, Uno Grille, has also the same owners as Grandpa’s Inn, along with Cafe Uno and Kusina Felecitas (the restaurant inside the Inn).

Because we’re in Ilocos, of course we had to order the traditional Ilocos delicacies. We got the bagnet dipped in KBL (tomatoes, bagoong, and onions) , pinakbet, and a fish dish whose name I forgot (I took pictures of the wrong menu unfortunately).

I remember us loving the pinakbet because the vegetables weren’t overcooked and had the right touch of bitterness of the ampalaya. It’s cooked quite differently from the pinakbet we have at home (no squash?) and I really liked it. As for the bagnet, the meat was not tender but maybe it’s really supposed to be like that? If you ask me, it just tasted like hard lechon kawali.But I really loved the fish dish though. You must order it if you go to Cafe Uno too 🙂

Aissa talking to S.

Oh, Aissa didn’t feel like going all-out Ilocano for lunch so she had pasta with Hungarian sausage (which was in a very small serving).

We also ordered these cakes and coffee for dessert. The coffee was quite good since throughout the trip, all I’ve had was instant coffee and the last “good” coffee I’ve had before this was from Ya Kun Kaya in the airport. However, for a coffee shop, the cakes in Cafe Uno were not so good. (I will tell you about a coffee shop with good coffee and dessert we discovered in Vigan in the coming posts :).

The next day, we had breakfast in Grandpa’s Inn’s Kusina Felecitas. I was surprised to see some Koreans there (since we didn’t really see any foreigners back in Pagudpud)