Vigan at Night

Vigan doesn’t really lose its charm at night, with the lights from the street lamps only highlighting the lovely details of the streets and colonial houses—details that one could have easily missed during the day.

On our way to dinner from our hotel to a restaurant along Calle Salcedo, we saw interesting sights like the house of the Governor’s younger sibling, with the unmistakable “S” emblazoned on the mansion’s gate.

Turning a corner, this is the charming scene of our restaurant for dinner, Los Majitos de Vigan, which we discovered in our calesa ride earlier that day.

Los Majitos de Vigan has a charming street set-up for dinner, which is really a crowd drawer. Of course, we got a table outside. I found the lamps hanging outside like banderitas really pretty.

Los Majitos also has an inner courtyard with an equally charming ambiance (but I would have loved it even more if the chairs weren’t monobloc).

Given the super nice ambiance of the place, the food was terribly disappointing. We don’t know if it’s because we arrived late for dinner already or maybe the big group next to us beat us to the good seafood but for the price we paid, the grilled tilapia was really teeny weeny (as in not big enough to share). As for the corned beef sinigang, it seemed they just opened a can of corned beef and dumped it in on the soup. My only consolation was the inihaw na liempo, which also has a small serving. The food was not worth the price.

So we just amused ourselves with the food!

We thought we could console ourselves with dessert in the promising Leila’s Cafe. But by the time we finished dinner, it was already closed. But more on Leila’s Cafe in another post!

So after dinner, we walked along the Calle Crisologo area again and enjoyed the quietness of the streets. At 930 pm, the streets are deserted. We saw one club along Calle Crisologo though but we weren’t up to any crazy nightlife scene, if at all.