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HALINÁ Modern Filipino Kitchen + Bar: A Good First Stop for Filipino Food

Filipino cuisine is one of the most globally influenced in the world and still one of the least understood, as Halina puts it on its own website. This modern Filipino kitchen and bar in Vancouver’s Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood makes a point of explaining its food, which makes it a good place to try it for the first time.

Overhead view of Halina dishes on a wooden table, including Pancit Batil Patong topped with a fried egg, crispy chicken skin, burgers with fries and a dessert set on ice
A spread from the Halina kitchen.

Food With a History

The four friends behind Halina in black aprons, standing in the kitchen behind a table of plated Filipino dishes

Halina’s website traces how Filipino cooking was shaped by trade and travel, with Spanish, Chinese, American and Japanese influences layered onto the islands’ own traditions. The result, in the restaurant’s words, is food that tastes complex yet comforting and is meant to be shared, not rushed.

The restaurant was started by four friends who first ran a takeout and catering business called Bigboy’s Chigs To-Go, and it blends Filipino tradition with Canadian ingredients.

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Easy Dishes for First-Timers

Grilled Chicken Inasal at Halina with atchara and dipping sauces on a banana leaf

Grilled Chicken Inasal

Grilled chicken marinated with lemongrass, soy and calamansi, a small Philippine citrus. Approachable and full of flavour.

Inihaw na Liempo at Halina: grilled pork belly with atchara and a dipping sauce

Inihaw na Liempo

Inihaw means grilled and liempo is pork belly. It comes with atchara, a sweet pickled papaya relish.

Pancit Batil Patong at Halina: stir-fried egg noodles with crispy pork, chicken skin and a fried egg, with broth on the side

Pancit Batil Patong

Pancit is the Filipino word for noodles. This version from Tuguegarao is stir-fried and topped with a fried egg.

Salmon Berry Sinigang at Halina: seared coho salmon over pearl barley in a blueberry sinigang broth

Salmon Berry Sinigang

Sinigang is a sour soup. Halina’s uses coho salmon and a blueberry broth, a good bridge between familiar and new.

Vegetarian Options

Vegetarian dishes are marked on the menu, including Tofu Sisig, the Naked Springroll with peanut sauce, the Kalabasa Pepper Dip made with roasted squash, and tortang talong, a grilled eggplant frittata served at weekend brunch.

Plan Ahead

Halina opens at 5 p.m. on weekdays and at 10 a.m. on weekends for brunch. Reservations are taken online, and there is a free two-hour community parking lot at Kamloops Street and Franklin Street.

Business Details

Address: 2439 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8

Phone: 778-504-0970

Email: [email protected]

Website: halinarestaurant.com

Instagram: @halina.yvr

Hours:
Monday to Thursday: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Weekend brunch runs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the restaurant’s website for holiday hours.

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Contact Section

Phone

778-504-0970

Postal Code

V5K 1Y8

Website

www.halinarestaurant.com

Map and Address

Address

2439 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8

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