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HALINÁ Modern Filipino Kitchen + Bar: Familiar Filipino Flavours, Reworked

Halina is a chef-driven Filipino kitchen and bar on East Hastings Street in Vancouver. For anyone who grew up on sinigang, caldereta and pancit, the menu is a chance to taste those dishes rebuilt with new proteins and modern plating, and for anyone new to Filipino food it is an easy place to start.

The four friends behind Halina in black aprons, standing in the kitchen behind a table of plated Filipino dishes
The four friends behind Halina, with a spread from their kitchen.

How It Started

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

Halina grew out of Bigboy’s Chigs To-Go, a small takeout and catering business run by four friends who shared a love of Filipino cuisine. The restaurant is their bigger idea: an elevated dining room that blends Filipino tradition with Canadian ingredients and keeps the door open to everyone.

The website even includes a history of Filipino cuisine, tracing how Spanish, Chinese, American and Japanese influences were layered onto the islands’ own cooking rather than replacing it.

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The Classics, Reworked

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

Salmon Berry Sinigang

The sour soup gets coho salmon marinated in miso and ponzu, pearl barley, crispy taro root and a blueberry sinigang broth.

Australian Lamb Caldereta at Halina: braised lamb shank over carrot and potato mash with asparagus and a cheese-stuffed pepper

Australian Lamb Caldereta

Caldereta made with a roasted and braised lamb shank, served with carrot and potato mash, asparagus and cheese-stuffed peppers. It contains peanuts.

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

The Tuguegarao noodle dish, loaded with ground beef, prawns, crispy liempo, Chinese sausage, chicken skin and a fried egg.

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

Inihaw na Liempo

Grilled pork belly kept close to tradition, with calamansi, cane vinegar, atchara and rice.

Heritage Dishes Too

Not everything is reinvented. The menu also carries kare-kare with oxtail, honeycomb tripe and shrimp paste, bulalo, crispy pata, lechon kawali and dinakdakan, plus lumpia and okoy among the starters.

Weekend Silog Brunch

On Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the brunch menu serves silog plates with tapa, sisig, baconchon or fried marinated milkfish, along with tortang talong and pandesal at itlog.

Making the Trip

Halina is at 2439 E Hastings St in Vancouver’s Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood. 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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