Rattan-lined café interior with woven ceiling and warm light

Kape sa ilalim ng kubo

Specialty coffee under a bamboo roof, roasted out back, on the road through Malasiqui.

Pull over. The kettle is already on.

Open daily from 6:00 AM at 123 Arenas Blvd. Sit at an antique long table, or grab a cup from the roadside window and keep riding.

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Atok Benguet Sagada Mountain Province Mount Apo Mindanao

We built Kubo Kopi from treated bamboo and a lifetime of roadside stops, then filled it with the antiques our neighbors couldn't bear to throw away.

Bamboo chairs beside a carved wooden screen

Open-air ventilation, warm lamps, and long tables made from old narra. The room is half the reason people stay for a second cup.

Read how it was built

Three ways to have your coffee

Stay a while, grab it from the window, or take the beans home. Each one starts with the same 5:00 AM calibration.

Dining room with wooden tables and plants

Dine in, under bamboo

Table service in a fully bamboo-clad room with antique wood furniture and the breeze coming straight through. Bring a book, a laptop or your lola.

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Barista grinding coffee at the counter

Curbside, through the window

Riding through on a bike or a motorbike? Our roadside pick-up window means you order, sip and keep moving without looking for parking.

How the window works
Coffee roaster turning a fresh batch

Beans, roasted out back

Watch the small-batch roaster from your seat, then take home a fresh bag of whole beans or grounds, roasted that week.

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What the regulars order

Hover a row to see it. Every silog plate comes with garlic rice, a sunny-side-up egg and our spiced native vinegar.

Signature Spanish Latte₱160

Condensed-milk sweet, double ristretto, hot or iced

 Kubo Beef Tapa₱220

House-cured sirloin, garlic rice, egg, spiced vinegar

 Mount Apo Pour Over₱150

Single origin from Mindanao, brewed to order

 Ube Horchata₱150

Purple yam and rice milk with cinnamon, over ice

 Traditional Tablea Tsokolate₱140

Thick, frothed by hand with a wooden batirol

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From the highlands to your table

Farm to cup, in four steps

The shortest road a bean can take

No consolidators, no warehouse in Manila. Just the farmer, us, and a roaster you can see from your seat.

Farmer picking ripe coffee cherries
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Picked in Atok, Sagada and Mount Apo

Ripe cherries from farms we know by name, in Benguet, Mountain Province and Mindanao.

Hand holding red coffee cherries
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Bought direct, above market

100% of our green beans come straight from the growers, who are paid a premium over regional prices.

Beans tumbling in a drum roaster
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Roasted out back, in micro-batches

Jericho sorts, Kristian profiles, and every batch is small enough to taste before it ships to the counter.

Barista pouring steamed milk into a cup
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Poured for you, a few meters away

Freshness you can taste, and a lot less fuel and packaging than a supply chain that zigzags across Luzon.

Every Saturday, 2:00 to 6:00 PM

Weekend Mind Games

Rapid and blitz chess on one side of the long tables, Scrabble on the other. Winners take home 250g of our beans.

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Four people, one kubo

An owner who curates chess brackets and three students who keep the place running between classes.

Kristian Mamaril, ownerKristian Mateo, lead baristaMateo Lina, kitchen leadLina Jericho, roaster assistantJericho

See you on Arenas Boulevard

Open daily, 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM. Silog served all day.

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