Toka Wine: Will Host Guest-Chef Series

Toka Wine is a small Katipunan bar and bottle shop modelled on the wine rooms of Porto, Madrid and Paris, with a list split roughly evenly between classic and natural bottles chosen for freshness and drinkability. Four times a year its Will Host series gives the kitchen to an emerging Manila chef for a one-off dinner of small plates built around the cellar, which makes it a quiet incubator for new cooking and a good reason to track what the city's younger talent is doing. Tatler Asia counts the room among Manila's better dining spots, and it stays an unfussy neighbourhood place rather than a special-occasion one. Summer dates are confirmed close to the night, so follow the venue on Instagram to catch the next takeover; it sits in Quezon City, so plan for a longer trip from the bay area.