Angel Wish Seafood

Angel Wish Seafood — San Juan's seafood canteen
Pick your fish, shells or prawns at the counter, choose how they're cooked. Simple, fresh, generous — and one of the highest-rated tables on the island.

 

Angel Wish Seafood

Sitting right on the circumferential road in the heart of San Juan, Angel Wish Seafood is one of those no-frills addresses that travellers pass on to each other. No polished décor, no postcard view — just a simple open-fronted dining room, a few fans overhead, and one of the best-stocked seafood displays around.

The concept is Filipino paluto: you choose the catch — prawns, clams, squid, oysters, crab, whole fish, or sisi, the small local shellfish — then choose how it's cooked. Charcoal-grilled, sautéed in garlic butter, sweet chilli, steamed, or simmered in coconut milk (ginataan). There's a regular menu too, with Filipino staples like sisig, adobo and stir-fried greens, plus plenty for anyone who doesn't eat seafood.

The dishes that come up again and again in reviews: garlic butter prawns, chilli garlic clams, sweet chilli crab, clam soup, grilled squid, and a mango shake worth ordering on its own.

Service is warm and family-run, and the place is genuinely popular — in high season, expect a short wait in the evening. Everything is cooked to order and arrives fresh. Portions are hearty and meant to be shared in the middle of the table.

Our tip: come with a group, order the same seafood two or three different ways to compare, and ask what came in that day — the selection changes with the catch.

Good to know: the seafood display can be thinner in low season or late in service, so arrive early in the evening for the best pick.

Hours and practical

Open every day, 8am to 10pm. On the Circumferential Road in San Juan. No reservations — you turn up. 4.7 out of 5 from around 280 Google reviews, which makes it one of the highest-rated tables on the island. Bring cash.

Our view

Angel Wish is, in our opinion, one of the best tables on Siquijor. It is the address for seafood: nothing sophisticated, but a display few places on the island can match, and cooking that is done properly. For a non-seafood Filipino dinner, see Roadside Diners; for Italian, Dolce Amore.