7107 Restaurant Cebu City: the name is 534 islands out of date. The bulalo is not.

The bulalo comes out in a clay pot with a ring of bone marrow sitting dead center, sweet corn on one side, cabbage and bokchoy pushed up against the rim, and a nest of noodles somewhere under the broth. It is a Southern Luzon dish being cooked six hundred kilometers south of where it belongs, inside a restaurant named after a number the country retired ten years ago. Both of those things turn out to matter.

The number on the door retired in 2016

The menu says it on its own first page, before a single dish: the name is “the number of the Philippines islands.” That was the count for most of the last century, carried over from a mid-1900s survey and printed on everything from textbooks to tourism posters.

Then in 2016 NAMRIA, the government mapping agency, finished a pass with better satellite imagery and found 534 islands nobody had put on a chart. The official figure has been 7,641 ever since. So the restaurant on Gov. M. Cuenco Avenue is named after a retired number, and it is 534 islands short of the country it is cooking.

Which is a small thing that becomes a funny thing when both numbers end up standing next to each other. On one visit a staff member in the house polo, rainbow archipelago over the left chest, ended up beside somebody wearing the 7,641 Islands tee. Old count and current count, pointing at each other.

The bulalo is the thing

On the October 2026 menu it is Bulalo in 7107, ₱1,050 for two to three people, up from ₱895 on the June 2025 board. Beef shank, sweet corn, bokchoy, cabbage and noodle. It arrives in the pot it was finished in, still moving.

Suroy.ph photographed it on 24 August 2025 and again on 2 July 2026. Ten months apart, and the pot came out built the same way twice: same shank, same corn, same green pushed to the edges, same marrow in the middle. In a soup that lives or dies on how long the shank sat in the broth, that repetition is the review.

Then again at lunch on 22 October 2026, the price ₱155 higher and nothing else about the pot moved. Corn on the surface, shank under the broth, the green packed to the edges. Three photographs across fourteen months, one build.

The noodle is the tell. Bulalo is Batangas and Cavite food, the bowl you stop for on the way down from the ridge with the Taal crater behind you, and it does not usually come with noodles. Here they do. The kitchen has a Korean hand and does not hide it, and the pot is where you see it first. The shredded scallion piled over the grilled meat is the second place. The South Korean coffee chain that had the unit before them is the third.

Then the pork tomahawk

₱985 on the October 2026 menu, ₱895 in June 2025. Pork cutlet, white butter sauce, parsley, which reads plain on the menu and is not plain on the plate. What arrives is a slab of pork in a coarse panko crust, fried the deep gold of good tonkatsu, with chopped parsley packed across the top of it thickly enough that it reads green from the other side of the table. Half a lemon, charred flat on the cut face, sits in a pool of browned butter at the front of the plate. A small dish of green sauce comes alongside. It runs off the edge of a wide plate.

The bulalo and this are the two orders that carry the trip. The bulalo is the dish the kitchen is arranged around. The tomahawk is the one you describe to somebody afterwards.

The lechon kawali, which is doing something else

This is the plate that shows what the kitchen does with a Filipino dish rather than to it. Pork belly fried and cut into blocks, skin left crackling, fanned across pickled carrot and radish with two halves of a lemon charred flat on the grill, a roasted red onion and cucumber. A green herb oil underneath, a brown sauce running through it, and three pale dots of something soft along the rim.

That is a lot of plating for lechon kawali. It earns it, and it is the clearest single argument the room makes for calling itself contemporary Philippine dining.

Alongside those, a plate of grilled meat under a mountain of shredded spring onion and red chili, with pickled radish and a quenelle of something yellow and soft on a cast iron plate. That garnish is not a Filipino move either.

Dessert leans Korean as well

The bingsu comes in a footed steel bowl: a cone of shaved milk ice dusted all over in a coarse toasted powder, sweet red bean and condensed milk spooned over the peak, cubes of sponge cake stacked on top. It is the most Korean thing on the table, more than the noodle in the bulalo. The layered pastry is the other one worth a photograph, puff pastry and piped cream stacked three deep on a slate, a 7107 tag stuck in the top and small cream kisses around it under crumbs and sugar. No dessert page was photographed on this visit, so neither carries a price here.

The menu in October 2026, and what it costs

The menu was photographed again on 22 October 2026 and it has been reorganized since the June 2025 board. There is no page headed Big Plate any more. The heavy plates sit across two pages headed Main, with Meals, Noodle, Sea Foods, Side, Salad and a lunch set around them.

Dish	October 2026	June 2025
Ribeye Steak, ribeye, garlic, fries, herb butter	₱2,500
Grilled Beef Chop Steak, hanging tender, broccoli, bell pepper	₱1,390
Bulalo in 7107, beef shank, sweet corn, bokchoy, cabbage, noodle, 2 to 3 people	₱1,050	₱895
Pork Tomahawk Cutlet, pork cutlet, white butter sauce, parsley	₱985	₱895
Sunset Garden Mango Shrimp, fried shrimp, mango, vinaigrette salad	₱950	₱695
Scallop Shrimp with Linguine, scallop, mixed mushroom, truffle oil	₱895
Back Rib, back rib, papaya, potato	₱890
Grilled Squid with Herb-Roasted Vegetables	₱795
Tteokbokki with Chicken, rice cake, chicken, triple sauce	₱690
Spicy Jamaican Chicken, chicken confit, romesco sauce, vegetables	₱690
Radish Kimchi Fried Rice, radish kimchi, sausage, egg	₱615
Burger Steak, beef, pork, vegetables, mashed potatoes, omelet	₱590
Garlic Fried Rice, shallot and garlic chips, egg	₱290
Chuck Flap Tail Steak	Not on the October pages	₱1,750
Rock Lobster	Not on the October pages	₱1,750
Paprika Pulpo	Not on the October pages	₱795

The bulalo is up 17 percent, the tomahawk 10 percent and the mango shrimp 37 percent. The chuck flap, the rock lobster and the paprika pulpo from the June 2025 board are not on any of the pages photographed in October, and neither are the lechon kawali or the squid ink pasta further down this page. Ask before you plan a table around them.

Every page carries the same line at the foot: a 7% service charge applies to all bills. Add it before you split the check. How that charge works, and who it is meant to reach, is covered in the guide to tipping in the Philippines.

The mango shrimp arrives as a row of fried shrimp stood up tails first across shredded lettuce, cubes of mango tucked between them and sauce run over the top. The scallop shrimp linguine comes in a cream sauce with mushrooms, whole shrimp and slices of toasted bread laid across the rim. Those two and the beef chop steak are three of the four plates in the signature set.

The Chef Signature Set puts the mango shrimp, the grilled beef chop steak, the scallop linguine, a tiramisu choco and an ade or coffee together at ₱3,620, with house wine ₱150 extra per glass. The card prints it as 15 percent off ₱4,135. The arithmetic says 12.5 percent, so go by the ₱3,620, which is the number on the bill.

The lunch set runs 11 AM to 4 PM. ₱1,790 for two buys a salad, a rice or pasta, the back rib or the tomahawk, and two iced teas or coffees. ₱3,190 for three doubles the rice or pasta and the main, adds tteokbokki, the Jamaican chicken and the chicken angel and diablo to the choices, and brings three drinks. Priced off the same menu, the two-person set saves roughly ₱400 to ₱500 against ordering the same plates separately, more if you take the tomahawk.

Delivery is now cheaper than the table

Checked 27 October 2026 on Foodpanda: the delivery listing now carries the full-size Bulalo in 7107 at ₱995 and the Pork Tomahawk Cutlet at ₱945, both below the printed dine-in prices of ₱1,050 and ₱985. Radish kimchi fried rice is ₱580, spicy pancit canton ₱680 and the scallop shrimp linguine ₱895, the same as at the table.

The October 2026 menu settles part of that. The dine-in menu has moved toward the delivery list: tteokbokki, a radish kimchi fried rice and a spicy pancit canton at ₱650 are now printed at the table. For the two signature plates, delivery is now the cheaper way to eat them before the delivery fee, and the table adds the 7% service charge on top. Check both before you choose.

There are two 7107s, and Mactan came first

The one on this page is not the original. 7107 started on Mactan and the Cebu City branch at 88th Avenue came after it. Both are trading.

• 7107 Restaurant, Lapu-Lapu. The first branch. M.L. Quezon National Highway, Mactan. +63 967 204 0839.
• 7107 Restaurant Cebu City. Unit C106, 88th Avenue, Gov. M. Cuenco Avenue, Kasambagan, Cebu City. +63 927 795 1565. The second, and the one in every photograph on this page.

They carry separate listings, separate pages and separate phone numbers, so a search for the name mixes them freely and a review can hand you Mactan opening hours while you are standing on Gov. M. Cuenco. Check which branch you are reading before you drive. Both checked September 2026.

The room

It sits on the ground floor of a serviced apartment block, which is why the frontage does not look like a restaurant. Balconies with plants on them, a lawn of artificial grass out front lined with potted palms, and the sign on the wall above the glass. You walk past it if you are looking for a shopfront.

The unit was a Tom N Toms Coffee Black before it was 7107. If you drank coffee on this stretch of Gov. M. Cuenco a few years ago, you have already been in this room.

It is also not the only thing worth eating on this block. The roof deck at The Pad Co-Living is about a hundred and fifty meters up the same avenue, and neither of them is signposted from the road.

Which explains the counter. It is faced in stacked volcanic stone with a glass display case set into it, the ceiling is left black and open with track lights running through it, and two coffee grinders are still standing on the back counter with beans in the hopper. That is cafe furniture doing restaurant work, and it is a better room than a restaurant fit-out on this budget would normally produce. In the 2025 frames the tables are dark and set low, and the room is never full.

The room is the same one in October 2026: the stone counter, the open black ceiling, the lit 7107 sign on the back wall, red lanterns over part of the floor. The one new thing is a projector on the far wall. It runs more than one visual, and the giant betta fish is the one that was playing when these frames were taken. A screen that size, a floor this wide and a kitchen that already sells sets for three make it one of the easier rooms on Gov. M. Cuenco to take over for a birthday, a team lunch or a launch. To book it, call the branch on +63 927 795 1565 and ask whether there is a minimum spend before you set the headcount. At Thursday lunch a handful of tables were taken.

The kitchen also runs a squid ink pasta, black under a heavy layer of grated cheese and herbs in a wide pan, and a seafood plate with mango cut through it. Neither is the reason to book the table, but they tell you the range the room is reaching for.

Going

• Address. Unit C106, 88th Avenue, Gov. M. Cuenco Avenue, Kasambagan, Cebu City 6000.
• Coordinates. 10.3278° N, 123.9097° E, read off the EXIF of the frames on this page.
• Hours. 11 AM to 9 PM daily. Delivery ordering closes earlier, at 8:30 PM. Checked September 2026.
• Phone. +63 927 795 1565.
• Order. Bulalo in 7107 for the table, the pork tomahawk cutlet beside it, rice for everyone.
• Group size. The bulalo is written for two to three. Four people should add a second main rather than a second pot.
• Budget. Bulalo in 7107 and the pork tomahawk come to ₱2,035 on the October 2026 menu, ₱2,177 with the service charge, before rice and drinks. Three people eating that with a round of drinks should plan on about ₱1,000 each.
• Lunch set. 11 AM to 4 PM, ₱1,790 for two, ₱3,190 for three.
• Service charge. 7% on every bill, printed on every menu page.

Parking is the courtyard and the street, and Gov. M. Cuenco backs up in both directions between five and seven. Come at lunch if you can choose.

Questions people actually ask

Where is 7107 Restaurant in Cebu City?

Unit C106 on the ground floor of 88th Avenue, Gov. M. Cuenco Avenue, Kasambagan, Cebu City. It is set back behind a small lawn, under a residential block, so it does not read as a restaurant from the road.

What should you order at 7107 Restaurant?

The Bulalo in 7107 and the pork tomahawk cutlet. The bulalo is the dish the kitchen is built around and it has come out built the same way on three visits across fourteen months.

How much is 7107 Restaurant?

On the October 2026 menu the mains run ₱590 for the burger steak to ₱2,500 for the ribeye, with the bulalo at ₱1,050 and the pork tomahawk at ₱985. A 7% service charge goes on every bill. The lunch set, 11 AM to 4 PM, is ₱1,790 for two and ₱3,190 for three. The delivery listing checked in September 2026 is a shorter and different list.

Why is it called 7107?

The menu states it on its welcome page: 7,107 for the number of Philippine islands. That was the long-standing count. NAMRIA’s 2016 survey added 534 islands and the official figure has been 7,641 ever since.

Is 7107 Restaurant Filipino or Korean?

It calls itself contemporary Philippine dining and the menu is Filipino in its bones, but the hand behind it is Korean. The bulalo has noodles in the pot, the grilled meat comes buried in shredded scallion, the delivery rice list is kimchi and bulgogi from top to bottom, and the dine-in menu now prints tteokbokki and a radish kimchi fried rice beside the bulalo. The bingsu is Korean too. The unit was a Tom N Toms, a South Korean coffee chain, before this.

What was 7107 Restaurant before?

A Tom N Toms Coffee Black, in the same unit at 88th Avenue. The stone counter, the glass case and the grinders on the back counter are all left over from it.

Is the 7107 in Lapu-Lapu the same restaurant?

It is the same name, and the Mactan branch is the older of the two. 7107 opened on M.L. Quezon National Highway in Mactan first, and the 88th Avenue branch in Cebu City came later. The two carry separate listings and separate phone numbers, which is why search results mix them. Everything in this article is the Cebu City one.

Does 7107 Restaurant deliver?

Yes, through the usual apps, with ordering closing at 8:30 PM. The delivery menu is a shorter and different list than the one printed at the table, so it is not a substitute for going.

Posted after one of these visits

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Photographed at 7107 Restaurant Cebu City on 25 June 2025, 24 August 2025, 21 September 2025, 2 July 2026 and 22 October 2026. Prices taken off the printed dine-in menu photographed 22 October 2026, with the 25 June 2025 board kept for comparison. Address, hours and delivery listing checked September 2026.