8Cuts Burgers at SM City Cebu: The Menu, The Prices and the Steal Worth Ordering

Orange and blue, and loud about both. 8Cuts does not do the dim room and the exposed filament bulb that most burger restaurants in this country settled on a decade ago. The Cebu branch is a bright box on the Upper Ground of SM City Cebu‘s North Wing, blue tables against orange counters, a wavy graphic running the length of one wall with a line printed across it reading eight burgers are better than one, and an open pass where you can watch the patties go down.

The important reading is not on the wall though. It is at the bottom of the menu board by the door, in type small enough that most people walk straight past it: all prices are inclusive of VAT and service charge. In a Philippine mall restaurant that sentence is worth actual money, and it changes how the rest of this menu should be read.

What the number on the board actually means

Most sit-down restaurants in Cebu malls, from the steakhouses to the ramen counters, add ten percent service on top of the printed price, and a table of four discovers it at the end. 8Cuts does not. The ₱429 on the board is ₱429 on the bill.

Run that against a comparable meal somewhere that charges service and the gap is about forty three pesos on a ₱429 order, or roughly a hundred and seventy on a table of four. It does not make 8Cuts cheap. It makes the comparison you are doing in your head against other restaurants wrong by ten percent, in 8Cuts’ favour, every time.

The blend, and the name

The eight in 8Cuts is eight cuts of beef: chuck, rib eye, short rib, sirloin, brisket, hanger, flank and ox tail. The restaurant started life in Manila in November 2012 as Burger Bar, spun off the following year as 8Cuts Burger Blends at UP Town Center, and was built on letting you choose which blend went into your patty. Abba Napa, Jon Syjuco and Eliza Antonino, of The Moment Group, are the names behind it.

That choice is gone. The Cebu board sells one blend and one only. It is called The House, the menu describes it as mean and meaty, and the page it sits on carries the line: no extenders, no fillings, no foolings. If you have read anything about this restaurant written before about 2020 and turned up expecting to build a patty from a list of blends, that is not what happens now. You choose a burger and you choose a weight.

The burgers, and why the bigger patty is the better buy

Every burger on the board comes at a quarter pound or a third of a pound. A quarter pound is 113 grams of beef. A third is 151. The step between them is 37.8 grams, and 8Cuts charges differently for that same 37.8 grams depending on which burger you are holding.

Burger	1/4 lb	1/3 lb	Cost of the step	Per gram added
OG Burger	₱275	₱340	₱65	₱1.72
The Cheese Burger	₱295	₱375	₱80	₱2.12
Meathead	₱310	₱375	₱65	₱1.72
Piggy	₱395	₱450	₱55	₱1.46
Four Cheese 2.0	₱395	₱450	₱55	₱1.46
Bleu 2.0	₱395	₱450	₱55	₱1.46
Hangover 2.0	₱405	₱475	₱70	₱1.85
Q-Daddy	₱410	₱480	₱70	₱1.85

Now put that against what the quarter-pounder itself costs you per gram of patty. The Cheese Burger at ₱295 works out at ₱2.60 a gram. The Piggy at ₱395 is ₱3.48 a gram. In every single row on that board, the extra beef is cheaper per gram than the beef you already agreed to buy.

It is widest at the top of the menu. On the Piggy, the Four Cheese and the Bleu you pay ₱3.48 a gram for the first quarter pound and ₱1.46 a gram for the next third of one. Less than half price for the same meat, off the same blend, in the same bun. If you are ordering any of those three, take the third pound and stop thinking about it.

The worst upgrade on the board is the Cheese Burger, at ₱80 for the step. It is still cheaper per gram than the burger under it, which tells you something about how this menu is built: the cheap burger is where the margin lives, and the expensive ones are where the beef is.

The Daily Steals, and the ₱110 most people leave behind

Fifteen numbered sets run down the middle of the board under the heading Daily Steals, from ₱429 to ₱513, each one a main plus a side plus a glass of iced tea. This is the section that decides whether you eat well here or badly, and there is one move inside it worth more than all the others.

Most of the sets let you pick your side from the same three options: skinny fries, onion rings, or chick poppers. Priced separately on the very same board, those are ₱165, ₱190 and ₱275.

Take the chick poppers. Same slot, same set price, and you walk out with a hundred and ten pesos more food than the person who said fries. There is no version of that choice where fries win on value, and the menu makes no attempt to hide it. It simply assumes you will not do the arithmetic at the counter with four people behind you.

What that does to the sets, using the board’s own prices for each component:

Daily Steal	Set price	Parts bought separately	You save
01 The Basic, with poppers	₱429	₱685	₱256
01 The Basic, with fries	₱429	₱575	₱146
03 The Heavy Duty, with poppers	₱493	₱785	₱292
09 The Slick Chick, with poppers	₱429	₱710	₱281
13 The Champion, with poppers	₱513	₱800	₱287

The sets are a genuine discount rather than a bundling trick, and at the poppers end they are running around thirty five to forty percent under the sum of their parts. Ordering a burger and a side separately at 8Cuts is close to the worst thing you can do with your money here.

What to order

Daily Steal 03, The Heavy Duty, at ₱493, with the Piggy and the chick poppers. It is the biggest gap between what you pay and what the same food costs à la carte on that board, and the Piggy is where the house blend actually shows up: smoked bacon, a bacon and onion compote, house cheddar and garlic aioli, and enough going on that the quarter pound carries it.

If you want the blend on its own terms, order the OG at ₱275. Sauce number three and cider braised onions, and nothing else in the way. It is the cheapest burger on the board and the only one that lets you taste what you came for.

The onion rings are the correct side and they are the reason the Bucket of Onion Rings exists at ₱395: thick cut, heavily dusted, closer to a battered ring than the thin crumbed sort. The wings run ₱320 a half dozen for the standard flavours and ₱345 for BBQ bacon butter or truffle honey, which is a ₱25 premium that is doing very little. And the Ube Shake at ₱285 is the one dessert on the board with any local claim to it.

The full menu and prices

Starters	Solo	Sharing
Skinny fries	₱165	₱310
Onion rings	₱190	₱395 (bucket)
Chick poppers	₱275	₱625
Golden cheddar mozza nuggets	₱310	₱510
Loaded tex mex nachos	₱340	₱540
The Dirty Bucket		₱529

Mains and sandwiches	Price
Party spaghetti	₱310
House salad	₱315
Fish ‘wich, falafel, or chick ‘wich	₱320 each
The Burger Bomb	₱325
Heavyweight fried chicken, 2 pcs	₱325
Bigger-than-your-face fried pork chop	₱400
The Sliders	₱455
Extra house rice	₱75

Wings, drinks and desserts	Price
Wings, half dozen / dozen (standard flavours)	₱320 / ₱580
Wings, half dozen / dozen (BBQ bacon butter, truffle honey)	₱345 / ₱625
Bottled water	₱95
Sodas, iced tea	₱115
Arnold Palmer	₱130
Lemonade	₱135
Ube shake, vanilla ice, strawberry fields	₱285 each
Death by chocolate milkshake	₱305

One line to flag before you order drinks for the table. Bottled water is ₱95. Iced tea, which comes free inside every Daily Steal, is ₱115 on its own. Buying the set and buying water is a worse deal than buying the set and drinking the tea.

Delivery costs more, and here is the gap

Item	Printed board	Delivery listing
Skinny fries, solo	₱165	₱165
OG Burger, 1/4 lb	₱275	₱285
Chick poppers, solo	₱275	₱285
The Cheese Burger, 1/4 lb	₱295	₱320
Onion rings, solo	₱190	₱210
Daily Steal 01, The Basic	₱429	₱448

Skinny fries are the same price in both places. Everything else on the platform runs three to eight percent over the board. Small per item, and it compounds across a table.

Getting there and the hours

Where. Upper Ground Level, North Wing, SM City Cebu, Juan Luna Avenue corner Cabahug and Kaohsiung Streets, North Reclamation Area, Mabolo, Cebu City 6000. It sits in the same row as Din Tai Fung, Manam, Ooma and Mo’ Cookies, all of which opened within days of each other.

Hours. SM City Cebu publishes 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM daily. 8Cuts was still accepting delivery orders to 9:30 PM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and to 8:30 PM Monday to Thursday, so the North Wing row trades a little past the mall’s published close at the weekend. Checked August 2026.

The queue. Nothing like the one next door. 8Cuts takes walk-ins and turns tables fast, and even on the days when Din Tai Fung has an hour’s wait outside it you can usually sit down here immediately. If you are in the North Wing with a hungry group and no patience, that is the practical argument for this door over that one.

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Frequently asked questions

Where is 8Cuts in Cebu?

Upper Ground Level of the North Wing at SM City Cebu, in the North Reclamation Area in Mabolo, in the same restaurant row as Din Tai Fung, Manam and Ooma.

How much is a burger at 8Cuts Cebu?

Burgers run ₱275 to ₱410 at a quarter pound and ₱340 to ₱480 at a third of a pound. The cheapest is the OG Burger at ₱275 and the dearest is the Q-Daddy at ₱480. All board prices include VAT and service charge.

Does 8Cuts charge a service charge?

No. The menu board states that all prices are inclusive of VAT and service charge, so the printed figure is what appears on the bill.

What are the Daily Steals at 8Cuts?

Fifteen numbered set meals from ₱429 to ₱513, each pairing a main with a side and a glass of iced tea. They run roughly twenty five to forty percent below the cost of the same items ordered separately, and the saving is largest when you take chick poppers as the side rather than fries.

What does the name 8Cuts mean?

Eight cuts of beef go into the blends the brand was built on: chuck, rib eye, short rib, sirloin, brisket, hanger, flank and ox tail. The Cebu branch sells a single blend, called The House.

Can you still choose your own blend at 8Cuts?

Not in Cebu. The board offers one blend and two patty weights. The build-your-own-blend format the restaurant opened with in Manila in 2013 is not part of how this branch operates.

Is 8Cuts halal or does it have vegetarian options?

It is not halal. There is one vegetarian main on the board, The Falafel at ₱320, which also appears inside Daily Steal 14, The Lightweight Contender, at ₱453.

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Photographed at 8Cuts Burgers, Upper Ground Level, North Wing, SM City Cebu. Menu prices taken off the printed in-restaurant board and the menu book. Hours and delivery listings checked August 2026.