From Santa Rita to Far West.
The Franco family comes from Santa Rita, a town in Pampanga, the province in the north of the Philippines that the rest of the country goes to for its food.
There were seven of us growing up, and we all learned to cook the same way, standing next to our mother, Francisca, and our father, Zoilo. The recipes were theirs before they were ours, and their parents' before that. Sisig the way it's made in Pampanga. Kare-kare with the peanut sauce made from scratch. Adobo that simmers until the pork gives up.
We came to Austin more than ten years ago. A restaurant of our own was the dream the whole time. Today it's here, on Far West Boulevard in Northwest Hills, with the Chinese dishes our family has always cooked beside the Filipino ones.
Everything is cooked to order, the way it was at home. Kapatad brings the homemade, earthy flavors of the Philippines to Austin.
Dinner, family style
Sisig, the way it's made back home
