Kuya Lord™️

This 28-seat fast-casual restaurant is the permanent home for chef Lord Maynard Llera's James Beard Award-winning take on regional Filipino cooking from Lucena City. The concise menu applies classical technique to dishes like the spiral-cut Lucenachon pork belly and the communal Kuya Tray platter, offering a focused entry point into a specific culinary tradition. It's a bright, intimate room where the cooking's serious pedigree—it's ranked on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list—meets a more accessible, counter-service format that still demands planning ahead due to its small size and high demand.