Any discussion surrounding bars in Metro Manila must include Blind Pig: one of the country’s oldest, honest-to-goodness speakeasies, which opened its braille-laden wooden doors back in 2011. Tog Exconde is among the institution’s first roster of bartenders, and the last of the cohort still working the bar. Trained by Michael McIlroy of Milk & Honey, the famed New York City speakeasy that inspired Blind Pig, you can rest assured you’re in for a treat with Exconde around—he’s even trained and consulted for a slew of bars throughout the city.