Cusina Ko.
Filipino in Kilburn.

Family recipes, served honestly. Sharing is encouraged.

Sinigang sour enough to make you sit up, adobo left on the stove until the vinegar turns sweet, rice at every meal.

Opening 2026.
Tue – Sun, 5 – 10pm. Mondays closed.

Opening 2026.
Not taking bookings yet.

The Cusina Ko shopfront at 12 Willesden Lane, Kilburn.

When we open

Tue – Sun, 5pm – 10pm · Kitchen closes 9.30pm

Tue – Thu 5 – 10pm
Fri – Sat 12 – 10.30pm

Sun 12 – 8pm
Mon Closed

From our kitchen

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Sisig on a sizzling cast-iron plate, with citrus and green chillies.

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Sisig (Pampanga)

£17.50

Chopped pork cheek, chilli, calamansi, egg.

Contains: eggs, gluten, soy

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Sisig (Pampanga)

£17.50

Chopped pork cheek, chilli, calamansi, egg.

Contains: eggs, gluten, soy

Sinigang na hipon

HALAL

£17

Tamarind-sour prawn soup.

Contains: crustaceans, fish

Crispy pata

£26

Whole pork hock, braised and fried. Enough for three or four.

Contains: gluten, soy

Sinigang na bangus

HALAL

£16

Tamarind-sour milkfish soup.

Contains: fish

Pancit canton, one of the rotating Espesyal dishes — noodles with chicken, mangetout and cabbage.

Dinakdakan · Kare-kare · Inasal · Pancit canton · Ginisang ampalaya

Grilled pork jowl · oxtail in peanut sauce · charcoal-grilled chicken · wheat noodles · sautéed bitter melon. One or two of these run at a time.

Contains: crustaceans, eggs, fish, gluten, peanuts, soy

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Whose kitchen this is

Cusina Ko is two families, the Gonitos and the Manalos. For years we cooked at home for whoever turned up, and people kept telling us it was the best Filipino food they had eaten. Romel cooks, mostly his own recipes and a few of Christine’s, passed down the way they always have been. Now there is a kitchen on Willesden Lane, so we can cook it for you.

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