Cafe El Nido

Best Known For

Popcorn chicken bao buns, with nuoc cham mayo, slaw and cucumber.

No trip along Great Ocean Road is complete without a stop at Café El Nido on Fischer Street in Torquay. Inspired by a favourite hideaway in the Philippines, this locally-loved eatery offers a cosy, warm and welcoming ambience, ideal for chilling out among trailing greenery and cabinets overflowing with all manner of temptations. Pair your fave St Ali coffee with an Asian fusion menu dishing up all-day choices like a Filipino bowl with pork belly, fried egg, rice, atchara, tomato and soy vinaigrette; or dine later on Cambodian Khmer yellow curry with snapper, Asian greens and rice. Perhaps devour crispy calamari bao buns, nuoc cham mayo, slaw and cucumber, or a noodle-crumbed chicken mi goreng burger, with pickles, tomato, ketchup manis and fries, best enjoyed with a glass of Pinot Grigio.