Onlypans Taqueria

Onlypans Taqueria Tacos!

ATC, we’re in you ‘til Sunday! ❤️Alabang Town Center
18/06/2026

ATC, we’re in you ‘til Sunday! ❤️

Alabang Town Center

08/06/2026

Horchata + Birria aka the best duo ever 🤭

Cavite, we good? 😎Come say hi this weekend!
29/05/2026

Cavite, we good? 😎

Come say hi this weekend!

Flippin’ tacos for the one & only 🖤 MAY 30 8PMSHOOTING GALLERY STUDIOS3317 ZAPOTE STREETMAKATI CITY
27/05/2026

Flippin’ tacos for the one & only 🖤

MAY 30 8PM
SHOOTING GALLERY STUDIOS
3317 ZAPOTE STREET
MAKATI CITY

You don’t get the good ones all the time. In fact, if you’re lucky, you only meet a few in your lifetimeOver the years, ...
23/05/2026

You don’t get the good ones all the time.
In fact, if you’re lucky, you only meet a few in your lifetime

Over the years, this industry introduces you to so many people. Some become coworkers, some become friends, and a very rare few become such a constant part of your everyday life that you stop imagining a version of work without them. James was one of those people.

He was with us for years. Through different chapters of Onlypans, through busy services, celebrations, losses, and all the ordinary days in between. He was always one of the first people to arrive.

The truth is, I don’t think I’ll remember the big moments the most. I’ll remember the little things. Seeing him arrive early. Passing by him during service. Hearing his voice in the kitchen. Knowing he was there. The things that felt so ordinary then and feel so precious now.

Nothing prepares you for waking up and finding out someone you’ve known for years is suddenly gone. There are no words that make sense of it. No explanation that makes it hurt less. Just an emptiness where a familiar face, a dependable teammate, and a genuinely good person used to be.

Our motto has always been Tacos for the People. Looking back, I think James embodied that better than most of us. He was always for the people. For his teammates. For our customers. For anyone who needed a helping hand. He never asked for recognition, never made things about himself. He simply showed up, did the work, and took care of the people around him.

James, thank you for every early morning, every shift, every act of kindness, and every year you spent helping build this little dream of ours. Thank you for being part of our story.

We loved you so much.

I hope you’re up there flipping tacos, getting ready for service before the rest of us, just like you always did. Save a spot at your station, James.

We’ll miss you forever.

Rest easy. Salamat sa puso mo. Maraming maraming salamat.

This photo was taken during the very first week of Onlypans Taqueria in Poblacion. Sometimes I stare at it for a little ...
17/05/2026

This photo was taken during the very first week of Onlypans Taqueria in Poblacion. Sometimes I stare at it for a little too long because it’s hard to believe that this tiny little space, this silly idea we came up with years ago, became such a huge part of my life.

A lot of hope, adrenaline, and the desire to build something of our own. That’s what I had. I remember how exciting and terrifying everything felt at the same time.

Six years later, I still catch myself wondering if all of this is real.

The journey was never perfect. Honestly, there were moments where it felt like everything was falling apart. We’ve gone through so many highs and lows these past few years, rebuilding over and over again, learning things the hard way, carrying pressure most people never got to see behind the scenes. And of course, the explosions! How could I forget? Two explosions that became such a painful and unforgettable part of our story. There were moments after those incidents where everything felt uncertain, where it genuinely felt like we lost a part of ourselves along with the space we worked so hard to build.

Life kept moving. We kept rebuilding. We kept cooking. We kept finding reasons to continue.

And I think that’s what makes this whole journey so beautiful to me. Despite everything, this little taco shop survived. Because the people stayed. Because the community showed up for us even during the hardest moments. Because somehow, this tiny idea created in Poblacion became a home not just for me, but for so many other people too. I would be lying if I said there weren’t days where I felt like maybe we just weren’t cut for this industry, but damn, anim na taon na din!

If you asked me if I would go through all of it again, the chaos, the heartbreak, the rebuilding, even the explosions, just to end up here, I would. Every single time.

Happy anniversary to this silly little idea. ❤️

it’s motha’s day!!! ⭐️
10/05/2026

it’s motha’s day!!! ⭐️

Cinco de Mayhoe, year five! 🤟🏻We started this in 2022, nothing polished, nothing planned too far ahead. Just tacos, musi...
05/05/2026

Cinco de Mayhoe, year five! 🤟🏻

We started this in 2022, nothing polished, nothing planned too far ahead. Just tacos, music, and people finding their way to each other. It became our small tradition.

Five years in, and it still feels the same where it matters.

Tonight is for the ones who’ve been here since the beginning, and for the ones who just found us along the way. Lahat kayo kasama dito. This only exists because y’all.

Shat para sa lahat! Free mini tacos for everybody starting 7PM until late. Open decks, play your music, take the aux, just like the old times.

Puso at puso pa rin. ¡VAMOS! 🫀

Labor builds everything we stand on, our food, our streets, our cities, our lives. We see it in the early mornings, befo...
01/05/2026

Labor builds everything we stand on, our food, our streets, our cities, our lives. We see it in the early mornings, before most people are even awake. In wet markets being set up, in vendors arranging what they have for the day, in workers already halfway through their shift before the sun even hits. It’s constant. It doesn’t stop.

And still, the people doing the most essential work are often the ones barely getting by. The same hands that feed communities are the ones worrying about their next meal.

We’ve seen it up close. We’ve lived it in our own way. Long hours, small margins, figuring things out day by day. And we know that behind every business, every system, every industry, there are people carrying more than what they’re paid for.

Today we recognize that work.
But we also ask why the people who do the most are given the least.
Labor of the people should be for the people.

I-angat ang nasa laylayan.

Palamig ka muna 🥛Ube Horchata, anyone?
24/04/2026

Palamig ka muna 🥛Ube Horchata, anyone?

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Makati

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