Apologue Coffee & Pastry

really cool find! the place is so aesthetic, they make their own food and pastries and you can see their kitchen through the glass of the 2nd floor, it's really perfect for chats with friends and even studying. they have wifi (though it was hard to connect at first-let them know! after a few tries, i asked them for assistance and they restarted their router for me. i REALLY appreciated that). and they also have lots of seating near plugs. the service is REALLY good and they were all very nice and attentive to the customers. the food and coffee was very good too (i got chinese sausage pasta and dirty horchata). horchata was alright, not a strong horchata taste but you can definitely taste the cinnamon which still works amazingly well with coffee. definitely recommend going here!

Sea Salt Latte (₱210, ₱180 if hot) - 8.5/10 actually pretty good but nothing spectacular. Might be too milky for others. The sea salt on top could be creamier!
Penne Arrabbiata w/ Chinese Sausage (₱360) - 9/10 if you like Italian style red sauce pastas, you’ll love this! Penne was cooked al dente and the Chinese Sausage was an interesting addition but it was a little bit salty so didn’t finish them—just the penne.

The cafe has a lot of sockets beside each tables and seats were comfy for long working/study sessions. Good air conditioning but only had 1-2 parking slots.

Also despite having a guest wifi, the wifi voucher code that the staff gives you (you have to ask for it) will only work for an hour and a half. The wifi itself is a bit wonky in the connection so it would be better to just use your personal data.

PRO TIP: Seat near the entrance because the signal is stronger there.

A bit pricey though considering the cafe isn’t at a bougie location like Makati or BGC.

Overpriced and lacking in quality.

Went twice and the coffee was better during 1st visit, they had a different barista during 2nd visit who seemed less experienced.

The place is new and has good interiors, good place for sitting out hot weather but the drinks are just not good and too expensive when taking into account the cheap ingredients they use
(specially the cream they use heavily in tiramisu and sea salt latte which are supposed to be their go to recos).

Free wifi for 2 hours, good ambience for working on weekdays, a bit too noisy on weekends though since a lot of people are going during their binondo food crawl.

Cookies are too expensive, pasta is not bad though. Cafe is spacious enough and they have a kitchen on a 2nd floor, place has potential to be the Go To Neighborhood Cafe for Binondo area so looking forward to improvements.