Steinbach's New Filipino Kitchen: What's On the Menu at Island Pacific Kitchen

Steinbach, Manitoba—June 5, 2026

Walk into Island Pacific Kitchen on Brandt Street and the first thing you notice is the smell — garlic rice on the flat-top, charcoal and lemongrass off the grill, something sweet and porky caramelizing in the back. Steinbach has a new Filipino kitchen, and it cooks the way a Filipino home does: generous, unhurried, and entirely unbothered by trends.

Island Pacific Kitchen (IPK) is a family-run Filipino & Canadian restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and catering. The room is small and the menu is not — this is comfort food cooked with intent, from morning silog plates to late-night sisig.

The chef in the kitchen

Running the line is head chef John Medina, who cooks the classics the way the titas remember them — adobo braised down to caramel, kare-kare thickened with toasted rice, crispy pata fried until the skin actually shatters. There are no tasting menus here and no foam. The goal is simpler and harder: make food that tastes like someone's home.

If you're Filipino, I want it to taste like home. If you're not, then welcome — let us feed you the way we'd feed our own.

— John Medina, Head Chef

What's on the menu

The heart of it is the all-day silog breakfast — garlic fried rice, eggs and unlimited soup, with your pick of protein: sweet tocino, longganisa, beef tapa, bangus, or crispy bagnet. From there the kitchen opens up. Chicken inasal comes off the grill basted in annatto oil. Sisig arrives spitting on cast iron. Pancit is tossed by the tray, kare-kare shows up with its peanut sauce and shrimp paste on the side, and the seafood boils land drenched in garlic-Cajun butter.

There's range for the curious, too — Filipino-style tacos, a sweet-and-savory Filipino spaghetti, palabok heavy with chicharron — and the kind of unlimited-rice generosity that turns a quick lunch into a long one.

A feast for the whole table

The newest addition is the IPK Kamayan — a Filipino “boodle fight” served on banana leaves, no plates and no cutlery, eaten with your hands. The whole spread is laid down the middle of the table and everyone digs in together. It comes in three pre-order sets for groups of four to eight, and it's quietly become the restaurant's favourite way to host a celebration.

If you go

You'll find Island Pacific Kitchen on Brandt Street in Steinbach, open for breakfast through dinner most days. Come hungry — and if you're bringing a crowd, call ahead about the kamayan.

Island Pacific Kitchen's new website was designed and built by Business Wave Media.