About Us

For over 50 years, Milky Way has been warming the hearts of its guests with delicious home-cooked Filipino dishes, ice creams, sandwiches and the famous Milky Way Halo-Halo.

Milky Way first opened in the early 1950’s as a dairy bar in Old San Miguel by Doña Maria Cartagena de Tomas. When Doña Maria migrated to the United States, the Araullo sisters bought the rights of Milky Way and started adding selections of their own like dinuguan, halo-halo, chicken asparagus sandwich, home-made cakes, and other Pampango specialties. In the 1970s to the 1990s, Julie Araullo-Gamboa (our Mom) was operating 11 Milky Way branches in fast food centers, one-stop restaurants, office cafeterias, and executive dining outlets.

Milky Way has become synonymous with high quality food and restaurants. The group now includes Cirkulo, AzuThai, MilkyWay Café Arnaiz Avenue and Tsukiji Restaurants, managed by siblings Malu G. Lindo and Chef J. Gamboa.

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