A visit to Sagada will not be complete without having a serving of yoghurt from where else - Yoghurt House! This place has long been a tourist-favorite mainly due to its great bohemian ambiance and of course, large servings of great tasting food.
Yoghurt House is just about a five-minute walk downhill from the town hall and bus station. They open at 7am and has a very filling and inviting breakfast menu that could definitely prepare you for the activities you have planned for the rest of the day.
Yoghurt House’s interiors are cozy and despite its small size, the space could still accommodate twenty-five people. Having that many people in such a packed area does make the place conducive for talking to other travelers and backpackers. Many people have made friends, split tour fees and even switched hotels thanks to people they’ve met through eating at Yoghurt House.
Visit Sagada recommends the Hiker’s Delight from the breakfast menu. It’s a crepe with a banana smothered with a generous amount of home-made yoghurt topped with strawberry preserves. It also comes with a piece of toast, two eggs cooked to your liking and coffee or tea. Yoghurt House serves breakfast til 10 AM. The meal might be a bit steep at 140 Php (~3.50 USD) but it’s very much worth it.
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They run out of yoghurt some times but it’s good yoghurt so come back the next day or a bit later for your fix.
Comment by Fritz
— March 18, 2008 @ 2:48 am
@Fritz:
I guess they’re better prepared now. I haven’t had the experience of running out of yoghurt. Hehe
Comment by Benj
— March 20, 2008 @ 1:28 am
the food is great indeed, the problem though is the staffs demeanor… one example, there was no beer that was served during that day yet it is still in the menu, the worst thing was that the waitress even asked us to just tell the management why.. i mean, customers always right, Right? and how about ordering a Java rice, instead they served us Java chicken Rice, I mean is there something wrong with the spelling or to the pronunciation. we ended up paying for something we havent ordered… sayang ang great Food.
Comment by richard
— April 8, 2008 @ 12:19 am
hows the road getting to sagada from nueva viscaya? planning on going there this may but deciding which vehicle to bring depending on the roughness of the trip.
Comment by shirley
— April 19, 2008 @ 11:06 am
Sorry to hear that Richard.
Shirley, I think you’d go via Dalton Pass. Take a 4×4 to be safe.
Comment by Benj
— April 20, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
hi! i would really, really like to see sagada! but budget is too tight. i wanna bring my husband and 2 kids with me. how much should i spend for a 4 day stay?????
Comment by helen
— April 28, 2008 @ 7:44 am
Shirley … I suggest going to Baguio then take the bus to Sagada if it is just Sagada you are interested in. Looong travel time from Sagada to Bontoc (1 hour) then from Bontoc to Manila (12 hours) via Nueva Vizcaya. Via Halsema Highway from Baguio, it will just be 5 hours.
Comment by Bec
— May 2, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
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— May 3, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
We love Yoghurt House. Just be sure to order one cup of yoghurt for 3. It is really a big serving.
Comment by SagadaHangOver
— May 6, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
I’ve tried their Chicken and Pasta. It was actually good, just a little too expensive. I’ve also tried their Chicken with Sweet Sauce (forget how it was called) never liked it. Tried their Banana and Granola Yoghurt. It was delicious. The crew weren’t that warm though.
Comment by Laurence Nichol
— May 6, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
I agree with Laurence on the crew - they are not warm. I ordered Pasta dish with vegetables and loved it! The banana yogurt has only few slices of banana but it still tasted good. The Baked Chicken with Toast and Pasta was worth its price, only that the chicken needs a little marinating.
Comment by Ching
— May 7, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
Well… I thought “service” will be changed sa Yoghurt House…
I did not re-acted before… nung last visit ko nung Dec 2007. This second time na punta ko ng Sagada May 1-4, my friends go there to eat hinde na ko sumama kasi I don’t like the service. But I just dropped by there to talk to them for a while… pag pasok ko dun… hinde ko sinasadya natabig ko yung spoon nung waitress nung pag-open ko ng door… Aba! ang sama ng tingin sa kin, tiger look! Buti na lang hinde ako war freak that time… hehe 
Buti na lang malamig sa Sagada… 
Comment by agnes
— May 13, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
ano ba yan, puro ata negative feedback ang nababasa kong comments sa yoghurt house. parang nakakadiscourage naman, kahit i-try lang, parang ayaw ko na rin tuloy. are they even seeing all these comments?
Comment by dino
— May 23, 2008 @ 3:44 am
To be fair to Yoghurt House, I never had any bad experiences in the restaurant - just the occasional WTF THE SERVING IS THIS BIG?! moments.
Comment by Benj
— May 23, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
I definitely agree with all those who commented negatively about the staff’s attitude. The food was great, no doubt about it. But if they don’t improve on their service, they’ll lose a lot of customers.
The members of the staff were not only the ones at fault. Actually, the owner herself was so “antipatika” to our group when we had our dinner there last April 14 this year. My friend just asked if the tuna mentioned in the menu is fresh or canned since it was not specified. The owner gave my friend a scowl & sarcastically said “this is Mt. Province..there’s no fish in Mt.Province!” Does she have to be rude to her fellow Filipinos? She can inform her in a nice way..like for instance, “we don’t have fresh fish now, we serve tuna from a can”. I also had a long time deciding what to order among the yoghurt flavors. She heaved a sigh, gave me a frown & replied in her acerbic tongue without patience.
The next day we had our lunch at Bana’s Cafe. Lo & behold! There’s fish in Mt. Province. We had fresh fish for lunch & the crew was so accommodating & warm to us. We will surely go back to Bana’s Café next time. As for the Yoghurt House, even if I think about their delicious food, I’m not enticed to go back because of the owner’s rude attitude to us. Hope she’ll change her ways.
Comment by Babs
— June 2, 2008 @ 12:19 am
I definitely agree with all those who commented negatively about the staff’s attitude. The food was great, no doubt about it. But if they don’t improve on their service, they’ll lose a lot of customers.
The members of the staff were not only the ones at fault. Actually, the owner herself was so “antipatika” to our group when we had our dinner there last April 14 this year. My friend just asked if the tuna mentioned in the menu is fresh or canned since it was not specified. The owner gave my friend a scowl & sarcastically said “this is Mt. Province..there’s no fish in Mt.Province!” Does she have to be rude to her fellow Filipinos? She can inform her in a nice way..like for instance, “we don’t have fresh fish now, we serve tuna from a can”. I also had a long time deciding what to order among the yoghurt flavors. She heaved a sigh, gave me a frown & replied in her acerbic tongue without patience.
The next day we had our lunch at Bana’s Cafe. Lo & behold! There’s fish in Mt. Province. We had fresh fish for lunch & the crew was so accommodating & warm to us. We will surely go back to Bana’s Café next time. As for the Yoghurt House, even if I think about their delicious food, I’m not enticed to go back coz of the owner’s rude attitude to us. Hope she’ll change her ways.
Comment by Babs
— June 2, 2008 @ 12:20 am
Comment ko po sa bad service na experience nyo….been to Sagada so many times i cant even count how many times but i’ve never seen that bad service at Yoghurt House. What i usually see are highly urban characters (local tourists) that usually thinks that they should be served as to their liking. Since i get to go there very often i feel that the comfort of all we have here in Manila does not apply in Sagada. From what i heard, tourism is not their major priority since this usually disturb their quiet haven. Most foreigners are there to eat and dont even bother to comment on the resto’s lapses, maybe bcoz you can actually see that they are understaffed.
BEING A TOURIST MOST OF THE TIME, I LEARNED THAT BEING ONE SHOULD BE, BEING ONE OF THEM AND WHAT YOU HAVE AND WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN DOESNT REALLY MATTER AT ALL.
Comment by Anna A.
— June 2, 2008 @ 8:30 am
anna a,
you hit it right.
local tourists are actually being frowned upon by the business people, that is because they expect too much and demand sooo much. SAGADA stayed like it was before and loved as is by foreign and local backpackers. SAGADA is not going to change adversely for everyone’s satisfaction. Though there are new establishments that are adjusting to these new market.
Yughurt haws caters more to the foreign clientele and can survive without the local toorich moolah.
Comment by sak-en na
— June 21, 2008 @ 7:27 am