Makati Street Meet | Every Weekend

In Makati, the weekend has slowly expanded events and happenings around the CBD, which is also an alternative to just going to Glorietta or Greenbelt Malls. Looking for something more of a grassroots kind of event is something you’ll find more frequent than just happening in one scheduled weekend of every month. The Makati Street Meet is hosting all kinds of happenings by closing off half of the Paseo de Roxas beside the Ayala Triangle Gardens. This weekend offers is a Hodge podge of random things you do not see during the regular Saturday or Sunday Markets and it shows the organizers are given that freedom to bring the best of homegrown happenings that will make their event stand out.

Legaspi Sunday Market | Passing Through the Weekend

Weekend Markets are starting to be a regular thing after almost two years of absence, and both Salcedo and Legaspi locations continue to invite more people not only within their respective areas but also from those who would want to make the trip outside the Makati CBD to see what’s unique about these places. Generally, the events happen on Saturday (Salcedo) and Sundays (Legaspi), on top of that is a two-day event that happens on the first weekend of the month with the Makati Street Meet in Paseo de Roxas, where they closed off a section of that main road for that event that mostly parallels with those events only happening in the morning and past the lunch times.

Makati Street Meet | Weekend Return

Weekend Markets is what big cities need for most people to socialize and get to know the communities. Metro Manila has many cities and some might not even have that typical weekend markets, where homegrown products and services are not existent. But Makati is one such city that thrives to cultivate local products and other grassroots that makes society to be welcoming to everyone. Makati has been a host to Saturday and Sunday Markets, but with the pop-up Makati Street Meets keeps the community active in getting everyone’s participation to be part of it through the foodies and gardening as well as continued interest what they’re promoting for that particular scheduled event.

Legaspi Sunday Market | The 2023 Weekend

When you’re looking forward to the weekend it was always going to random scheduled events happening within the area or making the trip to another city to have something of a different experience. But when you come to that age where you just want to spend the day nearby to see the grassroots and all that local culture to mingle with the community you have the weekend markets. If you’re from or just outside Makati City the weekend markets has become a congregation either you’re with family in the mornings or having post-workout looking for some ‘home grown’ food, craft, and other local produce without going to the grocery this is the sort of place you visit, and the most popular is Legaspi Market.

Sunday Bazaar | Local Hobby Meet

02.19.2019 – In the Philippines there’s a rarity when you talk about weekend markets. Most of this gravitates to being held at open spaces like football field, local city parks or an empty parking lot. These mostly relates also to more about food sellers or farmers catering their hard earned organic fruits and vegetables. There is also merchandise being sold like clothes and little trinkets or souvenirs. But an overall weekend market is not a regular thing if you reside in a city like Metro Manila. There’s not much open space or even greenery to be that ever sustainable to promote a community that would be ever supportive in a consistent basis to that. But there are other things weekend market in the Philippines doesn’t namely relate to the hobby like toys and collectibles.

Makati Street Meet | A Social Sunday

12.03.2018 – For the last five years the City of Makati organize these special Night Markets, which closes a section of Paseo de Roxas at the heart of Ayala Triangle Gardens. It has become part of the calendar season for the Business District which held whenever the ‘Ber Months’ signal the start of the Holiday Season. The usual ‘Makati Street Meet’ has the variety of foodies gather around for some good music. This event continues to grow and has also become a weekend habit for most people living in the nearby area. For 2018 they have come up with themes that define each Night Market that is held every first Sunday of the month. This is much like some Sunday Market from another country. But with Filipino Festive vibe incorporated that makes it quite a unique experience.

Festive 'Makati Block Party' Reigned

07.04.2016 – The rain kept pouring Sunday afternoon but it did not dampen its festive Makati Block Party that started at 4 PM. It surely was literally raining but the event was also reigning with people having the culinary street experience. This is the first time they held it along the closed portion of Paseo de Roxas just beside Ayala Triangle Garden. From food, music, and activities for children everyone was on a festive mood even though heavy downpour has washed the city. It was definitely a place that you should have gone to but if didn’t here’s more…