- Chicken Pastel: a chicken stew topped with cheese
- Dinengdeng: a vegetable soup often flavored with salted fish/meat broth
- Palamig: cold dessert usually made of grated cassava or sweet potato and served with evaporated milk and sugar on top
- Kakanin: made mainly of glutinous rice (malagkit rice)
- Suman Ivatan: made with brown sugar wrapped in banana leaves
- Ampaw: glutinous rice, coconut cream cooked inside bamboo tubes that have been split in strips to form a triangular pouch
- Kutay Ivatan: rice balls stuffed with molasses covered in grated coconut
- Fuyog Ivatan: made with egg batter filled with grated papaya, ground peanuts topped with grated coconut meat
- Fish: Due to Batanes geography fish dishes are common particularly those made with flying fish and skipjack tuna
Where to Eat:
- Pension Ivatan
- Café Du Tukon: known for Ivatan breakfast platters
- Fundacion Pacita: also home to a weaving cooperative of native fabrics in which the proceeds goes to women artisans.
- Casa Napoli
