(SPOT.ph) The original Kampai stood along Tambai Alley, back when Poblacion was a much quieter neighborhood in Makati and the young’uns had yet to call it “Pobla, pare.” Situated on the second floor of an old house, owner Marco Viray remembers that when they opened their original izakaya, it was a tiny, homey place; he and his partners had no idea that it would take off the way it did. “The wooden floors would shake,” Viray recalls, laughing, referring to when people started packing into their Little Bar That Could back in the day. But that Kampai went out without so much as a wave goodbye two years ago. But now, like the proverbial phoenix, Kampai rises again, bigger and better than before.

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