Ranked shortlist · 10 of 22 bars
Best bars in Davao
The 10 most notable bars in Davao, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Alcohall
Dacudao Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.488, percentile 100 of 22
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2
Indigo Bar Davao
Matina Pangi Diversion Road
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.430, percentile 95.24 of 22
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3
Wine World Davao
Riverfront Corporate City, Brgy Davao City Diversion Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.332, percentile 90.48 of 22
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4
The Pre Game
Infront of Saging Repablik, Tionko Avenue, Corner V. Mapa St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.074, percentile 85.71 of 22
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5
Suazo Bar
Suazo st.
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.024, percentile 80.95 of 22
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6
JGAA Food and Drinks
7003 Emilio Jacinto St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.022, percentile 76.19 of 22
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7
E-Lounge
Km. 3 Mc Arthur Highway\nBldg 2 Door 6 MS LAND Complex\n(Fronting Toyota Davao Matina)
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.993, percentile 71.43 of 22
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8
The Grid at the alley
Teodoro Palma Gil St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.835, percentile 66.67 of 22
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9
The BEEReaucracy Bar
312 RLE Tan Building Palma Gil Street
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.809, percentile 61.9 of 22
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10
Krisna Music Bistro and Bar
Mamay Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.809, percentile 57.14 of 22
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).