Margarita Station has been open around the clock since 1993, which in Angeles City years makes it a heritage site. It sits at the far western end of Fields Avenue where the road meets Don Juico Avenue (Perimeter Road) and Malabañas Road — a five-minute trike from Walking Street, or a fifteen-minute stroll if your knees are younger than mine — and it was, by most accounts, the first 24-hour Western restaurant-bar in Balibago. Everybody who has spent a month in this town has ended up at "Marg's" at some ungodly hour, and most of them went back the next day for breakfast.
This page is about the bar side of the operation; the restaurant, with its enormous American-Thai-Filipino-Chinese menu, has its own page. The two share one big, spacious, high-ceilinged room, but the character splits neatly: tables and booths for eating on one side, a long bar, pool tables and a wall of screens on the other. It's a proper sports bar in the old expat sense — NFL, NBA, Premier League, rugby, cricket for the Aussies and Poms, UFC on fight nights — with a crowd that skews long-stay and retired by day and mixes in tourists and off-shift bar staff at night. The pool tables get serious use; there are regular comps if you fancy your chances.
There's no stage, no dancers and no ladies'-drink system. Waitresses serve, and they've generally been there long enough to know the regulars' orders. Beer is fair for the town — around ₱100–140 for a local bottle (Aug 2026), with the house margaritas the obvious call at happy hour — and there's no cover charge or dress code. Because it never closes, it doubles as the town's late-night canteen and its hangover clinic: a plate of eggs at 5am with the football on is a Margarita Station tradition.
Harry remembers the place from the late '90s when it was the only reliable Western feed on the avenue after midnight, and the remarkable thing is how little the formula has changed: same corner, same hours, same easy welcome. Bars on Walking Street rebrand every couple of seasons; Marg's just keeps the lights on.
Stable tip: it's a natural meeting point for a first coffee or a first drink with someone you've met online — neutral, public, always open, and a short trike from every hotel in the Fields–Perimeter triangle. The online-dating guide has more on picking a spot.
| Music | Live sport on screen; classic rock and pop between games |
|---|---|
| Cover | None |
| Local beer from | ₱100 |
| Happy hour | Daily happy hour on beer and house margaritas — ask the staff for times |
| Dress code | None |
Highlights
- + Open 24 hours since 1993 — a genuine institution
- + Pool tables and a wall of sports screens
- + International expat crowd, no pressure
- + Restaurant kitchen never closes
Good for
- watching sport
- pool
- expats
- over-50s
- meeting point
- late-night food
- first dates on neutral ground
Drawbacks
- − A trike ride from Walking Street
- − Not a place for a wild night — it is a bar, not a club
- − Can be very quiet mid-afternoon
