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Sicilian Roast's Fried Lasagna is Metro Manila's most unexpected June 2026 lunch — golden, crispy, and still unmistakably the cheesy layers you love. Find it all month at all four branches, best paired with their house lemonade and classic Caesar for a meal that fills you up without weighing you down.
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6/5/20262 min read
Sicilian Roast puts their house lasagna in a fryer, and honestly? It works.
Garfield had the right idea. Lasagna — that wide, blanketing, weekday-erasing dish — has always been comfort food in its most unapologetic form. No fussiness, no pretension. Just layers. The moment I heard Sicilian Roast was frying theirs, my first instinct was: that's either genius or a crime against Italy. After trying it, I can confirm it's neither. It's just really, really good.
The dish came out looking more dramatic than I expected — a thick, golden slab sitting in a pool of bright marinara, dusted with parmesan and herbs. It looked like something you'd order at a trattoria that had secretly been running a speakeasy in the back. Crisp outside, genuinely soft inside. The layers hold. The cheese is still molten in that way that lasagna cheese should be.
What surprised me was how faithful it still tastes to the original. Frying tends to dominate everything — once something's fried, you mostly taste the batter. Here, the breading is restrained enough that you still get the herbed ricotta, still get the mozzarella pull, still get the thing you ordered in the first place. The crust mostly serves to hold the structure together and give you a bit of crunch at the start of every bite. After that, it's lasagna.
"Lasagna is already one of the dishes people come back for, so we wanted to do something with it they haven't seen here before." — Executive Chef Matt Navarro
That's exactly what this is. Not a reinvention. More like a remix — you can hear the original underneath the whole time.
For a leisurely lunch, the pairing that worked best for me was the house lemonade (bright and not too sweet, which cuts through the richness perfectly) or a cold soda if you want something a little more neutral. On the side, the classic Caesar salad rounds everything out without competing — the crunch and the bitterness of the romaine actually play really well against the soft, cheesy interior of the lasagna. It's the kind of meal that fills you up completely without leaving you feeling heavy. You finish it, sit back, and feel genuinely satisfied rather than defeated. That's rarer than it sounds.
Fried Lasagna is available all of June 2026 alongside the regular menu at all four Sicilian Roast branches: Legazpi Village in Makati, Santolan Town Plaza by Rockwell in San Juan, The Arton Strip by Rockwell in Quezon City, and Molito Lifestyle Center in Alabang. Dinner reservations are recommended — but for lunch, walk right in.
If you've been meaning to go back to Sicilian Roast, this is your reason.