CELEBRATING GENERATIONS OF FOODIES IN SM’S NEWEST PAMPANGA MALL

What makes a visit to SM City Telabastagan more exciting is the discovery of new culinary concepts

The City of San Fernando in Pampanga has so much to celebrate—exciting festivals, a rich history and culture, its food, and its people’s entrepreneurial spirit.

It had more to celebrate when SM City Telabastagan, SM’S third mall in San Fernando opened its doors to the public last year. It is SM Prime Holding’s 70th mall, and its fourth in the province after SM City Clark, as well as SM City Pampanga, SM City San Fernando Downtown, both in the City of San Fernando.

With the opening of the new mall, SM now serves shoppers throughout the bustling city—sm City Telabastagan in the uptown, SM City Pampanga in the midtown, and SM City San Fernando Downtown in the downtown areas.

Located in a 105,694-sq m site along Macarthur Highway, the 55,093-sq m mall serves residents of Telabastagan, as well as of the nearby towns of Sto. Tomas, Bacolor, Guagua, Mexico, Porac, San Luis, Santa Ana and Lubao.

In a province known as the Culinary Capital of the Philippines, SM City Telabastagan delights generations of foodies with its diverse selection of homegrown cuisine. There are all-time favorites that Kapampangans have grown up to: Toll House, Dainty, Susie’s Cuisine, Teresita Razon’s Halo Halo and Palabok, Kabigting’s Halo Halo and Luring’s Barbeque House.

What makes a visit to SM City Telabastagan more exciting, however, is the discovery of new culinary concepts by a new generation of Kapampangan food lovers that combine the local and the global: U-rack BAR-B-Q and Wings, Balanghai, Red Woodberry Café and Pancakes, Jalapenos Tex-mex, Tapa Tapa, and Chubs Chasers.

SM City Telabastagan’s design creates a memorable identity with an extended highway frontage. A series of bold and dynamic interlocking, geometrical forms creates a vivid, colorful backdrop that continues around the building. Strategically located and wellidentified entrances on all sides ensure convenient access.

The main mall entrance is accentuated by an architecturally dramatic form that spans the main ring road to provide cover for pedestrians. There is generous landscaping in the sidewalk frontage— sloped to follow the site contours, and covered by a series of canopies that echo the overall interior design. The center is surrounded by lush landscape.

The mall’s interiors are organized around two large corridors that intersect to form one large central court. This makes shopping easy by allowing a clear line-of-sight to all shops on all levels at all times. Bursts of color in a rhythmic pattern accent the ceiling and a wraparound clerestory provides glare-free daylight to all areas of the mall.

The SM Store and SM Supermarket are the mall’s major anchors along with SM mainstays like SM Appliance Center, ACE Hardware, Watsons, Surplus, Uniqlo, Crocs and Miniso. It also has fashion boutiques, shoe stores, sports stores, jewelry stores, bookstores, eyewear stores and novelty shops. A Cyberzone features the latest IT and electronic goods.

Eating-out options include a food court, popular local and international fast-food chains, coffee shops, bake shops, and specialty restaurants. The mall also has banks, wellness areas and amusement centers to serve customers of all ages. It also has six state-ofthe-art cinemas for families and film enthusiasts.

For customer convenience, SM City Telabastagan has ample parking—728 slots for cars, 720 slots for motorcycle parking and 92 slots for bicycle parking. Shoppers arriving in private cars are quickly guided from the main site entrance to the primary parking area with hundreds of spaces. A conveniently located public utility terminal and passenger drop-off zones offer shoppers direct access to the mall from various points on the site.

SM City Telabastagan continues to bring happiness, excitement and more reasons for Kapampangans to celebrate over a year since it opened.

In a province known as the Culinary Capital of the Philippines, SM City Telabastagan is a food destination with its exciting mix of homegrown tenants, including well-loved brands and a new generation of foodies inspired by culinary icons Claude Tayag, Atching Lilian Borromeo and the Jorolans of Everybody’s Café, who shared their heirloom recipes in the award-winning book “My City, My SM, My Cuisine.”

The mall has six state-of-the-art digital cinemas with comfy seats, optimum surround-sound system and delectable snacks.

A conveniently located public transport terminal and passenger drop-off zones offer shoppers direct access to the mall from various points on site.

The interiors of SM City Telabastagan are organized around two large corridors that intersect to form one large central court. A wraparound clerestory provides glare-free daylight in all areas of the mall.