Mila’s Lechon is a leading lechon restaurant in La Loma, Quezon City, the lechon

capital of Luzon. It is a sole proprietorship business and is owned by Mrs. Antonina “Nila”
I. Cesario. She is one of the famous lechoneros & lechoneras in La Loma, because of her
long time of being in to the lechon industry. She is now known as the “Reyna ng Loma”
due to Mila’s Lechon’s popularity.

Mila's lechon is already an institution when it comes to cooking lechon. They have
been serving lechon in their restaurant for many years. Aside from that, they have already
established their name and a lot of consumers keep on coming back for more of their
good lechon recipes. This patronage amongst consumers can reflect what kind of service
and products people get when dealing with Mila's Lechon restaurant and catering
services.
Mila's Lechon & Restaurant was primarily engaged in selling crispy, sumptuous,
juicy and tender native lechon pork that doesn't spoil easily. They later ventured into
cooking the best roasted calf in town, with its very tender meat that is marinated with
different spices and wines, which makes it mouthwatering, coupled with original lechon
baka gravy. To guarantee quality, they undertook breeding their own native hogs so as
to ensure that they are raised for one purpose alone --- to provide our customers with the
best lechon specimen. Mila's Lechon has been a consistent awardee as Best Lechon
Maker since 1973. A testimony, no doubt, to their commitment to quality and excellence.
But before reaching such success, Aling Nila’s business was not in to pig roasting.
Aling Nila remembers having to walk for long kilometers each day with a Bilao of fish on
her head selling this to the nearby communities. But the family of Aling Nila was affluent
and could very well afford to send their children to universities. All her siblings are
professionals; one a medical doctor and while Aling Nila herself took a pharmacy at the
University of Santo Tomas she did not get to finish her four-year course because she was
more interested in going into business for herself.
MILA'S LECHON started in the late 60's, when hardworking couple Serafin and
Antonina Cesario decided to make a living out of selling lechon in La Loma. She originally
sold corn when she was young. But because of the large crowd of people in a nearby
cockpit in their place, Aling Nila had an idea of selling a lechon. She took a chance at
selling one whole lechon and later realized that it was a more profitable venture than corn.
Nena started the lechon house with an initial capital of P700. It was nothing more than a
means to support their corn and sari-sari store income. They had no idea then how much
this new venture would affect not only their lives, but the Filipino taste as well.
Aling Nena was fond of naming all their business endeavors after her children, and
so in 1968, when Aling Nena's youngest daughter Milagros was born, they decided to
name the lechon business "Mila's" after her. Forty-eight years later, the struggling
business they have nurtured from infancy has now grown into a major industry which
many have tried to rival. From the small La Loma kiosk, Mila's has given birth to 8 more
branches in Quezon City, and can cater to deliveries not only throughout Metro Manila,
but to provinces as far as Ilocos, Baguio, and Quezon.
Looking back now, it seemed like an impossible task. To become the leading
lechon dealer in the country today is no walk in the park. As we always say, it's all a
mixture of "sipag, tiyaga, tipid, lakas ng loob, swerte, at tiwala sa Diyos."