Seattle, WA | Filipino Restaurant & Fast-Casual | Filipino Dinner Club & Supper Club Subscriptions

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Key results

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• Two clubs across two concepts (Musang Filipino Dinner Club and Kilig Supper Club), extending the reach of both restaurants beyond their dining rooms
• Wildcats Catering, a full catering company that grew directly out of the operational demand built through Table22
• Seamless handoff on delivery logistics, customer communications, and fulfillment, freeing the team to focus on food and community
• Loyal subscribers who use their monthly meals as a reason to gather, hosting date nights and dinners with friends

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A restaurant named for a wild cat

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Before Musang was a restaurant, it was a nickname. Mel Miranda's father immigrated to Seattle's Beacon Hill from the Philippines in the early 1970s. He drove a black Ford Mustang, and over time the T on the decal fell off. His friends started calling him Musang, which also happens to mean "wild cat" in Tagalog.

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Mel grew up watching her father cook elaborate Filipino dishes and sneaking into the kitchen to learn from her grandmother. After studying sociology at the University of Washington, she trained at culinary school in Florence and cooked in restaurants across Italy and New York before returning home to Seattle. In 2016, she started hosting Filipino pop-up dinners around the city, and by early 2020, Musang had its own brick-and-mortar home on Beacon Hill, just blocks from where Mel grew up.

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The restaurant earned recognition quickly, including Food & Wine's Best New Chef in 2022 and a James Beard Award semifinalist nod the following year. In October 2023, Mel opened a second concept called Kilig, a fast-casual spot in the Chinatown-International District focused on bulalo and pancit. The name means that feeling of butterflies in your stomach, the giddiness of inexplicable joy.

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But through all of it, the philosophy has stayed the same. "We don't really say that we're a chef-driven restaurant," Mel explains. "We're community driven. The people that come here are our guests. But the team is who comes first. We just really want to take care of our people, give them a space where they can grow, where they feel safe, where they feel seen."

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Reaching beyond the dining room

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Musang doesn't do delivery in the traditional sense, and takeout has always been minimal. That meant guests who loved the food but couldn't always make it to Beacon Hill had limited ways to stay connected. After the pandemic, when many people still didn't feel comfortable dining in, that gap became even more pronounced. Mel needed something that could carry the full experience of eating at Musang into people's homes, curated with the same care and sense of occasion, without stretching her own team too thin.

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The Filipino Dinner Club

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Chef Mel saw her solution in partnering with Table22 to launch the Filipino Dinner Club as a monthly subscription. Each month, members receive a curated at-home dinner for two or four featuring signature dishes, seasonal creations, and off-menu specials, all prepared with reheating instructions and a personal note from the kitchen.

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The menus rotate with the seasons and give Mel's team room to be creative. One month might feature a beloved dish that's no longer on the restaurant menu, bringing it back for subscribers who missed it. Another might showcase something new and seasonal, an off-menu special built around what's freshest at that moment. As the Kilig concept took shape, a second club followed: the Kilig Supper Club, extending the same model to that restaurant's offerings.

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"It was just this extra kind of entry point into enjoying our food, being able to enjoy our food in your home in a way that we can curate it, and then it arrives in a way for you to thoughtfully enjoy it, as if you were in our home."

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— Mel Miranda, Chef & Owner, Musang and Kilig

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For Mel, the biggest surprise has been how easy the partnership with Table22 has been to manage. "Everyone is wearing many hats," she says, noting how thin restaurant operators are stretched on the operations side. "Just being able to work with the teams has been really great. The handoff has been wonderful."

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Table22 handles the organization of deliveries, coordinates drivers, and manages customer communications, which means Mel's team can stay focused on their on-premise business.

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From dinner club to catering company

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As the dinner club scaled, Mel and her team spun off a full catering company called Wildcats Catering, led by business partner Amelia Franada. The catering team now handles fulfillment for the clubs while also running weddings, corporate events, and community gatherings. Chef Grant, who manages the food production side, has used the club as an opportunity to dive deep into Filipino cooking, learning the recipes and getting creative with them.

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The club has become a training ground, a place where team members build real fluency with Musang's culinary identity while developing skills that carry over into every other part of the operation.

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The feedback that matters most

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The most meaningful feedback Mel receives is about what the food makes possible for her community.

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"We get these emails or comments of like, we look forward to it every month, and then we are having date nights with our friends and inviting them over," Mel says. Subscribers use the monthly delivery as a reason to gather, to spend an evening cooking together, opening a bottle of wine, and turning a Tuesday into an occasion.

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That tracks with something Mel has believed since the beginning: that food is fundamentally about connection. "Right now, a lot of what we all are looking for is community and connection, and the fact that our food can create that opportunity for folks, especially once a month, that's so cool. I think that's probably the best feedback for us, that they are really using it in the way that we hope."

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Still running like clockwork

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Mel continues to evolve both restaurants and both clubs, keeping the menus seasonal and the offerings fresh. She sees the subscription model as a natural extension of what Musang and Kilig already do, whether that's a dinner club, pantry products, or add-ons.

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With Table22 handling the infrastructure and Wildcats Catering managing fulfillment, the operation runs like clockwork. The team knows what to expect each month, the subscribers know what they're getting, and Mel can focus on the thing that started it all: sharing Filipino food with her community, one thoughtfully curated meal at a time.

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