Timog Area

The areas surrounding Timog Avenue (South Avenue) and Tomas Morato Avenue is a popular entertainment area. Located along these two avenues are many of the best fine-dining restaurants and bars. Numerous discotheques, Karaoke joints, and comedy bars provide patrons with all-night-long recreation.

It is home to many gay bars such as: Chicos, Adonis and Gigolo. These places are popular for their lively night time entertainment.

In South Triangle (the area bounded by Quezon Avenue, Timog Avenue, and EDSA) are located the head offices of ABS-CBN and GMA Network, the top two TV media companies in the country.

Most of the streets in the surrounding area were named in memory of 20 boy scouts who died in a plane crash en route to joining the 11th World Jamboree. A memorial stands in the center of a rotunda at the intersection of Timog and Tomas Morato avenues. Because of this, Timog area is also often called Scout Area. In fact, one of the barangays (small local government unit) in the area is called Laging Handa (always ready), the motto of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines.