Tomas Morato Avenue
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| Don Tomas Morato Avenue | |
 Tomas Morato Avenue as seen from Scout Delgado Street | |
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| Former name | Sampaloc Avenue (until 1966) |
| Namesake | Tomas Morato |
| Type | Tertiary road[1] |
| Maintained by | Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – Quezon City 2nd District Engineering Office[1] |
| Length | 1.684 km (1.046 mi) |
| Location | Quezon City |
| North end | Eugenio Lopez Drive |
| Major junctions |  N170 (Timog Avenue) |
| South end | Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue |
| Construction | |
| Inauguration | c. 1940 |
Tomas Morato Avenue is a street located in Quezon City within the Diliman and New Manila areas of northeastern Metro Manila, Philippines. The street links Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue in the village of Mariana in the south with Eugenio Lopez Drive (also known as Scout Albano Street) in South Triangle in the north and passes through Barangays Sacred Heart, Laging Handa, Kamuning, Obrero, and Kristong Hari. It was named after the first mayor of Quezon City.
The street is known as a trendy restaurant row located in Quezon City's entertainment area along with Timog Avenue and West Avenue.[2] It is also known for its bars, discos, karaoke and comedy clubs, and as a popular hangout for local actors who work in the nearby studios such as the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center on Mother Ignacia Avenue and GMA Network Center on Timog Avenue corner EDSA, as well as millennials.
Tomas Morato Avenue runs in a north–south direction and has four lanes, two lanes going in each direction. Beginning at the intersection with Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue in New Manila, the road traverses barangay Kristong Hari and quickly enters the barangays Obrero and Kamuning in the district of Diliman towards the junction with Kamuning Road. Upon crossing Don Alejandro Roces Avenue (formerly Calle Retiro), it enters the Scout areas, home to most of the street's famous restaurants and bars, where the road serves as the border between barangays Laging Handa and Sacred Heart up to the intersection with Timog Avenue. The streets in this area were named in honor of the 22 Boy Scouts who died in a plane crash en route to joining the 11th World Scout Jamboree. A memorial stands at the center of the rotunda at the intersection of Tomas Morato with Timog Avenue. Near the Scouting Memorial is the location of the former Ozone Disco. Past the memorial rotunda, the avenue enters barangay South Triangle, ending at a T-intersection with Eugenio Lopez Drive by the ELJ Communications Center.
