One of the best and “undiscovered” cafes in Bacolod is the totally excellent Negros Museum Cafe. Located right beside the Bacolod Negros Museum, the museum cafe has been surprisingly passed over by many people.
If you haven’t been to the Negros Museum Cafe, you are totally missing out on a wonderful gastronomic experience.
The Dining area is a wide, well lit room that takes advantage of the natural sunlight. Fresh flower/plant arrangements adorn the tables. Don’t be misled by the lack of diners. This is a hidden gem of a cafe. A real diamond in the rough.
Negros Museum cafe
The food counter is well lit and well arranged. Don’t be afraid to whip out your camera and take pics! Feel free to browse the menu… which contains… some of the best of what Bacolod and Negros Occidental has to offer! Luscious cured Ham from Talisay, Bacolod Spiced Pork belly, Fresh made cheese from La Carlotta, Fresh baked Black sesame Bread, Corn Bread and whole wheat Bread!
And for those who want a strong drink with their meal, the Negros Museum cafe brews its own RUM!
A treasure trove of Goodies!
We suggest you try their totally excellent sandwiches (you choose what kind of bread to use!) Whatever sandwich you chose, the bread is lovingly toasted, buttered and laden with generous amounts of premium Bacolod meats, fresh vegetables, herbs and home made atchara!
One of Museum Cafe's absolutely delicious sandwiches! (Bacolod Spiced Pork belly on black sesame bread)
Talisay cured ham on whole wheat bread.
If you’re in the mood for something more elaborate and substantial try out their lunch/meal of the day.
A lunch of Roast beef and salad with french and black sesame bread.
If you want rice, you can have Bacolod organic brown rice..
An elegant take on Pork chop with rice. 
The capers on the egg slice is a nice touch.
The Bacolod Food hunters were totally enchanted by the Negros Museum Cafe!
Bacolod Food Hunter Patricia enjoys one of the cafe's exquisite drinks!
Of course, no meal is complete without dessert and the Museum cafe has one of the most delicious apple cakes ever!
We absolutely love love love this cake! It's a must try!
Their mini fruit pie is excellent too!
This is sweeter than the apple cake
This is what the bread looks like:
Black sesame bread, French baguette, and corn bread
We were able to catch a few art exhibits while dining at the museum cafe. Yes, the museum exhibits works by local artists.
A delightful sculpture of boys playing with marbles
Paintings of the ruins.
This is beautiful!
Absolutely breath-taking! But not as breath taking as the FOOD!!
So come on and visit the Negros Museum Cafe! We recommend you guys also take a tour of the Negros Museum! You certainly won’t regret it. We love it so much… We’re systematically eating through everything on the menu. Operating days are from TUESDAY to SUNDAY.
Five Bitter Balls (Breaded Meatballs with Herbs and cheese.)
Spiced pork belly and tomato chutney!
- Kebabs with peanut sauce
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We were introduced to the museum cafe when we threw the first ever Bacolod Food hunter contest in which only one person joined. LOL. For his trouble, Guido Nijssen wins a dinner at firehouse grill and two collector-item Bacolod food hunter mugs. His article is as follows:
>>Museum Cafe in Negros Museum along Gatuslao Street recently opened its
>> doors. You can sit there in the Phinma Gallery where the exposition
>> every month change. Or outside the beautiful authentic building with a
>> view on Raymond Legaspi’s mural Hacienda Unwind, a 12 meter long
>> painting in front of the Museum. The menu is special; 9 different
>> Organic certified tea’s, white, green and black tea. NO softdrinks!
>> but home made fresh drinks like ginger-lime, organic ice-tea and fresh
>> pressed orange. A rich filled bar with all the desired booze, wines
>> and they distill there own rum, ‘Museum Rum’. A nice assortment of the
>> best Phil cigars. They bake their own bread, four different types,
>> corn, baguette, grey and whole wheat. You make your choice and then
>> you have to choose what you want on it, all home made: Cooked Talisay
>> Ham (the best ham in town), Spiced Bacolod Porc Belly or Pata Negros.
>> They smoke bacon, chickens and pink/red salmon and above all they make
>> their own Cheese from Sagay Cow Milk… delicious. There is a weekly
>> changing menu, specials, yesterday we had the red kidney bean soup
>> with smoked bacon and as main course Cold Cut Roast Beef with garlic-
>> and anchovy mayonnaise, nice tender pink beef with the anchovy, great.
>> It all comes with slices fresh baked bread and a well dressed salad.
>> After we emptied the bottle of wine, we took their Buenos Aires
>> Mountain Coffee and the home made Bonbon chocolates… Culinary
>> Satisfaction
THE MUSEUM CAFE ALSO HAS WEEKLY SPECIALS! Get on their mailing list and receive updates on their specials of the week! Want to be on the mailing list? Please tell leave us a message with your e-mail in the comments section and we’ll add/forward their weekly menu to you.
wow! as in wow! foods looks very yummy! but for sure mahal ang food. grabe super enjoy ko ang blog nyo. every other day gina-check ko gid ang blog nyo to check sa diin nami mag-kaon. may ara lang some restos na d ok sa taste bud. but in summary super helpful gid ang inyo nga blogs. my share lang ko, last week may ara ko na-discover nga isa ka coffeeshop nga barato kag nami ang food. ara sa galo street lapit sa brgy. hall.
In the contrary, no.
An approx. PhP500 can already feed your average family in the Museum Café, a far cry from Manila sosy coffee shops which would only be able to serve one and still leave one unsatisfied. 
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thanks Mark. like what i said with Martin i-try ko gid i-visit buas. hopefully wala na gid buas raining cats & dogs
Thanks for being a fan of the blog. Please visit the cafe. It’s AWESOME! The prices are very very cheap! 90-100 pesos ang isa ka sandwich, same price you pay at Jollibee for an unhealthy meal of soda, a burger and fries. It’s super healthy!
thanks Martin sa infos! buas gid for sure i-try ko gid makaon. i knew the chef actually, my friend told me earlier kun sin-o and yup he’s one of the best chef kay sobra ka metikuloso gid sa iya.
Looks delicious I have been to the museum but never the cafe I will be sure to try it. nice review!
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To Guido and Gemma, congratulations! More power to your authentic foods….My friends from Manila and in other countries can’t wait to visit Bacolod, see you there very soon!!! Please prepare my favorite meal which I can’t forget (sea eel with tomatoe paste & herbs, and Cassava fries) plus red wine…ooooooooohhhh….. I loved it!!! I love your cuisine !!!! I miss you guys!
Great reccomendation, but amazingly quiet, hope they continue as its the cleanest resto in town with refreshingly different menu. Dutch owned I think.
It is International Standard Cafe stransported!
The right place to bring in MASSKARA guest who wants foods not common to the local restaurants. Congratulations!
Locals who wants to savor the tatse of what is seen should visit this place.
There is an artist if food preparation..thanks to Guido Nissen!
Been here yesterday (Sunday) for lunch. Had the spiced pork belly, but I think it’s mango chutney, not tomato.. Also got their fresh ginger-lime juice drink, and since it rained so hard that I thought I’m gonna be stuck there for a while, I ordered batangas brewed coffee and my new fave… cinnamon bread with cinnamon ice cream (funny though that tasting this reminds me of USA, maybe the smell of cinnamon, hehehe). Anyways, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED… Bravo!!! Magnifique!!! Great review BTW, Martin B.
P.S. Definitely going there again for the rest… would love to try their sandwiches and hams of Negros. Curious about the Satay Baboy w/ Peanut Sauce and the Bitter Balls too.
Thank you very much for your blog and for the people who have been reading this blog. We hope that you continue to visit us every week
We have specials of the week. We will try to post our weekly specials on our blog: negrosmuseum.blogspot.com. – The Negros Museum and Museum Cafe
hi martin, very nice and yummy review…
it’s really a special place!