Where To Eat?

Negros Island - Is the Sugar bowl island of the Philippines. Delight you with food and cuisine that is as vigorous yet as subtle as the legendary Ilonggo gentility and taste for the good life. It is particularly popular for sugar-based food items and delicacies. From upscale restaurants to wayside eateries, one can sample the heavenly concoctions this island is famous for. Aside from dishes cooked with Spanish influences, probably the most famous dish Negros Island is remembered for is Inasal (barbecued marinated chicken). The famous local barbecue chicken called inasal literal translation "cooked over the fire". Lots of good local restaurants specialize in local fare; one of the most local area that has been the most oldest restaurants is the "Manokan Country".

Whether one is hankering for chicken gizzard, feet, ass, leg or leeg, Manokan Country is the place to be. Eating chicken Negros-style means settling down in one of those formica tables, sprinkling your hot rice with salt and achuete oil, and dipping your favorite chicken part in a sawsawan of soy sauce, vinegar, siling labuyo or what-have-you. This unforgettable feast costs as little as fifty pesos (soft drinks included).

Seafood lovers, on the other hand, will revel in the culinary pleasures of Negros. The equivalent of Manila's Seaside Market, one gets to pick here the fresh catch of the day and have it cooked in adjoining turo-turo stalls. Dishes to die for include fish tinola, kinilaw, gambas, calamares, and steamed lapu-lapu, among others.

Being the center of Sugarlandia - is definitely not wanting in heavenly desserts. Pastries and confectionery are equally renowned. This is after all the birthplace of in-demand pasalubongs like piaya, barquillos, napoleones, batchoy, guapple pie, pastel de manga, panyo-panyo, and pinasugbo are all worth sampling. A must-eat dish is the fresh lumpia (fresh spring roll; not fried). A delicately exquisite treat wrapped in a paper thin translucent crepe filled with fresh coconut tree heart (ubod), pork and shrimp with a garnish of scallion. Other native sweets include butong-butong (similar to the Tagalog tira-tira), inday inday (Negros version of the palitaw), bayi bayi (flavored like the espasol), dulce gatas and the puto Manapla ranked among the favorites.

Food-making is such a way of life for the Negrense that in places like Silay City, they have the age-old ritual of the manug-libud. This activity happens daily in the market area where enterprising womenfolk barter and display 50 or more kinds of the town's best delicacies. Of course, the culinary excitement peaks during the MassKara Festival where stalls of lechon, barbecue, lumpia and other specialties can be sampled by the revelers. The famous local barbecue chicken called inasalliteral translation "cooked over the fire". Lots of good local restaurants specialize in local fare. ;one of the most local area that has been the most oldest restaurants is the "manokan coutry". For the non-gastronome, there's always the local McDonald's and Jollibee’s.

As we found out, Negros Island is more than just sprawling haciendas, ancestral houses and rolling golf courses. It is also about food, glorious food. There is always something for everyone in this Sugar Island- be it Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian or good old Negrense home cooking.

Figaro
Location: SM City, Masskara Village, Bacolod City
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Gerry's Grill
Location: Lacson Street, Bacolod City
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Bigby's
Location: SM City, Masskara Village, Bacolod City
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Kuppa Coffee & Tea
Location: Hilado Street, Shopping Center, Bacolod City
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McDonald
Location: Lacson Street, Bacolod City
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Jollibee
Location: Lacson Street, Bacolod City
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Mister Donut Cafe & Restaurant
Location: Lacson Street, Bacolod City
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Aboy's Restaurant-
Location: Goldenfield Commercial Complex, Singcang, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)435-0760
Aboy’s has serve the best sinugbang liempo, panga, tuna, blue marlin and gindara, they also serve the best clam soup around. For dessert, if you are lucky, you might even get a taste of durian from the farm of Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco.


Akasya Grill
Location: 17th-Lacson Street, Capitol Subdivision, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)434-8256
If you want lechon, you can get some from Akasya Grill. By their recipe and waiters/waitress you can order one entire pig one day before any party or gathering and it’ll be there. They serve both Filipino and Negrense dishes. It is also a fastfood restaurant so expect food to be served— fast.

Apollo Restaurant
Location: Hilado Street, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)435-4732
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Apllo Restaurant
Location: Gonzaga Street, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)435-4889
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Bacolod North Park
Location: 6th Street, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)435-0615
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Bacolod United House
Location: Hilado Ext., Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)434-9716
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Bailon’s Foods
Location: 17-San Sebastian Street, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)434-7998
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Bob’s Big Boy Drive-in Restaurant
Location: North Drive, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)434-2409
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Bob’s Big Boy Drive-in Restaurant II
Location: La Salle Avenue, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)433-0448
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Bob’s Restaurant III
Location: Lacson Street, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)441-1431
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Bread N Butter Luncheonette
Location: Gonzaga Street, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)432-0860
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Brick Pit Grill
Location: C.L. Montelibano Avenue, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)432-3520
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Buoy G’s Restaurant
Lcation: Burgos-Gustilo Streets, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)433-9876

Carlo Restorante Italiano
Location: Goldenfields Commercial Complex, Bacolod City
Contact: Tel. No. (034)434-9475
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