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(which closes at 9pm).
Daily 8am-midnight.
Café Uma
15th St at Lacson St
T
034 709 9966,
W
cafeuma.com.
Like
Trattoria Uma
just around the corner
on Lacson St, this super-trendy little café is owned by the
Gaston family. The café serves delicious but expensive drinks,
snacks and meals including eggs Benedict (P450), fish and
chips (P450) and lemon-herb-roasted chicken (P450). There's
free wi-fi for customers.
Daily 10.30am-9.30pm.
★
the lights are dimmed and the music is cranked up as
Mushu
morphs into a lounge bar. Sat nights feature DJs.
Daily 11am-2pm & 5pm-midnight (Sat till 2am).
Organic Market Restaurant
Behind the Provincial
Capitol Building, Gatuslao St.
A great organic restaurant
in the fruit and veg market, serving all sorts of health foods
from organic rice dishes (P40) to shakes (P35) and coffee.
Meals for less than P100.
Daily 6am-6pm.
A Taste of Italy at The Ruins
Talisay
T
034 476 4334,
W
theruins.com.ph.
The Italian food here is authentic
and tasty, but it's the atmosphere that will really captivate
your senses, surrounded by the enchanting ruins of the
Ledesma sugar hacienda (see p.309). As well as the
obligatory pizza and pasta dishes (P220-400), there's
osso
buco
and
salsiccia in padella
(Italian sausages in a tomato-
based sauce; both P350), and the dessert line-up includes
delicious
zuppa inglese
(P150). It's easiest to get here and
back by taxi (P250-300 including waiting time).
Daily
11am-8pm.
6
Chicken House
Araneta St
T
034 842 3096.
An oldie
but a goodie,
Chicken House
has been serving up sumptuous
roast chicken (P75) for three decades and continues to
draw in the local crowds with its distinctive flavours and
low prices.
Daily 10am-10.30pm.
Mushu
20th St
T
034 435 0972.
Funky and friendly place
just off Lacson which features lively pictures by local artist
Charlie Co. Good pan-Asian menu ranges from Korean beef
skewers (P200) to grilled pork belly with coconut and
lemongrass (P155), and banana and choco spring rolls
(P130) for dessert. After 10pm groups fill the large booths,
DRINKING AND NIGHTLIFE
Goldenfields Commercial Complex
in Singcang is cited as the city's nightlife district, but while there are a few regular
bars and clubs, in truth many of the places here are girlie bars catering to an exclusively male crowd. In addition to the
places below it's also worth checking
Mushu
(see above).
Gerald's at Negros Press Club
San Juan St
T
034 704
3655.
This small friendly venue in the press building is
pleasantly located overlooking City Plaza. Drinks are cheap
(San Mig P47), there's live music from 8.30pm and snacks
to stave off hunger.
Daily 5pm-midnight.
MO2
Goldenfields
T
034 433 6026
.
Chain bar-club
serving reasonably priced drinks (San Mig P50) and
featuring nightly live music from 9pm. Also has a quieter
punkah-cooled outdoors sitting area. Next door,
Annex
has
pool tables and is equally salubrious.
Daily 8pm-2am.
SHOPPING
Negros Showroom
Lacson St at 9th St
T
034 433
8833.
For handicrafts, this extensive showroom has
top-quality products from all over the island.
Daily
9.30am-7pm.
Robinsons Place
Lacson St, 1km north of B.S. Aquino
Drive
W
robinsonsmalls.com.
Everyday needs plus clothes
stores and fast-food outlets on northern section of Lacson
St.
Daily 10am-9pm.
DIRECTORY
Banks
There are plenty of banks with ATMs in Bacolod,
many of which can be found on Araneta St, including BDO,
PNB and BPI. There's also a BDO ATM out at Goldenfields.
Cinema
There's a Cineplex cinema at Robinsons Place on
the northern section of Lacson St (
T
034 441 0453,
W
robinsonsmovieworld.com).
Hospitals
Bacolod Doctors' Hospital (
T
034 433 2741,
W
thedoctorshospital.com) is on B.S. Aquino Drive, northeast
of the centre.
Immigration
The Bureau of Immigration is at the
back of the National Bureau of Investigation office on
Aguinaldo St (
T
034 433 8581).
Internet
access
The trendy Le Café Net on Lacson St at
12th St (Mon-Sat 8.30am-1am, Sun noon-midnight;
P25/hr) is the most comfortable place to get online in
Bacolod, but other places include Sidestreet Internet
(8am-1am; P20/hr) on San Juan St, in the malls. Many
hotels and cafés have free wi-fi access.
Police
Police headquarters is at Magsaysay Ave in
Singcang (
T
034 434 1152).
Post
The post o
ce is on Gatuslao St, near the junction
with Burgos St (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm).
Silay
The elegant town of
SILAY
, about 20km north of Bacolod, is an atmospheric relic of
a grander age, when Negros was rich from its cultivation of sugar cane. In the late
