We stopped by for a round of pre-dinner drinks. The location was convenient with a decent selection of hard liquors. Ambience was relaxing and the seats were very comfortable. I do have a few gripes about the overall experience. First, the service was very slow. We only ordered drinks and found the wait time to be about 30 minutes. We ordered an old fashioned with makers mark, watermelon mojito, and margarita on the rocks. The old fashioned had more ice than alcohol. The watermelon mojito also had a ton of ice and was not even stirred. The margarita on the rocks was served in a martini glass with a slice of citrus. We ordered a couple of grand marniers and waited another 20 minutes, however only one was delivered and charged. Overall, I would've given a better rating had the staff checked-in on our orders, offered waters, and better wait time. read more

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Classic Margherita Pizza: As far as the flavor's concerned, it was good! But, the dough of the pizza softened up pretty quickly. In fact, it was already very soft when it arrived at our table. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed my crust! :) Crispy Vietnamese Spring Rolls: These were also good but not something I'd regularly look for or feel excited about. Grilled Lemongrass Prawn Pad Thai: I can't recall not enjoying any pad thai in general, so this one passes too! But the prawn...perhaps more would be better. read more

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I've seen M Cafe both during the day, and at night. Sitting across the Ayala Museum in the heart of the Makati Central Business District, it offers a quiet place for you to hang out and converse any time of the day. During the day, it is a respectable restaurant with delicious food and a beautiful crowd. Have some dumplings, or guinumis, or batchoy for lunch, merienda, or dinner. At night, it is a fun, dancing place for those of us who cannot relate to EDM and fist-bumping. By this, I mean, Lounge, World, unimposing "sticky" music that you can actually use your hips for. The drinks are great, and the crowd is even more beautiful. read more

I know about M Cafe's reputation as a chill party place, but I never cared for that. M Cafe for me will always be my guilty pleasure breakfast place. I will never understand why everybody would rather flock to the coffee chains rather than to come over here. I mean, it's cool, it's cozy, the food's great (if a bit on the expensive side), and the coffee's solid. Plus, M Cafe has incredible ambiance as it overlooks Greenbelt's garden. I come here either to have a nice, slightly guilty breakfast (A bit pricey, yes), or to work a bit (Nice ambiance + free wi-fi = winner). Weirdly enough, I've only taken someone out here to dinner once, but I can see why this would be a fantastic place to bring a date. Just come early in the evening, as this place turns into a music lounge later in the night, albeit a classy one. read more

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This is one of the best places to dine in Greenbelt at makati. Make sure to go there when you have ample time as their menu offers many choices. They have Asian fusion and Filipino food, menu has two parts Asian fusion is museum cafe and if you flip the menu it's called "other side" in Tagalog and has all Filipino dishes. I invited some of my local friends and surprisingly they had no idea that this restaurant was one of the coolest joints that gets overlooked as cafe for museum goers. Amazing selection fresh juices and wines. Many restaurants the desert is formality and creativity ends with food, but this place has equally stunning selection of deserts. Miso style cod fish, Filipino traditional beef stew and pumpkin soup and chicken curry were awesome. They also have selections of rice and naan bread as sides. Enjoy this restaurant because it certainly beats other favorites like centro and masa on creativity and presentation. read more

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Every Sunday, a lot of places in Manila serve brunch at different prices! I went to the one at M Cafè which gets you all you can eat for around 1000 PHP or 1500 PHP with unlimited drinks. The deal gets you a main course plus access to unlimited buffet which serves a variety of dishes from cheeses, desserts, pizzas, pancakes, salads etc. Great price for what you get and a really fresh atmosphere! Also great on Thursday nights as they put music on and it gets filled with people! :) read more

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I'm in town for a few days and staying at a nearby hotel and decided I would take a walk around my old stomping ground, when I ran into this cafe. Let me just say.... wow. This is a very creative presentation of an otherwise simple and very basic Filipino delicacy! Turon (rice paper wrapped dessert) with a flan filling, instead of sweet banana! So here's the "but" part..... the service is a bit slow (though not an uncommon pace in this country). Anyway, the ambience is very nice, and as the name suggests, it is located in the premises of the Ayala Museum, in a prime spot in the trendiest business district of the city. read more

Museum Cafe - A creative presentation of an otherwise simple and very basic Filipino delicacy! - Asian Fusion Near Me - Manila, NCR

I love having meals in M Café especially in the daytime because of the floor to ceiling windows allowing the bright light to come through. The interiors are simple with some Filipino accents here and there and their service is also topnotch. My go-to orders in M Café are their Chicken Inasal and Beef Tadyang. You can never go wrong with these orders. If you are there for breakfast, try their Bacon Slab! It's actually just a side order for around Php 100 or so and you get three slabs of bacon. Yum. For dessert, you can try their Mango + Ube Sticky Rice and for drinks, try their Lychee Mojito. read more

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If you are a fan of the following things: brunch, live music, people-watching and cocktails, M Café is definitely the place to be. Whether you're hanging out with a bunch of amigas enjoying boozy brunch or catching a drum-and-bass DJ set on a week night, M Café is a great place. Located right across the Ayala Museum in Greenbelt, M Café caters mostly to the brunch crowd, as well as some of the expatriates who live nearby (so if you're fond of looking at beautiful people, look no further than M Café). I wasn't especially fond of their Bloody Mary, which they made on the sweet side. As a Bloody Mary afficionado, I take offense and feel the need to use all capital letters to express my feelings. WHY WOULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND MAKE A SAVORY COCKTAIL INTO A SWEET ONE?! That aside, M Café's ambiance, with its outdoor seating especially, also makes it a nice place to rest after you've gone shopping, or to meet up for a round of pre-game drinks and pica-pica before heading off to the club, or any other venue in Makati. M Café is also a great spot to go dancing. Dancing to live music is one of life's most lovely pleasures, and if you're on the bashful side, people who frequent M Café are surprisingly non-judgmental, and odds are they're too busy dancing to notice! read more

M Cafe has been around for a long, long time. And it still is able to bring in the crowds. Especially for events and especially during the weekends when they have a DJ on. It is a really lovely location - one side is facing the museum and the other side is facing the nice garden. It's a really great part of Greenbelt. There is outdoor and indoor seating and the indoor seating can seat A LOT of people. But it's really more ambient to sit outside. The food quality has gone down a lot over the years and same with the service. Often times it's just really lazy and undisciplined. Quite frustrating really. The idea and concepts behind the food is good, but the executions falls short many times. Plus, BRING BACK THE SHAKER COCKTAILS! The cocktails really need to be stepped up here, especially if it's the late night crowd which they want to attract! read more

The worst dining experience ever! It took 25 minutes to get a plate of cold smoked salmon! I asked the waiter to follow up and he didn't bother to return! I eventually walked to him and got the usual sorry sir. It was at 3:15 in the afternoon and there was more staff than customers. A place to be avoided. read more

Thursday night is a good night to go out in Manila and for pre-drinks I more often than not wander off into M Café at around 11PM for some groove vibes and excellent music. Well-curated dj sets, live acts, a scene of locals and expats, cocktails, and dancing are always served at this airy venue. Just across the Ayala Museum, you will find a spot where sitting outdoors and dining al fresco is a refreshing delight. The restaurant is open all day and shares space with its Filipino counterpart, KABILA. The food is a mix on Asian dishes with a twist at M Café and this translates as well into their special drinks and cocktails. Bottle service and wines are also available and if you're not a fan of smokers and sitting outside then its indoor dining area is a good spot for a meeting or dinner out. My food favorites include the dim sum selection, the famous crab cakes, their Pho soup, the chicken rice, and the grilled salmon. Service is friendly but can sometimes be slow. Although, if you come at a good time, then you can get the waiter's attention regardless of the call buttons they put on your table. Sunday brunch is also available (as of writing) with a very reasonable price for a brunch buffet in a nice setting and you will most likely enjoy a wonderful live jazz performance while you enjoy a delectable selection of grub from the buffet they set up for you. A place to hang out, enjoy music and feel like you could possibly not be in Manila, I would often recommend this place as a cool spot to meet new friends and dance your butt off! read more

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I have very fond memories associated with this place. The last time I was here, I was with a guy that I liked and well, I think the feeling was mutual. How's that for candid? All that to say that this place is perfect for a date though I can see myself here for any sort of occasion. It's very pretty. There's glass all around so the light streams in during the day making life feel like it's quite alright. It's huge and the service is excellent. Most important of all, the menu is awesome. I've yet to taste a bad or less-than-impressive dish from here. Nice job, M Café. Here's to many more years of business up ahead. read more

Fave place for Sunday brunch and jazz

Wow, the beef tapa breakfast is impressively good. I wasn't expecting much but it's the best tapa I've had on this trip. Greenbelt mall doesn't open till 11 so this is a nice quiet place to sit and have a good breakfast if your looking for something before the mall opens. read more

After our day at the Ayala Museum, my friend asked if I wanted to have dinner before heading home and of course I said, "yes!" We saw the Museum Cafe aka M Cafe across and we knew we had to try it. Not only did the place look well-designed but it also looked like it served very good food since there were so much people eating there. As soon as we were in the entrance, we knew that the service was good because we were welcomed with a smile and attended to us really fast. For starters, we had the Shrimp Okoy. It had a soy sauce vinegar sauce and pink salt with red chili on the side. It was the best okoy I have ever tasted! And I mean, ever. We had the Kamias + Calamansi shake while waiting for our main course. The shake was really refreshing and none like I've tasted before. I'm not so sure about what they entitled the dishes in the menu but we got Bagnet and rice with small shrimps mixed with it. I forgot the names but that was what we basically had. The Bagnet was so good because it had the right crisp with the skin but the pork remained tender. the rice was also different but really good. I never ate rice with really small shrimps mixed with it and i must say it was really delicious. This is one of the meals that I would never forget because everything we ordered was good! I have to come back and satisfy my okoy craving! read more