Nagoya City Science Museum Cafe and Restaurant: Expected more originality, but kids might like it

Area:  Just south of Fushimi Station Exit 5 伏見駅
Restaurant:  Nagoya City Science Museum cafe and restaurant 名古屋市科学館
Museum website and map:  http://www.ncsm.city.nagoya.jp/en/visitors_guide/access.html

Hours:  9:30am-5pm, Closed Mondays and every 3rd Friday of the month



I thought maybe the Nagoya City Museum cafe might have some interesting and funky dishes, being a science museum and all.  But I was disappointed that it was just expensive and was not at all that interesting.  There was a curry, hayashi rice, taco rice, loco moco, and a few pastas.  The only science-y thing about it were the names of the dishes such as black hole curry, green earth pasta, etc.

I went for the taco rice, a few nachos with lettuce, a half cooked egg and a spicy meat sauce.  The flavour, not all that different than how I remember taco sauces to be. But for ¥850, I expected more meat sauce or a bigger bowl!

The one thing that caught my eye was the green mushi bagel (¥350, since when were bagels this expensive?  This is Japan!).  Literally it means the green insect.  It's actually a bagel made with Euglena which is a type of micro organism apparently containing lots of nutrients important for the human body.  The bagel had a really nice moist, dense and chewy texture, but I guess euglena has no flavor because it just tasted like a regular bagel.