Social House

One of successful Ismaya's creation, Social House become one of the most well known restaurant in Jakarta. Its modern designed atmosphere creates this comfort yet comfy socializing place, that of course suits the name of the place. Their food are presentable and delicious with a quiet struck on your wallet, but it is worth to try. 

Here at Social House they serve various type of dishes started from the oriental dishes, Indonesian, and Western food. Even though they have this wide range of menu concept, each one of them taste really good.

Spaghetti Mushroom Aglio Olio with Tuna, it is a pasta dish where the pasta is cooked with olive oil and sauteed mushroom. To top it of, grilled tuna on will do it. I really like this dish, I was never been a big fan of pasta but after this I kinda enjoy it. However, it think the tuna was a little bit too dry, I prefer shredded tuna instead if I suggest. Another main course that I ordered is the Grilled Seabass with Sambal Rica Rica, it is Indonesian signature dish. The reason for me to ordered this is because I want to compare and contrast their Western dish and local dish. It is quiet enjoyable, but I can say for sure the pasta win for this round. Although I heard they have a really good Sop Buntut here, can't wait to try them on the next visit.

For the drink I ordered the Homemade Granda's Iced Lemon Tea. It is basically a normal iced lemon tea added with a lemon flavored ice cream on top. They also have the jug version of this if you want to share with your friends. This is my favorite drink so far at social house and I definitely recommend this. 

Spaghetti Mushroom Aglio Olio with Tuna

Grilled Seabass Spicy Rica Rica Sambal with Corn Rice

                  

Homemade Grandma's Iced Lemon Tea

Social House
Grand Indonesia East Mall 1st Floor, JL. Mohammad Husni Thamrin, No. 1, Jakarta Pusat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 10320
(021) 23581818
8:00 am – 1:00 am

Pand'Or

Sunday morning is a great day to have a breakfast with family and friends. Pand'Or is a Western themed restaurant and bakery that is located in the Wijaya road, South Jakarta. It also offered you Indonesia's signature dishes and other Asian cuisine. They also have different special menus every week to offer to the customer so that there will be offered with more various choices of menu. The atmosphere of the restaurant itself is very British tea time decorations, with pastel and subtle color around the atmosphere and elegant tea sets with lime, cinnamon, and sugar on the side.

To start the feast, let's start with something light, Salmon Salad is one of my favorite dish. Glazed with the honey mustard and you are ready to continue your eating journey. For the meal, I am choosing this week special, which is the Salmon Brown Fried Rice, it served with salad and sunny side up egg. It is a fusion of Western food and Indonesia food all in the same plate. They also have the famous breakfast menu, which is the Egg Benedict. It is a poach egg with a creamy Hollandaise sauce on top with toast bread. Perfect combo for energizer for the day. Tuna Sandwich with toasted whole grain bread is also a good idea, since they owned their own bakery, their bread quality is really good. 

Salmon Brown Fried Rice

   

Egg Benedict

Tuna Sandwich

Salmon Salad

Pand'Or

Jalan Wijaya I No. 60, Kebayoran Baru, 12170

(021) 7208351

9:00 am - 10:00 pm

The Bali Bible (Vol. 2)

On this second edition of The Bali Bible, I will be focusing on the western style cafe here in Bali. We all know Bali is famous for the gorgeous and aesthetic beaches and views, which attract a lot of tourist especially from the west. They influenced the tourism attraction, as the result we can see a lot of western styled restaurant and cafe among the Seminyak and Kuta street. 

Crate

Crate is a small coffee cafe in Canggu. The place is not that spacious, although the atmosphere of the cafe is really comfortable. They have a lot of open space are in the cafe, which I think is the reason why there are a lot of western people here at Crate because most of Asian people is not a big fan of sunlight.

I ordered the Eggxelent, this dish is basically eggs on top of toasted bruschetta with tomato and parsley salad in the middle. This dish is perfect for breakfast and lunch, it is healthy and energizing. For the dessert or appetizer (it can be both, but I think it is most likely to be a dessert), I ordered Froot Loop, which is a assorted fruits with vanilla yogurt. The dessert it self is not that complex, although it is really refreshing, especially in for midday lunch in Bali. Indonesia is also famous for the sweet flavored fruits, this is because Indonesia is located in the equator line. For the drink, I ordered the Big Bold Banana. It is very fulfilling but its worth to try.

Crate

Jl. Batu Bolong No. 64, Canggu, Bali

Livingstone

Livingstone is one of the cafe in Kerobokan, Bali. There they serve authentic brunch to dinner menu with their open space atmosphere, by using a lot of glass ceiling in their modern vintage design it really makes this place really comfortable ro hang out and it has a perfect lighting for those who love to take pictures of food. 

The Eggs Benedict here at Livingstone is really good, they use smoked salmon under the poach egg and hollandaise sauce dressing. The size is quite small but it makes the presentation really nice with two identical poach egg on crust bread and salad on the side. For the dessert, it is St.Clement's Creme Brulee topped with chocolate macaroon and ice cream on top.

Livingstone

Jl. Petitenget No. 88X, Kerobokan, Bali

The Parlour

The Parlour Kitchen Lounge and Bar is a cafe located in Petitenget, Seminyak, Bali that serve bistro food on the day and fine dine on night time. It is modern style cafe that serve variety range of food from French cuisine, Chinese, to Indonesian classic cuisine. It is perfect for dine in place for families, friends, and business meeting. They also have bakery and coffee for casual visit.

For the breakfast themed casual visit it is perfect to order the Smoked Salmon for appetizer or the Parlour's Big Breakfast meal. The Big Breakfast serve the complete set of breakfast set menu perfect to energize you through out the day. They have enough amount of every component, this will allows you to enjoy different pallet and textures in one big plate and still entertained. Here, at Parlour they serve your tea in very vintage and folkish way, I ordered the camomile tea and they serve us with a mini clock timer as well so that we would not miss the best timing for us to take of the tea bag.

The Parlour

Jl. Petitenget No. 15XX, Kuta Utara, Badung, Bali