My Four New Favorite Eating Places in Jakarta [FoodBlog]

Maybe not everyone knows that I have moved back to Indonesia since late November 2012 for good (I think), but I am just gonna update about my food-life for the past two months. Below are the list of food-chains or restaurants from the least expensive to the most expensive that I just tried once in my life, but I am gonna go back again anytime soon, because all of them were scored pretty good based on my taste bud.

1. D' Cost Quick

After they established a fairly good name in F&B industry in Indonesia past few years, D' Cost Group decided to open their new type of food-chain, namely D' Cost Quick. To be honest, I never tried D' Cost Seafood Restaurant before, but when I tried D' Cost Quick in Pasar Festival, Kuningan, I was surprised with the price that relatively less expensive, about 12-22k IDR (~1.4-2.4 USD) per portion even for neighborhood mall and nice taste. Like usual, I tried something with weird name: Mie Cumi Saos Bangbang. Another plus is that they provide dine-in customers with free-flow tea, so drink as much as you want, just be responsible.

2. Salero House
Trying to have "chick" decoration, this eating place caught my friend attention, because we seldom see any Padang Restaurant with this kind of interior design. Moreover, the menu list is all about Padang, even you could find pasta ala Padang style here. I was curious about how the taste of Martabak ala Salero and I was surprised how they changed the filling of it with beef rendang and for me it tastes great! In case you wanna give it a visit, it is in Kota Kasablanka.

3. Caprese Restaurant, Pizzeria & Bar

Also located in Kota Kasablanka, similar with Salero House, this place has a good food and nice staff with great ambiance (or maybe because me and my friends came after lunch hour passed). So far I have tried their pizza, lasagna, and pasta, which in my opinion those three are good.

4. Gyu-Kaku
For this, I should have said thank you to my friend, Dinda, who organized our new years eve gathering in this place, Gyu-Kaku (Pacific Place), otherwise I would not know how good this place is. Gyu-Kaku is Japanese BBQ Restaurant, but the one that I want to highlight is actually their desserts. I tried Coffee Pudding.

A Quick Glance About the Author

It was 21 Sept 1990 in one of clinics, a mother tried pushing so hard in order to get a baby out of her body. All of these 9 months, she endured obstacles she faced by having another soul inside here body and finally this little soul can see the world with his own eyes.


Yup! That is maybe the story of mine when I was about to born and see this "ugly world". So, a son of her is finally can feel the world by his senses on 21 Sept 1990 and his name is Egi Septiadi.


During his childhood, Egi Septiadi or usually being called Egi, is a quiet person. He did not really talk unless people initiated the conversations with him. He spent his childhood in a small city of Indonesia, Bengkulu.


After more than 10 years in Bengkulu, he asked his parent to get him being transferred to Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia (there is another story behind it, so you might ask the author). He moved to Jakarta when he was at Junior High School 2 while he lived with his aunt back then at Jakarta.


To make long story short, he spent 5 years at Jakarta: 2 years of Junior High School (Labschool, Rawamangun) and 3 years of Senior High School (SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta). (un)lucky him, after he spent 5 years at Jakarta, he moved to Singapore to continue his study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).


Currently, he is studying Chemistry at NTU, under School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS). Hopefully he will gradute by next year, 2012. While he studies his major, he realized that Chemistry is not his true call and tried looking for an alternative. At the end he decided to take Minor in Entrepreneurship.


He finished Minor in Entrepreneurship last year, Oct 2010 to be precise. During the programme, he found that he is more passionate to such subjects comparing to his major. Given a chance knowing few of Startups Co-founders, he tried his lucks asking for internship during his third year under them.


Mr Kah Howe Lee accepted him for one month internship during last December holiday while for this year summer holiday he is currently doing his internship at SGEntrepreneurs under Ms Gwendolyn Regina Tan. So far, his ideas about exploring himself regarding what kind of job he loves to do are still intact in his mind. But yet, he has not tried any jobs that related to his major.


So, that's the quick glance of author life.