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Saturday, September 15, 2018

8 Instagramable Cafe at Jakarta





Nowadays, many new restaurants and cafes are open in Jakarta. Most of them come with super cool interior design that makes people not only enjoy the food but also the vibes and ambiance. It also give some people opportunity doing the OOTD style inside the restaurant. The concept is to collaborate between food and art.

After trying several restaurant, we compile and summary the list of 8 instagram-able cafe in Jakarta. Maybe you can spend this weekend and take some photos there while enjoying your food.

1. Take A Bite

Take a Bite is a newly opened cafe with heavy "Harry Potter" theme located in Pluit, North Jakarta, just around Pluit Village north Exit. The Cafe feature famous 9 3/4 platform which is the main photo spot. The dining area is set just like Hogwarts Dining Hall, while the perimeter is set like London's Shoppe Street.

As for the food, if you expect delicious food, you might be disappointed. The menu is mainly indomie and rice bowl, however the F&B price is relatively cheaper than its kind. One thing to try is their Butter-beer. However when we came here, it is already sold out.

Our tips to visit the area is to come for early lunch, as the parking space is limited.







Take a Bite (TAB)
☎️ 021-22668990
Open : 10.30 AM - 1.00 AM

2. Onni House

Combining the concept of flower house, market place, and cafe make Onni one of the most instagrammable cafe in West Jakarta. Their parking space is quite plenty, but expect a waiting list for dining hours.

On the upside, there are many photo spots for you while waiting for seat. But the downside, sometimes, the waiting list is too crowded, so many people will stand in the way of your photo shoot. We recommend to use wider lens to shorten the gap between you and the camera.

For the food, you should opt for western food like pastas, since we thought that it was better than their Indonesian food.

If you plan to come here on weekend, you should check before as they start to do some workshops on some Saturdays. That way you do not come empty handed.









Onni House 
Open : 10.00 AM - 10.00 PM

3. The Garden

Sydney vibes in Jakarta is the ambiance that you will feel once you stepped inside The Garden. The Interior is created by Einstein & Associates, the one who designed Bottega Ristorante, Willshire, and Lemongrass, it makes other cafes in PIK looks typical.

The food is quite good. Some of our food blogger friends recommend the crispy duck here, which is unfortunately sold out one hour after it's open when we came.

If you want to come here, come at 11 a.m. since they don't receive reservation and they have long waiting lines every weekend. Even their first expansion to the shop is the queue facilities. 







The Garden
☎️ (021) 22572270
Open : 11.00 AM - 2.00 AM


4. Kanpai

Just beside the Garden, you will find a unique Japanese cafe. The restaurant feature iconic Orange Torii gate designed as a tunnel stairs to the second floor. The neon light also make a resemblance of Osaka's Glico Man Replica, unless it is a Raccoon Running Man. The restaurant seems to be raccoon theme as you can see many raccoon pictures on its menus and decoration.

As for the food is a standard Japanese Food like sushis, ramens, etc. Not too delicious but not bad either.

While it is not as crowded as the garden, the place is quite small. It also a little bit dark. So you should bring higher apperture lens or a stabilizer to prevent your pictures to be grainy or blurry.







Kanpai
☎️ (021) 22572290
Open : 11.00 AM - 12.00 AM (Sun-Thu) / 11.00 AM - 2.00 AM (Fri-Sat)


5. So Fashion Cafe

Two Words to describe the Cafe : Pink alert!. This is a pink themed cafe located in Mall Taman Anggrek. If you used to visit MTA before, it is located on 1st Floor on what used to be McDonald's.

This restaurant featured western light food such as waffles and pastas and several range of instragramable beverages. This place is quite small though, but you can wait by exploring the mall (which currently is undergoing some refreshment renovation).

So Fashion also have a brother store which is blue themed and mainly sell hotpot which is located adjacent to the cafe, actually it is connected.

If you want to know more detail about the cafe, I wrote the detailed articles about So Fashion here 







📍Mall Taman Anggrek lt 2
☎️ (021) 5639181
Open : 10.00 AM - 10.00 PM

6. Dailycious

If you bored with Inner City exploring and want to search Serpong Area, you can try Dailycious. It has Minimalist interior with Scandinavian Type Furniture. The color theme are Pretty pastel on the first floor and wooden themed on the second floor.







📍Jl Paramount Boulevard Ruko Bolsena blok B1-3, Gading Serpong Tangerang
☎️ (021) 22228651
Open : 9.00 AM - 10.00 PM (Mon-Fri & Sun) / 9.00 AM - 11.00 PM (Sat)

7. Red Door Koffie House

As the name, the place have big Red Door. However you cannot directly see the door from the road as the entrance is facing the side.

You can find many good photo-spots in the cafe. As for F&B, we cannot say much because when we came here, although it is interesting, most menu is unavailable. Maybe it was because we came when it's still on soft opening mode.








📍Ruko New Jasmine Blok HA 16 no 36, Gading Serpong Tangerang
☎️ (021) 22225262
Open : 7.30 AM - 10.00 PM (Sun- Thu) / 7.30 AM - 12.00 AM (Fri-Sat)


8. Hours: Coffee and More

We came here, while waiting for some meeting in the area. Hours is located not on main area of F&B in Kelapa Gading area, so we think they mainly serve the locals who do morning coffee and meeting.
However, the interior is beautiful, simple, and feels spacious. This is a perfect place to take some great pictures uninterrupted.

As for foods, they served breakfast menu (maybe because we came early morning) and good coffee.








📍Boulveard Bukit Gading Raya No , Kelapa Gading, Jakarta 14240
☎️ (021) 45858134
Open : 8.00 AM - 10.00 PM


Okay folks, that's all the places we found instagramable. Some place are new and some place have been there for some times. Some places are city talk, while some are hidden gems. But we hope that this post help you to plan your day.

Happy Weekend Everyone!!

Thursday, September 6, 2018

So Fashion Cafe Jakarta




Couple weeks ago, we found a pink themed cafe in Mal Taman Anggrek, West Jakarta. Located at 2nd floor, this cafe is very noticeable because you can see the pink wall in front and a cute pink vending machine.

Beside this pink cafe, there are So Hot Stone Hotpot cafe that actually also one group with So Fashion Cafe. Actually at first we went into the So Hot Stone Hotpot which design with white-blue modern theme. So Hot Stone Hotpot cafe served shabu-shabu, but since we are not into it, we decided to move to So Fashion Cafe instead. As far as I know, they both originated from Taiwan and this is their first opened cafe in Indonesia. This feed will be dominated in pink as you scroll through the entire post.







As we scrolling the menu, this cafe mostly served western light food and dessert; such as pasta, panini, smoothies, and waffle.  For beverages, they had juice, tea, coffee, smoothies, blends, and beer.

We ordered Passion Olio Prawn and Korean Hotpot. They used angel hair pasta and cook it perfectly with prawn and cheese toppings. The prawn are great, but for the cheese was not taste good so I did not eat it. 

The Korean Hotpot itself, taste a bit spicy; combination of noodle and full of fish cake, sausage, kimchi, veggies, and cheese. Perfect match for each other, but on this case, the cheese is nice and good.



Passion Olio Prawn - 69 K


For dessert, we ordered banana and chocolate ice cream waffle. I love the texture of the waffle, the sauce and also the peanuts crumbs there. Eye pleasing serving with good taste. 

One thing to know is that usually thematic cafes will emphasise on the decoration and food presentation more than the taste of their food. But not for So Fashion. They managed to combine great restaurant with good food, which make its worth to be visited by food lovers as well as insta-celeb.


Banana and Chocolate Ice Cream Waffle - 57 K


As for beverages, we tried Berry Lemon Refresher (flying beer), coniccollo (coffee inside a cone), and cotton candy milk coffee. Despited the good flavor beverages, they served it with super aesthetic and instagenic.




Cotton Candy Milk COffee - 40 K
Flying Beer (Berry Lemon Refresher) - 65 K 
Coniccollo (coffee inside a cone) - 22 K




Overall we enjoyed our time here, good food and good ambiance too. The design and the theme is so pretty and make this cafe a perfect OOTD-spot as well. Every corner is dominated with pink. They even paying attention to every details like pink flamingo, pink cups, table decoration, and not forget the pink vending machine. The staffs are also super friendly and very helpful when we asking about the menu. Price-wise, as a cafe inside mall the price is affordable compare to the portion we get.

If you are a pink lovers, you must come here and experience it by yourself. Perhaps you should considered avoiding lunch or dinner time for less crowded. 


SO Fashion Cafe
Mall Taman Anggrek Lt 2
Jl. Letjen S Parman no 28
Tomang - Grogol
(021)-5939181

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