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Kalijodo: Visiting The Largest Red Light District in Jakarta
I had heard of Kalijodo a few times before, in particular through emails from readers of Jakarta100bars.com. It is famous for being the largest red light district in Jakarta and also a center for...
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Relax Living Spa Jakarta
Relax Living Spa is a chain of affordable family massage spas in Jakarta. They currently have 3 outlets: one in Menteng near the Restaurant Ocha & Bella, one in Kemang in front of Kemang Icon Hotel...
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SumoBoo (Dessert Restaurant)
SumoBoo is the trendy dessert restaurant of the moment among young, upper class Indonesians. It serves food that most Western people would hate, including myself, but if you have a very sweet tooth you...
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Tom Tom Thai Restaurant
Tom Tom is a Thai restaurant located on Level 5 of Grand Indonesia Mall. I decided to eat there because it seemed modern and chic from the outside. It is also closing at midnight instead of 10pm for...
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Carnivor Grill Restaurant (The Meat Company)
Carnivor is a small chain of steak and meat restaurants. They have four locations in Indonesia at the moment (see below for the list of Carnivor restaurants). I tried the branch of Pantai Indah Kapuk,...
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Mariette's House (Alam Sutera)
Mariette's House is a surprising little café located among the rukos (small shops and offices) accross the road from Living World Alam Sutera Mall. They serve mostly coffee, not expensive, and small...
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Lekker Bekker (Dutch Restaurants)
Lekker Bekker - Home Style Cooking - is a Dutch / Indonesian restaurant chain with locations in Summarecon Mall Serpong, Tebet, and Alam Sutera Mall.They sell Dutch and Indonesian favourites for a...
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Carls' Jr. in Indonesia
Carl's Jr is a chain of fast-food burger restaurants, originally from the US. The main differences I see with its competitors (Mc Donald's, Burger King, FatBurger, A&W, Wendy's, Johnny Rocket) are...
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Pyramid Club (Bali)
Pyramid is a club in Bali, popular with expatriates and local clubbers. It is on Jalan Dewi Sri, a street at the intersection of Kuta and Legian. A late-night venue, it starts to get busy at 2am or 3am...
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Tapas Movida (Spanish Restaurant Jakarta)
Tapas Movida is a Spanish restaurant with 2 locations in Jakarta, in Cipete Raya and Cilandak Town Square (Citos). I tried only the branch in Cipete where the food was decent and reasonably priced. I...
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Le Seminyak Balinese Restaurant (Jakarta)
Seminyak is a Balinese restaurant located on Jalan Cipete Raya, not far from Tapas Movida. The place is clean, big and comfortable, with a big parking. It seemed popular with Indonesians in particular,...
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Hide Yamamoto (Jakarta)
Hide Yamamoto is a Japanese restaurant located in Lotte Shopping Mall in Ciputra World. It is headed by the famous Chef Hide Yamamoto who had a prestigious career as an Executive Chef for Mandarin...
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The Dining Room at Immigrant (Jakarta)
Before it went under renovation, the club and the restaurant of Immigrant were not truly separated. You had clubbers next to you when you were dining, along with loud music and a terrible smell of...
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Jenja Bar & Club (Bali)
Jenja is the newest addition to the Bali nightlife scene. It is a restaurant, bar and club located between Legian and Seminyak, about 200 meters from Double 6 beach.It is too early to say if Jenja...
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Charlie (Bali): Bar, Club, Kitchen
Charlie is one of the happening nightlife spots in Seminyak (Bali) at the moment, together with Townhouse and Jenja. As defined by one of its (foreign) owners, it is not just a bar, restaurant or...
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Salsa, Tango and Latin Dancing in Jakarta
Salsa has been popular in Jakarta since the early 2000s. You can actually dance and listen to Latin music any single night of the week in selected bars, clubs and restaurants in the city (see the...
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MAD Jakarta (Modern Asian Diner)
I visited MAD Jakarta (Modern Asian Diner) in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday. It was not very crowded, as one could expect at this time of the day.MAD is currently buzzing among Jakartans,...
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Bistronomy (Jakarta)
I was very surprised with my visit of Bistronomy. Because of its name, which sounds modern, I was expecting a regular wannabe-trendy restaurant like many can be found in Jakarta. Bistronomy is...
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Mojo Bar + Kitchen (Jakarta)
It is only recently that I discovered Mojo Kitchen & Bar. It is small and unpretentious, similar with Treehouse in Kemang. It has a great location at the intersection of Jalan Senopati and Jalan...
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10 Stereotypes About Jakarta (and why they are inaccurate)
Jakarta was named as one of worst expat cities to live in by BusinessWeek in an article published in 2009. Among long term expatriates living here, this ranking could not have been more inaccurate and...
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