Taming Sari Café — Restaurant in Batam City

We stayed at the Turi Beach resort and they serve a breakfast buffet here everyday. They have a wide variety of breakfast offerings. There is a western section (eg eggs, sausages, etc) and a local food section (eg fried rice, etc). You can make your own congee, and there are sections where they make fresh eggs / omelettes, prata / roti kirai, and/or noodles (eg Soto). They also have a salad bar, fruit bar, cereal bar and a dessert bar where they make fresh local waffles. They serve coffee (unfortunately the grainy kind), teas, water and juices too.

For the breakfast, I would rate them 4/5.

But dinner, I would rate them 3/5.

We ordered fried kampong rice, satay and grilled fish (ikan bakar). The food came very slowly and the taste was fine. Unfortunately we had to return the fish because it was undercooked and we cancelled the order because we did not want to wait another 20 minutes.

The total was quite expensive: around 300-350k. It was also less tasty than non-resort food we had.

Compare this to what we had outside, which was 60k for three main courses and a vegetable side dish, I would recommend going out of the resort to eat lunch / dinner unless the meal is included in your...

Sorry to say, untuk sekelas resort atau hotel berbintang, resto ini sangat sangat kurang menurut sy.

Untuk tempatnya bersih, meja kursinya jg nyaman dan bersih. Lokasinya bagus, makan dengan pemandangan kolam dan pinggir pantai, menambah romantisme makan bersama pasangan.

Tapi dari segi rasa, gk banget deh. Sy bahkan bingung mau mulai komentari yg mana, dan hampir tidak ada yg bisa memuaskan lidah sy. SEMOGA BISA DIPERBAIKI KEDEPANNYA.

Pertama adalah roti croissant, dimana2 setiap buffet breakfast di hotel, makanan ini adalah favorit sy, bahkan istri sy pun hafal. Sy ambil beberapa roti, croissant nya hampir2 tawar rasanya, akhirnya untuk menambah rasa, sy kasih selai bluberry. Disini masih bisa sy okein lah.

Lanjut dg ambil buah, karena sy jg pecinta buah, sy ratain lah satu2. Salak, gk ada manisnya 😄 klo orang Jawa bilang, anyep mas! Semangka oke, nanas oke, nah hanya melon saja disini yg bisa memuaskan hasratku. Ngambil olive jg adanya yg kecil2, pas sy makan serasa asin banget ya, gk kyk olive yg besar biasa ada di hotel.

Lanjut ritual tetap setiap pagi, kopi! Eh ternyata klo utk espresso, additional charge 😄 apa kata Pak Jukir? Sy ambil aja kopi yg di teko itu, wadidaw... Encer kali, hampir gak ada rasa kopinya. Jus jg gk ada, adanya sirup! Duh 😐 bukan minuman sehat ini.

Selepas itu, masuk ke main course-nya, hasil ngeronda pagi, dapatlah nasi lemak -but I don't want to kill the game- ambillah sikit jee, bersama sayur, teri dan rendang ayam. Rendang ayamnya okelah enak, tapi nasi lemak... Duh mana lemaknya! It's so awful 😔 masaknya serba nanggung kali ya, gk terasa rempah bumbunya, hampir kyk nasi putih biasa.

Terakhir dah, mau makan bakso, itu ada petugas yg ambilkan, okelah kataku... Mak kluthuk, kuahnya banyak, baksonya cuma 3 biji aja... Beuuh pelit amat 🤣 dan cb tebak, iyaaa ada sih rasanya, micin2 enak, tp ya setelah 3 4 suapan jadi terasa keasinan.

Karena penasaran aku cb tanya istriku jg yg barusan makan roti pratanya, katanya jg rasa tepung, aku cb tanyakan skala 1 smp 10, smp gk bisa ngasih angka dia 😃

Seriusan, mungkin inilah ya yg perlu diperbaiki dari Turi Beach Resort, perihal buffet breakfast. Not...

Mainly I have to claim about the atmosphere. 6 pm I and my friends want have dinner inside the restaurant. Unfortunately the complete area under the restaurant is a construction place. That would be not the problem, but I would expect from a 4 star hotel management to arrange a stop of the construction work at least during the periods of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Unfortunately they are not able. It's since Covid-19 until now, never found back to the good standard. Food is the same, it was much better some years ago. Charged to a local 2-3 star...