Medja Restaurant — Restaurant in Bogor

The ambience of the restaurant is great, but there are still lots of areas to improve, or can be improved.

Reservation: had trouble with the reservation at first but quickly solved by another staff member, overall no complaints. had to pay 150k down payment per person, honestly i feel this is too expensive to pay in advance. I understand the restaurant needs assurance from the customer but many more upscale restaurants don't charge this much especially for Indonesian food (local food) to reserve a private room, the minimum transaction is too high, also there's a 1mil fee for the room (totally not worth it)

Food: tastes good but nothing awesome or out of the ordinary the soup (soto) was too bland for my taste ayam taliwang didn't taste like taliwang at all, the spices were so bland and definitely not worth the price nasi goreng tasted great mie goreng also tasted great the orange jelly dessert was great but still, nothing amazing the grilled banana wasn't grilled at all, just barely put on a stove, with chocolate messes and cheese on top the mocha cake didn't taste like mocha at all, more like chocolate cake? I even thought the staff brought the wrong cake the carrot cake was good the rest of the food (squid, chicken) were great the prawns were my favorite, very fresh

Drinks: ordered some mocktails; didn't like any of them. Too sour or too sweet, no freshness at all. The sourness or sweetness overwhelmed everything else. the ice tea didn't even have any refills for the price ?? (I find this outrageous and really really not worth it!) the jamu (indonesian traditional drink) was too strong, but good

Service: overall service was awesome food came quick, service was attentive

Ambience: 2 or 3 great spots to take pictures, the rest is a bit boring perhaps add more fish? Or birds, or anything for children to play/see restroom was dirty

Overall, i will not recommend the restaurant. Maybe if you're curious, try it once but i feel the price is...

If u want to find hidden gem for just relax, take a short break & enjoy ur day with a cup of coffee, tea or sparkling water to accompany u then come to Medja restaurant. The concept of it was sit together in the table and eat the food while chit-chat either with ur family or ur friends. U will discover the place with high ceiling building with indoor and outdoor space. Don't forget to make reservation before coming here as it always full booked or u need to queue. Due to its crowd, then sometimes it will be hard for calling the waiter/waitress, so be patient 😉. The price for snacks or small bites still ok, however for the drinks and the main course quite expensive compares to the quality of foods. We ordered kroket bogor (it was nice if u ate it while hot, if already turned cold then no good). Another one is cigureng (not recommended at all although they gave star in menu book), asam-asam iga (this one star as the sour & the tasty is balance, recommended although the portion quite small), gurame betutu (the fish quite small & the taste not yet blend with the spices), papaya leaves (this one ok, papaya leaves not too bitter), nangka goreng caramel (this one also recommended as they serve it with ice cream). For the drinks, all are recommended, we ordered bandrek with ice (although small portion but taste is nice), pinky frizzy mint (forgot the name if not mistaken, this one also recommended even though the portion also small). Overall u pay the price for the scenery and the ambience of the place. For parking lots, they have lots. Please don't use google maps as the direction was wrong, u better ask people...

Nice concept restaurant marred by horrific service and bad infrastructure. Food is ok but if service matters to you, I would recommend skipping this place and go elsewhere in Bogor.

We were put in waitlist and asked to wait in our car for more than an hour. We noticed people who came later than us got seated before us, despite similar group size. When we enquired, we were told that our number was already called before. We were very sure that it wasn’t. When we asked to speak to the person managing the queue, they refused to let us do that. Finally managed to speak to someone who claimed to be the manager, her name tag showed her name is Nana, but it was very obvious that she wasn’t interested to listen to us.

After ordering, food came late, with one of the items we ordered only came after we finished the rest. We also noticed that other tables have the same issue, to the extent that they had to visit the service table frequently to enquire.

The dining room was inadequately maintained. The air conditioning was either not sized correctly or very badly maintained. Everyone was dropping in sweat, and when we asked the service staff, we were informed that there was nothing they can do.

There are many restaurants with much better food and experience in Bogor. Don’t waste your time and patience by...