Joglo Ndeso Restaurant & Hydroponics Garden — Restaurant in Central Java

Find this place as an alternative ‘resting place’ while driving from Central Java to Jogjakarta. We get fresh air as well as fresh view for its hydroponic garden surrounding the gazebo with fish pond as a center. You can just walk around the garden while waiting for the food to come because it surely takes time to wait; positively thinking, it’s freshly cooked. Unfortunately, the taste is not really satisfying for me; salted egg carp (Gurame telur asin - pardon the translation) is tasteless. The fillet-fish is not even salty. I misinterpret the menu as the deep-fried fillet-fish coated well with salted egg yolk dominated with saltiness and it comes with deep-fried fillet-fish scrambled with salted egg (not only the yolk). Haha... Anyway, I enjoy eating here because there is a playground for the children and you can fishing there (I’m not really sure about it but I see several...

A vast, unique garden restaurant at Jl. Dukun in Muntilan District, Magelang Regency, Central Java Province, 15 km from the popular Ketep Pass tourist destination. A cool place with ponds surrounded by exotic gazebos, green hydroponic and conventional gardens, a playground, two dining joglo buildings, and a swimming pool. I and my wife had a romantic lunch enjoying rice with a nila mangut, a labu siam (chayote) oseng, a grilled double catfish, fried bananas, a hot tea, an iced lemon, and a markisa juice, .... all were perfect (5/5), except that the oseng was rather flat and not so spicy (3/5). Inexpensive. Cash or QRIS. Clean restrooms with Western style toilets. A vast parking yard for cars and buses with a spacious musholla (moslem prayer place) in the corner. A cool and spacious parking shelter for motorbikes. Minus:...

Was brought here on a recommendation and I was surprised by the friendliness of the staff, the tastiness of the food, and the calmness of the environment. We met with the owner Ibu Bertha and she was very pleasant to chat with. I learned about her operation and some history about the restaurant. She started in 2012 and built everything herself. Coconut husks are used in the planter pots instead of soil and uses styrofoam trays that are thrown out from grocery stores to hold some of the things she grows. Although I have no knowledge of growing anything, Ibu Bertha has inspired me to get started. If I find myself in the area, I'll be sure to stop by again!...