Honu Menteng (Toeti Heraty Museum) — Restaurant in Jakarta

Update 20 Jul: Operations has improved and queues are much better managed. Thanks Honu for accepting my feedback so readily. Given the service challenges I witnessed during my visit today, I’m surprised to now learn that this Honu branch has been open for 4 months. I honestly thought it was on its third day of opening. All the staff except the chefs were working at a glacial pace, even with the orders stacking up and people crowding the counter. It was unorderly. Customers didn’t know where to queue, what the queues were for (seating or takeaway or ordering), and no staff tried to organise queues or tell people where to do what. There were no directing signs about what one should do upon entering the door. I saw at least 10 people try to queue and end up leaving within the hour I was there, just because of confusion and food seeming to take forever to be served (and not because they were that crowded). I arrived at 12.20pm and was only served my food 45 minutes later, which is precious time for most given the crowd mostly consists of office workers like me. The chefs were churning food out quickly, but the service staff weren’t serving them and seemed fixated on slowly making drinks. There really didn’t seem like there was any system for getting orders delivered to the right customer, in the right order either. It was pure frustration seeing our food ready but not on our tables. It’s not all bad – the food when it finally arrived was excellent. Fresh fish, rice bowls bursting with flavour. I was also pleased to see that the takeaway containers are...

Place: not so big but cozy, provide free wi-fi connection with password, well lit for night hours, well air-conditioned, small single toilet provided, the stairs are kinda steep. There are only few tables, probably around 2-3 tables for four at ground level, upstairs there are 4 tables for two (combinable), 1 big table for a group of 6 and a long corner with about 3 tall chairs for loners, few power outlets - not every table has one. I don't actually know whether the place had peak visit hours or not The place closes at 9 PM

Food: I love the two&two which consists of tuna and salmon meat (raw), salad and rice. We can choose between sushi rice or brown rice for every poke bowl - personally I love the brown rice. The regular size is satisfying enough. Not sure about how much difference with the small size

Drink: matcha is their specialty, there are plenty of matcha variation - i ordered iced spiced matcha latte, it has cinnamon on top and they have soy milk option!

Price: quite high for everyday consumption, one person could spend around 110k for regular size food and drink.

Staffs are friendly, hospitable and helpful. They provide steel straws for dine in use, accept gopay and debit...

Good poke bowl. Located in the hide-and-seek location, just behind Sarinah, this small shop offer a yummy bowl of poke. It is near Sarinah parking exit, toward the Theresia church, you can find, small shop with green and wood entrance. Blink and you'll have to make another route via sabang or thamrin. They serve variety of poke bowl, but not that many, that you have difficulty of making choice for your limited lunch time. You can pick you bowl with salmon, sushi, or even vegetarian version with tempe. If you prefer your poke bowl cooked, they also serve it broiled or fully cooked. I usually go with the Two-and-two or Yugo. You can choose also if you want the poke bowl with sushi rice, or pick the healthier alternative with brown rice, or even healthi-ER you can ask the just as a salad without any carb. You can drench you thirst with their choice of drinks, i'll be drinking their soda lime matcha as my go to drinks in this establishment. They served their bowl in two option, regular or large, the regular average at 50k and the large average at 80k. The Sarinah branch, same with Kemang branch don’t offer that many seating area, with Sarinah branch could maybe seated...