Kimukatsu Grand Indonesia — Restaurant in Jakarta

A new Japanese dining concept brought by Boga group, a group that's already well-known with some of its restaurants such as Pepper Lunch, Shaburi, Kintan Buffet. The main value proposition of the restaurant is wide variety of mille feuille katsu with various flavors such as black pepper, garlic, cheese and negi (leek). While mille feuille katsu is expected to have a unique texture, it's not quite utilized that it doesn't serve a much different flavor than the usual katsu. Its specialty dish, beef katsu, could have been better if it weren't just layers of hardly marinated beef slices that simply disintegrate when you eat it, making it hard to eat as they scatter around. Not to mention the plate/serving looks very instagrammable, but doesn't serve its function well. Breadcrumbs fall through the net and it becomes impossible to pick it up without hassle. The handmade sauce is a unique experience, however the sauce itself doesn't give an authentic Katsu sauce. On top of the few satisfactions with the food, the service (in Grand Indonesia) was slow such as for tea refills and handling promos in the most annoying ways ever--asking for identity details when it seems unnecessary. Not worth the price overall, good for first-and-last-time only (at least now you know what the town is...

Kimukatsu mulai buka gerai di GI tepatnya di east mall lt.3A jauh dari sebelum pandemi, salah satu produk boga group. Tau dooong kualitasnya boga group? Dari mulai kintan yg ayce-nya selalu jadi juara dan selalu puas setiap kali makan disana walaupun harganya lumayan mahal utk kantong remaja dan tanggal tua hehee, onokabe, bakerzin, shaburi, pepper lunch,etc. Cobaaa apa bisa nolak kl diajak makan di salah satu brand boga group??? Selain rasanya yg enak, tempat makannya yg nyaman, pelayanan dan cukup unik konsepnya, setiap brandnya miliki ciri khas masing2. Pertama coba ini, order chicken katsu ori set (krn menu khas disini katsunya, sesuai dgn namanya) per set berisi 1 chicken katsu, nasi, salad, miso soup dan disediakan saus khas kimukatsu yaitu saus yg rasanya asin agak manis dan dapat dicampur dengan wijen. Utk plattingnya juga juara sih, unik dan lumayan utk isi insta story hehe.. Katsu disini sanga berbeda, memang sepertinya dibuat khusus dgn kulit lapisan luar crunchy, ayamnya lembut,jujur bikin kenyang jd ga kaleng2. Apalagi utk porsi yg sekarang sepertinya nasinya dibuat lebuh banyak dari awal mereka buka di th 2018. Oiya,, bedanya menu set sekarang dgn yg dulu juga ada di tambahan mashed potattonya. Sungguh juara bangeet rasanyaa,, tapi sayang cm dikasih sedikit hikkssss.. Harga chicken katsu set skrg mulai dari 45k blm termasuk ppn n pb1, terjangkau bukan? Hehe.. Ochanya cm dibanderol dgn hrg 12k. Ada katsu beef, paduan beef, chicken dgn cheese (ini yg menarik perhatian banget) tapi ku tak sanggup, krn buat kenyang banget. Selain itu ada jg isian black pepper, negi, garlic, harga semua sama dgn tambahan 12k, beefnya pun begitu. Nah, sekarang ada menu katsu baru, yaitu gyu katsu, sama2 beef tp yg ini beefnya setengah matang dan kita disediakan kompor ala2 jepang gt utk masak gyukatsu dgn kematangan sesuai keinginan kita, ada pilihan beef cheesenya juga. Unik bukhaaaan???? Rasanyaa ueeenak.. Disini juga ga cuma menyediakan katsu2an, ada tofu ala2 khasnya, sushi,frienc fries, appetizer2, dan dessertnya juga ada. Utk minuman disini memang hanya sedikit pilihannya, ya cocok sih, krn semua makanannya berat hehe.. Sempat coba agedashi tofu, 4 tahu china yg lembut di balut dgn tepung crispy tipis, diguyur dgn kecap asin khas kimukatsu, ditambah dgn daun bawang. Simple, tapi rasanya ga simple di lidahku 🤤 menu ini jg salah satu menu recomend dr resto ini loh. Coba menu homemade gyoza juga, isinya ll ga salah 5 atau 6 gyoza dgn ukuran yg cukup besar dan isian padat, tapi ga sesuau dgb ekspektasiku yg membayangkan tekstur gyoza ini mirip dgn gyoza ikkdo, disini menyajikan fried gyoza, kurang cocok dilidahku, harganya cukup murah dgn porsi yg mereka berikan. Dessert cakenya juga oke, yg recomend disini adalah avocado chocolate cake. Harganya lumayan 33k tapi slicenya keciil. Modelan cake2nya the harest, jd mesti langsung dimakan krn bekuu dan rentan meleleh kl dibawa pulang. Rasanya oke juga, ga pait, ga terlalu manis, avocadonya terasa tapi ga bkn enek. Rasanya pas. Sementara cuma itu sih menu2 yg baru ku coba di kimukatsu ini. Utk harga, rasa, tempat, platting, pelayanan kuberi bintang ** (ttssaaaahhh,, sotoooy 🤣) Oiyaaa 1 lagiii, aku suka banget sm konsep aplikasi order menunya disaat pandemi ini. Jadi, mereka ke meja kita utk berikan barcod menu, kita scan di hp, menu langsung tertera, pilih menu, masukkan keranjang, order, setelah itu otomatis terinput pd tagihan dan langsung di proses utk pembuatan menu tersebut, dgn status preparing. Keren bukhaaan???? Kita ga usah capek2 info ke mbak2 or mas2nya utk otder menu atau ke kasir. Tb2 makanan sudah diantar ke table kita. Tapi kl yg msh belum familiar dgn aplikasinya, teliti dan fikir baik2 dl sebelum klik order,krn kl sdh klik order menu yg kita pilih otomatis terinput dan langsung di proses,jd tdk dapat di cancel (cmiiw). Segitu dulu review dari aku yg sotoy ya guys,...

4 star for the food, but I am sorry i have to give 1 star for services. Today is my third time here. And i have experienced a bad service since my first time coming here, I thought their service will improve, but unfortunately it getting worse.

Today, I stand for like more than 5 min in the front of the restaurant waiting for the waiters to welcome us and arrange sit for us. But nobody come. I tried to call one of the waiter, he looking at me and walk beside me, i told him that i would like to have table for 2 person. But then he just walk away go to the kitchen and do nothing, pretending he never hear what i said.

Then there is another customers come and screaming to call the waiter. Only until then the waiter come but he serve the new customers that just arrived, while i have been waiting there for quite long time. I start to complain to him because of that treatment.

Ultimately the waiter give us a table, but just right i almost reach to the table that been shown to us. Another customer come in and sit in that table. The waiter apologized us because he is didn’t know if the table was actually occupied.

I hope that this restaurant give a proper training to all of the waiters, so they can treat their...