Sea Grain Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Jakarta

Update 6/23

We went to the Fathers Day brunch here on June 18. Price was 435k. I guess that Fathers Day isn’t a big holiday here, as I think we were the only guests.

Our favorite Doubletree chef, Styven has recently moved to this restaurant. Nicely prepared fresh salads, cold seafood bar, and various small plate items were available.

Then 5-6 more courses were served over the next two hours. Very nice food and presentation! I was stuffed before the courses were done.

Two choices of custom drinks, too.

Really great food and service. Closed on Mondays. Wonderful Tomahawk steak.

We’ve eaten here a couple of times during our recent stay at the Doubletree hotel, plus once for an evening World Cup final.

Our first visit was for lunch, having a ribeye steak, and squid for entrees. Expensive for Jakarta, but a nice meal. Check for Hilton promos, they had a 25% discount for us.

Second visit was for our anniversary, and we brought a kid and brother-in-law along. We had the sweet potato nachos, which I wasn’t too hopeful for, but was actually pretty good.

Ordered two soups, a tomato and lobster bisque. I didn’t feel the bisque was worth the price, however.

The star of the evening was the Tomahawk steak. Australian meat was about 1.8kg. It was sliced at the table, and included 4 sides, and 4 sauces. The black pepper and local sambal were my favorite sauces. The chimichurri was my least favorite.

The meat worked perfectly for the 4 of us. Everyone really enjoyed the meal. It’s the most expensive item on the menu at IDR 2,450,000, but for 4 people it’s not bad.

They gave us a nice dessert platter for our anniversary, and we had to work to finish it.

The management and staff at Seagrain and Open restaurant downstairs...

ABSOLUTE TERRIBLE EXERIANCE. The night before the first staff told us we could only order from the grill, Yet the second person we spoke to said we could pay for the buffet package in which we agreed and booked. - also requesting to be placed not so close to the live band We arrive at the restaurant to only be able to place orders from the grill and that our table had been directly right in front of the live band even though there was clearly 2 suitable spots on the opposite end of the room which could have been better - I made the staff aware of our booking and was promptly replied with unfortunatly the bookings are full. I tried to explain that we made our reservation as the buffet but he he just offered the canapes before our mains. A table that arrived after us had all their food arrive to them before us. It was quite frustrating to see as wede waited over an hour for our food which also came out OVERCOOKED and DRY. A live band is fine, but when they get diners to sing with them and then change mid song and then cant sing, why bother hiring a band?

Summary: I 100% would not recommend this place unless you know the owner of the hotel and can garauntee to be treated well. Our table felt that because we were in tshirts and plain clothing and not in dresses and suites we were treated poorly. I almost had to yell when speaking to the waiter because of the placement of speakers and even though i asked for minimal requests, none were met. We were granted a 15% discount but i will never come back here. I finally see my family after 10 years and this absolutely ruined the experiance for us. Even Abuba steakhouse you ca get better...

Food was OK, Service excellent, Environment Pleasant and Prices High. We stopped in here looking for a good restaurant in the area and the positive reviews convinced us to try it even though it was in a hotel. We were moderately disappointed. The real bright spot was the staff which were pleasant and eager to please. The low side was the food was only so so and priced high. We started off with the Gazpacho which was really the only outstanding part of the meal. We also had the oxtail croquettes as an appetizer, and they were OK, but really did not have much flavor and the texture was not great (watery in the middle). For a main I had the spring chicken which again was OK, but nothing special. My wife had the Salmon, which was pretty good, but again nothing very special. Since the mains did not come with any sides I ordered the fried Jalapenos, which were spicy, but nothing more - texture was not good and flavor was not good. I like spicy food, but not spicy for the purpose of spicy - I like spicy with great flavors. My wife had the egg plant dish. She explicitly asked if it was spicy as she does not eat spice and was told it wasn't. Unfortunately when it came it was spicy. They were very nice however and made her a new batch which was not spicy. She enjoyed it. Overall if the price were lower it would be fine, but with the price as high as it is, it was not...