Starbucks - JIExpo Kemayoran — Restaurant in Jakarta

This coffee chain joint is very peculiarly charming.

It's location is rather hard to find, due to the holiday inn express hotel - where it is attached to - has high fences and inward gate.

The shop is quite all day, not the usual busy buzzy as its peers, not many seating alas, only two sets of sofas.

One big long wooden table in the middle, small wooden chairs along the glass wall, and brazen chairs for outside area.

The crew are zooper friendly and helpful and chatty.

I found the grandma lasagna yummy. As of my visit on June 2024, it does not sell lasagna no more, alas 😑 but the flatbread is good 😋

A little tip and trick, tell the gate keeper you want to go to starbuck and he will tell you if there is parking lot available on the lobby area. Because you see, this branch is right next to the...

I ask questions that maybe best left. Often, it leads to confusion and antipathy (understandably towards me). Here they ask, what happens when you mix matcha, coffee, and soy milk? Sadly, I wanted to know. This unholy mess was less sweet than the predictable comatose inducing sugar assault of my friend's endocrine system. But, we cooled down, and hey, you dont go to a zoo and complain it's fill of caged animals...which oddly comes to mind in an air conditioned cube full of human sucking chemistry from plastic cups...

Good place, good selections of coffee and others. Convince place while waiting for next meeting. Within the Holiday inn Express hotel building, perfect to kill the time. Come with free WiFi (as always), nearby power outlets so you need not to worry on low battery condition. But comes with hotel standard...