Warung MJS — Restaurant in Jakarta

Get ready for an overwhelming culinary experience and invasion to your taste-buds.

Foreigners!! You'll be at-lost if not visiting this place when you're in Jakarta. Although, bring someone that understand your language and bahasa, since i don't think the waitress can speak foreign language.

Now, let me walk you through. Once you step into the entrance you'll be guided to the right and somewhat dim room, now, this is where everything get really really interesting.

In that dim room, rows and rows of dishes-showcases for you to choose from. Please very careful if you have a weak stomach or easily rejects chilly foods, just tell the waitress,"No Pedas, Sakit Perut". Then, they got Chickens (varies cooking method), Duck, rich variety of Fish, Tempe, Daun Singkong on Opor, Tempe Bacem, Balado Terong, and o my God my stomach growls while typing this.

Once you ordered your food and drinks, you'll walk into this backyard with a swimming pool in the middle (see my posted photo) and feast your eyes with Indonesia's cultural item (well there's some from foreign country). There's a table with lots of Jamu (herbal drinks), if you somewhat adventurous that day. I reckon, people with OCD would shivers in there. It's just a beautiful chaos with plenty of witty quotes everywhere.

But, how's the food you asked? I'd say an individual dish wouldn't shine, however, when you combine several foods, there's the silver lining. I had a Opor Daun Singkong, Telur Puyuh, Ikan Bawal Bakar, Tempe Bacem and it paints my entire day gorgeous. Since, Javanese dishes more lean into sweet-taste, close your experience by ordering their Kopi Ibu Lurah.

The place is like a cocoon in a middle buzzing Sudirman-Kuningan area. If there's no tall building, you'd think you're somewhere remote.

When? Okay, avoid lunch time on working days, that's all i can say.

Who? Anybody except children, 80% of the place is smoking area and they got unguarded swimming pool.

How much? I'd say around IDR60K to IDR100K. Yesterday i went to MJS with my wife, we were on a frenzy, we ordered some that might think fit for 4 people, we spent IDR 200+K.

And ah yes, the most important part, The...

The place looks like a small restaurant from upfront, with its small parking space, but once you got in you'll be surprised. But hey don't worry about parking, they provide FREE valet service. The place, is a refurbished old house, they kept most of the essentials as it was such as doors,walls and high ceiling. Inside is like a time machine full of trinkets from time gone by, I had so much fun with my daughter, she was trying to guess every odd thing she saw here (imagine how to explain a stamp for the new generations). There's a set of Javanese puppet dolls (wayang kulit), a collection of baseball caps, butterfly collections, etc. The food is tasty! They use only free ranged chicken, cooked well, not to crispy but the seasoning sipped well into the meat. Seriously lots of selection of food! What I don't recommend is the krecek. The rest like, selections of chickens, ducks, lungs (yes cow's lung), Tempe,tofu, ribs, meat soup, and all other selection my big fan ordered, were good! My family was seated in semi outdoor seating, in front of the coffee stall,which I think is the best seat to listen to the life music of traditional Javanese songs and easy to order drinks and food. They have outdoor seating near the shallow pool at the back. I really recommend this place for you who want to feel a bit of Javanese culture such as food and...

Produk 9/10 Price 9/10 Place 8/10 Process 9/10 People 9/10

Produk

Menu yang disediakan sangat beragam, Untuk makanan, menu yang disediakan adalah masakan rumahan Jawa seperti orek tempe, panggang ayam, oseng daun pepaya, sayur pare, sop iga dan masih banyak lagi. Mereka juga menyediakan menu khusus seperti bakmi godhog, bakmi goreng, juga nasi goreng dan tempe mendoan. Lanjut ke minuman, ini yg lengkapnya juara banget, ada menu minuman standar seperti variasi teh manis, teh lychee, teh lemon, variasi jus buah, sampe yang langka di Jakarta seperti Bandrek, Wedang Secang, Wedang Uwuh es tape ketan, dan masih banyak lagi.

Price

Harga-harga makanannya cukup mahal, tapi masih terjangkau, untuk minuman di angka 20rb an sedangkan makanan variatif, tapi berkisar di angka 20-40rb an. Memang cukup mahal buat ukuran masakan rumahan, tapi porsinya tidak pelit dan rasanya juga oke, ditambah lagi dengan suasana tempatnya yang sangat nyaman dan hangat, jadi kisaran harga makanan sangat sepadan dengan apa yang kita dapatkan

Place Tempatnya "hidden gem". Tidak ada signage nama restoran yang kelihatan dari jalan, pertama masuk dari pintu depan, kesan pertama tempatnya kecil, gelap, dan sumpek. Agak khawatir juga, jangan-jangan salah pilih tempat. Pas masuk ke dalam, kekhawatiran langsung hiang dan berganti jadi "WOW!". Interiornya etnik jawa, old kampung vibe. Banyak ornamen kayu jati dengan lampu yang sedikit temaram, membuat nyaman di mata.

Tempat yang sangat asik buat makan siang atau malam informal. Cocok juga buat bawa tamu dari luar kota karena lokasinya yang di tengah kota Jakarta. Tempat ini juga sepertinya cukup populer di kalangan "bule", cukup banyak tamu asing yang sepertinya entah sengaja mampir atau memang diajak temannya untuk.mampir

Sayangnya live musik keroncongan jawanya kurang terdengar ke area smoking udara terbuka. Smoking areanya sendiri ruangan terbuka, sehingga lumayan cukup panas buat udara Jakarta, jadi kalau tidak tahan panas, mendingan pilih area non smoking yang adem soalnya pake AC

Tidak ada halama untuk tempat parkir, hanya ada street parking, jadi kalau pas peak hour mungkin agak sulit parkir mobil, jadi mendingan naik transportasi umum, seperti MRT atau Busway, terus nanti nyambung pake taksi atau ojek online

Process

Begitu masuk, kita akan diminta pilih nomor meja terlebih dahulu, setelah diantar ke meja, kita bisa langsung order minuman di meja lewat mas dan mbak pelayannya, tapi khusus makanan kita harus langsung order di bagian depan. Di bagian depan sudah tertata display masakan apa saja yang masih tersedia. Metodenya langsung lihat apa menu yang masih tersedia, pilih, terus nanti dicatat sama mas dan mbak pelayannya. Beberapa menu yg ada di buku menu bisa jadi habis karena mereka memang terbatas masaknya

Untuk pembayaran mereka menerima semua jenis pembayaran baik cash maupun non cash

People

Mas dan mbak pelayannya sangat ramah dan helpful, bikin betah berlama-lama ngobrol di restoran dan akhirnya nambah pesanan minuman buat nemenin ngobrol

Mereka sangat sabar menerangkan jenis-jenis makanan dan minuman yang ada di menu. Mereka biasanya tanya dulu kita suka rasa apa lalu baru merekomendasikan kira-kira makanan atau minuman apa yang cocok sama selera atau mood kita

Mereka juga tidak keberatan diminta buat jadi juru foto dadakan bahkan bisa kasih saran spot-spot yang bagus buat foto-foto. Hasil jepretannya oke dan biasanya mereka minta kita periksa dulu apakah kita cocok dengan hasil jepretannya

Kesimpulan

Overall restoran ini sangat oke untuk kumpul-kumpul informal, makanan dan minumannya beragam dengan rasa yang indonesia banget, sehingga memudahkan untuk mengakomodasi selera semua orang, baik lokal maupun tamu dari luar

Suasana restoran sangat mendukung untuk informal meal dan sangat-sangat nyaman buat berkumpul dan ngobrol

PR-nya tinggal area parkir dan juga signage restoran yang tidak terlihat dari jalan, sehingga sering terlewat dan harus putar balik di jalan...