Baktina cafe & resto — Restaurant in North Sumatra

Okay since this is a restaurant i will talk about the food. We order chicken, fish and green dish. The food take 30mins to make which is consider long for the quiet place. The chicken is too tough, hard to bite. The fish smells of mud but the sweet sour sauce close the taste a bit. NEXT, the SERVICE. So this is about a fat lady who is wearing jilbab and called herself "penanggung jawab". I bring my dog along with me and i was stopped in front because "hewan/animal" is not allowed. I nicely just get back to car while the rest of my family go in to eat. After one of my family member done eating, she exchange with me and i go in. Wow, amazingly right after i enter, someone looking rich went in and bring a dog with the same size as mine. I watch as the waitress just take their order while staring at the dog. After the order is taken, i ask the waitress why is that dog allowed. The waitress go in to call the "penanggung jawab". The other guests which bring dog refuse to bring the dog out. The "penanggung jawab" prepare a cage for them! I was like What Do You Mean?? I talk to the penanggung jawab and she say she doesnt bring leash or cage so they prepare it. I ask do you even offer for me? I even directly return to car without much talk earlier and call a soup for my dog, you dont even offer a cage?? She say i have a leash, then i ask where do you want me to put him then? She cant answer and just go. SHE DOESNT EVEN SAY...

Baktina is a keeper! Loved the rich wood decor and dim lighting, on this Saturday night there was a live 5-piece band who were brilliant! My only issue was smokers, but this is Indonesia and we got off easy with very few smokers around us. Understand the food is SPICY! Grilled ayam, grilled bebek and kancong were all very spicy, even for my Sumatran wife, but delicious. The BBQ sauce the chicken was grilled was exceptionally rich spicy and sweet. There was some confusion on the duck dish which was delivered with chicken, but we ordered a different bebek dish which definitely had duck in it. The juices were thick in real fruit and flavorful. The banana goreng kaya was sweet, but lacking in the signature coconut flavors from kaya, but paired well with...

Seven of us ate here during my vacation. The food was generally good. Only the curry was different than we expected. It contained only bones and inedible leaves.

The staff is friendly. Coming from Europe, we expected a more European approach. First drinks, then the menu, then everyone is served the appetizer at the same time, followed by the main course. Now, everything gets mixed up, sometimes with a main course followed by an appetizer. One person had all their food, while another hadn't. I understand that this is more...