Cafe Tiga Ceret — Restaurant in Surakarta

Cafe Tiga Ceret is the most famous cafe in Surakarta (Solo). It is a must for visitors or tourist to visit this cafe while visit this city. The cafe successfully elevates local traditional foods and beverages usualy serves in angkringan (street food vendor) at a level of cafe atmosphere but still maintain the affordability of the price.

The cafe is located in a very strategic place on the center of Solo and in front of Mangkunegaran Castle with a lot of parking lot. The service is self service and fast. The ambient is spacious, consideribly clean and enjoyable but will always crowded on the weekend. The ornaments of the cafe use recycled material that make it unique.

Local live music show regularly performs in this cafe. The foods are also unique and are specialties of Surakarta dishes, it used to be foods for commoner. For example you can find the Sego Kucing (small amount of rice, fried milkfish, and sambal, wrapped in banana leaf). They have their own name for this kind food, like Nasi Mercon (very spicy) etc. You can grilled all the foods on a charcoal grill. Many kind of foods you can try in this cafe.

They serve beverages that are also unique. Their special drink is Wedang Tiga Ceret (hot mix drink of ginger, lemon grass, lemon, sugar, and other herbs). Actually you can mix your own drink as you wish, for example, experimenting the mix of ginger with coffee and milk. This is becoming the philosophy of Tiga Ceret, Three Kettle. They serve also cold drink and other regular drink like coffee or tea.

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The place is quite good to hang out, location is on downtown Solo, ambience is nice, food is average. Overall, it’s quite an okay place to chill with friends and family. The one thing that bother us was that the cashier made 5 mistakes in our bill, 1 drink (the cheapest one) was not included and 4 other drinks that we did not order were included. First of all, they made us pay without giving the summary of the order up front for us to check first. So we pay and then checked it afterwards. That’s when we realized we were paying for drinks that we did not order, and certainly did not come to our table. So, there’s no mistake in the ordering process. The mistake was in the paying process. When we got back to the cashier and asked, the cashier did not seem surprise at all and nonchalantly said that she will return our money. When we helped to count the total price, she got quite agitated and raised her tone to us. Mistake is bound to happen. But 5 mistakes in 1 bill? I’m not sure if it was a deliberate action or not. Owner may...

This place is a modern, fixed rendition of a traditional Javanese dining experience called Angkringan. Angkringan is usually a cart that sells small portions of foods, snacks, and drinks. Here they had the staples and more.

There were plenty of choices starting from the rice dishes, proteins, fritters, drinks, and other snacks. Eating here definitely didn't feel like a lot, but the food eventually added up. The flavour of the food was good, but at the same time, nothing special. I don't know if I would recommend coming here solely for the food. The place was spacious, and the service was alright, but it was semi outdoors, so there's a bit of a mosquito problem there.

Overall, this was just an okay place. Nothing to rave about, but could still be a nice place to hang out.

⭐ 7/10

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