Roaster And Bear Restaurant — Restaurant in Yogyakarta

Location : 4/5 It’s located in the center, easy to see from the street, but a little confusing to spot the entrance hahaha because it’s in the same building as a hotel

Parking Spot : 4/5 Parking area is the same as hotel, even though they can accommodate around 10 cars (probably more) but place like this should expect more visitors with cars especially on weekends

Interior : 5/5 Live up to the theme, and “instagramable”

Service : 5/5 Each table got QR code and we order from the website. It’s very convenient. Order via waiter/waitress are possible as well.

Food : 3/5 Personal favourite from my order was mushroom soup. The least favourite was fried tofu because it tastes like fried flour—I can’t taste the tofu at all. Vegetarian option was very limited, the menu didn’t say if we can ask for vegetarian option. Even meat house nowadays have plant-based menu. We don’t need special section, just put a symbol or something to indicate that we can ask for vegetarian/vegan option for certain menus

Beverage : 5/5 Can’t complain about the drinks. It was good.

Price : 3.5/5 It’s in the center of the city, in the tourist area, and the place was well maintenance. It was a little bit expensive, yes. But I can say, (almost) worth the price.

Non Smoking Area : Very spacey, great for families or groups, they have a separate section for more private area.

Smoking Area : Also spacey, but very hot and humid at noon on a sunny days. Better add more fan.

Toilet : It was clean and didn’t smell

Other Highlight : There’s live music performance...

Visit Roaster & Bear twice, the first is after their opening for couple dinner, and now for family dinner.

The place is strategic near city center and have plenty parking space within the hotel. Roaster & Bear is 2 floor restaurant with coffe & bakery shop. The ambience is lovely & homey. but their open kitchen exhaust is terrible, the smell & smoke of grill is everywhere and make uncomfortable for eyes.

The Waitress is friendly & responsive, they will come to clean your table after eating in no time. the food waiting time is moderate not too long or fast. The place is usually crowded with group dinner / romantic dinner too so be prepared for the noise.

My complaints are, i ordered course meal from salad to desserts, but they serve me the desserts first, then main course, after that they serve the (late) salads after we are already ate the main course. fix em’

Food always tastes great & savory (now & then) almost all of them from the deserts to salad, the wagyu spaghetti is a must try menu in here, the ovo melt for desert is a great closing.. they serve cheap beer too, nice addition. the drinks variety is good, the juice is mostly fresh too.

Will come again someday for sure, but its just a four star, fix that kitchen exhaust & order delivery sequence and i’ll give 5 star. Thanks for reading! hope...

From 5 stars to just 2 stars in 3 months. Roaster and bear became 3 months ago my favorite steak restaurant in the world. The steaks were even better than the ones that I ate in the USA. But we stayed this time in Harper Hotel and so my favorite restaurant was around the corner. But when we visited there were some changes. First of all the Kobe Beef was from the menu and they do not sell it anymore. Also they changed staff. Last time we checked it were students, and now it is just full time staff. The service went down because of this. Lots of mistakes. And also the most common thing that I hate in indonesia. If you order something, after a while they will come back with the message "I am sorry we do not have it anymore". This was repeated several times. I mean, just train your staff to know what is not available. Because it will save irritation from the customer. I guess, in order to have the best steak in Yogya, I have to head out to Holy Cow again. Not only because of the steaks, but also the mashed patatos did not taste like before ... It is a nice restaurant, but nothing special anymore. Amazing that this can happen in...