Restaurants in Yogyakarta
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Ministry of Coffee
A landmark modernist structure, with a library (with English-language books and magazines) upstairs and a cafe below. It’s ideal for an espresso or latte, but the food (mainly snacks and cakes) is pretty average.
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Milas
This secret garden restaurant, located down a quiet side road, is a project centre for street youth. Offers tasty vegetarian cooking: healthy snacks, sandwiches, salads and organic coffee.
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Omar Duwur Restaurant
Out in Kota Gede, this is one of Yogya’s best restaurants, with a lavish setting in a 150-year-old colonial mansion. Offers a wide selection of Western (try the rack of lamb) and Eastern dishes (the chicken masala is great).
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FM Café
FM Café has a great courtyard setting and an eclectic menu ranging from nasi goreng to pizza. Happy hour is gloriously lengthy, lasting from 1pm to 8pm; bands perform here on Friday night.
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Parsley
Attempts to serve cakes, pies and pastries with a healthier twist.
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Atap Café & Resto
Just down a small alleyway opposite Nuri Losmen, this ecofriendly café has good Indonesian food, great puddings and a crowd of trendy, earth-loving locals. Slightly less politically correct is its Osama bin Coffee, which comes served with a hefty slug of brandy and rum.
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Jimbaran
Overlooking rice fields (or kids’ football pitch, depending on the season), this enjoyable place specialises in seafood. Everything is priced by the ounce; feast on crab, lobster, prawns and fresh fish. Jimbaran is about 6km north of Yogya, and about 2km north of the Hyatt.
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Bedhot Resto
Bedhot means ‘creative’ in old Javanese and this place is perhaps the most stylish eatery in Sosrowijayan, with art on the walls, batik tablecloths and menus made from bark. There’s tasty Indonesian and Western food, good juices and internet access upstairs.
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Atap
Bohemian restaurant with tables made from car tyres and a great little outdoor terrace. The menu has burgers and Indo favourites and a wicked sense of humour: kopi osama is coffee with a shot of brandy – the bearded one would not approve.
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Warung Opera
Occupying a wonderful traditional Javanese house built from teak, this unusual and bohemian restaurant is an outstanding place to sample home-style Indonesian dishes. Donny, the flamboyant owner, also does fortune reading from coffee cups.
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Gading
A civilised restaurant with pleasant seating and lighting and a menu of Indonesian and Western food – the thin-crust pizza here is great. There’s live music on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
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Superman's Losmen & Restaurant
One of the original purveyors of banana pancakes, Superman's has been around for decades. The owner, Pak Suparman, adapted his name, and likewise his food, to suit Western sensibilities.
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New Superman’s
Huge, slightly charmless place that’s nevertheless a key hang-out for travellers, with a long, long menu of Western food like pizzas, jaffles and pancakes, and Chinese food.
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Bintang Café
This (un) imaginatively named place in the Sosrowijayan backpacking manor has live music and is one of the liveliest places around here. The food is bog-standard fare.
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Laba Laba Cafe
Laba Laba (which means ‘spider’) has a great rear garden that’s an ideal setting for some filling European or Indonesian food.
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De Javu Café
This sweet little café sports local art, a mixture of Western and Indonesian cuisine and a relaxed, refined air.
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Murni Restaurant
Alcohol-free and serves tasty curries with flaky paratha (Indian-style fried bread) and good ice juices.
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Legian Restaurant
Serves Indonesian, Chinese, French and Italian food in a leafy roof-terrace setting overlooking Jl Malioboro.
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Bladok Losmen & Restaurant
Classy hotel restaurant with a wholesome and inviting air, and a mainly European menu.
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Gita Anjana Steak Restaurant
Not the place for vegetarians; meat feasts are the order of the day here.
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Ministry of Coffee
A landmark modernist structure, with a library (with English-language books and magazines) upstairs and a cafe below. It’s ideal for an espresso or latte, but the food (mainly snacks and cakes) is pretty average.
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Bladok Losmen & Restaurant
Classy hotel restaurant with a wholesome and inviting air, and a mainly European menu.
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Café Janur
With a well-endowed totem figure guarding the entrance, it's hard to miss Janur. Inside, the décor is an emporium of tribal guff. The mixed menu and cheap drinks attract a crowd of expats and tipsy locals.
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Riki French Grill Restaurant
Riki is another restaurant-bar that fills up when the tourists are in town; the atmosphere is convivial and the steaks and waffles are rather good. Its happy hour between 16:00 and 19:00 gets the punters in early.
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