Indonesian restaurants in Indonesia
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Casa Luna
Janet de Neefe of cooking school and writers' festival fame runs this ever-popular Indonesian-focused restaurant (the seafood satay, yum!), which also has a delicious range of bakery items. Recent renovations have softened the edges; live jazz some nights.
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Lara Djonggrang
An attractive selection of dishes from around the archipelago, stunning decor that mixes traditional Indonesian flair with North African charm, atmospheric lighting and a great wine list make this one stunning place to eat.
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Lamak
Artful presentations from the eclectic menu set the mood at this excellent eatery. The large kitchen is open and each day there are specials of Indonesian food that are not found on your average menu. Long wine list.
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Sate Khas Senayan
Excellent two-storey air-con restaurant at the northern end of Jl Jaksa, renowned for its superb sate, rawon buntut (oxtail stew) and other classic Indonesian dishes.
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Bumbu Bali
A good place for Balinese food in the heart of Ubud. The menu features dishes such as lawar (green bean salad), ayam pelalah (spicy shredded chicken salad) and sambal goreng udang (prawns in a tangy coconut-milk sauce). Like your food? You can also learn to cook it.
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Batak Warung
In Pangururan, a simple warung, across from the police station, looks more like a bus stop than a restaurant, but it does a busy lunch-time trade of Batak dishes, such as sassang (stewed pork) and nila (fish stew).
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Ocean's Resto
In the fledging waterfront district, choose fish or seafood, sold by weight, plus burgers, fish and chips, and Indonesian food. Sit inside with air-con or go rustic in the garden with the sea breeze and casual vibe.
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Relax Restaurant
Long-running Swiss-owned restaurant with a restrained, enjoyably formal air. The menu covers both Western and Indonesian fare, and service is prompt and efficient. Breakfast with the homemade bread is a treat.
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Wisata Bahari
Right next to the Bahu Mall is this huge restaurant built on stilts over the sea. Seafood is priced by weight and it's popular with high rollers from Manado.
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PP Cafe & Restaurant
Has a good selection of Indonesian and some European food.
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Lae Lae
Quite simply, the spot in town for fresh fish and seafood. If you approach from the seafront, no, don't worry, it's not closed; keep walking and enter via the sizzling barbecue. Peer into the huge ice boxes and enter fish heaven. The staff can recommend something if the choice is overwhelming. The décor may be simple, but the fish with cobek-cobek (sauce made with chilli, lime and shrimp paste) is anything but.
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Asmara
Consistently recommended by expats, this is a comfortable, spacious and airy two-storey thatched restaurant offering fine European cuisine - try the frikadellen (meatballs with mustard gravy and sautéed potatoes) - plus Indonesian and international favourites. Children are well catered for from a special menu, and there's a small pool and play area too.
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Kafe Batan Waru
This ever-popular cafe has an expanded outdoor terrace. It serves consistently excellent Indonesian food, stylishly presented. The mie goreng noodles are made fresh daily – a noteworthy detail given the number of places that substitute pot noodles. Western dishes include sandwiches and salads.
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Café Alberto
Occupying a large beachfront plot well away from the road, feast on Italian (pizza and pasta) or Indonesian (the usual suspects in generous portions) cuisine at this enjoyable restaurant. Lunch at a table on the sand and then snooze it off on one of their loungers. There's also a small kids' playground here with slides and a sandpit.
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Soto Ambengan Pak Sadi
If you're looking for chicken dishes, then look no further than Pak Sadi's. Be sure not to overlook the famed lemon grass and coriander Madurese chicken soup, which is sublime. The place is best known, not surpisingly, for soto, a typical Indonesian soup filled with chicken or meat and other bits and pieces. Service is fast.
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Cak Asm
No, the name isn't the sound you make after eating here. If that were the case, this simple cafe would be named 'yum'. Join government workers and students from the nearby university for superb dishes at rock-bottom prices. Order the cumi cumi (calamari) with telor asin sauce (a heavenly mixture of eggs and garlic). The resulting buttery, crispy goodness may be the best dish you have in Bali. And it's under US$1.
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Ayam Goreng Kalasan
The name here says it all. Fried chicken (Ayam Goreng) named after a Javanese temple (Kalasan) in a region renowned for its fiery, crispy chicken. The version here falls off the bone on the way to the table; the meat bursts with lemongrass scent from a long marinade prior to the plunge into boiling oil. There are several other excellent little warung in this strip.
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Mas Mul
At the southern entrance to the kraton is this, one of Solo's snake restaurants. You can select a live cobra for sauteing or frying, and can take the skin home as a gruesome souvenir. Those wishing to booster their virility can then opt to drink the snake's blood with wine or Red Bull.
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Haji Anang Soto
This hole in the wall between Jln Haryono and Jln Anang Andenansi draws big crowds for soto banjar, especially after noon and evening prayers. Broth here is savoury, lontong (rice steamed in pandanus leaves) lush, homemade sambal scorching.
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Warung Peni
One of a few tropical hideaway warung on this quiet street. The long menu is mostly Indonesian with a few Chinese, Western and Balinese (grilled tuna with spicy sauce) dishes for variety; the mushroom omelette is just the thing after days of rice.
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Rumah Makan Kayangan
Along the same street as Lae Lae, Kayangan is a slightly more upmarket affair with tablecloths and air-con, the latter particularly welcome at lunchtime. The fish is fresh, the service swift and the Bintangs are ice-cold. What more could you want?
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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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Taman Rekreasi Seri Deli
For basic Malay food, this venue, opposite the Mesjid Raya, is a slightly upmarket approach to stall dining. But the keropok (cracker) sellers, blind beggars and spoon players might find you more of an oddity than vice versa.
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Nasi Uduk
Open to the street, this spotless little stall has a few chairs and serves up Javanese treats such as nasi uduk (sweetly scented coconut rice with fresh peanut sauce) and lalapan (a simple salad of fresh lemon basil leaves).
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Dewa Warung
When it rains, the tin roof sounds like a tap-dance convention and the bare lightbulbs sway in the breeze. A little garden surrounds tables a few steps above the road where diners tuck into plates of sizzling fresh Indo fare.
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