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06-09-2007, 01:08 PM
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  | KingWilly's Guide to Decent Pubs in Jakarta Here is a much more comprehensive listing... linky F39 Cafe. Kemang area Jalan Fatmawati No. 39 - no website. phone 765 6672  Although its called a cafe, in reality its an open air pool bar made of bamboo. Part of the Jakarat Expat pool league, it can get busy on wednesday nights, but other than that it's usually fairly quiet, probably due to the fact its difficult to find.  Anker, Heinekin, Bintang decent food, friendly staff, eclectic music mix (bring your own ipod and ask the staff to plug it in!) no aircon, often quiet and boring$ - cheap n cheerful ........ Oscars Blok M Jalan Faletahan  A two story seedy looking bar at the far end (bus station)of a seedy looking street. Upstairs has a pool table, an eating area and an unwritten rule of no working ladies up stairs, which makes for a pleasant start to an evening with a few mates. Cos downstairs - its generally full of P4P trolls, drunk older sexpats and dodgy cover bands playing loud pop and Bon jovi covers - generally a good time to be had. usually open until 3.00ish Anker, Heinekin, Bintang, a fair wine list also prices tend to be ok. decent food, a lot of reviews online say the staff are crap but i've found that. lots of low class fun. bit seedy, upstairs has crap lounge singer musik and allows drunk idiots the mike$ ....... Mad Dogs  Cilandak Industrial Estate (off the outer toll road, near Ragunan zoo exit) ph: 021 789 0071 website. Mad Dogs Group This is in a bizarre out of the way place for a bar, as in well south of Jakarta proper. However, inside is very much like a proper English style pub, they have a large projector for all real men sports (feeds from Aus, South Africa and the ESPN channel) do sunday roasts and have a reasonable food menu. Staff are ok, but pretty useless. They have also opened another branch in the Swiss German university near me, but it was completely empty and dead boring when i went there. Erdinger, Anker, Heinekin, Bintang, Sunday roast. local and western food, good sized portions. little bit of a mens club, not much parking (but if you bring your driver, not an issue), no eye candy goes here, strictly BYO$$ ..... Eastern Promise .....Kemang Jalan Kemang Raya  tel. 7179 0151 English sports-club-style this place has a front bar, complete with darts and pool table. go through a set of doors and you'll find the TV and a dining section and then a dance floor and live music out the back. Quite an expat hang out. I think they do latin dancing in wednesday nights. the place is owned by a friendly dutch man and serves some excellent indian food. a good place to start a weekend. Anker, Heinekin, Bintang, wine list, guiness out of a bottle Sunday roast. Indian and western food, good sized portions. plenty of expat girls here in weekends, good live bands & music (ie not the usual indo pop/rock covers) already in kemang so plenty of other bars and dance clubs around cant think of anything too wrong with it.$$ ....... Aphrodite Klub Rasuna, Kuningan Jalan Rasuna Said  www.aphroditebar.com Kuningnan Expat style sportsbar, good food selection. pool tables. tends to attract a few of the more expensive ladies of the night, but mostly not a pickup place. largely expat crowd it still attracts a fair few Indo's Also the home of my footy team - the Jakarta bintangs. $$$ ..... The One Tree Blok M Jalan Faletahan. But its in blok M, so nestled inside all these nasty girlie type bars is an attempt to bring a proper english pub into blok m. Wood, wood, wood, plus those naff green half lights and plenty of coloured glass. It has a decent bar, friendly staff, pool table. Menu has a pizza's, shouma's, soups, burgers, and the usual asian and western options. prices average about 40,000-60,000 rupees which has the local sexpats outraged and predicting its demise as a business I'm disappointed. Quote:
Anker, Heinekin, Bintang, extensive wine list - most of them visible behind the bar. Decent attempt to make an English style pub, good menu, doesn't have those naff bands that all the other bars in Blokm do. Not full of hookers and coffin dodgers - actually a place in blokm that you could take your galfriend too. Location - it is still in Blokm and that will always limit it. (think Penny black in soi cowboy)$$ D'place Citos mall, Cipete  This is an aussie style pub inside a food mall. It has a decent menu with good steaks and (for jakarata) an excellent selection of imported beers and wines. A good place to sit and chat. Its quite small and cosy, the have a band that play most nights of the week too! Anker, Heinekin, Bintang, Strongbow, Guiness, some belgium beers etc etc beer selection Location - in a mall means its a place to sit and chat, no pool table, $$$ *********************** Star Deli Kemang  They are going for a 1950's american diner theme, couple of pool tables, some live bands most nights doing rock and pop. It's a large pub separated into 3 rooms making the worst of the available space. play live music on weekends. Anker, Heinekin, Bintang, - good music, decent sort of crowd. kemang location which means plenty of food/music/disco options nearby - weird layout, 3 separate rooms can make it feel disjointed$$ Last edited by kingwilly : 30-03-2008 at 04:34 PM. | |
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06-09-2007, 01:14 PM
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| F39 Cafe pics    I recommend the steak, they come in sizes of 150grams, 200grams, 300grams and for the real men 400grams sizes! I usually choose 200.... last night I decided to get garlic butter rather than my usual pepper or mushroom sauce! So i dont think too many people wanted to get close to me!  |
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06-09-2007, 02:53 PM
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| I forgot to mention one added plus is that since it is hidden behind a business & down a small alley-the place manages to avoid some of the religious idols that forcibly. close places during Ramadan (due to start in 10 days fine!) |
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07-09-2007, 05:06 AM
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| Last time i was in Jakarta was 2001 and stayed at the Paragon (spelling) Hotel, which was walking distance (10 mins) from the Hard Rock Cafe, a bit of a different experience from Thailand in that the girls will all smile at you but won't approach you, YOU ACTUALY GOT TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE, but smile say hello, buy a drink and well as they say the rest is................. But back in the early 90's Jakarta was my introduction to Asia, my father was working there and i came for a holiday, 92 i think, for those of you who know Jakarta his house was in Bintaro, anyway the Tanamour, which i now believe to be closed was my introduction to Asian Night life at the ripe old age of 20, to say i nearly shot my load in my pants on my first visit there would be an understatement (ok i did, but the clean up deserves a thread on its own). Anyway 4am i'm pissed off to bed, will carry on tomorrow.
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07-09-2007, 02:59 PM
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| Bintaro is where I live also. I wont bother doing a best pubs in Bintaro thread - since offically Tangerang is a dry city! but now we do have 3 or 4 beers options....... but they are all pretty dire....Tamani Cafe, ( a chain restaurant of Indonesian western style food. Okz CAfe - Indonesian style bistro that has lives band each night Muleh - another new cafe/restaurant that has white tiles on the floor and crap indo food and 69 - a pool hall (of 4 tables) that generally has half a dozen indo teenagers in it, one girl working and only bottled beer and barcadi breezers.... |
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07-09-2007, 03:37 PM
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| I almost forgot, September footy: So I'll be off to Aphro's tonight! Report to follow! Quote:
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07-09-2007, 03:43 PM
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| Aphrodite Klub Rasuna, Kuningan Jalan Rasuna Said www.aphroditebar.com why can't i edit the first post any more!? Can that be changed? Last edited by kingwilly : 07-09-2007 at 04:03 PM. |
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08-09-2007, 03:39 PM
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08-09-2007, 03:44 PM
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| also went into Oscars last night, it was full of coffin dodgers dancing with middle aged whores, band was the usual popcorn sort of stuff.... didnt stay long.  the person in the centre is a guy... he does some pretty ok Stones covers, what is the name of that song "pleased to meet ya, do you know name?" |
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08-09-2007, 03:52 PM
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08-09-2007, 04:06 PM
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| here's a fairly comprehensive magazine list, Jakarta Restaurant Jakarta - Spa Jakarta, Bars Clubs Jakarta and Hotels Jakarta Java - Bars in Jakarta but it's not exhaustive, and you need to read between the lines a little from their descriptions.... Quote:
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