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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.
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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.
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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.
Nay, mortified. The reason? After all the build-up and expectations, One Tree is simply too expensive for me to use as a regular Blok M eatery.
erm, thats about $5-$6 or 200 baht - not cheap, but not expensive either!
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)
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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,
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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
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