The Marmalade Pantry

Dear fellow tasters,

This is one extremely belated post.  It was a Friday evening after a grueling working week and I just felt I should at least have a decent dinner to celebrate Free-day.  I ended up in Plaza Indonesia, already a regularly-visited shopping mall for me but there are still many places I haven’t got a chance to try there.  My feet took me to The Marmalade Pantry, a Singapore franchised Western bistro located on Level One of the plaza extension.  50% off food credit card promo and happy hour pay 1 for 2 for cocktails seemed like a good deal to me.

Canteen

Dear fellow tasters,

After catching a glimpse of this new place that looked pretty crowded on a friday night, I decided to give it a try for dinner after work. Canteen, that’s what the place is called, is located in Plaza Indonesia and offers a restaurant-slash-bar-slash-hangout-slash-bookstore-extension spot for mall-goers, serious drinkers, food lovers, and bookish types alike since it’s connected to Aksara bookstore and operated by the same management, I presume.

Helen’s Fine Foods & Patisserie

Dear fellow tasters,

This would be my premier post for this blog.  It was 2nd of October, second day of ‘Lebaran’ holiday 2008 in Jakarta and my friends and I decided to visit a new place that they’ve been dying to go to.  The place is called Helen’s Fine Foods and Patisserie and it’s located on Jalan Wolter Monginsidi, South Jakarta.  We reached the place just in time for lunch, thanks to the light traffic in Jakarta during ‘Lebaran’ week and apparently they’ve just opened up after the holiday and we’re their only customers.  The restaurant located at the upper floor was not ready yet, so we settled for the lounge table at the ground floor near the bakery.