MOMO Restaurant and Bar Senopati

I don't even know the proper prologue to open my blog post when it comes to restaurants in Senopati, but truth is, it's currently THE 'it' area to hang out as new restaurants are opening rapidly! Right after Three Buns and actually located NEXT to Three Buns is this new place called MOMO Restaurant and Bar!

The interior rings minimalist, hip, urban and youthful, but to be frank not much different with the common restaurants with the "and bar" concept: bar in the middle with bar seating, but good thing they have glass surrounding the front area of the restaurant so that it seemed more earthy! The dining area was separated to three main spaces: the general dining area (smoking and non-smoking), the lounge area and the VIP area. Since I didn't want to have any contact with smokers (and if you too), better pick the "front" seating underneath the glass ceiling, pretty comfy during the day I guess.

Not much yakking on the opening this time, here are the food that we ordered, and oh, this is not a food tasting session, I went with my lovely fellow blogger friends and gorge together with Aline, Yenny and Ivy! It was a nice lunch, always love having lunch with monsters, mwahaha jokester, but it's true that we eat a lot and get hungry very easily.

From the menu scan-reading, I found that the menu here were mostly Asian with a little twist of fusion, from the seasoning or presentation, one two three actually kinda reminded me of Izakaya Issei.

MOMO Beef Hot Pot
IDR 130k

This happens to be one of the best seller so it's a total regulation order (lol). Portion wise, generous, flavor wise, surprisingly pretty good! At first I thought the soup was too gingery but after a while, the aftertaste wasn't a disappointment. The whole portion was share-able enough for three people. I appreciate the generous amount of prime beef given to the whole portion, the meat was left raw and slowly cooked itself to the desired state, even better when you realize during the cooking process, the beef extract contributed that additional tastiness to the broth.

Enoki mushrooms just made everything a lot better!

Truffle Prime Beef Bowl
IDR 120k

When it comes to my ultimate favorite of the day, then this was it! First, I love the fact that it's a rice dish (hardcore rice fan here), the beef was cooked to perfection and ZOMG that truffle oil was pretty generous but not overpowering, it was oozing around my taste bud and that truffle aroma just risen up the appetite. I love the proper balance of sweetness and savory of the beef, what's even better is the fact that they dress the portion with awesomely cooked poached egg. Enough saying, this is a one must try!

Beef Curry Spaghetti
IDR 78k

Another dish with poached egg, so far has been good. Mix everything up and this particular curry pasta would have this creamy texture that was such a decent companion to the al-dente cooked pasta, the beef cuts were tender but frank, I didn't find this dish to be anything special, the curry was sort of bland and needed that bolder flavor.

Cod Roe Udon
IDR 95k
I felt like this dish was already an upfront disappointment when they served it to the table, it was just tremendously small for the hefty price tag, not to bitch around here but it was not what I expected from the menu description and I finished this in less than three freaking minutes (yes unfortunately it was my order :(). To be fair, I must say that they seasoned the udon pretty well, especially when the cod roe was tossed along with the udon, I could feel that natural saltiness from the cod roe and appreciate the play of texture from the tempura crumbs. Still, for a main-course, this should be bigger. I think they should put this as an 'appetizer' instead of 'main course' if they're keeping it this way.

Beng Beng Cake
IDR 50k
After the infamous Martabak Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, another innovation! Beng Beng Cake! Yes, that Beng Beng wafer that you could easily get almost everywhere for probably IDR 1k and translated and remodified by MOMO into this cake that worth IDR 50k, but I must gave my thumbs up for this cake because of the bloody rich chocolate flavor but still managed the beng beng flavor to appear. The chocolate cake was moist and simply addicting. Total must try!

COMPLIMENTARY DRINK
I didn't know if the manager feel pity for us and saw us like we're lunatics who keep on taking food photos or because I bitched around on how small the portion of the Cod Roe Udon was (still holding a grudge), but it came to our surprise when the manager came with two drinks as compliment to us, which I eventually highly appreciated! I have always loved extras and this was such a concrete form of hospitality. Sometimes it's okay to buy people's affection, in this case *ahem* mine.  Thanks to the manager whose name we forgot to ask, but that's very kind of you!

Spiced Mexican
IDR 110k
The cinnamon flavor kinda overpowered the whole beverage but I could still find a little hint of that zesty flavor (probably lime).

Grape in Gold
IDR 110k
This beverage contained edible 24 carat gold layers from the Goldschlager which also had cinnamon flavor infused to it. This one was light and refreshing, with proper balance of sweetness, still with a little kick of bitterness. Even though the first beverage was too cinnamon-ish and spicy, but I found out that I love the first cocktail more, it's just that after few sips I kinda understand where the beverage was going. This one's good, but probably just a little common sparkling wine to me.

They're actually still on their soft-opening days, but that's good because it's better to have flaws forgiven and improved before the actual grand opening, so far, they've been doing decent job! I love the interior, the food was pretty decent even though I still need to find the WOW factor (except for the Truffle Prime Beef Bowl and Beng Beng Cake, oozing good!) but for a newbie, this place is something you need to have your eyes for!

...and again, PORTION for certain food, it's not like it's MOMO Appetizer Bar so please, and I mean, PLEASE tone up the portion!

Anyway, Good luck in the F&B business and keep up the good work, MOMO! :). Will surely come back for more... Beng Beng Cakes! Major yumster!

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MOMO Restaurant and Bar
Jl. Senopati Raya No. 92 (Beside THREE BUNS)
Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan 12190
021 - 739 7459 / 0878 8980 8005
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Fitzroy Gastrobar Jakarta

My oh my, the Gunawarman street has been seriously busy and packed with new joints! One of the newest is this restaurant located on the 3rd floor of The Gunawarman No. 30 building called Fitzroy, what an urban hipster-ish name.

Fitzroy itself is a name of a suburb area in Melbourne and I heard from some peeps that the owner of Fitzroy are some Indonesians who used to study in Melbourne and this restaurant is their 'memoir' of the glorious days back in Melbourne. Before you even step out of the elevator - when you reach the third floor, the scene of Fitzroy is what you'll have behind those glass elevator doors. The overall area was not exactly spacious but they turn the area to a pretty comfortable dining area, again very urban and in a way artsy and stylish with the usage of wood furnitures, you'll notice the hand drawn deer illustrations on the wall (photo below, and by the way the 'deer' is their logogram), I happened to see the live drawing on my visit and the artist was just very keen, patient and of course talented! I am very into this kind of illustration, probably my favorite style. They also have a Gastrobar located at the center of the restaurant.

Outdoor seating with only two tables.

LOVING the pattern of the sofa, bohemian vintage alert!

MY FAVORITE ZONE! If you want to take some decent selfies, you HAVE to sit at this area located at the back (the one separated by the cabinet), there's this one particular area with frames attached on the walls, it was very vintage but in a way modern but absolutely beautiful, I even managed to take a few decent shots of *ahem* MYSELF here <3.

Major love for beautiful vintages!

The place was just beautiful I couldn't stop taking photos!

Okay, now moving on to the part you've probably been waiting for: F&B! The menu is mostly consisting of Western cuisines and some with a touch of Mediterranean and Asian fusion.

For the drinks, we (forgot to tell you I went here with my friends) ordered one jug of mineral water for IDR 50k which I personally found a little pricy for mineral water MINUS the tax and one iced tea (IDR 17k).

Chicken Karma Parma
IDR 58k + 15k
Presentation wise, this came beautifully colorful. I honestly don't know how to explain this dish so let me cut it short: I FREAKING LOVE IT!!! The deep fried chicken reminds me of chicken piccata or katsu with the breaded coating but the chicken meat was absolutely tender and juicy, the tomato sauce fit like a glove along with its awesome balance of sourness and savory and the melted mozarella cheese just made everything nicer like a cherry on top of banana split. To end this, a repetant: I FREAKING LOVE IT!!! Everything on the plate was serious joy!

 One suggestion: they probably could give a bolder dressing to the salad.

Supper Inn Baked Rice with additional sunny side up
IDR 48k + 15k
Honestly, the concept of this following meal was really simple, just rice topped with semi fried chicken cuts, white mushroom sauce and melted cheese, but there's something about the seasoning of the chicken that makes this REALLY SPECIAL. I was so impressed by simple things that could go beyond my expectation, the chicken was guiltily tender and juicy, the melted mozarella was generous and the egg was just perfectly runny. One very recommended dish! To be brutally honest, I think charging IDR 15k for an extra egg was a little pricy.

Mr. Moo's Gyu Tan Don
IDR 58k
Fitroy's "Gyu Tan" or "Ox Tounge" dishes happened to be the most popular, as well as most recommended and best seller here so I guess let's go with the society and gave ourself a try. Again, their menus were mostly had things coordinated with rice and this one was again, materially simple, but they're just masters in the flavor! This one was not a disappointment afterall, even though I thought majority it was dominated by the sweetness of the soysauce. The Gyu Tan was quite tender, maybe if they could make this a little softer, this would be really-really good!

My visit to Fitzroy was such a nice one. The food was fantastic, the service was really impeccable, loving the casual friendly service but in a way still very polite, the waiters were really helpful when it came to helping us selecting the food and they happened to recommend the right ones. So I guess I could tell you freely to order what I ordered here including the Gyu Tan if you're freaking wondering how it tasted.

I have this picture that Fitzroy will be this uh-mazing place to dine in and hangout if they could keep the food and quality service to be this good or better and if they could arrange a more comfortable area for the non-smokers! I never went to Melbourne before and honestly didn't know how the food there tasted like, but if you're an ex-Melbournian or having your breaks here, who knows this could come as a sweet surprise!

GOOD LUCK!

Fitzroy Gastrobar
Jl. Gunawarman No. 30
Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan 12110
0821 1111 2410
Opening Hours: 11 AM - 10 PM
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