Sunday Lunch at Gastromaquia
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Spent my Sunday afternoon at Gastromaquia in Senopati area. I have been here couple times, and always loving its overall ambiance. This time, I'm so happy to be back again and of course gonna left some review since I got a voucher worth IDR 500K for foods and beverages from Clozette Indonesia. I brought my boyfriend and my brother along, to help me reviewing and finishing up the dishes. Well, my boyfriend is really good at reviewing foods, while my brother is good at finishing up the dishes. And me? Just wanna chill and eat eat eatttt, hahaha.
We reached there around 12AM. When we go in, the waiters were greeting us warmly and lead us to our table at the first floor. Then we started to order the foods and beverages, with some guide and recommendation from the waiter herself. She explained the menus very well, and I just known that Gastromaquia Restaurant serves Spanish cuisines with special menus, recipes, and few ingredients originally from Madrid. So we ends up ordered chamomile tea and lychee tea for the drinks, and the foods were galitician octopus, garlic butter prawn, garlic noodle, and stuffed chicken with beef bacon and date.
While waiting for our foods to be served, its time to stroll around this restaurant. From the outside, you will found Gastromaquia in a small road next to Senopati Street, exactly at Cineru Street. The building is actually noticeable, its the two-stories Victorian design house in monocrome color scheme. From the outside, this restaurant may looks old and classic at the same time. But the interior looks clean, minimalist and bright, even brighter at the second floor, cause it has high-ceiling and open air balcony. Not forget to mention, this place has a lot of greens surrounding, makes this place more aesthetic and Insta-genic!
Actually there's something that catch my eyes once I go inside this restaurant. Guess what? No... Its not the food, hehe. Its the unique furnishing that goes along the first floor to second floor, spotted the kitchen utensils were nicely transformed into a clock, wall decoration, and lighting.
In less than 15 minutes, our foods and beverages were served very well. All of it looks so yummy! I couldn't wait to eat, but first.. We have to shot it properly.
LYCHEE TEA, IDR 35K
The first menu that comes, of course the beverages. Ordered this lychee tea, cause it sounds so refreshing and sweet. And yasss its definitely very refreshing, not too sweet for me, and the amount of lychee is very generous. Love it!
CHAMOMILE TEA, IDR 35K
What you could expect in a cup of chamomile tea? hahaha, but the cup is very unique though.
GALITICIAN OCTOPUS, IDR 80K
Now here comes the appetizer of the day. Actually, octopus isn't my kind of food-to-order cause I never like the texture of octopus that somehow hard to chew. But this galitician octopus at Gastromaquia has proven me wrong! The octopus meat is very soft when its warm, and the taste mixed well with the sauce made by foamed potato and melted cheese.
GARLIC BUTTER PRAWN, IDR 95K
Honestly, this is my favorite ones! The prawn is sooo tender and flavourful from the garlic, butter and chopped tomato. Also best eaten with the garlic bread.
GARLIC NOODLE, IDR 45K
Actually I didn't expect this garlic noodle gonna looks literally like 'bakmi' (Chinese noodle). Hmm, maybe because this menu were categorised under Asian menu. You might curious is it tastes exactly like 'bakmi'? .... Dang! It might looks plain and simple, but it tasted good. The garlic, butter and herbs were combined well to make this tasty garlic noodle.
STUFFED CHICKEN WITH BEEF BACON AND DATE, IDR 95K
This is one of the recommended menu in Gastromaquia, and it takes about 20 minutes to be served. But its definitely worth to wait, the chicken is very tender, stuffed with beef bacon and date. What makes the dish special is because the date is actually imported from Madrid, it really soft and sweet. Its successfully making the overall taste extra special from the unique combination of savoury and sweet.
If you haven't got a plan this weekend, don't forget to drop by Gastromaquia Restaurant and try one of the menu above. Or if you have visited and tried their menu, let me know which one is your favorite? :)
Find them at Instagram @gastromaquia
Or pay a visit:
GASTROMAQUIA
Jalan Ciniru 1 No. 1, Senopati
Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan 12180
021-29305091
Opening Hours:
11:30 - 22.00 (Sunday - Thursday)
11:30 - 00.00 (Friday - Saturday)
See you in my next post
XOXO, Tiff
Photo by Zake Wijaya
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