Pulau Bintan Restaurants

Cafe Ole-Ole's food are very reasonable if u compare it to the restaurants at the resorts.
A lunch at The Cove (excellent food!), Banyan Tree set me back US$42 for two person's pasta and fruit juice.
While a lunch over here - simple yet nice nasi goreng and mie goreng with soft drinks cost only US$7.

Favorite Dish: The mie goreng was a tad too salty but the nasi goreng was sumptuous.
U can also ask for less spicy serving if u ain't into hot stuff.
U got to try it!

A nice Kelong-style restaurant that sits pretty on stilts just above the sea. This restaurant is simple in its decoration but serve pretty ok seafood. Remember to go early to get the best seats.

Favorite Dish: Try everything that you can get your hands on, but keep a look-out for their prices as it's about the same price as what you can get in Singapore. If it's not for the food, at least go for the ambience.

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I like the ambience and fresh seafood. You can choose your "prey" from the mini kelong located at the entrance of the restaurant and select the way they cook it. I love the groupa and lobsters. I like it steamed especially when they are fresh.

Favorite Dish: I love groupa steamed with fried garlic. The meat is very soft and the aroma of the garlic spiced up the dishes.

Food are generally limited to what they sold in the lagoon and relatively expensive. The lagoon is isolated away from outside food.

You can take a free bus to kelong for seafood. Quite a nice experience.

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The food served in Bintan are generally not tasty across the board in many resorts, including Angsana Bintan.

It is the best if you get a suite room with full kitchenette facilities.

There is a cooker, microwave, full cutlery and utensils, and there are condiments in the suite. For oil, you can use those small blocks of butter served for breakfast to cook your own food.

Buy and bring in. Be it chicken wings, steam veges, spaghetti, noodles, fried bacon, ham and eggs ....it will definitely be more fun and tasty doing your own cooking here! :)

You can see from the menu here the prices of food in the in-house restaurant.

This is one of the most popular place for a decent seafood dinner for most people. Over here, you can choose your own seafood and you will get it fresh on your table! For the 2 of us, we ordered a black garupa (0.2kg = $18) @ 60/kg, a lobster (0.5kg=$18) @ 90/kg and a chili crab (0.5kg = $18) @ 36/kg. Yummy, yummy... and also some beer to go with the good food. We paid for around $90 for the dinner but it was really a sumptuous treat! Payment can be made in Sing dollars. We were there quite early, around 5pm as we hoped to catch the sunset. However, the clouds were too thick and covered the sun so we didn't get a good view.

Had our first dinner in Bintan here.
There's an open kitchen in the middle of the restaurant which makes it interesting to watch and pass time whilst waiting for orders to arrive.
Nice ambience.

Food was generally ok, but quality not consistent. Visited on second night, but was disappointed as there seemed to be quite a significant difference.

We were in a big group and tried quite a few dessert dishes. Found them mostly too sweet. Desserts are at half price after 8pm. But confirm with the waiting staff before ordering as we were charged full price for ours, but gave in when they insisted we ordered before 8pm though all of us were sure their wall clock showed past 8pm!

Favorite Dish: Lamb Beryani - Tender lamb, fragrant rice
Lamb Salad - Tender pieces of lamb, nice dressing, interesting presentation

Good food at prices comparable to restaurants in Singapore. 7 dishes for a table of 12 came up to about S$250.
All dishes ordered were good, especially the black pepper crab, prawns in herbal soup, and fried chicken.
Best service experienced in Bintan.