Yogyakarta Restaurants

EasyGoIn’ is a modern & colorful restaurant & cafe serving delicious Indonesian and Western dishes in a comfortable and warm atmosphere. Also a great place for a Happy-Hour drink (2–7pm) at the bar while meeting locals and travelers.
Pool table & Wifi are free of charge.

Favorite Dish: Try the Nasi Tumpeng or the beef steak with creamy pepper sauce!

EasyGoIn’ is a modern & colorful restaurant & cafe serving delicious Indonesian and Western dishes in a comfortable and warm atmosphere. Also a great place for a Happy-Hour drink (2–7pm) at the bar while meeting locals and travelers.
Pool table & Wifi are free of charge.

Favorite Dish: Try the Nasi Tumpeng or the beef steak with creamy pepper sauce!

This restaurant provides combination East and West food and drink.
For tourists who aren't used to the spice of Indonesian food, you can eat here safely.
They adjust the taste a bit.

However, if your tongue is Asian already, best thing to take is the western food.

Important thing is, they boil the water for the ice and washing the vegetable!

Also, they have several local alcohol drink that you can zip while chilling out on the second floor.

Every month, they have young local artist exhibit their artwork.

Make sure you make reservation for Friday. It's Jazz night! Busy..

Favorite Dish: Chicken Provencale..
and Spaghetti ViaVia..

love also the vitamin rush (nice healthy juice!)

They're soo ViaVia

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Sweet Javanese Jasmine tea in a bottle. It's one of Indonesia's best loved drink next to the fruit drink by the same brand (Sosro). Available at every warung ( coffee shop ) and drink vendor ( kaki lima ) .

Favorite Dish: Since portable water is rather questionable over here, your only alternative is to buy bottled mineral water from a vendor. Since Evian or Perrier is not commonly sold here, go for the local "AQUA" brand. It's about 3000Rp (USD0.30) per 500ml. Well, other than water, there's also a popular favourite that also comes in a bottle - Sosro Teh Botol ( teh=tea, botol=bottle). Give it a try if you love sweet jasmine tea. I took a sip of this after a particularly hot day at the kraton and was instantly resfreshed. A bottle cost the same as a bottle of mineral water. The fruit tea is equally refreshing but i prefer the jasmine tea.

What makes this place is special? Well, this place maintain books recorded travelling experiences of the travellers. You can find experiences or tips arround the world in that books. You can also share your own experiences. So, its like virtualtourist.com but in form of cafe.

Favorite Dish: My fav is special via via spagetti. Its just different than the ordinary spaghetti.

They also serves many types of Indonesian food in quite reasonable price.

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A whole street is dedicated to the gudeg in Jogja! And as some say:” visiting Jogja without eating gudeg is not visiting Jogja!”
The wonderful taste (a bit sweet-sour) of the young grinded jackfruit cooked with coconut milk and numerous spices just makes your plain rice a king’s meal; all people of Jogja are kings, queens and princes! Apart the gudeg itself, which seems complicated to elaborate, the gudeg meals are very simple and I enjoyed a lot all the gudegs I had in Jogja. They usually are presented like you can see on the first picture. In the warung (small shops, food stalls), they usually have their gudeg prepared in advance; on the second picture, you see a big bowl with gudeg on the right side, next to rendang (spicy beef); gudeg is served with rice, meat, eggs and all this gives the platter a quite photogenic appearance, before becoming a gastronomic delight.
Most warung have the food ready to be served on platters as you can see on picture 3, in small window cases where you can make your choice; many restaurants make food for shops, factories, or receptions, weddings, and on picture 4you see an employee filling lunch boxes with nasi gudeg; the banana tree leaf makes it just nice! On the picture the young man is adding peeled eggs (don’t be afraid of the colour, the eggs are well cooked, and age and spices give the colour).
Ah, the street dedicated to gudeg is Jalan Wijilan (picture 5) bordered all along by restaurants and food stalls.
3-4 dollars for a meal.

You can learn more about gudeg here: http://www.indonesianfoodonline.com/recipes/gudeg-jogja or with the short Wiki article.

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There are places on the planet where you do not need to go to what is commonly considered as a “restaurant”; I love to eat local, and in South East Asia in general, and Jogja in particular, I always have my best food in food stalls, on the street side, sitting on the ground. . . . . The food is always fresh, very often excellent and sometimes. . . surprising!
Well, in Jogja, the best food is on the streets, and you can find very good food near the northern end of Jalan Malioboro, on the Eastern side; many stalls, covered wit tarpaulins (it rains a lot) just offer a wide range of food, fried (goreng), baked (bakar), stewed (direbus), boiled (rebus), and you just look at the “menu” written on the tarpaulin to make your choice; the waiters and cooks will be happy to explain you whet they have and how they do it. Chicken goat, mutton, soups, whatever you may want, with vegetables and of course rice; ask for sambal (hot sauce) and enjoy with a fresh juice (no beer on the street side!) or a teh manis (sweetened tea).
On the first picture is an example of a food stall displaying its menu.
In Malioboro, you will be entertained by singers and musicians (picture 2), and having dinner with some old hits (you can ask the guys who go from one stall to the other to play “Guantanamera” or “La Paloma”, or whatever, they are happy with 1000-3000 rupiah) is quite pleasant. You can also ask one of the cartoonists who frequent the area to draw a souvenir with your sweetheart (picture 3; not me on the pic!).
The musicians or cartoonists are not at all “harassing”, and are part of the atmosphere of the food stall which are visited almost only by locals; I had a few dinners in different food stalls and was never deceived; I recommend to, at least once in your life, eat the Jogja speciality, the nasi gudeg (rice, with jackfruit sauce and different kinds of meat or eggs); just wonderful, a tip will follow.
The only weird (to me) thing is sitting on the ground with low table, which, in addition to struggle finding the best position for my legs, gives strange perspectives to the surroundings (picture4), but it is complying to local customs. . . .

3 dollars for a full meal.

Recently I discovered another pleasant surprise in the hunt for unique dishes regions. This surprises I found in a village in Muntilan, not far from Borobudur Temple, Central Java.

Actually, this place is actually not a shop, but ordinary people's houses. In addition to a modest dwelling house, built additional space that only consists of two rooms. Optional vestibule floored halls mat, a place for guests to eat while lesehan. Behind it, is the kitchen with two wood stoves. Kitchen recently began activity after sunset prayers fulfilled. The guests are come from various villages around.

The kitchen is only serving one type of cuisine, which is tongseng goat's head. The guests did not expect the other dishes. Most have booked through a cell phone before coming. Each time, the kitchen expanded fragrant garlic pan-fried, then cooking smells typical tongseng.
Pretty neat presentation. The goat's head was not present in platter. All the fleshy part of the goat's head was boiled in spices - tongue, beef cheeks, eyes, thick skin, brain, and others separated from the bone, then cut small pieces (bite size). We do not interfere with the bones when eating.

Liquid –half thick- with the smell of spices is impressive. The smell of mutton not smell anymore. Perhaps because the goats that used young or because the element of garlic is strong enough to disguise the smell of goats. Use of soy sauce is also very appropriate that ring tone is not close curry seasoning sauce taste.

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Favorite Dish: The texture of the meat is good. Everything is soft, but still felt his bite. The pieces are too small to help "soften" the fibers of the meat when bitten. In short, very delicious!