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Features, Food Trends,
BY Auli Cinantya | 07 October 2026

Indonesia Goes Local First in Marriott’s Future of Food

Marriott International’s new Asia Pacific report calls Indonesia one of the clearest examples of the pull toward local food.

Best Eats, Features,
BY Auli Cinantya | 03 October 2026

Two Culinary Perspectives Shape the Cuisine at SU MA Jakarta

At SU MA Jakarta, Executive Chef Brendon Chen and Co-Executive Chef Ryan Kim bring their different culinary backgrounds together through contemporary East Asian cuisine, Indonesian ingredients and a shared approach to curiosity and balance.

Bar, Features,
BY Narendra Abhisatya | 07 August 2026
The Measure of a Cocktail City

Four bars made the Top 50, but Jakarta’s biggest achievement lies in the drinking culture that made those wins possible.

Features, Restaurant,
BY Auli Cinantya | 08 July 2026
A Taste of Homecoming at ARPO by Arnold Poernomo

Tucked in Surabaya’s Darmo neighbourhood, ARPO is built around a deceptively simple idea — food that feels like home, executed with the kind of care that only reveals itself the more you pay attention.

Features,
BY Auli Cinantya | 23 May 2026
Not All Fire Is the Same

Charcoal, binchotan, wood — the fuel beneath a grill is not a footnote. It determines everything that ends up on the plate.

Features, Food Trends,
BY Auli Cinantya | 13 May 2026
The Hamburg Steak Trends Have Arrived in Jakarta!

A dish with roots in nineteenth-century Germany, reborn in Japan as a counter-theatre ritual, is now one of the most talked-about dining formats in the city.

Features,
BY Dante Nggelan | 11 May 2026
Chupacabras Burns Bright in the Ubud Jungle

In Ubud’s Kedewatan, an Argentine chef has built a steakhouse around live fire, a valley view, and thirty years of cooking on four continents. Chupacabras is not trying to fit in. It is trying to be remembered.

Features, Food Culture,
BY Dinda Pramesti | 23 April 2026
Food Related Reads for World Book Day

In celebration of World Book Day tomorrow, here are some food themed books that go beyond what’s on the plate.