ogmac

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

9.8 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  9      Service  10      Value  10     

This restaurant is family run, and it is one of the best Indonesian places in Sydney. The food is just amazing, I have been going there for over 10 yrs and I have seen it get busier and busier over the years as Sydney siders discover their best Javanese restaurant by word of mouth. Yes it is always busy at night so the service suffers, but it's the restaurant's fault because the food it so good too many people want to squeeze in!

Oct 17, 2011

4.8 Average

Food  9      Ambience  2      Service  1      Value  7     

I really enjoyed the food, I ordered the box set, and the salad was great! My partner has been going here for a few years and is still happy with it. I would agree with other reviewers, the staff are cold, oft make ordering mistakes as they do not really speak English, but I loved the fact that they were wearing traditional kimonos. The place has terrible décor, and it feels a bit unclean by Japanese standards.

Oct 17, 2011

2.5 Not Recommended

Food  6      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  2     

The Good:

Nice healthy food, as flavoursome as it could be without garlic, and other spices. You can walk in and pick your food straight away from a buffet - good for kids/toddlers. You see a lot of nice people with great glowing complexions.The ice creams are great for kids here, as they are not sweet but pass as an ice cream so they are happy and you are happy as a parent because kids are not on a sugar high.

The Bad:

If you order off menu, it takes 40 min for food to come out - very unusual for an Asian restaurant. Loud room, so it is good if you have loud kids - no one will notice them, otherwise you can hardly hear. The place is too crammed with oversized tables, you keep on getting bumped. The décor is not nice, and the staff are disorganised and not well presented. I think it is a little bit over priced for what you are getting, you are paying more to be in the company of other vegetarians/vegans - possibly others who also elevate their sense of self worth by what they put in their mouth - how easy!

Oct 17, 2011

5.8 Average

Food  5      Ambience  5      Service  9      Value  4     

Hi, I went there to check out if they had burek, but at the time they only had a spiral pastry dish with cheese that resembled burek, and it was nowhere near the same as the real burek. The staff were lovely and I'm sure the rest of the food is great, but it ain't no burek place.

Response from Management:
Burek is different depending where it originates from. The burek from the central parts of former Yugoslavia is in fact twirled into a spiral with paper thin pastry. 

There is also the layered burek version which is predominantly present in Macedonia.



The product we sell is burek just of a different presentation to what you expected or perhaps that you are unfamiliar with, 
we are not a bakery place so we do a complete breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu not just burek so in that regard you are correct. 

Thank you for your post.

Feb 11, 2011

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  8     

We have been coming here over the past few years, and we always get nice fresh pastizzi with different flavors. The staff have always been really friendly, and it is open late at night and early on sundays - great for a brekkie. The pasta meals are great value if you are on a budget, but they lack some umph. The place looks clean and nicely decorated, allthough there is no aircon and it can get really hot in summer. The pastizzi are great value, and you can buy them frozen to cook at home. All in all I love the service and the main product, well done guys.

Feb 11, 2011

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

9.8 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  9      Service  10      Value  10     

This restaurant is family run, and it is one of the best Indonesian places in Sydney. The food is just amazing, I have been going there for over 10 yrs and I have seen it get busier and busier over the years as Sydney siders discover their best Javanese restaurant by word of mouth. Yes it is always busy at night so the service suffers, but it's the restaurant's fault because the food it so good too many people want to squeeze in!

Oct 17, 2011

4.8 Average

Food  9      Ambience  2      Service  1      Value  7     

I really enjoyed the food, I ordered the box set, and the salad was great! My partner has been going here for a few years and is still happy with it. I would agree with other reviewers, the staff are cold, oft make ordering mistakes as they do not really speak English, but I loved the fact that they were wearing traditional kimonos. The place has terrible décor, and it feels a bit unclean by Japanese standards.

Oct 17, 2011

2.5 Not Recommended

Food  6      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  2     

The Good:

Nice healthy food, as flavoursome as it could be without garlic, and other spices. You can walk in and pick your food straight away from a buffet - good for kids/toddlers. You see a lot of nice people with great glowing complexions.The ice creams are great for kids here, as they are not sweet but pass as an ice cream so they are happy and you are happy as a parent because kids are not on a sugar high.

The Bad:

If you order off menu, it takes 40 min for food to come out - very unusual for an Asian restaurant. Loud room, so it is good if you have loud kids - no one will notice them, otherwise you can hardly hear. The place is too crammed with oversized tables, you keep on getting bumped. The décor is not nice, and the staff are disorganised and not well presented. I think it is a little bit over priced for what you are getting, you are paying more to be in the company of other vegetarians/vegans - possibly others who also elevate their sense of self worth by what they put in their mouth - how easy!

Oct 17, 2011

5.8 Average

Food  5      Ambience  5      Service  9      Value  4     

Hi, I went there to check out if they had burek, but at the time they only had a spiral pastry dish with cheese that resembled burek, and it was nowhere near the same as the real burek. The staff were lovely and I'm sure the rest of the food is great, but it ain't no burek place.

Response from Management:
Burek is different depending where it originates from. The burek from the central parts of former Yugoslavia is in fact twirled into a spiral with paper thin pastry. 

There is also the layered burek version which is predominantly present in Macedonia.



The product we sell is burek just of a different presentation to what you expected or perhaps that you are unfamiliar with, 
we are not a bakery place so we do a complete breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu not just burek so in that regard you are correct. 

Thank you for your post.

Feb 11, 2011

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  8     

We have been coming here over the past few years, and we always get nice fresh pastizzi with different flavors. The staff have always been really friendly, and it is open late at night and early on sundays - great for a brekkie. The pasta meals are great value if you are on a budget, but they lack some umph. The place looks clean and nicely decorated, allthough there is no aircon and it can get really hot in summer. The pastizzi are great value, and you can buy them frozen to cook at home. All in all I love the service and the main product, well done guys.

Feb 11, 2011

1 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

I should have seen the writing on the wall when I walked in and young man was scoffing down a dominos pizza straight from the box on one of the tables. I asked him if I could order, but he could not speak with a full mouth. Then came in the counter boy, after finishing off a cigie outside. I looked through the menu for a while, and the counter boy decided to start incessantly clicking his pen to hurry me up, I decided to not order until he stopped even if it took forever - I'm like that sometimes.

I ordered two dishes - chicken basil and beef ginger stir frys, then I saw the guy who was eating the pizza walk over to the oven. Yes, if you see a chef eating a take away pizza in an asian restaurant, as you walk in, turn around and walk away immediately. I came back to pick up the dishes, and on my way out saw the only other customer - on a friday night, she has a concerned look on her face, she perhaps too sensed that this was the worst thai restaurant ever.

My dishes tasted the same, except one had a bit more basil and the other more ginger, the rice was not well cooked- not sticky. One can never have bad thai, but this one was the least tastiest ever, and the decor in the restaurant is awful - without any aircon. It's a wonder it has survived at all.

Feb 08, 2011