Djakarta Cafe

slow mornings on jl. m.h. thamrin move differently than you'd expect from one of jakarta pusat's busiest corridors. djakarta cafe sits inside gedung djakarta theatre, a building that already carries a certain weight in menteng, and that context does something to the pace of a visit. you're not rushing here. the address alone, kebun sirih side of thamrin, puts you close enough to the city's commercial centre that a between-meetings stop makes sense, but the theatre setting suggests nobody's counting your minutes. locally, the place has built real goodwill, the kind that doesn't come from novelty. whatever you're ordering, the cortado is a reasonable place to start a weekday here.