Open air fish restaurant and other Salatiga, Indonesia Restaurant Reviews

Restaurant Name: Mina Kencana

Lesehan is a local way to lunch or dine. It means you sit in a gazebo on the floor at a low table.
Mina Kencana is a favourite lesehan restaurant in Salatiga. It is a fish restaurant with gazebo's arranged among fish ponds, and with a view on paddy fields. If you do not like to sit on the floor, you may opt for chairs and tables. There is a choice of fish dishes, always prepared with fresh fish from the ponds. When we treat our guests from abroad here, they always love it. The local population seeks out Mina Kencana for meetings and celebrations.
By the way, Mina Kencana is literary Javanese for goldfish. However there are no goldfish on the menu.

Favorite Dish: Fried gurami fish in sweet-sour sauce. It tastes as good as it looks.
You should also try gurami fish with kecap sauce.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: about average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: Mina Kencana, Jalan Salatiga-Bringin km 2
Directions: From Salatiga center take the road to Bringin. The restaurant is on your right after 2 km, well indicated. There is a frequent bus service along this road during daylight hours.

Restaurant Name: Warung Joglo "Bu Rini"

The usual modest prices and modest portions of a Javanese warung. But the food is tasty and good value for money. And you do not pay for the ambiance: within the town borders yet among paddy fields looking out on Merbabu mountain.
On weekdays people have their little business meetings here, during weekends bu Rini's is a favourite for a family dine-out. Also a good place to relax with just a snack and a cool drink.
You can have a nasi goreng spesial with cool fruit juice for just one euro (USD 1.50). If you choose something from the fish menu, you will spend more.
The warung takes it's name Joglo from the typical Javanese unwalled guest space under a roof with steep center part.
Open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., except Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Directions: Jalan Mawar is a dead end branching off from Jalan Imam Bonjol (the road to Muncul swimming pool). From the traffic lights north of the university walk down the bus route to Solo until the next traffic lights. Turn right into Jalan Imam Bonjol. The first bend turns left, the next one right. At this bend walk straight on into Jalan Mawar.

Favorite Dish: Fresh drink: Juice ceria
Soup: Sop buntut

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Theme: Local
Comparison: least expensive
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Phone: +62.298.321 370
Address: Jalan Mawar 5B, Salatiga

Restaurant Name: Nyonya King's at Beringin Hotel

Mrs King's is very popular among locals not staying at the hotel. We also like to order there a take-away meal. Allround Chinese and Indonesian menu, reasonably priced.

Favorite Dish: Shiang Hay Soup, Lu Fung, Cap Cay and many others.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: about average
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Phone: +62.298.326129
Address: Jalan Jendral Sudirman no 160, Salatiga 50711
Directions: At the southern end of the main shopping street, near the entrance of the Hotel Beringin compound.
Website: www.hotelberingin.com

Restaurant Name: Rawa Indah (Pak Koes)

Mr Koes' Rawa Indah restaurant does not have the ambiance of Rawa Permai on the other side of the road, but his food is definitely tastier. Pak Koes does the cooking himself. As soon as you have ordered, he disappears into the kitchen. In a former life he was a sea-captain, sailing all over the Indonesian archipelago. So where did he learn to cook? He won't tell.
Pak Koes develops his own dishes. What would you say of chicken prepared in Coca Cola?

Favorite Dish: Any dish with saos Inggris (English sauce).

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Theme: Local
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Phone: +62.298.340289
Address: Jalan Fatmawati 177, Lopait, Tuntang
Directions: On the main road from Salatiga to Bawen and Semarang, in front of the recreational area Rawa Permai.
Other Contact: Mobile: +62.813 9064 6919

Restaurant Name: Kampoeng Kopi Banaran

On weekdays Kampoeng Kopi Banaran is a favourite rest stop for a cup of coffee and a snack. But is is much more than that. They have about every recreation facility on can think of: swimming pool, tennis court, camp ground, kids' play ground, outbound sports, fruit garden... So on weekends the place is rather crowded with local recreants. And of course you can have your wedding party or business meeting here.
If you want to walk the fruit garden or the coffee plantation, you have to ask for permission, but it is easily given.

Kampoeng Kopi Banaran is a successful agro-tourism project of the state-owned PT Perkebunan Nusantara IX, which runs 15 plantations and 8 sugar factories in Central Java. In colonial times the plantation was known as Asinan.

Favorite Dish: Have a taste of the coffee grown and processed on the grounds. And buy a packet to take home.

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Theme: Coffeehouse
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: Jalan Raya Semarang Solo km 35, Bawen
Directions: On the main road from Semarang to Salatiga, half way between the Bawen Y-crossing and the Tuntang river bridge. About 12 km north from Salatiga and 2 km south from Bawen.
Website: http://www.ptpnix.co.id/index.php?p=pages&id=MzA7MjAwODA1MTM= (Indonesian Language)

Restaurant Name: The Bizztro

It's in the neighbourhood of the International school, run by Americans, and a favourite of the local expat community. They have the usual Indonesian food, but above that international dishes of better quality than the Indonesians make.

Favorite Dish: Pizza, spaghetti, taco, salads, and a choice of delicious coffees.

Directions: From Osa Maliki bypass take the road to the International School (everyone can point it out). On this road, Jalan Nakula Sadewa, pass by the IS until a main crossing at 2 km from Osa Maliki. Here Jalan Bima is on your right. After 300 m turn into a narrow dead end where The Bizztro with parking is at the end.

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Theme: Eclectic/International
Comparison: about average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: Jalan Bima III / 8, Grogol, Sidomukti, Salatiga