August 2004

Blue Moon   The strip running south from Anyer along the Sunda Strait was once spotted with a host of small bars that served Expatriates from the project-intensive Anyer/Cilegon/Merak industrial area. The bars themselves were all quite modest and all used the same basic ingredient to attract customers – beer, food and billiards. Each night, expats would be found criss-crossing the strip, checking the pulses of the various bars – maybe looking

July 2004

WEST PACIFIC   West Pacific is a recent addition to the helter-skelter of Jakarta’s current bar/restaurant scene It’s a hard game out there at the moment, so what does this new kid bring to the block? Well, the owners – Aditya and Aline – told Jakarta24 that their objective

June 2004

TANAMUR, FINALLY TAMED   If one takes a historical perspective on things then Tanamur is probably the most famous (or infamous) nightspot in the whole country. The place has been variously described the Inca emperor and held

May 2004

THE BB’S   Whether the name was originally inspired by the blues bar concept, B.B. King, the Latin “beebees” meaning to drink, or the antipodean “you bloody beauty”,

April 2004

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March 2004

THE JAYA PUB   So honk those horns for the Jaya Pub – doubtless the most authentic and unaffected survivor on the expat entertainment map. Kicking off in ’75 as Jakarta’s only pub, the Jaya has – thru krismons, political upheavals and the growing glitz of upmarket bars and bistros – made the transition from a trend-setting,