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It was just earlier today that I grabbed a late lunch session with my beloved friends at 99 Cafe, Grand Indonesia. Initially, we wanted to watch the movie 'OZ' starring the very lovely James Franco and Michelle Williams, they both looks absolutely stunning in that movie for the record, and I like that movie, you guys should watch it, too :).

99 Cafe was our choice because my friend, Corina, was craving for their super delicious Potato Cream Soup and I was craving for their delightful burger. 99 first opened its restaurant and central branch at Ranch Market Pesanggrahan (since 99 is Ranch Market's), which also is a great venue with classic interior and great vibe to be around having your lunch or dinner, if there's a chance and I happen to go there again, I will take you to join the tour, but now, let me take you to tour the 99 Grand Indonesia, they also have a very nice place, I'm eating at the bar venue, it's more like the interior part of the restaurant.

I love the venue and I've always been a fan of clean classy interior, it's just simply gorgeous in a very good way. The food itself is as beautiful as how this restaurant looks, well not only looking beautiful, but also tastes delicious, you can feel that it's made with professionalism and it's also shown from its presentation.

IDR 45.000 (before tax)

Probably one of the best potato cream soup I've ever tasted, it's so creamy but for my personal taste, I love it because it's not tasting very cheesy and milky, but you can see that the meat (beef) and potato kinda works together creating a yummy sensation for every bite. I totally recommend this to you my lovely readers.

IDR 82.000 (before tax)

This is my meal and this is obviously also one of the best burgers I've ever had in my 21 years of living (hahaha), but it does, clearly as you can see that the burger is very tall and it has a thick meat inside with two potato rings and served with a bucket of awesome fries, this meal is just perfection for me, it's obviously making me very full after I eat the whole portion and I asked for the meat to be medium well (because I think medium well is perfect for me). Aaaah I'm drooling for another portion right now (T.T). Have this for yourself, guys :)

IDR 38.000 (before tax)

Fresh orange soda drink with citrus sense and loveable moments :)

IDR 28.000 (before tax)

I just knew that there is actually a brand that's releasing tea with red berries and I mean it will make the tea looks very red and I'm going to definitely look out for this brand as soon as I stepped into import supermarket, I love this red berries tea and it's just fresh, it has reasonable amount of sourness contained, but still, I like this a little sweeter.

IDR 38.000 (before tax)

This drink is not much different with my drink but with mint leaves, still fresh and still tasty.

We three spent almost around IDR 290.000 for all those above, I think it's pretty reasonable, I get what I'm paying, and besides, we had a  nice time of chitchat waiting for the movie here, another plus for great comfortable venue, but make sure you're being sit on the table not with the direct air conditioning, because it's super cold and freezing.

99 Cafe is so far one of my most favorite restaurant to have my lunch and dinner, you should really try it out for yourself, guys :). Have a great day!

Don't forget that tonight is another post of Culinary Journal... clue: I had a lot of blessings of great food and most of my cravings are being fulfilled this week. Praise and thank the Lord! Amen!

Since this blog is being featured in last week's CHIC magazine, I am happy to annouce and thank you all for boosting my social network followers, especially what I'm really into right now (Instagram), last week my Instagram finally passed 1k followers, well it's not really really like... a lot, but I'm just simply happy that people might pay attention for me, the foodgasms. Just kidding ;).

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I and one friend went hunting for dinner at Grand Indonesia, but I wanna try different things, something where I can eat my gorgeous meal, and in the same time having great atmosphere to feel good. Marche was the name that popped out! and yeah, I went there to have my sweet comfortable dinner and I like it when it's not that crowded.

Thank God I went to Marche during the weekdays because on weekend, this restaurant is kinda busy and crowded.

If you're not familiar with this restaurant, Marche has been there in Grand Indonesia for almost three years and its first restaurant is at Plaza Senayan. As far as I know, Marche is the switzerland/france word for 'market', the open market is the concept of this restaurant and I love how the managed to design the restaurant so beautifully without looking messy and dirty. Probably one of the best interior design of restaurant I've ever seen.

I had a nice portion of roasted chicken leg with baked potato as the additional.

I have always been a fan of food with a nice looking presentation, they always became a great point to my judgement of the food, well but still the taste says everything. If you're looking for something with the medium portion, this is what I recommend to you, FYI the chicken leg and the baked potato is sold differently, I need to add another IDR 15k for the baked potato, and you can also have this chicken leg with mashed potato, too! but no worries for the extra charge, I wanted to have a beautiful meal that night, and a piece of chicken leg just looks boring to me. For the sauce, they gave me the mushroom sauce.

This is super yum, I just want you guys to try it. Enough said.

Pan seared vegetables, you are allowed to choose what vegetables you're going to have, and the cook will cook and serve it right to you. I love the ingedients they're using here, this is absolutely not disappointing. I also had this with risotto.

and ass for dessert, I'm having this super duper yum slice of Vanilla Almond cake, add a little maple syrup and you'll die.

We both spent around IDR 600k, frankly speaking, you need to prepare for extra cash, everything is super tempting here, you almost can't stand not purchasing the meal. If it's your first visit, I will recommend you their famous roasted chicken leg, just like what I had that night, the mushroom soup and one drink. That's a generous amount and you're going to feel full enough, the system of payment is using the card, whatever you purchase, they will input the transaction into your card and never try to lose it because you'll be fined IDR 1 million. Even much more expensive than your own food.

Will definitely revisiting this Switzerland restaurant over and over again. I'm in love.

Once I heard this: "high school friends may last forever". In my case, I'm not in forever, but almost four years after and we are still a group of people who clicked just at the moment we meet face to face. Some of my friends went abroad to extend their study and when they got the chance to return (and they always do...), we always create a small reunion.

The reunion took place at Grand Indonesia, all debating about the restaurant because one didn't want to eat anything japanese, one didn't want to eat anything american, and blah blah blah but since the dessert is fine, we went to My Pancake, Grand Indonesia. I've been here several times but this is probably the first time that I ever put a review on this restaurant. I love the ambience of this restaurant, it's gloomy, it has a proper dim light and if you're wondering, it is right at the venue where the windmill is.

What were we ordering? hhmmm... lots of yummy stuffs.

The good old chocolate pancake with one scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream and lots of chocolate sauce, garnished with one astor.

Well sure this is mine because the dish has more photos taken LOL. I think the food in this restaurant is proper for everyone who wants a good time of eating with a genereous portion. I can't finish the food because the portion is slightly too big for me. I love the idea of making the cream soup more liquid like instead of super creamy ones. The spinach and the chicken are fresh. I recommend this one!