Art Restaurant

Most of the places where we were treated to dinner had an old world feel to them. It might be a Dutch heritage, or it might be the gentility of classic Asian ambiance. Either way, there was a sense of timeless elegance with now and then a rural paradise thrown in.

This time we had lunch in a place that might have come from down the street from me. The walls where a cheerful yellow, and all four walls were intact including closable windows. The ceilings were very high, and a colored clerestory window gave the leaves of the trees outside a stained glass look. At first I thought it actually was stained glass, made to go with the artwork on the wall.

A local artist had a number of primitive paintings hung on the wall art-gallery style. I’m sorry, I didn’t catch the name. Apparently it was someone who was considered an accomplished artist, not just your local starving artist. To me, it looked like something you might expect to see in the art department at the university.

With the change of scenery I thought there might be a more Western menu. Nope. It was mostly the sort of thing we had elsewhere in Indonesia.
The notable exception was the soup. This one had an “omelet” floating in it. Apparently an omelet is any kind of egg combination. I’m guessing they made this one by rolling scrambled eggs with some kind of leafy green vegetable into a roll like you do with sushi, then slicing it up before floating it in the chicken broth. Regardless, it was tasty!