Printemps Manufacturer of Sweets (Food Tasting)

As I told you in the former post, Indonesia's online store in booming lately. This is one example of the new little baby born in this industry: Printemps (pronounce as "prangtong"). Offers cookies and pound cakes, made with the best salt in the world; Fleur de sel de Guerandec. The other competitive edge they have is their products. I found "Rose Petal Cookies" funny at first. I mean, we are used to have cookies with dairy or fruit taste. But flower? No, I never tried. Fortunately, dried rose in a cookie turned to be a nice-scented bite. The rose scent wasn't too strong, and I still tasted the butter-cookies-taste in it. My next favorite went to chocolate chips cookies! I know it's a usual product, but cookies always been my fave product. I've tried cookies from almost all cakery and bakery I found. Printemps had soft cookies, which (they claimed) crunchy outside and soft inside. Well, when the sample food came to me, the choco chip cookies wasn't crunchy at all. But no worries, I liked it anyway. Yes, i love soft baked cookies with a little gooey-ness. :)

Rose Petal Cookies : Small (IDR 30K) / Reg (IDR 50K)

Chocolate Chips Cookies: Small (IDR 30K) / Reg (IDR 50K)

More info:

Printemps Manufacturer of Sweets

Facebook : Printemps 

Twitter: @printempsmos

Email: printemps_mos@yahoo.com

0813-8096-7268

Bluegrass

Located just right at the opposite of Otel Lobby, Bluegrass succeed to attract my attention. Moreover, one of my friend highly recommend this place.  So I came by and tried some of their menus. Hope I wouldn't disappointed. 

Texas Beef Ribs (150K). It came in a big size, way from my expectation, and it looked good. So first impression was 10. Lets see if this dish could kicked my buds. They have 3 variants of sauce: original, BBQ, and gentlemen jack rare tennessee whiskey. I chose gentlemen jack, and I didn't have any regret. It tasted so good. The meat (beef) was so tender and juicy. Chewing it even seemed effortless. The spices really well-absorbed. It came with mashed potato which also tasted good and went very well with the tasty meat. For the matter of size, this dish could be shared for 2-4 persons.

Asparagus Bacon Puff Pastry (60K). As I ever said, I love puff pastry. Interested with this one, so I dared myself to try. And I loved it! Savory puff pastry and salty bacon, plus half done egg yolks combined with crunchy asparagus could bring heaven to me. 

Granny's Apple Pie (55K). Yup, it's double crust pie with apple and spices filling. The crust was (of course) crispy and the filling has soft texture and strong cinnamon taste. Came with a bowl of vanilla ice cream which went well with the pie. This wasn't my favorite, but I was quiet satisfied with it. 

Bluegrass Bar & Grill

Komp. Epicentrum
Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said
Kuningan, Jakarta

Phone : 021-29941660

Twitter : @BluegrassBnG

The Strudels Factory

This time I was in Bandung. Felt so good after long time no visit. :D

Bandung has many many many concept restaurants. It was even hard for me to choose which one to visit first, since I only have one day there. Looking around Riau area, I saw The Strudels Factory. Ah, I used to want it so bad few months ago, and since it was justs in front of my eyes, I didn't hesitate to come in. 

Blueberry Strudels. What else you should order at The Strudels Factory? Of course I ordered their strudels. And apparently it was good. There's sugar on top. The strudels was crispy but soft enough to enjoy. The size wasn't too big, but that's not a big deal. It cost me about 18-20K IDR. I forgot the exact number. The blueberry sauce was a bit sour and the white sauce (I forgot what's that, maybe it was yogurt) was sweet. Sweet and sour in strudels? Perfect. 

Black and White Hot Cake. Yes, it is chocolate melted cake. I didn't know what took it so long, they spent almost 1 hour to bake it. I even asked to cancel because I still had other places to go, but they insisted that they were baking the cake so I couldn't cancel the order. Okay, in the middle of disappointment, I just sat and took pictures of my friends. After about 50 minutes, finally 'the king' arrived. I took some photos of it quickly then  grabbed a spoon, ready to prey it. :p  Well, the chocolate in the middle was melted, but not as good as I desired. It was a too thick and not generous. The outside part also not special, the cake was puffy but just okay. Nothing special here. The vanilla ice cream, I assume, was not a home made. But it went pretty well with the cake. 


THE STRUDELS FACTORY
House & Cafe
Jl. Progo 13 A
Bandung
Ph : 022.424.1075