Namaaz Dining

4 Ivan Aditya - a month ago

If you never had a molecular gastronomy, Namaaz is highly recommended to visit! It’s worth the money, if you look at how inspiring the concept is.

One small note, just to keep your expectation right.

This is not a fine dining spot, so don’t expect fancy decorations when you come in. My first impression when i came in to the place, it’s rather daunting, because you need to come in altogether with other group of diners, like coming in to a movie theater.

Also, don’t expect a Michelin star taste of food, you enjoy it with sight, hearing and sensing, not so much on the taste bud.

Comparing season 9, with other theme like horror movie, well.. the theme doesn’t really connect well with the food. But the finale is just awesome, you don’t want to miss that! The joy of eating molecular gastronomy stays with you, and your significant others for sure.

Highly recommended if you never had a gastronomy dining experience before. If you did, maybe you can come here next year when the theme hits their 10th anniversary! Proud that Jakarta have our own gastronomy scenery

5 Bartoq R - 4 months ago

If you are from Australia, you know degustation is so expensive. If you visit Jakarta and would like to know what level of sophistication Jakarta can offer then you need to visit Namazz. Book ahead because they have a limited number of table. We have not tried degustation in Australia so we have nothing to compare but we enjoy the food although the story line presented along with the food is a-bit disjointed. But we’re not there for the story, we’re there for the experience and the food. Total there were 18 dishes ranging from savoury to sweet. At the end of the session we were super full.

4 lisna nababan - 3 months ago

Excellent presentation. 1,2 mil perhead consist of 15 extensive menu from snacks, appetizzer, soup, maincourse and dessert. All have their unique apperances. Taste wise i like the soto betawi that serving with emping spoon and nasi timbel that serve with nasiayam cobek. The cendol in kelapa is amazing. The finale they serve ice cream w queen music. Overall 3 hours of pleasant

1 Livia Tjahjadi - 2 months ago

Food wasn’t great at all. First few dishes were okay. There’s one dish that’s supposed to be laksa or curry but it tastes sticky and sour, like really off sour. The outer part is as chewy as rubber and tastes like nothing. We told the waiter and they said it is supposed to be like that. Didn’t even bother to give us a new plate. Duh? We were still expecting for more even then. Until the anticlimactic dessert where a baby cockroach came to join us. We thought it was an edible chocolate cockroach, but unexpectedly it runs!! We called the waiter again but they didn’t believe us until I showed them the video I captured that luckily has the cockroach cameo in it as a proof! They did prepared us a new one but we were too disappointed and traumatised to eat it anymore. No sorry was said, nothing.. not even by the ‘famous’ chef owner who happened to be there that night. Totally disappointed..

3 Kris Soe - a year ago

If you’re looking for a new dining experience u0026 have fun with disco strobe lighting then you come to the right place…We’re not comfortable with the settings u0026 ambience.

Decent price for such a molecular gastronomy experience with the focus of Indonesian Culture.

2 Quang Nguyen - a year ago

It is a fun dining experience at a good price point. However it is not molecular (nor really gastronomy). It was food with an interesting presentation. Do not expect a Gaggan (Bangkok, Thailand) or true molecular gastronomy experience - there are only a few spherical twists on food and emulsifications (and a bit of milk foam) that try to twist your perception on the taste vs appearance. The chef and staff clearly struggle with main course dishes and excel at the desserts or lighter, fun dishes - but the make your own soup/blend your own ingredients was neither fun nor had any surprise ending... we made our own soup at table. The reviews and photos show what you are in for, which reveals a menu that has not changed and stagnates - a pale shadow of what a place that bills itself as a molecular gastronomy place COULD be. The mediocre ambiance and space lost another star; I mean we could see the dishes being assembled on a table in the back!

Our meat dish was served undercooked (see photos), which may have caused the table next to ours to leave early.

3 Ruby Rivai - 3 months ago

Well, the food was OK (only), visually they are unique and interesting, but the taste was OK (Only). Namaaz is trying to bring the customers journey through out the 17 (I think) small courses with story telling, However, the story telling that were failing, the flow of the story I consider quite bad, the story flow were unclear, the presentation of the story were cheaply done, and the connection among the story and the food somehow badly connected. Moreover, as Namaaz is supposedly a fine dining place, it was quite noisy, whether from the kitchen or other guesses. The presentation of the closing dessert was good although again, the taste was OK. In conclusion, I think to try once is enough, but I wouldn't go back nor recommend this to my friends.