Places We Love: Anomali Coffee Jakarta

14 June 2013 // Angie // Places We Love

We really needed to catch up on work today, so we went to Anomali coffee in Plaza Indonesia at the Urban Food Court on level 5. This is not your usual Asian mall food court. I have never seen a food court that looks this well styled. It’s almost creepy how well everything fits together. The same goes for Anomali coffee, everything looks so great, almost too great. There is a marketing genius behind the food court and this coffee shop, there just has to be. The great thing about Anomali being inside of the food court is that you can buy any of the food court meals (which are cheap and quite tasty) and eat them at Anomali while you sip at your beautiful Indonesian, fresh brewed, coffee.

The staff knows their coffee very well,which I appreciate. They tell you about the acidity levels, origin, roast and more. They only serve Indonesian coffee and the beans come from all regions of the country. Nick really liked the coffee from Aceh. I only had tea today. Too much coffee tends to make me stressed, which I already was because…

While sitting at Anomali coffee we found out that our Indonesian visa is not extendable. Which means we have to leave Indonesia much sooner than expected. All of a sudden, there are a million decisions to be made. Where are we going, what will we be doing? Do we still want to travel as much as we do now? Or do we want to take this crazy house hunt to the next level? For those of you who don’t know this, one of the goals of this journey is to find the perfect place for us to live.

The next few weeks will be super exciting. While we decide what to do with our lives, we are going to hang around on the beach and drink cocktails.

Since we have only limited time in Indonesia we’re gonna need some help: Have you ever been in Indonesia? Where should we go? What should we do? And, do you know some nice places to have some coffee?

// pictures are all by Nick’s sister Marit, since I was too stressed to take any

8 Comments

Bonnie // 14 June 2013 // 23:29 // Reply

Yeah, the unextendable tourist visas suck. I’m not too knowledgeable about good places to have coffee, but we absolutely loved our time in the Gili Islands. Lombok, and maybe a trip to Komodo Island (if you’re into giant lizards) might be fun too, and Lombok is certainly less congested by tourists than Bali is these days. I would suggest my favourite province of all in Indonesia (West Papua), but it is expensive to get to and to get around in as it is so remote. Hardly any tourists go there!
- Angela // 2 July 2013 // 06:23 // Reply
  
  We’ll have to do all of that next time we’re in Indonesia and there will definitely be a next time. This has to be my favorite country in the whole world. We haven’t traveled around as much as I would have liked but what we have seen so far is incredible 🙂
Dale // 15 June 2013 // 15:30 // Reply

This looks like our kind of place, but I guess you’d know that by now.
- Angela // 2 July 2013 // 06:24 // Reply
  
  Hahah yep! There might be a chance of the four of us having coffee at a place like this, we’re almost on our way to Europe!
Noortje // 20 June 2013 // 12:36 // Reply

Hi Angela&Nick,

I`m sorry to hear about your visa.. But for sure; another adventure will take you!

About Indonesia; I`m traveled trough Lombok the last 3 weeks and found it really amazing! When you looking for the best coffee-shops, Bali might be a better option because Lombok is less toeristy as Bali. I stayed in Sanur and Ubud. Sanur is a nice little beach-town, maybe not what you both are looking for. Ubud is a nice place as well, with so many great cafe`s where you can get every kind of coffee&tea, and all the rest. You`ll love it too!

Let me know if you want some more info about Lombok or Bali!

Enjoy!

Noortje
- Angela // 2 July 2013 // 06:25 // Reply
  
  Thanks Noortje! We are in Ubud at the moment, sitting in one of those cafes and we are loving it 🙂
TammyOnTheMove // 21 June 2013 // 05:55 // Reply

Love the look of this place. Could you not do a visa run to Timor-Leste and then re-enter Indonesia?
- Angela // 2 July 2013 // 06:26 // Reply
  
  Well yeah possibly. But for us it was what we needed to finally decide to leave Asia and go somewhere else. We are sort of regretting that decision right now because we fell in love with Indonesia.

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