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Jayakarta Restaurant

Address
2026 University Ave Berkeley CA 94704
Phone
(510) 841-0884
Visit:
jayakartarestaurant.com
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(510) 841-0884

Business Hours

Status: Open

Sunday
11:00am-10:00pm
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
11:00am-10:00pm
Wednesday
11:00am-10:00pm
Thursday
11:00am-10:00pm
Friday
11:00am-10:00pm
Saturday
11:00am-10:00pm

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Payment Methods

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Accepted Alcohol Beer Wine Only Asian Betawi Cafe Casual Catering Cheap Eats coconut milk Dinner Dutch Family Style Dining Filipino food Good for Kids Yes Goreng Group Dining Indonesian Ketoprak Jakarta kids Local Favorite Lunch Mediterranean Middle Eastern Middle Eastern Restaurants Mie Goreng Multi-lingual Business Nasi Ayam Penyet Nasi Goreng Nasi Lemak Nasi Padang Noodles On-street: metered Open Late Price range: $$ Rendang restaurant Restaurants Rijstaffel Rijsttafel Roti San Miguel Sapporo Seafood Singaporean Singha Soups south berkeley Southeast Asian Tahu Telor Tofu Omelette^ Takeout Tiger Beer walkins Wheelchair Accessible Wheelchair Accessible Yes

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We are the spiciest restaurant in the bay area!

Nestled at the foot of the Berkeley hills, only blocks away for the UC Berkeley campus, Jayakarta Restaurant has been serving the East Bay and the Indonesian community for seven years (2012) founded by the legendary Mama Talen. Starting in the late 90’s, Mama Talen was the head chef of a popular Indonesian restaurant in San Francisco, serving both American movie stars and Indonesian dignitaries alike. By 2005, she finally opened her own restaurant in the quaint neighborhood of Downtown Berkeley and among local Berkelities, it was a hit, becoming another American success story.

Our job is simply to bring you the most authentic cuisine you could find on the streets of the capital city of JAKARTA (Betawi) and nothing more.

So please, if you’d like to experience how it feels to eat on the streets of Jakarta, by all means try our food. If you don’t like it, it’s totally understandable, you may not like eating outside in Jakarta either. Terima kasih.

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Posted on May 18, 2017. Brought to you by localcom.

We'll admit it. We are simply a "hole in the wall".
Believe it or not, we are only a staff of 3-4 people, with one head chef. With only 3 people, it deserves an award for not buckling under the pressure.
Our job is simply to bring you the most authentic cuisine you could find on the streets of the capital city of JAKARTA (Betawi) and nothing more. That's it.
We are not here to win awards for...

Posted on May 17, 2015. Brought to you by yahoolocal.

Jayakarta Restaurant is the San Francisco Bay Areas leading Indonesian Restaurant, founded by Talen Jin cooking BetawiJakarta style dishes.

Posted on March 16, 2015. Brought to you by cylexusa.

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Jayakarta Restaurant Restaurant Review

Indonesian cuisine is rich with influences---a little Indian, a bit of Chinese, some Malaysian---and Jayakarta skillfully blends these elements into exciting fare. Singaporean dishes are a sideline here, so start with the roti, a Singaporean pancake served with curry sauce, and the krupuk, Indonesian shrimp crackers that are served with a first-rate peanut sauce. The gado-gado, a warm salad of...

Posted on November 04, 2011. Brought to you by gayot.

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Food was okay. But the chicken satay is a total disappointment. They basically put peanut butter for the peanut sauce that is not suppose to be like that and the noodles are too soggy.

Posted by Excelvinna Yanuar on December 09, 2015. Brought to you by zomato.

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5 star

Posted by Rinaldi Wibowo on March 08, 2015. Brought to you by facebook.

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Bad service. My noodles came out 20 minutes and not many people were in the restaurant - there must have been 4 other parties tops in the place. Never got water refills either. The noodles were...

Posted by Diana L. on February 27, 2015. Brought to you by yahoolocal.

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Posted by Anne Noordegraaf-Gagliardi on February 22, 2015. Brought to you by facebook.

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Posted by Micha Noordegraaf on February 20, 2015. Brought to you by facebook.

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About Us

Nestled at the foot of the Berkeley hills, only blocks away for the UC Berkeley campus, Jayakarta Restaurant has been serving the East Bay and the Indonesian community for seven years (2012).

We’ll admit it…. We are simply a “hole in the wall”.

Believe it or not, we are only a staff of 3 people, 4 at the most, with only one head chef. …But we are capable of running at the speed of...

Posted on June 14, 2015. Brought to you by showmelocal.

Papas Restaurant can be found at University Ave 2026. The following is offered: Restaurants. The entry is present with us since Sep 7, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 12, 2013. In Berkeley there are 133 other Restaurants. An overview can be found here.

Posted on May 08, 2015. Brought to you by opendius.

Discover the treasures that await you at the Bay Area’s newest and finest Indonesia Restaurant, Jayakarta Restaurant.
Located in the beautiful city at Berkeley, Jayakarta provides the most authentic cuisine at any Indonesia Restaurant in the East Bay using the freshest spices, juiciest meats and crispest vegetables, one would have thought they were actually in Indonesia itself.
So join us in an...

Posted on May 21, 2014. Brought to you by sfgate.

One of the only two Iranian restaurants in the East Bay. Great lamb kebabs. Some of the dishes are not as fresh as one would like.

Posted on March 07, 2014. Brought to you by sfgate.

Jayakarta Restaurant is the premier Indonesian restaurant the San Francisco Bay Area and quite possibly the United States. Our job is simply to bring you the most authentic cuisine you could find on the streets of the capital city of JAKARTA (Betawi) and nothing more. That’s it.

Posted on August 29, 2012. Brought to you by ezlocal.

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Save Money: Go between 11am and 3:30pm Mon-Fri to dine on heaping plates of your choice of two dishes, plus rice and sides, for only $6.95.

Posted on March 03, 2016. Brought to you by ezlocal.

Know Before You Go: The restaurant is small, so make reservations if you have a large party, and be aware that you'll be sitting in the center of the dining room, not your own private space.

Posted on March 03, 2016. Brought to you by ezlocal.

What to Drink: Peruse the dessert section of the menu for tall glasses of snow-cone-like creations (the es dogger is a sugary, pink coconut milk-infused liquid over cassava, rice flour and shaved ice) that you can sip with your meal or save for after.

Posted on March 03, 2016. Brought to you by ezlocal.

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