BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...

Go Curry Pacific Place

An Englishman will go to great lengths to track down a curry house – even if this means going into one of Jakarta’s most-ostentatious shopping malls, the ridiculously over-the-top and snobby Pacific Place, a refuge from the city’s mayhem for Jakarta’s 1 percent. After finally finding the restaurant tucked away on the fourth floor, I was feeling incredibly peckish and got down to giving our orders.

Go Curry Pacific Place

Ordering a curry here is easy. You specify the type of curry sauce – I chose Rogan Gosh – the type of rice (white, yellow, buttered?), how hot you want it (from mild up to raging hot), and the type of topping (chicken, fish, vegetarian etc). Some variations are possible. You can pay a little extra, for example, to have naan bread instead of rice. The curries promptly came and were soon devoured…

Go Curry Pacific Place

Verdict

The Restaurant: bright, clean, cheerful, small, not claustrophobic (good views of inside the mall!)

The Taste: for convenience food, the curry was excellent. Not a particularly large serving but the dish was well-presented and quality ingredients were obviously used.

The Service: pretty useless. The waitresses forgot to bring a couple of drinks and were generally inattentive and very slow.

The Price: Very expensive! A curry and a lassi will cost you around Rp120k. The lassi itself costs Rp30k before all sorts of taxes are added. Outrageous. For this price you may as well have the Sunday brunch at Kinara in Kemang – it costs about the same, you can eat as much as you want, and you don’t have to go into Pacific Place shopping mall!

Go Curry - Pacific Place
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 52 - 53,
Jakarta
Telp: (021) 5140 2750

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