La Dolce Vita
Bottega Ristorante is typically Italian with its tempting ambience and welcoming atmosphere, embodying the concept of La Dolce Vita – a life of pleasure and simple luxury.
If thoughts of Italy’s culinary delights and sipping an espresso in a dreamy piazza have been tempting you but you don’t have time for an Italian holiday just now, a visit to Bottega Ristorante could be the thing that keeps you going.
The vibrant design, glittering mosaics with colourful Bisazza tiles, warm copper and earth tones, plentiful plants and comfortable seating make this an attractive venue. With long bench seats and intimate booth seating, parties of any size can easily be accommodated and this restaurant in
Jakarta’s SCBD is indeed popular for family celebrations and groups of friends to meet and socialise.
Bottles line the walls either side of the bar, which serves up an extensive selection of wines, whiskeys and other spirits, as well as excellent coffees, artisan teas, juices and plenty of mocktails.
While we love pasta and pizza as much as anyone, we also love Spanish eggs, which are much rarer in our city. Bottega offers two varieties – breakfast eggs and baked eggs, both have a rich taste and spicy kick and are a great way to get your blood flowing and brain working at high speed.
The appetizers are also worth a close look. Try the house-made Brazilian cheese puffs, chicken, avocado and bacon quesadillas, steak tacos with corn salsa or the beetinfused salmon gravlax from the long list of choices. There is also a delightful cheese platter with a selection of cheeses accompanied by honey gelée, grapes and sliced apples.
A myriad of main courses await, ranging from thin crust pizzas, to pastas and
risottos, paninis with a staggering choice of fillings, as well as heavier options like crispy duck confit, Bottega steak frites with its 200g prime US striploin steak, a falafel wrap, burgers, the sumptuous porcini coffee rubbed 330g prime US sirloin steak and much more.
If you just can’t choose, we would suggest the delectable squid ink risotto cooked with white wine and onions and topped with fried calamari, or perhaps the surprisingly moreish bakmi truffle, which uses local noodles and is coated in truffles and cream, rather like an upmarket carbonara.
If lasagne is your thing, then Bottega’s version will not disappoint. The house-made pasta and richly tasty beef and mozzarella filling are deeply satisfying and memorable.
Whatever you do, be sure to keep some room for a dessert. The gluten-free flourless hazelnut chocolate cake is remarkably tasty, while the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies in a pan served with rum and raisin ice cream is completely sinful but so good that you just might find yourself making frequent trips to Bottega just to indulge your sweet tooth.