Oakwood Jakarta Present A Taste of France at Oakroom Restaurant & Bar

Oakwood Jakarta

A Taste of France

at Oakroom Restaurant & Bar

Have you heard before about Oakwood Jakarta? For some people, Oakwood always related to Loewy restaurant, one of the top place to hang out in Mega Kuningan. Yap! It's true but you should know in Oakwood Premier Cozmo Jakarta building there's one place you need to know, that is Oakroom Restaurant & Bar.

As an Oakwood Premier's signature restaurant, Oakroom present "A Taste of France", French food promotion as a part of Oakwood Asia Pacific's chef exchange program. Oakroom Jakarta present Executive Chef Jerome Cartailler from Oakwood Premier Joy-Nostalg Center, Manila and It's only available for limited time from 6 - 30 October 2015.

"A Taste of France"

Let's get started to know what Chef Jerome will be preparing to you in Oakroom Jakarta.

Eiffel Tower for French Decoration

Oakroom's Crew

Heading to the 3rd floor where Oakroom located in Oakwood building, a French theme was so exquisite. A red and blue scene by the Oakroom's decoration has seen almost all over the entire room. We were welcomed by Ms. Lina Sugiarto, Director of Sales & Marketing Oakwood Premier Cozmo Jakarta, and seated with some of media crew and bloggers.

French Food Promotion

Table Setting

Media, Partners & Bloggers

Around 12PM the events has begun and we got welcome drink by the waiters. So the event was started and Mr. Malcolm Hines as Oakwood General Manager giving a short speech about this event.

Malcolm Hines, General Manager of Oakwood Premier Cozmo Jakarta

"A Taste of France" Menu

We got a set menu from appetizer, main course and dessert. All the menu was a classical French cuisine. We'd never taste any classical French cuisine before, so for our first time it's been so exciting!

Warm Goat Cheese Salad, Walnut Vinaigrette

The first dish was Warm Goat Cheese Salad, Walnut Vinaigrette. A baked "buche" goat cheese on toast with mixed greens and walnut vinaigrette. Goat cheese is kind of new thing for us, it has unique taste but it was good enough to made us craving for more. Made from goat milk, taste of the cheese was just right and all the salad seasoning wasn't over power. We liked the unique blend of goat cheese and walnut. It's quite tempting for the appetizer.

Norwegian Salmon Aioli Sauce with Ratatouille Vegetables

After enjoying our goat cheese salad, the norwegian salmon has come to our table. From it looks, the salmon looking fresh and perfectly cooked. The first bite coming to our mouth was good! All was well seasoned, not to oily and it's not too soft but soft enough to cut it only with your fork. Then we tried to rub it with aioli sauce, the aioli's taste just like a mayonnaise for me so it was good enough. I didn't get much for the ratatouille vegetables, I mean on my plate there was only some of vegetables like asparagus, long beans, cherry tomatoes and mashed potato.

Profiteroles with Warm Chocolate Sauce

It comes to an end, dessert! Profiteroles with Warm Chocolate Sauce is a choux pastry filled with vanilla ice cream and topper with chocolate sauce. It's a one bite size, the sweet dessert was taste so good! A light pastry for the classical French cuisine is simply my favorite!

Photo Session

During this event, we also has a photo session with Chef Jerome's dishes. We got time to capture the chef's signature dishes. So here the others dishes we got:

Tender Beef Bourguignon

Crisp Chicken Leg Confit

Moules Mariniers

De Royale

Asterix Freeze

Actually they also having others menu, it's an A to Z menu. From appetizer, soup, main course, dessert, cokctails and also mocktails. It kind a rare things in Jakarta to taste a classical French cuisine which cooked by an expert hands. If you wonder what others menu are, here I give you a little hint:

Appetizer
- Warm Goat Cheese Salad, with Walnut Vinaigrette (110k++)
- Nicoise Salad (100k++)
- Croque Monsieur (125k++)
- Moules Marinieres (110k++)
- Egg Cocotte and Chanterelle in Parmigianino Reggiano Sauce (95k++)
- Smoked Salmon with Creme Fraiche and Toasted Country Bread (140k++)

Soups
- Onion Soup Au Gratin (70k++)
- Seafood Bouillabaisse (70k++)
- Cream Vchyssoise (70k++)

Main Courses
- Norwegian Salmon Aioli Sauce with Ratatouille Vegetables (190k++)
- Fillet of Grouper with Green Asparagus, Mashed Potato and Espelette Piperade (190k++)
- Saddle of Lamb Baked in Herb Crust with Mashed Potato and Stuffed Artichoke (290k++)
- Sauted Fillet of Beef Served with Gratin Dauphinoise and Green Pepper Sauce (250k++)
- Crisp Chicken Leg COnfit, Sarladaise Sotatoes (170k++)
- Roasted Breast and Ballotine of Duck in Orange Sauce, with Crushed Potatoes (170k++)
- Tender Beef Bourguignon Slow Cooked Beef Stew in Red Wine, Mushrooms Served with Buttered Tagliatelle (170k++)

Dessert

- Profiteroles with Warm Chocolate Sauce (70k++)
- Creme Brulee with Vanilla Almond (70k++)
- Apple Tart Topped with Raspberry Coulis (70k++)
- Crepes Suzette (70k++)

Mocktails
- French Tea Punch (25k++)

- Asterix Freeze (25k++)

Cocktails
- De Royale (75k++)
- Sparkling Eiffel (75k++)

All the dishes above was available in ala carte menu, it started from 6 - 30 October 2015 by lunch time (1130AM - 1430PM) and dinner time (1800PM - 2200PM).