In 2012, Stéphane and Frédéric launched their first restaurant dedicated to Indonesian gastronomy: Djawa. Today, their fifth brand has just opened facing the Canal Saint-Martin. Here is the opportunity to make our taste buds travel to an exotic country, far from the clichés about Asian food.
Indonesian street food
The Djawa menu is relatively short but varied, with some salads, some stews, some wok proposals, some desserts and fruit cocktails for vitamins. Good news, all dishes have a vegetarian version. All is prepared on site and when there is no longer a dish, it is finished until the next day. Some simmered dishes can only be served in the evening because they require a long preparation time.
As soon as you enter, you order on the spot or to take away and you settle down to wait for your dish or you take a look at the open kitchen. The dish is not long in coming. If you have opted for a tasting on site, it comes in a pretty plate of midnight blue glazed ceramic that brings out all the colors of the dish.
Immediately, the mixture of spices tickles the nostrils, it is the beginning of the journey. Among the most intriguing dishes spotted on the menu is chicken opor where curry, coconut milk and lemongrass combine their sweetness with white rice and jackfruit (in the vegetarian version) or chicken in the original version. There is also beef rendang, a slightly spicy dish where coconut milk and its 12 spices accompany rump steak or, for vegetarians, tempeh (fermented soy). Whatever you choose, the change of scenery will be at the rendezvous. On the dessert side, total cracking on the chocamole, a surprising and tasty mixture of avocado cream with chocolate and coffee (very little). For large appetites, it is possible to choose the maximum size for the dish.
An inspired decoration
The restaurant takes up the codes of the chic and exotic style of its predecessors with many rattan lamps, benches loaded with yellow and green cushions. Green walls enhanced with wooden claustras for the warm side alternate with brick or green tiles of the most beautiful effect. Many plants dress the whole.
Thus, the Djawa of the Quai de Valmy is a new address already very popular that allows you to discover new flavors of Asia. We are surprised to discover new taste alliances from ingredients yet known, but assembled with creativity.
