Jakarta is not spoiled by Spanish restaurants. Hence I was quite looking forward to try new arrival Entrada. Located in one of the new office building at SCBD, next to La Luce it opened its doors few months ago. It is advertised as Spanish restaurant...and bar. The decor resembles a street cafe with about 20 tables or so. There is a decent size bar you could sit by and have a drink. There is alive music every evening.
We went on Tuesday night and the place was empty...felt weird. Nonetheless the band played for a solid hour, which was good. Given that place was deserted the service was quick and attentive.
Menu is a selection of cold tapas, hot tapas, and mains. Reasonable selection - you get old time favourites like potatos bravos, manchego cheese, meatballs in spicy sauce. Mains have a good selection of beef, pork, and fish dishes. So far so good.
From selection we tried it was a bit hit & miss: meatballs in spicy sauce were excellent, potatos bravas very average, cold cuts were okay, three tiny slice of cheese pathetic, main of pork cubes in skewer was excellent.
Wine list is poor for a Spanish restaurant. From Reds selection they had 4 Spanish wines, and about then or so of new world.
Our dinner for two with bottle of wine cost Rp1.3mn. Too much in my opinion for average experience. I could get much better food & atmosphere in next doors La Luce. Still Entrada deserves a second chance of a busier night.More