LEMBAYUNG

Sixteen seats. Seven courses. One fire.

Fire, and what we ferment before it

Lembayung is a counter for sixteen, run by chef Arina Dewanti. Every service is cooked in front of you over a single wood fire, from ingredients fermented in the room behind you weeks earlier.

There is no menu to choose from. There is one menu, seven courses, and it changes with what the ferments are ready to give.

"We cook the fire down all day. By your first course it is embers."

ICourse I

Aged snapper, kecombrang, charred coconut cream

Cured three days, served just warmed by the coals with torch ginger.

Pairing · young coconut kefir

IICourse II

Tempeh two weeks old, brown butter, lime

Our own tempeh, taken past ripeness on purpose, grilled hard.

Pairing · dry riesling

IIICourse III

Fermented chili prawn, sago, fire oil

Prawns from Cirebon, a chili paste fermented sixty days.

Pairing · sake, junmai

IVCourse IV

Ember-roasted duck, salted plum, ash

Whole duck over embers, glazed with plums salted last season.

Pairing · pinot noir

VCourse V

Black rice, tape, buffalo milk

Fermented black rice, sweet cassava tape, warm curds.

Pairing · palm wine

VICourse VI

Cacao nib, smoked sugar, tamarind

Local cacao, sugar smoked over the same fire, sour tamarind.

Pairing · aged rum

VIICourse VII

Kombucha of the day, on the house

Whatever finished fermenting this morning, poured cold to close.

Seven courses · Rp 1.850.000 · ± 2.5 hours

The room

The sixteen-seat counter facing the hearth — Sixteen seats, one counter.

Seatings

18:00 and 20:30, one table each.

Days

Wednesday to Sunday.

Dietary

Tell us at booking; the menu bends, within reason.

Dress

Whatever you would wear to a good friend's dinner.

Location

Jl. Senopati 42, Jakarta Selatan.

Photography

Welcome, until Course V. Then just be here.