IF you want to have an interesting experience and want to reminisce for a moment when using the train, there's no harm visited Resto and Cafe Locomotive. In addition to providing a variety of locomotive-style menu, the cafe is located directly behind the monument Locomotive Bandung.
Locomotive position Resto and Cafe is not very strategic, because on the road veered between Pioneer Road and Jalan Kebon Independence Jukut, Bandung, or in the office of PT KAI. However, restaurants and cafes can be found through the two opposite lane so that you are already past, can be reversed.
The new cafe opened mid-September 2009 and was able to accommodate 250 guests. Created two floors and semi open air, allowing visitors on the upper floor can directly look into the street to see the old train monument.
Occasionally, visitors can also see the long trains that cross the area. Meanwhile, the scene on the second floor is the garden.
"The atmosphere we created this intentionally so that visitors can enjoy the train with a variety of menus that also nuanced train," said Captain Locomotive Resto and Cafe, Ahmad Revelation.
Semi-open air were made comfortable for those who want to enjoy the cool city of Bandung with different preoccupations. Not only offering spectacular style train, it was packed Locomotive Resto and Cafe was located on the train.
Do not be surprised if the approximately 50 items from the menu, there is a menu with the name of the train, such as rice, cars, locomotives ice, ice gerbongku do not leave, and others. Rice cars for example, not only packed with a unique name, but it was neat.
Rice is served with banana leaves with rice besides, there are also vegetables, meat, and sauce in each package. So is ice locomotives made with striking red color and looks refreshing. The price offered was quite varied. For heavy meals can be purchased from Rp 10 thousand-Rp20 thousand.
Menu and feel deliberately created deliberately to bring nostalgic impression. No wonder, in some corner of the cafe a few photographs displayed large trains.
Ahmad further said, this cafe is a pilot project of PT Kereta Api Restaurant (reska), a subsidiary of PT KA in Bandung. Previously, this cafe has been established in Jakarta, Semarang, and Surabaya. Despite start-up, it still will make corrections decorations. The plan, the room will be similar to the train and galleries featuring various types of trains.
(Arif Budianto / Newspaper SI / FTR)
