Even though there are 7 restaurants and bars at Rosewood Abu Dhabi, this luxury hotel can still create unique private dining experiences just for you.
We recently found out that one of their Chefs is from Indonesia, so we asked Rosewood Abu Dhabi to put together a special Indonesian set menu for us.
After missing Indonesia from our time spent living there, we wanted to re-create the incredible flavours of Indonesian food, without having to travel!
How To Book
Interested in experiencing your own slice of Indonesia?
We recommend sampling the amazing flavours put together by Chef Jaka, that brought us back to our time living in Indonesia!
To enquire about any private dining experiences, you can contact abudhabi@rosewoodhotels.com.
When To Go
Private dining experiences at Rosewood Abu Dhabi can be booked all-year round.
We loved sitting on the terrace at Glo now that the weather is cooler.
Costs Involved
Private dining doesn’t have to cost the earth, so we were pleasantly surprised when the Rosewood Abu Dhabi quoted us AED255 per person for this one-of-a-kind set menu, which included a range of starters, main courses, sides, desserts, and soft drinks.
How To Get There
Best to view Rosewood Abu Dhabi’s ‘Location’ page on their website for details about how to get to their hotel.
Tips For Your Visit
When booking a private dining experience, it's a good idea to let the Rosewood know in advance whether you have any dietary requirements and how spicy you want your food.
Indonesian food can be spicy, so we let them know the exact spice level that we prefer in advance.
Rosewood Abu Dhabi can host a private dining experience in any of their 7 restaurants and bars, so you choose whichever place you’d prefer.
We chose Glo, as there are incredible city and water views at this restaurant/bar!
For our private dining experience, Chef Jaka used the grilling stations set up for ‘Wood Fire & Glo,’as Indonesian food is commonly grilled.
Glo was the perfect setting for not only our Indonesian food to be prepared as authentically as possible, but we could also watch Chef Jaka and his team cooking throughout our private dining experience!
What To Expect
We were able to choose the exact table seating that we wanted on the terrace at Glo, with us wanting to watch the sunset over the city of Abu Dhabi!
We agreed to the set menu with the Rosewood in the days before our experience began, so we were able to add one of our favourite Indonesian dishes to our set menu, Nasi Goreng.
This was the set menu that we had on the evening of our private dining experience.
As you can see from this menu, our set menu was a sharing style experience.
It included all of the food that was mentioned on this set menu, so we are glad that we didn’t eat earlier in the day!
The starters that we loved included the Nasi Goreng (Indonesian classic egg fried rice) and Martabak Asin (Spring roll stuffed with egg and beef).
The main courses that we loved included the Bebek Goreng (hand-pulled fried duck) and Roadside Style Grilled Seafood (spicy marinated seabass, prawns, squid and clams).
Finally, we loved the Pisang Goreng dessert (brown sugar glazed banana fritters with caramel ice cream).
Chef Jaka remembered that we told him that we used to live in the suburb of Benhill in Jakarta, so he created a set menu with particular reference to food from this area of Jakarta, which involves a lot of seafood.
He also created Indonesian delicacies from his ‘home’ town of Bandung, which features a lot of deep-fried food, so we really loved how he used his ‘Mother’s’ recipes, in order to bring out the flavour of his food.
What's Unique
Rosewood Abu Dhabi have created the only private dining Indonesian set menu in the UAE for us and we’d love for you to try it as well!
The Verdict
We were so impressed with the quality of food and the imagination of Chef Jaka to re-create such authentic dishes from Indonesia!
We loved being able to see Chef Jaka and his team create their dishes and watch which fresh ingredients they used!
Chef Jaka and the Dining team at Rosewood Abu Dhabi certainly went above and beyond to help us create our unique private dining experience.
Tom also loved walking around the outside terrace at Glo!
We were so impressed in fact, that we’d love to watch the sunset and experience this exact Indonesian set menu again soon!
Sounds like fun? Don’t just take our word for it, experience it for yourself.
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Above prices & information correct as of December 2021.
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