Eastern Promise is a friendly, laid-back expat pub with several rooms, each with a particular atmosphere. You have a quiet bar in the entrance, then a dining room for eating British and Indian food, and in the back a beer garden with live music for partying. Also on the side, a billiard/darts room, and a sports-watching room. Eastern Promise is usually very crowded, especially on weekends, with a lot of expatriates mostly above 35.
Surprisingly, many Indonesian girls go there to hang out and I would put it in the OK bars to meet single women in Jakarta. I don't know if they met there, but there are always quite many mixed couples in EP.
There are special promos or events almost everyday, so be sure to check:
Facebook pages: Eastern Promise or EP (the latter one is more updated)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/easternpromise
Website: http://www.easternpromise-jakarta.com/ (new site - April 2011)
Eastern Promise
Kemang Raya No. 5
Jakarta Selatan
DKI Jakarta - Indonesia
Phone number: +62-21 7179 0151
Email: lens.ep@bugilsnews.com
Facebook pages: Eastern Promise or EP (the latter one is more updated)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/easternpromise
Website: http://www.easternpromise-jakarta.com/ (new site - April 2011)
Kemang Raya No. 5
Jakarta Selatan
DKI Jakarta - Indonesia
Phone number: +62-21 7179 0151
Email: lens.ep@bugilsnews.com
how to rsvp this venue??thx
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ReplyDeleteBeen there a few times. In my opinion the bargirls working there are getting fatter and uglier. Other then that it's a nice place. The western food is good but a bit expensive.
This place is great. Recently they have changed the side bar into a full blown sports bar with a huge big screen and many plazma TV's. The staff is really good and the waitresses are cute, friendly and love to party. EP also has great bands that play in the back. the only drawback is there is a bunch of tight ass, half gay Brits and massively drunk Aussies that frequent the place, treat the staff like sh*t and refuse to pay their bill a lot. Other than that it's great,
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice place with a good atmosphere - it's actually multiple places in one, a mini-nightlife evening all in one place. Start the evening playing pool & having drinks, then later move to the restaurant, hang out in the sports bar a bit, then check out what band there is. There are bule couples here, bule women & girls, mixed couples, Indonesian girls, and yes many expats. Sadly the misbehaving drunk ones are the same nationality the world over. Drinking does not constitute a license to misbehave.
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Make sure you order you beer in a bottle , the beer on tap is really watered down and disgusting.
ReplyDeleteWatered down beer? Hah, seems to get me as drunk as I would expect to be and tastes better than the bottles in my opinion. Also, as well as there being lots of mixed couples in this bar there is plenty of opportunity to pick up single girls at the weekends.
ReplyDeleteWent there last night and didn't particularly like it. Lots and lots of drunk Brits and Aussies, and a cock-to-pussy rate of about 8 to 1 - what a sausage fest!!! To be fair, this may have had something to do with a rugba game that was going to be shown live sometime later. True, the chicks behinde the bar are pretty cute, but I'm sure all of them have hooked up with so damn many bules that unless you're willing to tip a lot or look like Brad Pitt, they will be to jaded to even smile. Meh, not my cup of tea.
ReplyDeletethe food here during my lunch was pretty awful , service is mediocre whilst the manager was more focused on the Television projector stand than on the service. The table next to mines complained too about the wrong order which happened also at mines. Bread served was from the day before and the bacon which goes along the English Breakfast was not crispy and smelled odd.
ReplyDeleteBeen there...will never go again, food was crap, beer smelled funny and the service was as bad as I have experienced anywhere. I also found it dark and smoky. I couldn't recommend it.
ReplyDeletebeen there last week and had a curry. it was sooo aweful. will never eaten anything there. but inside clubs seem ok. overall, there are sooo many places better than here. if you dont know anywhere, just try.
ReplyDeletei was there last week, the chicks are fat and ugly. it's so turning me off esp. when some f-ugly chicks trying to lean on you as their trick so you could get along with them and finally pay for your "bill of two" the hell!
ReplyDeletecurries have gone well down hill, place is looking tired, needs some help in this competitive city
ReplyDeleteI'd agree with the pretty bad service complaints. And the manager who was more interested in the TV. The Indian food, however, was pretty good. It's a bit of a depressing Westerner outpost with the usual tarty hangers-on in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteYes I had pork chops the other week all bones, gristle although the atmosphere's good shame.
ReplyDeleteThing is when you tell the owner or waitress they don't care either, SERVICE?
Read it, heard it, these are all only opinions, based on personal "issues", everyone has it. I'm an Indonesian Woman, and I don't give a shit what your opinions are, I've got mine too, based on my personal "Issues". But I think I better look for other things to do, then minding how people live their lives. I've got mine to consider about.(J)
ReplyDeletePrices are getting stupidly high at EP a bingtang bottle is now IDR43K and a Heineken is IDR56K. Special price on the Bintang draft, but the taps are so old and dirty the beer comes out flat and tasteless.
ReplyDeletenice Place, but so many expert and too two-bit........
ReplyDeleteHopefully this place has changed as I'm thinking of going tonight with my wife to see if they are showing tonights AFL final. My wife is a stylish Indo so if it hasn't changed I think we will move on to somewhere else quickly. Might not take the risk and might try Mad Dogs first. Thanks to all for your comments, wish they were more positive but comments are from 2 - 3 years ago, perhaps it"s under new management now.
ReplyDeleteGood place, visited this weekend and enjoyed. I will return. Fun to hang out with friends.
ReplyDeleteBe careful with bar tabs they will rip you off big style, band good atmosphere good can pick up girls lots of mixed couples a decent night out if you watch you bills.
ReplyDeleteNot really interesting anymore with EP coz making me not comfy with many indo "picked up" ladies, and ughhhh sorry not my level. True allbthe drinks mostly a crap maybe for beer in the bottle more safer than from tap
ReplyDeleteI've just been at your bar together with my wife and 14 year old daughter from Holland because she is here on a holiday and wanted to enjoy a "broodje kroket" before returning to Holland tomorrow. As newcomers we had no idea that every Friday between 5 and 6 pm there is this crazy game called pressure hour. Nobody told us about it until the moment we wanted to leave the place just before 5 because we finished our food. We were all of a sudden informed about the so called rules of engagement and we were told that it would not be wise to go because that would at the same mean this so called game of unlimited drinking has to come to an end. Because my daughter didn't feel like witnessing all kinds of drunk people in that hour and also because I will not be intimidated by anyone, we decided to pay and leave. What happened after that can best be described as an attempt to have a lynch party. People inside the bar were yelling and screaming and physically trying to stop us from walking out the door. I can say this was one of the most frightening and intimidating moment in my life. I was also scared what effect this would have on my 14 year old daughter. As I'm writing this I can still feel the adrenaline pumping through my body. This is one crazy place where I will never set one foot inside again. In Holland something like this would not even be allowed where you are intimidated, threatened and forced to do something against your free will. Probably within no time the place will be shut down down by the authorities, because what Eastern promise is doing here is a criminal offence.
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