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<a href="https://destinasian.com/category/indonesia/jakarta">Jakarta</a> may be seeing a growing tide of Spanish restaurants, but Costa is the first with a Catalan-leaning menu. “My best food trip was to Barcelona,” recalls Ryan Thejasukmana, its easygoing head chef. Born on Lombok and trained in Sydney, he teamed up with the homegrown <a href="https://www.biko-group.com/?DestinAsian">Biko Group</a> to open this venture in February 2025. Dishes here are reminiscent of coastal Spain in their preparation, flavors, and sense of freshness—the menu undergoes minor changes a few times a week to harness the bounty of land and sea from producers in Indonesia and abroad.
Skewered with wild banana prawn and pickled guindilla pepper, Costa’s rich morcilla blood sausage showcases the meat of free-range Balinese heritage pigs. Vegetables grown south of town in the uplands of Bogor include the white asparagus on a kohlrabi-flecked egg salad and melt-in-the-mouth slices of yellow tomato that dress grilled Norwegian mackerel in agridulce sauce. The knockout dish? Butterflied flower prawn from Kaimana in West Papua province, chargrilled the Basque way and slathered in olive oil, shallot, and garlic with a splash of absinthe. Every bite evokes the richness of the ocean.
For mains, try the Marrunga Marble lamb rack with Rioja red-wine sauce, and arroz gambas, a paella featuring Patagonian prawn atop Spanish bomba rice cooked in a rich seafood stock. Dessert-lovers will relish the dreamy formatge ice cream derived from ricotta-like homemade cheese and the classic crema catalana, whose crackling sugar crust reveals a duck-egg custard infused with cinnamon and star anise. Ask to sit counter-side by the open kitchen: they’re the best seats in the house. —James Louie
<a href="https://biko-group.com/costa?DestinAsian" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biko-group.com</a> 
+62 811 1926 3336 
<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/b9Jbvumu5ZSAarqa6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jl. Gunawarman No. 63, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia</a>

Grilled lobster at Costa; head chef Ryan Thejasukmana in action.

Costa: Catalan Countertop Dining

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