On wednesday it's Sayonara Harper.
Besides the "FUN" of preparation and presentation of Field Office Harper Community Empowerment Projects 2204/2005 in BO Monrovia the other additional Fun will be: " Sunday Brunch at the Royal or at the Mamba Point Hotel". I can not explain but it feels like walking around in the desert with miles of the unknown and finally meet your "FATA MORGANA" for real. DRAMA QUEEN maybe but those of you who have experienced the Jakarta Sunday Brunches SAY MY NAME!
Miss my Sunday Brunches at the Intercontinental Jakarta and the Mulia at Senayan. Sunday Brunch was the Occasion of the Sunday. The food was superb and the diversity of choices was fresh and ex cuise.
A starter as always Sushi, Fusion rolls, Oysters with a dash of freshly squeezed lime and the variety of Salmon. Main course a Fresh Salad, Pasta, Roast Beef grilled just the way you like it with a rich Dijon Mustard sauce. Bread, Foreign Delicate Fromages and Chocolate Desserts and more at the end. Sunday Brunch became a tradition we couldn't resist and why should you if you had the choice between a Rolls and an Eastern-European car before the Berlin Wall was taken down. No arguments.
Miss my Sunday Brunches at the Intercontinental Jakarta and the Mulia at Senayan. Sunday Brunch was the Occasion of the Sunday. The food was superb and the diversity of choices was fresh and ex cuise.
A starter as always Sushi, Fusion rolls, Oysters with a dash of freshly squeezed lime and the variety of Salmon. Main course a Fresh Salad, Pasta, Roast Beef grilled just the way you like it with a rich Dijon Mustard sauce. Bread, Foreign Delicate Fromages and Chocolate Desserts and more at the end. Sunday Brunch became a tradition we couldn't resist and why should you if you had the choice between a Rolls and an Eastern-European car before the Berlin Wall was taken down. No arguments.
Making reservations for a Sunday Brunch was much more easier than queuing at Mc-Supersize-D. Even the hotel reservation staff recognized our voice over the telephone and the deal was made and a table was always available.
Our, me and my Dutch now UNMIL but previously UNICEF Jakarta staff "partner in crime" also currently working in Liberia (small world), our promotion campagne for Champagne was in-famous and notorious.
Once the restaurant thought that we were "not on speaking terms" since we made our reservations separately for the same Sunday. They expressed their sincere concern and asked why the separation for the Sunday Brunch. That Sunday we joint our party’s and made a reservation with 25 friends and their friends friends and confiscated the largest tables with the sofa's under the mirrored walls.
Not only the food but also the free flow sparkling champagne was very extreme highly appreciated by us regular clientele. Can you imagine free sparkling bubbles from 11.30 am to 3pm and one time even until 10pm (with additional costs of course) because of the cozy atmosphere; in-depth conversations and other heart to heart liaisons were too much fun to waste.
Some one told me once that: “Time is not wasted when you're wasted all the time". We were always allowed by the gérant to have a peek in the stock of the Sunday Brunch's quota. The waiters had at least two extra bottles after Brunch Hours available for our party. I tell you...... the staff in the InterCon already knew us and provided us with all the égards and assistance. We were regulars. In Holland we say: KIND AAN HUIS.
At the Mulia Hotel in Jakarta it's even crazier, B52's and the amazing CHOCLATINI's. Free chocolate martini's (shaken not stirred) with a chocolate ring on the glass. SWEETTT........... All you can drink is actually all you can absorb some people even imagined them selves as sponges and absorbe, absorbe and absorbe. We had some hilarious encounters with choclatini's and B52's. Sunday Brunch in Jakarta (miss my city and my apartment).
Present time in Monrovia/Liberia the Sunday Brunch is small- small. Every week you can try the Lebanese, Chinese or Indian Sunday Brunch cuisine at the Mamba Point Hotel. The Royal is more general in their Sunday Brunch display. But Free flow..........Ice Lemon Tea and fresh fruit juice from a carton. All you can drink does not have the same point of entry like Free Flow Champagne in Jakarta. The venue for the Royal Hotel Sunday Brunch is named after Elvis Presley's crooner "Heart Break Hotel". Yep....Hartbreaking it is but for Liberian Sunday Brunch Standards its better than nothing. Good to know about the wireless internet connection that is available in both venue's.
Close to the Royal they just opened a Sushi resto. Yes, Liberia has it's own first official Sushi Resto. Might as well drop by and check out the raw fish and bubbly "Beluga" eggs next weekend.
Life will never be the same after you experienced Sushi and Sparkling Champagne in Jakarta.
Close to the Royal they just opened a Sushi resto. Yes, Liberia has it's own first official Sushi Resto. Might as well drop by and check out the raw fish and bubbly "Beluga" eggs next weekend.
Life will never be the same after you experienced Sushi and Sparkling Champagne in Jakarta.
Pictures used for this article are from INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL JAKARTA, thank you guys for regular sending me invitations to attend your cuisine, cigar and wine activities and torture me with this bitter sweet.
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Oh yes - how we appreciated those Intercon brunches and lovely lovely Intercon staff that would keep the bubbly flowing and ignore our under the table, post-3 o'clock-cut-off stash. God bless them wherever they are. Special memories of the fellow Intercon brunchers with whom we spent those lazy, boozy Sundays with at the long table under the mirror. The Four Seasons Amman is very good, but does not quite have the Intercon Jakarta magic, i.e. free flowing champagne.
Hey M,
Right you are, wanted to post the notorius picture of you and "....others....." at "the Sundaybrunch let's go to the already finished BBQ and Soccer finals until we couldn't get a cab" after party.
Bet Amman has different kind of after parties nowdays.
Oh well c'est la vie. Good to hear about you're efforts to continue the tradition without the free flow. Btw did you got the chinese book???
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