Betawi

Restaurant · Brisbane, Australia

About Betawi

Betawi serves Indonesian food from a small shopfront at 1A/172 Clarence Road in Indooroopilly, a riverside suburb of Brisbane a short distance from the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus. The restaurant traces its name and recipes back to a Betawi restaurant first opened in Dubai in 2007 by its founder, Isti, who later brought the same traditional dishes to Brisbane when the Indooroopilly location opened in 2022. The Dubai original and the Brisbane branch operate as separate, independently run restaurants rather than a single chain, and this listing covers only the Brisbane location.

The kitchen is staffed by local Indonesian cooks who prepare dishes fresh each day using imported herbs, spices and sauces rather than pre-made pastes, according to the restaurant's own promotional material, and the menu states that no monosodium glutamate is added to the food. Among the dishes most frequently mentioned by reviewers is soto betawi, a beef soup native to Jakarta's old Betawi community that is built on a broth enriched with coconut milk and sometimes beef offal, served with rice, vegetables and a squeeze of lime. The restaurant also serves nasi goreng as a signature fried rice dish, chicken skewers with peanut sauce in the style of sate ayam, a whole fish prepared crisp and heavily marinated, and martabak manis for dessert, a folded sweet pancake typically filled with a combination of peanuts, chocolate and cheese.

Betawi can be reached by phone at +61 7 3157 2698. Published opening hours vary between directory listings, with one source giving a Tuesday to Sunday schedule and another giving a different weekly pattern, so hours are left unconfirmed here and should be checked directly with the restaurant. The restaurant offers dine-in seating as well as home delivery and takeaway, and online reviews describe it as suitable for families with children. No independent confirmation of halal certification was found, though the cuisine draws on Betawi and broader Indonesian home cooking traditions that are commonly prepared without pork or alcohol; diners with specific dietary requirements should confirm directly with the restaurant rather than assume.

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• Phone: +61 7 3157 2698

Category

Indonesian Restaurant in Australia

Tags

Family-friendly Indonesian places in Australia

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