Welcoming
Holy Smokes to the jungle!
Attended
the press launching event earlier today and can’t help but blogging it to you
right now. Why? Because they’re opening for public TOMORROW (11/07/2015), and SUNDAY (12/07/2015) before they're closing and re-opening back at the end of July (after Idul Fitri).
Holy
Smokes is another venture by the Ersons group and it’s the sibling
of the older venture, The Holy Crab, no doubt the mastermind behind the
monsters has got to be Chef Albert Wijaya. This guy is amazing, he’s a person
with decent personality, amazing sense for food and good at mixing fun with
business. I have good expectation towards Holy Smokes to be honest.
Both
Holy Smokes and The Holy Crab are located in Senopati area, while THC is
located in Gunawarman street, Holy Smokes located in Wolter Monginsidi exactly
beside KFC. I like the simplicity of the interior design, mixed with something
country with a lot of woof, industrial but still pretty much neat.
If you’re
not really aware about “smoking” technique, and believe me I am not referring
to the one where cigarette is involved, the cooking technique consist of
flavoring and preserving food by – short to say – burning, the material that’s
mostly used for burning is definitely wood and lumbers of wood! For the
proteins, they have Smoky Beef Brisket, Texas Short Ribs, Southern Style Beef
Ribs, BBQ Chicken and Pulled Brisket Sandwich, if you don’t want to stuck with
one option, guess what? They have the combo menu featuring Chicken &
Brisket combo, Brisket & Ribs combo, and Chicken & Ribs combo. To
accompany your beautifully cooked meat, they also have extensive side menus,
such as: baked beans, coleslaw, green salad, corn, homecut fries, potato salad,
mac & cheese, onion straws, BBQ chicken salad and rice. The hot tea and
soft drinks are refillable, but not meant for sharing. Details of their menu
can be seen on this photo:
They apply easy self-service ordering method, basically after you’re done with the
ordering, you’re gonna be given this (somewhat like) pager, and when this
gadget rings and the lights starts to blink, it means your order is ready.
Here
are the food showcased on the event, just how the food’s going to look like
when it’s served to you. I got the chance to sample everything on the platter
sample (except the short ribs which I was pretty much sad of), but I will
definitely return for the good looking short ribs!
BBQ
Chicken – IDR 150k (whole size with two sides)
Texas Short
Ribs – IDR 278k (with two sides)
Smokey
Beef Brisket – IDR 142k (three slices with two sides)
Southern
Style Beef Ribs – IDR 263k (with two sides)
The
baked beans was altogether good in both flavor and texture, the fries was not
my favorite (kind of soggy), the beef brisket was AMAZING and I got the cut
with more fat and the fat was obviously THE BOMB, even more when it’s combined
with their BBQ sauce, the pulled brisket sandwich was nice and I love the
texture of the fluffy bread and the lightly seasoned brisket, the chicken was
supposed to be good but sadly was slightly undercooked, and the mac & cheese
was just okay.
A
little smoking and meat showcase by Chef Albert Wijaya himself, with him,
premium wagyu beef and I mean, look at that salivating piece of heaven!
MY GOODNESS! Low and slow cooked meat!
I
think some people need to be educated more about the smoking technique, because
I do receive some comments given on my IG by judgemental people that I found quite displeasing and
disappointing, the coating was indeed from the smoking process, but that could
be totally harmless when you know how to eat it correctly, instead of saying
things that sounds nonsense, I found that pretty annoying.
I
sincerely hope that Holy Smokes would do good, the thing that I love about their
meat is the freshness and the good quality of the meat already spoke for
themselves, even without all that over-seasoning and BBQ sauce glaze, the
seasoning was very light but you can tell that the flavor actually came from
the meat, and that’s supposed to be the main idea of smoked food, well that in
my opinion. BEST OF LUCK!
Holy Smokes - Slow Smoked BBQ
Jl. Wolter Monginsidi No. 27
Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan 12180
021 - 722 1795
Opening Hours: 11:30 AM - 10 PM
Average spending for two: IDR 700k
Price Range: IDR 88k - IDR 278k
Dresscode: casual
FIND ME HERE
Map for Holy Smokes
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