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| - Went here with a group of 4 last night for dinner. We ordered the rijstafel (rice table), a mixture of about 10 entree items served family style for sharing. On top of that, we ordered the duck entree. All of the dishes were fantastic as usual. With the rijstafel, you get shrimp, beef tenderloin, chicken and egg dishes, as well as a cucumber salad and Indonesian-style crackers. At $25 per person, it's not cheap, but well worth it due to the variety, quality, and quantity of the food. As many people are not familiar with Indonesian cuisine, this is a great way to try a lot of dishes at once without having to decipher the menu. There's also a vegetarian-only rijstafel option, and many vegetarian dishes on the menu using tempeh and tofu.
This would have been a 5-star review, but service is almost always cripplingly slow, which I believe is due to understaffing. Servers are increibly knowledgeable and eager to share useful recommendations, but are often rushed through service due to having far too many tables. For example, our server was able to describe everything on the menu up and down, and recommend that we order 3 rijstafels for our group of four, with an additional entree for even more variety. However, when she came to deliver the food she had to rush through all the descriptions and even apologized for it before running off. Unfortunately, she apologized several more times for things running extremely slow, but it never got better, which is a shame. Owners, if you're reading this, add another server during peak times!
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