Address - No Opening hours - All are open every day from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm Map - See below Telephone - See below Menu - In Japanese and English CC - OK

All are open every day from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. Credit cards OK.

Telephone numbers
Shibuya 3476-6424. At the (I think) fourth floor of 109
Shinjuku 5323-4214 Click here for the map.
Akasaka 3588-0794 Click here for the map

November 11, 1996:
Yesterday I met my friend David Mills, who has worked four years in Indonesia. He tells me that in his opinion I have it completely wrong. Jembatan Merah is the best Indonesian restaurant in town, he says, and Bengawan Solo the worst. I thought it fair to tell you, particularly because I haven't visited Bengawan Solo in a while. This is pluralism in action.

According to an Indonesian man I have met, the best Indonesian restaurant in town was the now defunct Jembatan Merah's Ikebukuro branch in the Sunshine City Building. To me, though, Jembatan Merah is the least impressive of the trio, but it is an Indonesian restaurant after all, so by definition worth mentioning. Besides, it really isn't bad. Good stuff, and decently priced.

Christmas 2001, a letter from Claus P. Regge:
Francesco,
upon reading your very positive review of Jembatan Merah, Akasaka branch:
David Mills and I together with two young women, one of whom had lived in Indonesia for several years, went to Jembatan Merah a couple of weeks ago. To describe it in one word: atrocious. Some dishes like you'd expect at a cheap ramenya. Nothing, apparently, even close to an Indonesian original. Ice-cold red wine, almost freezing. Ask David -- he, too, was massively disappointed and felt the place had really gone downhill since his last visit.
Sic transit gloria mundi.

Best
Claus

Well, I was reviewing Shibuya's branch, which until six months ago was magnificent. Sic transit gloria mundi, indeed.
Frank