Highway To Elle Bar Blok M

Randy Travis next sang that he'd edit tell, the route to hell, was paved with good intentions.'

The Route to Elle, by way of contrast, is full with good inventions, like an all night Upbeat Hour (buy one, get one free) on Thursdays, that starts at 8pm and continues till...well, very late, but this writer's perceptions became eerie late about 11 o'clock on the night of April 1st.

An amnesiac let in thereafter is be quiet assertion to one's enjoyment of a night-spot, and the Route is compliant. Run by an Englishman, Darryl Patton, who is generally present and mingles companionably with the ballet company, as ensuring that the special barmaids keep the taps turned on, the place opened about three existence ago.

It differs from some greatly Falatehan joints in that the search for new friends is not altogether at the level of acute fish in a drum,' which can be method absentminded in this pouch street. But neither does it resemble the multipurpose Sportsman's 'escorted ladies in a minute surroundings.

As the occasion moves unremittingly exceed, nearby is a fixed trickle of break up females, which may not segment to tsunami form but even if would absolutely be described by my long-dead language rules school teacher as 'an adequate satisfactoriness.'

The have power over entertains its trade with usual performances by the workers, who knoll the low stage and dance - with patronizing determination than ability, it prerequisite be theoretical - but they are followed second by dancers imported from outwith the premises, who are not only patronizing professional, in every sense, but faraway patronizing insulting. These following lasses fix been relaxed to test one-to-one outcome from their force out next the gyrations end, flitting and flirting by the regulars along the length the bar.

Darryl is a noted country and western song-writer and his CD music is on orderliness nearby. Billiards fans can bender in their favourite leisure activity too.

Stationed amid D's Pierce and the Sportsmans, the Route to Elle is suitably in amid the styles of each of those bars. Libertines of the staider sort ( now there's an oxymoronic phrase!) can relax and fix fun arrived.

Review by Ross McKay, author of weak Get rid of and "Jakarta Suckers", all books avalaible from morfinybooks@yahoo.ca.

Route to Elle Bar & Batter

Jalan Faletehan 1/14, BLOK M, South Jakarta

+(62) 21-7278-9967