by Diana Tri Wulandari
If you haven’t heard of BAM!, I am sure you will soon enough hear a lot about this new combo of a tapas slash sake bar. Affiliated with its Singapore counterparts under the same name, BAM! Is a brainchild of former Santi chef de cuisine Pepe Moncayo that remains as one of the hottest restaurant in the island country. Here in Jakarta, BAM! shares space with Senju Omakase & Sake Bar, which has some items the menu but leaves it up to the guests to order their favorite sushi or robatayaki menu, of course paired with the restaurant’s wide selection of Sakes.
Although that day, after a lot of buzz and words about BAM!’s tapas menu, I came with a high anticipation of the restaurant’s Spanish-inspired side of things. After greeting me and briefly explaining today’s dishes Chef Arturo Hernandez hurried back to the open kitchen to prepare some of his signature dishes. As I waited, I studied the restaurant’s menu, under the trendy origami inspired lamp fittings—and I noticed that the dishes bear no name; BAM! shows its focus to its quality of food by only listing the highlighted ingredients of its dishes.
Andrew Baker, the restaurant’s director stated that that the menu is changed every three weeks or so, and is highly determined by what’s in season and freshest that day, with the few exception of some signature mainstays.
For the first menu, I was served with angel hair pasta with octopus, bamboo shoots, and freshly chopped chili. The octopus and the bamboo shoots lend a refreshing twist to this dish, and the sliced almond gave a pleasant texture; perfect for those looking for a simple lunch menu with a subtle tapas influence.
Chef Arturo then upped the ante by presenting one of BAM!’s signature, the characteristically sweet and succulent Japanese squid stuffed with Singaporean otak served with squid ink puree and flavorful rostit sauce which somehow able to beautifully blends the visually exotic dish into a crowd’s favourite.
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