Healthy food in Jakarta: 10 Cafes, catering and juice bars that deliver fresh food and drinks to your home!

Written by Nadia Crowe
Edited by Beverley Lennon

Cooking tasty, healthy, and quick meals can be a struggle. Not everyone has the time to scour through Pinterest to find creative recipes, especially when you waste hours being stuck in Jakarta’s terrible traffic while on your way back from work!

Alas, eating healthy is still a really important aspect of life, not only will it make you feel better physically, more often than not you’ll find yourself improving your mental health too!

Something that’s become increasingly popular as well, are juices and smoothies! Cold, refreshing, and sweet, you don’t need to buy an expensive juicer to get one of these bad boys for breakfast!

Thankfully, delivery exists, when you find yourself lazy to go shopping for the right ingredients, cursing at the traffic outside, or just craving something easy, fresh and quick, all you have to do is check out one of these healthy food/juice bars and click order! They offer more than just salads!

*Due to the current COVID-19 situation, some of the places listed below operate on delivery only*

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1. Achieve all your fitness goals with one app: Fit Gourmet

Fit Gourmet is more than just a healthy restaurant, and more than just a catering service. It’s part of a much bigger network called FITCO, an app which aims to help you achieve all your goals!

Much to most of our dismay, Indonesian food isn’t particularly healthy, and so you might think that you need to give up your Nasi Goreng or your fried foods but Fit Gourmet proves otherwise!

By replacing certain ingredients with much healthier options like shirataki, gluten free flour, and more, they’re able to achieve the same taste with almost half the guilt! You may find yourself loving their food so much that you join their catering service!

2. Bali’s Insta-worthy smoothie bowls have made it to Jakarta: Berrywell

If you’ve ever been to Bali, you know it’s famous for colourful, fresh, delicious smoothie bowls; these are often found around the most Instagrammable cafes!

I’ve tried to recreate them at home, but no bueno, they never look as pretty. Berrywell is Jakarta’s smoothie bowl expert, and they’re more than happy to bring you over one of their delicious concoctions!

It’s never a bad idea to boost your immune system with a quality serving of fruits and vegetables, plus it’s a great way to keep your sugar cravings at bay!

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3. Do you need a daily bowl of rice?!: Honu Poke & Matcha Bar

Poke bowls are on a whole other level – a hit among the foodies and health-conscious alike! Fresh seafood and Hawaiian flavours are a refreshing alternative to the traditional salad or Buddha bowl.

At Honu Poke, your bowl comes with a generous amount of raw fish, marinated with sauces like soy sauce or sesame oil, topped with additional ingredients of your own choice!

Plus, they even sell a bunch of matcha infused drinks so you can truly get the full Hawaiian and Japanese experience!

4. Take a shot of wellness: Naked Press

Shots, shots, shots! But the healthy kind, and definitely the no-hangover kind! Health boosters are all the rage, why wouldn’t you want to down a shot of juice and be filled with immunity boosters, superfoods, and extra vitamins?

Naked Press specialises in cold pressed juices, which helps to retain more vitamins and minerals as opposed to normal juicing, plus they’re now 100% locally sourced! Whether you feel you’re coming down with the flu and want to shove it off, or you want to maintain your strong immune system, a health shot will do the trick!

5. Say goodbye to unappetising homemade salads!: Otts and Jill Salad Bowls

Remember those disgusting homemade salads that I talked about earlier? Otts and Jill are far from that! Each of their delicious bowls are colourful, nourishing and chock full of flavour, not once will you complain about eating rabbit food! They even sell bottles of their delicious salad dressing so you can drizzle it over anything and everything.

If you find yourself hooked on their promise of health and good taste, why not subscribe to their weekly or monthly plan for a discount on salads everyday of the week!

6. Order in some food for the soul: The Roots Salad Bar

Artisanal, Mindful, Soulful. That’s the tagline for The Roots Salad Bar, and they promise to deliver on each of their carefully curated meals. Despite being called a salad bar, they provide so much more! In particular, their plant-based burgers look delicious and are the perfect alternative to the unhealthy Big Mac from … (ahem) that you’ve been craving!

It’s a guilt-free cheat meal, one that both satisfies your need for a burger, and also nourishes you at the same time! All of their meals are jam packed with nutrients, protein, and vegetables so you’ll be getting your daily needs without sacrificing any of the taste!

7. Do away with unnecessary additives, go organic!: SESA

SESA specialises in organic, pure, and sustainable ingredients. They support Indonesian farmers and give the best price for both you and them. Their foods aim to be beneficial for you in one way or another, whether it means being low calorie, nutrient dense, or high in protein.

If you’re looking to eat high quality food, and clean out your system from toxic additives, then SESA is definitely where you should look to.

Not only ready made meals, SESA also offers a wide range of organic grocery items so you can start cooking your own wholesome meals at home!

8. For when you’re trying to cut out meat: Burgreens

Cutting out meat is arguably one of the best ways to be a little kinder to your body and the environment! Whether you’re a full blown vegan, or you’re just starting out with Meatless Mondays, Burgreen’s will introduce you to a world of flavour outside of the traditional meat heavy dishes. They have both local dishes with a vegan twist and international favourites that are almost better without the meat (read; burger!)

It’s definitely time to hop on the vegan train if the meals are all as good as the ones from Burgreens, you’ll be astounded at the flavours, creativity, and how much you don’t miss the meat/dairy!

9. For when your sweet tooth is aching but you want to stay healthy: Sweet Gains

There’s no denying that even the healthiest of people get that one off craving for something naughty. An indulgent cookie, or a decadent brownie would do the trick, but what about all your hard work keeping yourself healthy?! Of course, a treat once in a while won’t do you any harm, but if you really want to watch your diet, Sweet Gains has got you sorted.

Featuring low calorie, high protein, gluten free, refined sugar free, and flour free desserts, this is the ultimate way to get guilt-free guilty pleasure! Order a box or two to feed your soul whenever you’re feeling the need!

10. Surprise yourself, take a wild ride: Gorry Gourmet

Gorry Gourmet does things in a non-traditional fashion, currently you can order their meals from Go-food and GrabFood, however it will be a complete surprise! Rather than giving you a selection of specific meals, they give you a selection of diets and when you order them they’ll give you the meal of the day in that criteria. Currently there are four diets: Keto, Pregnancy, Weight/Fat loss, and Muscle building!

Take a gamble and choose to be surprised, their meals are always delicious, halal, and of the best quality!

Special Mention 1: Shop here to fill your kitchen with healthy ingredients: Wellness Pantry

If you’ve given all of the restaurants above a shot, you may be ready to start experimenting in the kitchen! Finding certain specialty ingredients can be a difficult task at a normal grocery store, which is why Wellness Pantry exists. A full vegetarian grocery store, they aim to provide all your specialty health food needs right from your couch at home!

Whether you’re after some healthy snacks to kick your bad chitato habit, or you want to go full on MasterChef, they offer sugar free, gluten free, and fully vegan products so you’ll be able to create whatever dish you want!

Don’t wait for the new year, start your healthy lifestyle now! Tag a friend who’ll love getting healthy food delivered to their house too!

PLEASE NOTE: All the above information is correct at the date of publication. If you come across any changes or updates, please let us know and we will update the information accordingly. Thank you! Tell us

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