Dining area at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, featuring timber tables, layered seating zones, and display shelving with local textile accents within a refined all-day dining setting.

Grand Cafe

Grand Hyatt Jakarta

Conceived as a contemporary grand café within the heart of the Grand Hyatt Jakarta

The restaurant is anchored by an expansive live show kitchen where the majority of dishes are prepared à la minute, placing craft, movement, and theatre at the centre of the guest experience. Rather than a single open hall, the space unfolds like a refined residential manor, composed of a series of distinct rooms that offer moments of familiarity, comfort, and quiet ownership for the hotel’s long-standing clientele. This house-like layout transforms a 200-seat venue into an intimate collection of settings, while a deliberately minimal back-of-house kitchen reinforces the primacy of front-of-house cooking—bringing transparency, energy, and a sense of generosity to every meal.

  • Client Grand Hyatt Jakarta
  • Location Indonesia
  • Expertise Market Research
    Concept Creation
    Interior Design
  • Project Type Restaurant
  • Completed 2018
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Open buffet kitchen at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, featuring timber-clad stations, live cooking counters, and a warm, market-style dining environment designed for all-day service.
Service staff preparing a table at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, capturing the attentive hospitality and relaxed all-day dining atmosphere of the venue.
Chef preparing food in a live show kitchen at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, highlighting theatrical all-day dining and a la minute cooking.
Dining area at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, highlighting a central art feature framed by timber detailing, warm lighting, and layered seating within an all-day dining setting designed by Social F+B
Close-up of brass pendant lighting at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, highlighting warm metallic finishes and layered illumination that enhance the dining atmosphere.
Close-up detail of curved timber architectural elements at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, highlighting warm wood tones, crafted joinery, and layered interior detailing designed by Social F+B
Live buffet area at Grand Café, Grand Hyatt Jakarta, designed by Social F+B with open preparation counters, market-style displays, and a layout that creates a sense of culinary theatre.

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