What i love about this Indonesian restaurant is their food, for sure! Their OPOR is lovely .. Must try! Their food portion are also quite large.. The service is ok.. the price of their food is reasonable ..

They have a very unique concept - it is literally a drive-in warehouse/garage with a courtyard & tables to one side.
Serves indonesian food. The food is served in generous portions, cheap and of a reasonable quality.
Overall, it ticks all the boxes and is god if you are in the area and want indonesian food, but isn't a place you would go to especially.

Approximate cost: $8

A very unique concept of restaurant.. they are really open a restaurant like in the garage.. where you park your car near where you eat (under the same roof) and like you eat your meal in the garage.. I like the chicken noodle and the opor chicken .. nice food that they are selling..

Serves nice javanese style fried chicken. The portion is quite tiny. The deep fried tempeh is tasty especially when eaten with sambal.

I've eaten at this place many times, more often than I'd like, because my dining companions like it. I don't know why. About the only thing it has going for it is that the food is cheap, but that's not saying much. You can get better Indonesian food in the Carlton / CBD area for the same price.

The interior of the place is most unusual, possibly unique in Melbourne. It really is a garage; you can park your car along one side, and the dining tables are along the other side. Click on their website link for a photo and you'll see what I mean. But the novelty of the layout wears off quickly, especially in the winter months when Antarctic winds blast through the garage door. And no matter how quirky the room, you can't eat the scenery. It's the food that matters, and the food here is just not up to scratch.

I've roamed all over the menu, and I've yet to find a meal that was more than just barely adequate. The flavours tend to be on the bland side, and they often use cheap, fatty, tough cuts of meat without trimming them properly. On one visit, I finally thought I'd found a dish I liked - the beef rendang. It had a good spicy flavour, and tender meat (although there wasn't much of it). I ordered it again on the next visit - and this time the meat was so fatty and gristly that it was almost inedible.

There are two other things I dislike about Garage. One is the cheap, nasty plastic cups supplied with the tap water. I loathe plastic cups. I don't use them at home, and I don't want to see them when I eat out. To Garage management, if you're reading this review: you wouldn't expect customers to eat off plastic plates or use plastic cutlery. Why, then, do you have plastic cups? Are you really too cheap to supply decent glassware with the tap water?

The other thing I hate is the toilets. Now, my expectations of toilet facilities in the Carlton area are not high - they're often housed in sheds or lean-tos, and are consequently pretty shabby. But I do expect them to be clean. The Garage's toilets are upstairs, and look like they are essentially unchanged in terms of layout and fittings since the days when this place was a working garage or factory. So they'd be fairly grungy even on a good day. But on my most recent visit, they were just plain filthy - and it didn't look like recently deposited filth, either.

That visit was the last straw. I've given the Garage more than a fair go - about eight to ten visits in total, because when my friends ask me to come have a meal with them, I don't like to say no. I'm prepared to put up with a fairly average eating place in order to spend time with my friends. But the quality here has been consistently well below average, and I've had enough. I finally said to my friends: look, I know you all like the Garage. Continue to go there by all means, but count me out from now on.

this place is providing the best east javanese cuisine. the environment is quite unique since it's a large garage.

One of the best Indonesian restaurants and they serve the best Ayam Penyet (Deep fried chicken). The cafe is actually a huge garage and you can park your car inside the cafe. The service is a little slow though, even when me and my companions order the same dish, we don't usually get them at the same time.

Approximate cost: $15