Scatter-Brain

I've found this place by accident, when i was browsing for other chocolate desserts place. But since this one have an open kitchen and built from scratch chocolate, it's intrigue me and i just had to drag Q-tan to this place. 

This ended up as the 2nd place we visited after the 1/15 cafe. When we met we spent a really long time sitting in one place, it even feel awkward to order anything after 3 hours lunch would it? XD We found out that this place is close to the cafe so after our initial search and getting lost, we found it. The first floor is the open kitchen and the 2nd floor is the dining place.

Unluckily when we arrived, they didn't have free table for us, since half of the place was closed due to an event. And sadly they didn't have any waiting area, so we awkwardly standing there, waiting. They really should have waiting area, seriously. After a while we thought we should just do a take away and try the drink first, and came back next time if we thought it taste decent. After we ordered the drink and paid, we saw some people just went up and paid, so we got ourself a table... At this point of time i feel that, compared to just wait and being served, i think it's better to be proactive in here, because it seems the staff was pretty clueless as much as we were. 

Looking at the menu, they really got a lot of creative things going on and all looks so interesting. We have ordered Hot pure choco, which is melted dark chocolate mixed with milk or basically hot dark chocolate for me and Ice Choco Salt Caramel for Q-tan. I got to say i'm impressed with the chocolate drinks they serve here. Mostly in other chocolate parlor, when they say dark chocolate, you will got little bit bitter version of milk chocolate, I would say it's like 30% dark chocolate bar. While in Pipiltin cocoa, you really got your dark chocolate, it;s bitter yet still sweet, my hot pure chocolate taste like around 50-60% dark chocolate bar. It's really a hot chocolate made for adult. It's rich, bitter-sweet, and thick but still easily drink down on your throat. They didn't made fun of dark chocolate and i love them for it. While the Ice choco salt caramel, really does taste like it should, it's salty and caramel sweet with strong taste of bitter chocolate. it really is a very interesting combination. Taste damn good. 

Then we've decided to settle ourself with Plants (cookie crumbs cake with honeycomb covered in dark chocolate) along with Deconstructed Banana Tartin. 

When it first came into our table, I was simply blown away with the creativity. The first to arrive is the Plants. It looks like a bonsai on top of a big rock with 2 honeycomb 'rock' on the side. The small bonsai tree was really potted in a real plants pot. Really if i'm not in this store and you gave me this, i would assume its actually people trying to play with dirt, because the cookie crumbs does look like a real dirt. The 'bush' is made of cotton candy, a very sticky one, but taste good. A chocolate 'trunk' and the 'dirt' made of layered chocolate sponge and lemon cream (something like chocolate tiramisu just minus the coffee) covered in cookies crumbs. The actual cake actually taste decent, lemony, sweet, a bit chocolaty taste and a surprise of a whole berry fruits inside, but the cookie crumbs taste like mothballs (it's not like i have ever eat mothball but yeah i figure if i do eat them it will taste like this) so when you eat them altogether it give this horrible aftertaste in your mouth. So we try to get rid of the cookies crumb when we ate the 'Plants'. Luckily the honeycomb taste absolutely delightful. Overly sweet covered with bitter dark chocolate, so it's balance well in your mouth. and of course the chocolate itself that they use for the 'trunks' was exquisite. If it's not for that i might trash this desserts quite badly.

Then came the Banana Tartin. As always the presentation itself blew us away. it has two injection tubes, one caramel, one chocolate cream, salt caramel tuiles, banana cream and banana cake. Really looks like food playground, and the way to eat it is start from the tuile and go the left side putting the sauce, dip on the cream before you much them. I never had such fun playing and eating with a desserts XD when i eat them altogether (without including the cake) it taste like banana ledre (a traditional indonesian snack) the banana cream taste so banana, almost feel like you eating banana milk puree.. if that's making sense XD the tuile was soft crunchy, could be more awesome if it was crunchier. Too bad the cake was hard and doesn't taste appetising and fun like the rest of the plate. But still it was fun! 

The place is pretty comfy, a little bit too rustique for me and the decor is really raw, and the lighting is pretty minimum (hence the hard time for me to take a picture since it's already dark outside when we finally get a table -  should have brought camera) but hey you came here to play with your food XD

Pricing is upscale, our drink is around 44-47k each, their specialty drink varies around 30-50k while the dessert varies around 50-70k. They also have savoury food, which varies around 40-90k. They also sell ordinary slice cake and pralines. They got this promo, tweet pipiltin cocoa picture while tagging their username and show them to the staff and you get yourself a free praline/macarons, which of course i took advantage of, i could say their pralines is pretty good. Basically their chocolate quality is great so it's no wonder at least they can make a decent pralines.

All in all i would really love to come back to just saw the creativity. Taste was a bit arguable, since none of the desserts really blew me away. But if you're looking to have a grown up hot chocolate while keeping check with your childish side, i think this place is a good place to visit XD

Pipiltin Cocoa

Jl. Barito II no. 5

Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan

http://www.pipiltincocoa.com/