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Anno 1885 at 57 Promenade: your favourite café below your doorstep
Picture your first morning here
You do not plan a café trip. You take the lift down, and the smell is already there. A salt bread, still warm. A Mont Blanc coffee. A table where the staff start to know your order. Anno 1885 itself posted on 25 October 2026 that, by a regular’s eighth visit that month, they were starting to know what that person liked.
That is the difference. Most Thamrin apartments sell you a location. 57 Promenade, with Anno 1885 downstairs, sells you a morning you can repeat without thinking. The easier a good habit is to start, the more likely you are to keep it. An elevator ride is easier than a car, a driver, or a decision.
Picture this six months from now: are you still searching for “a good café near Thamrin”, or do you already have one: the one your neighbours discovered first, and now queue for?
What Anno 1885 actually is
The bakery at Anno 1885 describes itself as “crafted with heritage, served with heart”, serving bakery, coffee and dining in a vintage-classic room that visitors repeatedly call cosy, spacious and calm. It is a family bakery that happens to sit in a lobby. Its own posts trace the family bakery line to Garut, where the Garut line began in 1885 with Khoe Pek Goan, and say the same family is behind it today. Its sourdough starter, named Georgie, is 24 years old and, in Anno’s words, goes into every pastry it makes, brioche included.
The café is still, in its own bio wording on 4 November 2026, on a trial run: “we’re learning as we go: what you order, what runs out first, what you’d like to see on the counter.” That honesty is part of the appeal, and the reason to check hours and the counter before a first visit, because a trial-run menu can change.
What to order when you live here
The menu at Anno 1885 is short, and that is the point: breakfast, a work-from-café morning, a lunch meeting and a coffee with a guest, all in one room.
- Salt Bread (original, garlic, and chocolate). The item visitors mention first, in post after post. Anno’s own description is simple: sourdough, with an airy, open crumb from its own starter.
- Pain au chocolat, plain croissant, and Kouign Amann. Laminated dough, folded, chilled and folded again. Anno shows that work in its posts, and the croissant cut open, with thin layers and chocolate still melting inside.
- Mont Blanc coffee and Matcha Latte. The two drinks Anno led with in its 2 November 2026 GrabFood post, alongside pain au choco and salt bread. Its coffee is described by visitors as bold enough to pair with something sweet.
- Lunch, not just pastries. Mie Goreng Kampoeng, Bakmie Ayam Jamur and Chicken Bites: proper plates for a working day, aimed, in Anno’s words, at the office crowd who want something more than a snack.
- Seasonal specials. A black sesame latte for Halloween season in late October 2026, and a bagelen heritage snack from the Garut story. Expect the counter to rotate; that is the point of a bakery café still learning what its regulars order.
For you, the practical win is that breakfast, a work-from-café morning, a lunch meeting and a coffee with a guest can all happen in the same room, below your unit, without leaving the building.
Why visitors call it “hidden”, and why that matters for a buyer
Photos of Anno 1885 and reviews tell the same story: a calm room, still quiet for now.
It is easy to miss. It sits inside an apartment complex, behind Grand Indonesia, rather than on a main shopping street, so you hear about it from someone who has already been, not from a shopfront you walk past.
Visitors found it the same way. One August 2026 post said, plainly, that without Threads they would not have known there were good pastries behind Grand Indonesia, inside 57 Promenade. Another called it a hidden hangout spot in central Jakarta, “cozy, spacious, and tenang” yet close to the city centre. On Threads, a work-from-café post about Anno 1885 drew 607 likes and 40 reposts, with the writer saying the café was “enak banget” for working and that they wanted to come back, close to Grand Indonesia and Bundaran HI.
By August and September, it was everywhere on Instagram and Threads: the bakery tucked behind Grand Indonesia, the salt bread everyone was telling their friends to try. That is how a place like this stops being a secret: one post, one visit, one friend telling another.
For you as a buyer, “hidden” cuts both ways, and you should feel both edges. Right now, it means a calm room, not a tourist queue. It also means the address will not stay a secret. The people who buy while a place is still being discovered are the ones who get the calm version. The people who wait get the queue, and the demand that follows it.
The Japanese layer downstairs: salon, barber, and dinner in one promenade
Anno 1885 has company at ground level. The 57 Promenade promenade area also lists SUMIBI Japanese Restaurant, an Alfamart minimart, a BBQ area, and a Japanese hair salon, the same ground-floor set that appears across 57 Promenade rental listings.
The salon is Colors Beauty Gallery, a Japanese hair salon in the 57 Promenade complex, where reviewers praise Japanese products, friendly staff, and a stylist visitors name as Sugai-san for cuts that stay stylish and easy to maintain. Reviewers also note the obvious resident’s sequence: after a haircut, a good meal at the Japanese restaurant opposite the salon.
Put together, your Saturday here can run like this, without a car: a haircut with a Japanese stylist, dinner at SUMIBI, and a salt bread and coffee at Anno 1885 the next morning, all in the same promenade. That is a day that does not need planning, which is exactly why residents stay, and why guests remember the address.
What living above Anno 1885 changes, day by day
- Your mornings get shorter. Coffee and bread are a lift ride away, before the Thamrin traffic starts. The café opens at 07.00, so an early start is a real start, not a wait for a mall to open.
- Your workday has a second office. Visitors recommend Anno 1885 as a work-from-café spot: calm, classy enough for a meeting, comfortable enough for a laptop morning. For a resident, that is a meeting room you do not have to book.
- Your weekends have a ritual. Anno 1885 has run free Mont Blanc coffee for Car Free Day runners who show up in running attire, a small ritual that turns a building into a neighbourhood. Residents do not need the promotion to join the ritual; they live at the starting point.
- Your guests have somewhere to go. “Meet me downstairs” is a sentence most apartment owners cannot say with a straight face. At 57 Promenade, downstairs is a heritage bakery, not a lobby chair.
- Your evenings end earlier at the café. Anno 1885 closes at 18.00. Dinner is SUMIBI, Grand Indonesia, or Plaza Indonesia (see the downside question below). Do not buy the morning story and expect a late-night café too.
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Our honest take
If you want a Thamrin address where daily life already has a favourite room (warm bread, bold coffee, a table that knows you), Anno 1885 makes 57 Promenade feel lived-in in a way a show unit never can. If you want late-night café culture, a large mall food court inside your own building, or a menu that never changes, this is not that purchase. Walk in at 07.30, order the salt bread, sit for an hour, and then decide whether the lift ride home feels like coming back to a place, or just going back to a unit.
Picture your first morning here
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Last updated: 2026-11-04 · PT Berjaya Global Makmur · Sources checked 4 November 2026: @theanno1885 on Instagram, Threads posts about Anno 1885, and 57 Promenade listings for the promenade tenant set.
Questions about Anno 1885 at 57 Promenade
Where is Anno 1885?
In Jakarta, Anno 1885 is in the lobby and promenade of 57 Promenade, Jl. Teluk Betung I No. 57, Kebon Melati, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, behind Grand Indonesia, a few minutes from MRT Dukuh Atas, according to Anno 1885’s own posts.
What are Anno 1885’s opening hours?
Open daily 07.00–18.00, according to its Instagram bio checked 4 November 2026. The café says it is still on a trial run, so check hours before a first visit.
What should I order first at Anno 1885?
On the menu at Anno 1885, start with Salt Bread (original, garlic, or chocolate), then pain au chocolat and a Mont Blanc coffee or Matcha Latte. For lunch, try Mie Goreng Kampoeng, Bakmie Ayam Jamur, or Chicken Bites.
Is Anno 1885 only for 57 Promenade residents?
No. Visitors come from outside the building, which is why it appears in café guides and Threads posts. Residents get the advantage that matters: they do not have to travel to it, find parking, or queue from outside. It is below your unit.
What is the Japanese salon and restaurant near Anno 1885?
The same promenade lists SUMIBI Japanese Restaurant and Colors Beauty Gallery, a Japanese hair salon in the 57 Promenade complex. A haircut, a Japanese dinner, and a morning coffee at Anno 1885 can all happen in one promenade, without a car.
What is the downside of living above Anno 1885?
Three honest limits. First, Anno 1885 closes at 18.00, so it is a morning and daytime café, not a late-night spot. Second, it is still on a trial run, so hours, menu items and popular items selling out can change. Third, because it sits inside an apartment lobby, first-time visitors can struggle to find the entrance. “Hidden” is charming once you know it, and confusing the first time.
How do I get the free Dyson vacuum + mop?
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