Coffee At The Peak For Healing And Enjoying The Beauty Of Nature

JAKARTA - Who doesn't want a moment to escape the hustle and bustle of the city of Jakarta? Healing in Puncak, Bogor, looks like it could be the perfect choice to fill the weekend.

One of the activities that is increasingly popular is enjoying coffee in the midst of a natural atmosphere, which gives a calming sensation of relaxation while feeling the cool air, green scenery, and fresh mountain winds.

For example, at Stuco Coffee Citeko Hills which is located on Jalan Cidokom No. 8, Cisarua, Bogor. This cafe can be the perfect destination for beautiful coffee with friends or family.

This Coffee shop has a unique concept by utilizing the traditional Manado stage house, which is 20 years old.

Here, visitors can enjoy coffee while looking at the beauty of the hills of Puncak which is a hidden gem.

According to Izzuddin Jundi, owner of Stuco Coffee Citeko Hills, this place will start operating in 2020, when PSBB is in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The owner uses 3 hectares of land for cafes, vegetable gardens, fruit, and flowers.

"This cafe concept idea carries the authentic style of a wooden house with a genuine building structure that is 20 years old. Before opening a cafe, we built a garden first, thus creating job opportunities for senior residents to take care of the garden," he said when met at Stuco Citeko Hills, Puncak area, Bogor, West Java, recently.

Having been running for 4 years, Stuco remains one of the "living" coffee shops that continues to grow. To maintain its existence, cafe owners impose strict standards to ensure quality and comfort for visitors.

For example, imposing a cafe environment free from disturbing music, so as not to provide Sisha.

There are also various food and beverage menus offered. One of them is Smoke Beef Chimichurri, Citexas, to sweet snacks such as MONEYrros which are the mainstay here.

Smoke beef chimichurri is an imported Brisket meat dish that is absorbed for 12 hours, then given Balinese kusamba salt, then served with fresh and savory chimichurri sauce from South America on rice.

One unique thing, almost 70 percent of the raw materials are obtained from the garden itself and local materials. Jundi said this step was initiated to maintain the quality of the freshness of the food raw materials served to support local farmers around the cafe.

"We do empower everything around here. Each harvest type of syuran is also rolled out to change other types of plants to more diverse."

"Visitors who come can also stop by the garden to harvest the crops of the plants here," said Jundi.

Then for coffee, visitors can enjoy Geisha Coffee. This coffee variety comes from Panama, which is famous for its floral taste which has the aroma of berry-berry.

In addition, there are also other choices of coffee that are no less delicious, such as black lemonade (cold coffee served with soda and lime nipis, shakera (copy served with sunkis oranges, and creamy and soft mitigation kreme shaken mitigation.

Then there is also a drink from markisa juice whose fruit comes from the garden next to the cafe. This markisa drink is also recommended to try out visitors who stop by.

More than that, Stuco Coffee also has a picnic area and a seat at the house on stilts, with a total capacity that can accommodate nearly 300 people.

In addition, there are various interesting classes for children, such as stringing flowers, food platings, yoga, and outdoor roasting sessions using manual techniques.

According to Jundi, many tourists from Jakarta come to this coffee shop, either for meetings, working remotely, or just healing. The operating hours start at 10.00 to 22.00 WIB.