Djawa

Restaurant · Eindhoven, Netherlands

About Djawa

In the Strijp district of Eindhoven, a city better known for its industrial and design history than for Southeast Asian food, Djawa has built a loyal following for Indonesian cooking served buffet style. The restaurant sits at Schootsestraat 136, a few minutes from the Strijp-S creative quarter, and keeps its dining room open from four in the afternoon until nine at night on most days, closing only on Wednesdays.

The format favors a changing spread of traditional dishes rather than a fixed a la carte menu, a style more commonly associated with Dutch rijsttafel tradition than with individually plated courses. Reviewers describe generous portions of slow-cooked meats and rice dishes, and the restaurant also lists vegan options on its menu, a less common accommodation among Indonesian restaurants in the Netherlands. Djawa pours Indonesian tea alongside its food, continuing a pairing long associated with Dutch-Indonesian dining rooms going back to the rijsttafel's origins.

The restaurant has built a strong reputation online, with a 4.6 out of 5 rating across 332 Google reviews and 4.5 out of 5 across 71 Tripadvisor reviews, figures that place it among the better reviewed Indonesian kitchens outside Amsterdam and Den Haag, where most of this directory's existing Dutch listings are concentrated. Eindhoven itself has a sizeable Indo-Dutch population tied to the city's postwar growth as an industrial center, though no source consulted for this listing draws a direct historical line between that community and the restaurant's founding, so that connection is left unstated rather than assumed.

Djawa can be reached at +31 40 244 3786. No website or email address independently confirmed as current could be located for this listing, and the restaurant's social media presence was not treated as sufficient on its own to publish contact details beyond what the review platforms consulted independently corroborate. Visitors planning a weekday evening meal should note the Wednesday closure, which both sources consulted for hours agreed on without exception.

Address

Opening hours

Sun Mon Tue Thu Fri Sat

4:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Wednesday

Closed

Contact

• Phone: +31 40 244 3786

Category

Indonesian Restaurant in Netherlands

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