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Go here if you're hungry because they really feed you, Rp300 for an average meal which is as good as Solo's ritziest restaurant, The Orient, but half the price; only open at night. The best sate is opposite Hotel Nonongan on the corner near Aneka Rasa. The Ramayana Restaurant, JI. Ronggowarsito 2, also has excellent chicken sate, Rp250, Rumah Makan Centrum, JI. Kratonan 151, has a menu which is like a magazine, so much to choose from. Here you get what you pay for (Rp250-500); delicious meals. Along JI. Secoyudan: Seger Ayem, JI. Secoyudan 16, has outsanding ice juices and a combinasi bush, Rp150, which includes fresh tomatoes. Rumah Makan Puas, JI. Secoyudan 30, has excellent gado2 and racikan selat, both Rp100. Another place down the street sells loket yogya (similar to gado2) for Rp75, fantastic and healthy; look for the sign. There's cheap eating places around the train station for Solonese specialties like nasi liwet (sweet salty), nasi rawon, nasi langgi and nasi pecel tumpang, all Rp50-100, all different combinations of rice with completely different tastes and condiments.

There are many night markets: Pasar Lagi, Pasar Gede, Pasar Senggol, etc. At night on the sidewalks try the local dessert, a portion of rice custard on a cripsy pancake with banana slices on top (also chocolate sprinkled ones); best hot. On JI. Teuku Umar at night the hot milk tents open up; Rp75 with honey; Rp90 with honey and egg yoke; Rp95 with honey, egg and chocolate. Other goodies to munch on, a warm meeting place. One of the best of these street tents at night is the first on the left going down JI. Teuku Umar from JI. Riyadi, the one displaying the giant letters 'NASI GUDEG', which is a Solonese speciality. Featuring a creamy coconut sauce on top, here eat an outstanding meal for around Rpl-200. Madukoro, 12 km west of Solo in the little town of Kartosuro on road to Yogya, has the best ayam goreng or seger ayam around; try also the 'madukoro drink'.