Soto Betawi is a popular soup in the Jakarta area. Just as soto soto Madura and eldest, soto Betawi also use the innards. Besides offal, often other organs are also included, such as eyes, torpedoes, and also the heart.

The term soto Betawi culinary cuisines present in Indonesia around the year 1977-1978, but not bearti no soto prior year. Who popularized and the first to use the word soto soto Betawi is a seller in THR Lokasari / Prinsen Park, of course, with its own characteristic taste.
Many sellers soto during those years, generally referred to Mr. Soto foot "X" or other designations. The term soto Betawi began to spread into the general term when the seller soto is closed around 1991.