Bali's Best Cafes and Restaurants: 13 Top Spots

Bali's best restaurants are often found in popular tourist areas where luxury hotels are located. Therefore, the most culinary delights are found in Ubud, Seminyak, Nusa Dua, and Uluwatu. Recently, more and more fine dining restaurants have opened in Canggu. However, all of the restaurants listed below can be enjoyed without staying at a specific hotel.

Important: Please note that all menu prices you see in restaurants are excluding taxes and services. Please add about 20% on top.

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Koral Restaurant, The Apurva Kempinski Bali, Nusa Dua

How about a meal right in the aquarium? Koral Restaurant offers an incredible experience – dining surrounded by the underwater world. You'll have the chance to spot manta rays, a variety of fish species, and even small sharks! The food is also top-notch, as the kitchen is helmed by a Michelin-starred French chef.

Just imagine: while you're dining, a diver swims past, greeting your guests. Koral is perfect for a romantic dinner, a proposal, or a birthday party.

The six tables located in the glass tunnel inside the aquarium are particularly popular. Please note that these tables are reserved in advance, especially for evenings, and you may be required to order drinks to accompany your tasting menu.

If the tunnel tables are occupied, the main restaurant dining room, adjacent to the aquarium, also offers a magical view. Try exquisite appetizers, such as caviar on coconut jelly with potato churros. Or try lobster with shiitake mushrooms or veal striploin with black truffle. Finish your meal with a banana-parsley dessert with almonds.

• Approximate prices: Gastro menu - about $100 per person. 8-course Zen menu - about $170. Wine - additional $60 per person.
• Location: at the 5-star The Apurva Kempinski Bali, Nusa Dua.

Koral Restaurant, The Apurva Kempinski Bali

Syrco BASÈ, Ubud

One of the best fine dining restaurants in Ubud. It opened a couple of years ago, and its chef previously received two Michelin stars for his work in the Netherlands. Although the Michelin system doesn't rate restaurants in Indonesia, the standard of cuisine here is truly exceptional.

The restaurant's signature feature is its exclusive use of local Bali ingredients. A garden adjacent to the restaurant grows vegetables, herbs, and spices. The menu features local seafood. Many dishes draw on traditional Indonesian and Balinese flavors with a modern twist. For example, spicy sauces like Sambal Dabu Dabu or Urap have been adapted to appeal to tourists unaccustomed to intense heat. The restaurant offers two main dining options: an 8-course tasting menu or a more exclusive 17-course "Ku" set menu. If you choose the latter, you can watch the chef at work.

• Approximate prices: the cost of 8 "moments" is about $110 (17-dish set "Ku" - $140), drinks are paid separately.
• Location: 10 minutes by taxi north of Ubud centre.

Syrco BASÈ

Locavore NXT, Ubud

Your dinner will take place in a beautiful building surrounded by magical gardens. But most importantly, everything that ripens in this verdant garden is served to your guests. All ingredients at Locavore NXT are exclusively locally sourced. This restaurant is a cultural journey.

The first encounter begins in the bar area, centered on a large banana tree. Nine different drinks are served with the tasting menu. Dinner takes place in several different dining rooms. The dishes are very original.

Enjoy a 20-course dinner! You'll be offered headphones with music and narration to set the mood for the evening ahead. After your first course, "Into the Wild," and a drink, you'll be led down a staircase to an underground chamber called the "Mushroom Room." In this museum-like room, you'll be treated to a strange dish called "Ugly Mushrooms," which you must retrieve from an illuminated terrarium.

Dinner will then continue in the main dining room. Sample cassava noodles with sea urchin, fish in a bulun boan leaf, aged port with cassava, koji rice porridge, and raw lamb tartare—despite initial apprehension, a truly delicious masterpiece.

During dinner, you'll be given a tour of the kitchen. By the way, if you don't feel like leaving after a hearty meal, you can stay in one of the "huts" offered.

• Approximate prices: the cost of a full tasting set is approximately $120 per person excluding taxes and drinks.
• Location: 15 minutes by car south of Ubud center.

Locavore NXT

Mosaic, Ubud

This legendary restaurant has been a symbol of Bali's culinary excellence for 25 years. It was the first fine dining restaurant to open in Ubud. The glass-walled dining room creates the feeling of being seated outdoors. The restaurant consists of several areas: the Tipple Room for informal à la carte dining, a secluded garden gazebo, and an open kitchen where you can watch the food being prepared.

The Dining Room is an elegantly decorated room with glass walls overlooking the verdant gardens. The garden features a large barbecue area where the chefs prepare dry-aged duck breast, the restaurant's signature dish.

Trout confit with bell pepper and seared foie gras are served here. A unique detail of dining at Mozaic is the tray of herbs, fruits, vegetables, and nuts placed at your table.

• Approximate prices: 6 dishes: - $85.
• Location: Campuhan, near the center of Ubud.

Mozaic

Apéritif Restaurant, Ubud

Apéritif is part of the luxury Viceroy Hotel. It feels like stepping back in time. The building itself impresses with its colonial style and décor featuring Balinese artwork. The Pinstripe bar is decorated in a 1930s style. Apéritif offers extensive tasting menus of up to 10 courses, but you can also choose a three-course menu and 10 exclusive cocktails. Appetizers include Hokkaido scallops with pineapple sambal and rose-shaped Tokusen wagyu carpaccio.

• Approximate prices: a three-course set menu costs approximately $70 per person. A nine-course Signature tasting menu starts at $125 per person, including one cocktail.
• Location: The hotel is located northeast of Ubud.

Apéritif Restaurant

Revolver Espresso, Seminyak

A cozy coffee shop tucked away in an atmospheric alley right in the heart of Bali's fashionable resort town of Seminyak. Known for its high-quality coffee, stylish interior, and signature drinks, it's a popular spot for both locals and tourists to enjoy a cup of coffee.

• Average bill: $7-$13.
• Location: in the center of Seminyak.

Revolver Espresso

Sisterfields, Seminyak

One of Seminyak's most popular breakfast and brunch spots, the menu features modern Australian cuisine prepared with fresh, local ingredients. Examples include truffled eggs with mushrooms and bacon, acai bowls with blueberries and banana, and the signature burger—a beef patty with smoked cheddar, house-made sauce, and pickled onion rings. Sisterfields also offers a wide selection of juices and tropical smoothies with coconut nectar and homemade nut milk.

• Average bill: $10-$20.
• Location: in the center of Seminyak.
  
  

Room4Dessert, Ubud

Hidden away in the Ubud jungle is a unique restaurant! It's the world's first fine-dining restaurant specializing in desserts. It became famous thanks to the Netflix show "Chef's Table." Chef Will Goldfarb is considered one of the world's top pastry chefs, having learned his craft at several renowned restaurants.

The dinner consists of three parts: savory appetizers, desserts, and petits fours. Guests move to a separate room for each part. The highlight of the dinner is the five dessert courses prepared by the chef. The five-course dessert set begins with several savory appetizers, followed by five unique desserts, and concludes with delicious petits fours. The dishes can be paired with stunning cocktails or non-alcoholic beverages.

• Approximate prices: about $60 per person.
• Location: close to the center of Ubud.

Room4Dessert

Seven Paintings, Ubud

The restaurant combines art with gastronomic pleasures. You enter a darkened room, transformed by a projector into a gallery displaying famous paintings. Each dish is inspired by renowned artists. And each plate comes with a surprise – you're given the opportunity to create your own cocktails, draw on your plates, and interact with interactive 3D visualizations.

• Average bill: $40-$50 per person.
• Location: in the center of Ubud.

Seven Paintings

The Cave, Uluwatu

How about dinner in a real cave, where the walls come alive with a light show?

This is one of the most sophisticated and expensive fine dining restaurants in Bali. You'll pay significantly more here than at some other fine dining establishments on the island. The Cave is located in a genuine natural underground cave, near Uluwatu. It was discovered just a few years ago and converted into a circular space with approximately 10 tables. During your visit, you can explore the cave beyond the main dining room. When food is served, the lights are dimmed, and various scenes play out on the walls.

The menu was developed by Chef Ryan Clift, who has worked with renowned chefs such as Peter Gordon and Emmanuel Renaud.

• Approximate prices: 7-course set menu around $100 without drinks.
• Location: Pecatu, near Uluwatu.

The Cave

Desa Kitsune, Canggu

A café and shop from Maison Kitsuné, combining Japanese and French aesthetics. The space offers an atmosphere and stylish architecture inspired by traditional Balinese villages.

• Average bill: from $15.
• Location: Canggu, about 15 minutes from the center.

Desa Kitsune

Sa'Mesa, Canggu and Seminyak

This chain's restaurants don't have private tables. You'll be seated at a large table with strangers who might become your friends by the end of the evening. This isn't haute cuisine, but rather an Italian family dinner experience, served at home. Due to its popularity, Sa'Mesa now has two branches: one in Canggu and one in Seminyak. This restaurant offers incredible value for money, serving an 18-course Italian dinner with home-style dishes, including burrata, homemade bread, and fresh fish. And what tourists especially love is the complimentary unlimited limoncello liqueur.

• Approximate prices: 18-course dinner in a "sharing" format - about $40 per person.
• Location: Canggu and Seminyak.

Sa'Mesa Canggu

Warung Babi Guling Pak Malen, Seminyak

Warung Pak Malen specializes in just one ingredient: suckling pig, a signature dish of Balinese cuisine. A rich, spicy pork broth is served first. Then comes the main course—a bamboo plate piled high with rice, roast pork, pork satay, and a piece of fried pork rind. Side dishes include traditional lawar, mixed cooked vegetables, and spicy sambal.

Approximate prices: $3-$5 dollars.

Location: Seminyak.