Restaurants worth booking for a client dinner or the end of a long week. Most fill up at weekends, so reserve ahead.
10 restaurants, best first.
Lodtunduh · Indonesian tasting menu and food lab
The Locavore team's tasting menu and food lab, ranked 44th in Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026, cooking with Indonesian ingredients it forages, grows and ferments itself.
Sri Wedari · Indonesian heritage tasting menus
Indonesian heritage cooking from Syrco Bakker, who earned two Michelin stars at Pure C in the Netherlands, with a botanical cocktail bar and KU, a 12-seat chef's counter.
Central Ubud · regional Indonesian cooking
Regional Indonesian cooking from the Locavore Group, with each dish researched in its home region, cooked only with Indonesian ingredients and served family-style.
Sanggingan · dessert tasting menu
Will Goldfarb, formerly of El Bulli and Tetsuya's, serves a tasting menu built around dessert in a garden compound, with cocktail, natural wine or spirit-free pairings.
Petulu · degustation menus at Viceroy Bali
A 1920s-style dining room above the valley at Viceroy Bali, where executive chef Nic Vanderbeeken cooks seasonal degustations and a sommelier looks after more than 500 wines.
Monkey Forest Road · modern Indonesian restaurant and cocktail bar
Chef Blake Thornley's modern Indonesian restaurant, with an open kitchen and a cocktail bar, named Best Modern Indonesian Restaurant at the Exquisite Awards 2025.
Kedewatan · riverside tasting menu at Mandapa
Tasting menus by the Ayung River at Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, where nine of the 52 seats are in private bamboo cocoons by the water.
Central Ubud · South American kitchen with a Peruvian focus
A small, chef-owned restaurant cooking South American food with a Peruvian focus, open since 2014.
Yes, especially at weekends, at Locavore NXT, Syrco BASÈ, Mozaic, Nusantara, Room4Dessert, Apéritif, Spice by Blake, Kubu at Mandapa, Pica South American Kitchen, 2 Bulan.
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