bali fine dining and restaurant guide

Food: Indian – Price: cheap
Indian food affects people in many different ways. For those who are used to it, and enjoy it, life without it is unthinkable! For others it can cause immediate physical discomfort! Evidently there are enough people of the former category, living in and visiting Bali, to ensure that the little Gateway of India is almost always full on most evenings. Only open since August 1999, it has already doubled in size. The chefs were a part of Restaurant LG’s short flirtation with Indian cuisine, but are now with family and friends in this new location. Read more »

Food: Indonesian, Chinese – Price: cheap
At the beginning of Jln. Kunti, just off Jln. Seminyak, is a little Warung that stands out from the rest. Small and unpretentious, but with a certain class and style not normally encountered in this type of establishment. The place is not a secret, as it has obviously already been discovered by many if you judge by it’s regular clientele, a mixture of local foreigners and seemingly foreign-educated Indonesians. It does not try to do what so many others attempt and fail, be a complete answer for everyone. Bale-Bali just serves a small selection of well-prepared Indonesian and Indonesian-Chinese dishes, and at most reasonable prices.

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Food: International – Price: moderate
Rush Bamboo is yet another quality restaurant hidden inside a private villa complex, The Elysian in Seminyak. It is open to the public for all day dining, and worth the effort it takes to locate it. The restaurant and cocktail bar adjoins an attractive swimming pool which is lined with striped bales, for the swimmers to escape the sun, eat or drink. On the terrace above the restaurant and beside the foyer entrance is a glass walled private dining room [air-conditioned], the perfect setting for a private dinner for 6-8 people. Read more »

Food: Indian -  Price: cheap
The building in which Queen’s Tandoor exists has housed a number of restaurants in the past that did not seem to work! This one is going to be very different! Sensational Indian food served with no apologies. No toning down of taste! Indian chefs, imported Indian chillies and spices, imported Indian know-how! That all goes to making food that is traditionally Indian! Read more »

Food: Asian and International – Price: very cheap
This is one very professional bar. What a change to find, in Bali, a bar that actually produces bar snacks that really are finger food. More substantial meals are also available, and can be enjoyed at the scattered tables, or in one of the wall booths. Eating on the patio is a refreshingly cool experience, whilst watching the passing parade.
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