Bali Directory
Alila Villas Uluwatu
Alila Villas Uluwatu made its name as the clifftop resort that proved Bali could do cutting-edge contemporary architecture. Designed by WOHA, the Singaporean firm known for gravity-defying tropical buildings, it is a study in clean lines, infinity edges, and a cage-like bamboo structure that houses , the resort's Indonesian restaurant.
Apéritif
Apéritif is the fine-dining restaurant at Viceroy Bali, set above the Petanu River valley a short drive from central Ubud. The room is styled after a 1920s colonial dining salon, with its own bar. Executive chef Nic Vanderbeeken, who is Belgian, applies European technique to Indonesian ingredients. Tatler Best Indonesia named it one of the country's 20 best restaurants in both 2025 and 2026.
Ayana Resort Bali
Ayana occupies a vast clifftop estate above Jimbaran Bay, with around 290 rooms spread across three connected properties: Ayana Resort, Ayana Segara, and the ultra-premium Ayana Villas. The scale is larger and less intimate than the neighbouring Four Seasons, but the facilities are staggering: a dozen restaurants, a private beach, an enormous spa, and Rock Bar, possibly the most famous bar in Bali, built on natural rocks at the base of the cliff.
Capella Ubud
Capella Ubud is the most distinctive hotel in Bali and one of the most original anywhere. Designed by Bill Bensley, the architect behind some of Asia's most theatrical properties, it reimagines a glamorous 1800s colonial-era camp through Bensley's signature maximalist wit. The 22 tented retreats and single lodge are scattered through dense rainforest, each one a fantasia of antique furniture, handpicked curiosities, and deliberate excess.
Cuca
Cuca is Jimbaran's most exciting restaurant and one of the most original dining concepts on the island. Chef Kevin Cherkas, who trained at elBulli and Arzak in Spain and at Daniel in New York, opened Cuca with Virginia Entizne in 2013. He brings a distinctly creative sensibility to a menu built around small, tapas-style plates designed for sharing. The setting is deliberately casual, an open-air pavilion surrounded by gardens, which belies the technical sophistication of the cooking.
Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay
The Four Seasons Jimbaran was one of Bali's first genuine luxury resorts, and a recent renovation has kept it firmly at the top of the southern coast. The 147 villas are terraced above the bay, each with a private plunge pool and an outdoor shower garden, and the layout, modelled on a Balinese village, gives the resort an unusual sense of place for its scale.
Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan
The Four Seasons at Sayan was the original Ubud luxury property and remains one of the most architecturally accomplished hotels in Southeast Asia. The arrival is theatrical: a pedestrian bridge spans the Ayung Valley to a rooftop lotus pond, and from there you descend into a resort built directly into the river gorge below. Every room and public space is framed to maximise the jungle and the water.
Home by Chef Wayan
Home by Chef Wayan sits on Jalan Pantai Pererenan, just west of Canggu. Chef Wayan Kresna Yasa is Balinese, trained in Michelin-starred kitchens and later cooked for the Potato Head group, and he co-wrote the cookbook PAON. His own restaurant serves modern Balinese and Indonesian cooking in the style of a family table. Tatler Best Indonesia 2026 named it one of the country's 20 best restaurants, the only one in the Canggu area.
Hujan Locale
If Locavore NXT points to Bali's culinary future, Hujan Locale is a love letter to its past. Chef Will Meyrick, a familiar name on the Southeast Asian food circuit, built the restaurant around heritage Indonesian recipes, many drawn from home cooks and family collections across the archipelago. The name means "local rain," and the menu reads like a tour of Indonesia's regional cuisines.
Ijen
Ijen sits on Petitenget Beach inside Desa Potato Head in Seminyak. When it opened in 2017 it was billed as Indonesia's first zero-waste restaurant, and it reopened in 2026 under head chef Albert Susanto. The menu changes with the day's line-caught fish, cooked over open fire.
Il Ristorante Niko Romito
Il Ristorante Niko Romito opened at the Bvlgari Resort Bali in May 2025, replacing the hotel's previous fine-dining restaurant. Niko Romito, one of Italy's most decorated chefs, designs the menu, and resident chef Alessandro Mazzali runs the kitchen. The room seats just 24, on a clifftop above the Indian Ocean in Uluwatu.
Kayuputi
Kayuputi is the oceanfront fine-dining restaurant at in Nusa Dua. The kitchen cooks pan-Asian food, served as an eight-course degustation or à la carte. Hokkaido scallop, Kiwami wagyu and whole Bali lobster are among its best-known dishes, and the wine list has held a Wine Spectator award for many years.
La Lucciola
For beachfront dining that delivers on the food, La Lucciola remains the Seminyak standard. Set right on Petitenget Beach with unobstructed sunset views, this Italian-leaning restaurant has spent three decades on Petitenget and outlasted countless trendier competitors. The reason is consistency: the kitchen executes Mediterranean-Italian cooking with reliable skill, the seafood is fresh, and the setting is beautiful.
Locavore NXT
Locavore NXT is the reincarnation of the restaurant most observers consider Bali's finest. After the original Locavore closed in central Ubud in October 2023, chefs Eelke Plasmeijer and Ray Adriansyah rebuilt the concept in a purpose-built space in Lodtunduh, closer to the restaurant's own farm. The larger kitchen supports an even more ambitious tasting menu, and the restaurant has held its place among Asia's most important dining destinations, ranked #44 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026.
Mama San
Mama San is Will Meyrick's pan-Asian restaurant on Jalan Raya Kerobokan, a few minutes inland from Seminyak's beach strip. Meyrick, who also runs Hujan Locale in Ubud, built the menu around Asian street food. The 130-seat room is styled after a 1920s Shanghai dining hall, with a DJ lounge upstairs.
Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve
Mandapa is one of fewer than a handful of Ritz-Carlton Reserve properties worldwide, and its setting in the Ayung River gorge just outside central Ubud is a large part of why it earns that designation. The 60 suites and pool villas are terraced into the valley walls, looking out over the river, dense jungle, and working rice paddies that the hotel maintains with its own farmers. Arrival begins with a Balinese blessing, and the cultural programme that follows is genuinely curated rather than ornamental.
Mauri
Mauri is Seminyak's most decorated restaurant right now. Chef Maurizio Bombini cooks contemporary food from Puglia, in the heel of Italy, on Jalan Petitenget, with herbs and vegetables from the restaurant's own rooftop hydroponic garden. Tatler Best Indonesia 2026 named it one of the country's 20 best restaurants.
Merah Putih
Merah Putih is the most architecturally striking restaurant in Bali, and possibly in all of Indonesia. The name means "red and white," the colours of the Indonesian flag, and the cathedral-like space, designed by Inspiral Architects, sends soaring bamboo columns up to a vast peaked ceiling. The scale of the room alone is worth the visit.
Mozaic
Mozaic has anchored Ubud fine dining for more than two decades. Founder Chris Salans, a French-trained American who settled in Bali in the late 1990s, pioneered the application of French technique to Indonesian ingredients long before it became fashionable. Today the kitchen is led by executive chef and co-owner Blake Thornley. The restaurant occupies a beautiful garden setting on Jalan Raya Sanggingan, with candlelit tables scattered among frangipani trees.
Room4Dessert
Room4Dessert is Will Goldfarb's dessert-led tasting restaurant on Jalan Raya Sanggingan, just outside central Ubud. Goldfarb was named the World's Best Pastry Chef by Asia's 50 Best in 2021 and appeared on Netflix's Chef's Table: Pastry, and he runs the restaurant with his wife, Maria. Tatler Best Indonesia 2026 placed it among the country's 20 best restaurants and gave it the Best Innovation award.
Rumari
Rumari is the signature restaurant at Raffles Bali in Jimbaran. Chef Gaetan Biesuz serves progressive tasting menus. Tatler Best Indonesia 2026 named it one of the country's 20 best restaurants and gave it the Best Service award. It is also billed as Indonesia's only Krug Ambassade, a restaurant officially recognised by the Champagne house.
Santanera
Santanera occupies a three-storey building on Jalan Tanah Barak in Canggu, with a dining room, private dining and a rooftop bar. Colombian chef Andrés Becerra cooks Latin American food with European technique and Balinese produce. Tatler Best Indonesia 2026 named it one of the country's 20 best restaurants.
Sazón
Sazón brings Spanish fire cooking to Jalan Pantai Batu Bolong in Canggu. Paella is the centrepiece, cooked over open flame, and the restaurant runs nightly paella masterclasses for guests who want to learn the technique. The dining room won Best Design at the Tatler Best Indonesia 2026 awards.
Six Senses Uluwatu
For many travellers, Six Senses Uluwatu is simply the best hotel in Bali. The clifftop position is staggering, perched 70 metres above the Indian Ocean with 180-degree views from virtually every point in the resort. The architecture blends raw timber, stone, and soaring bamboo structures in a way that feels genuinely connected to the landscape rather than imposed on it.
The St. Regis Bali Resort
The St. Regis is Nusa Dua's finest hotel and one of the best beach resorts in Southeast Asia. The 123 suites and villas sit across manicured gardens facing a long, calm stretch of white sand, and the butler service, a St. Regis signature, is impeccable: your butler handles everything from unpacking to restaurant reservations to arranging ceremonies at the on-site chapel.
Sundara Four Seasons Jimbaran
Sundara, at the Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay, is the south coast's premier dining destination. The setting is extraordinary: a vast infinity pool stretches toward the ocean, flanked by a venue that transitions seamlessly from day club to fine-dining room as the sun sets. By day it is a sophisticated beach club with strong cocktails and light bites; in the evening the kitchen shifts into a more ambitious register.
Syrco BASÈ
Syrco BASÈ opened in early 2024 on Jalan Sri Wedari in central Ubud. Chef Syrco Bakker previously held two Michelin stars at Pure C in the Netherlands, and he has Indonesian heritage. Here he cooks Indonesian-inspired fine dining built around ingredients he can trace to the farm, boat or forest. Tatler Best Indonesia 2026 named it one of the country's 20 best restaurants.
The Cave by Ryan Clift
The Cave seats 22 guests inside a natural limestone cave beneath The Edge resort in Uluwatu. Chef Ryan Clift, best known for Tippling Club in Singapore, designed the menu. Between courses, projections on the cave walls change the scene around the table.
The Legian Seminyak
The Legian is the antidote to Seminyak's flash. This 67-suite property has held the same prime beachfront position since 1996, and its approach of understated elegance, impeccable service, and genuine warmth has not wavered. Every suite faces the ocean, and the three-tiered infinity pool, beachfront restaurant, and hushed spa feel a world away from the Seminyak chaos just beyond the gates.
The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas Nusa Dua
The Mulia complex is Bali's largest luxury resort, three brands under one management on a sprawling beachfront estate in Nusa Dua. The draw is scale and facilities: multiple pools, an expansive stretch of beach, a serious spa, and a roster of restaurants and bars that means you need never leave the grounds. Mulia Deli, the in-house patisserie, turns out some of the best pastries in the area.
The Warung
The Warung is the Indonesian restaurant at , set beneath the resort's bamboo canopy on the cliff edge. It faces west over the Indian Ocean, which makes it one of the best sunset tables on the Bukit peninsula.
W Bali - Seminyak
The W brings its glossy, music-forward style of hospitality to one of Seminyak's best beachfront positions. The design is bold and contemporary: neon accents, statement lighting, and a pool scene that owes more to Miami than to traditional Bali. This is not the place for travellers chasing Balinese serenity, but it is exactly right for a beach holiday built around energy, social currency, and a DJ schedule.