Category: Restaurant Review

Hongalia is a simple noodle house, all of which are made in-house. For any selected dish you can choose to have it with Kwetiau [rice], egg, curly or fine [vermicelli] noodles. The location is almost beside the main entrance to the Arma Museum. You can start with Dim Sum [chicken, pork or shrimp], Fried Dumplings […]

Fish Bone Local is a rarity in Bali, a specialty seafood restaurant. It is under the same Australian management as the nearby Mason, and is of the same similar design, just a large barn-like space. Entrees can be familiar; Prawn Toast [with sesame and chilli, Squid either as a Salad with Thai herbs and nahm […]

Usha Café self-describes its food as ‘homemade’. Now this is one of the most abused words in the Bali F&B scene [along with ‘organic’], as no one ever tells you in whose home it was made. However after eating at Usha many times I am certain that it is just like visiting a home in […]

Som Chai was built to be the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the Sarong Group. It was designed to have a large formal dining room at the rear for evenings with an equally large casual area at the front for casual all day dining extending into the late hours. Will Meyrick has permanently left his […]

L’Osteria offers home made pasta. As do many hundreds of restaurants all over Indonesia, they just do not say in whose home it was made. Not so L’Osteria who clearly state that their Ravioli, Pappardelle, Tagliatelle and Gnocchi are all made in-house, and the rest are not. I tried the Pappardelle Bolognese, it was perfect. […]

The rush to be a part of the Bali food scene continues. As with almost anywhere else in the world those who know what they are doing succeed, and most of the others fail. 2018 has seen so many new operations open and many close, some even opening and closing in the same year. The […]

10th Table presents intimate fine dining in Lovina for the first time. The place reeks of quality, and experience, which comes as no surprise as it has been set up by local Belgian Geert Jan de Meyer, for many years a hotel manager on Europe’s most luxurious cruise ships. The experience begins at the entrance, […]

Cosmic Diners are different! How often can you say that about a new restaurant that opens in Bali? So many just re-hash what everyone else is doing, and sometimes not even getting that right! Cosmic are American diners as seen through the eyes of an alert young Balinese who spent some considerable time in America […]