Collection · Focused shortlist
Proper gelato after a beach day, pastry that survives the humidity, dessert tasting rooms worth dressing up for. The island's sweetest stops, mapped by area.
Restaurant · Canggu
A cafe and cocktail bar on Jalan Pantai Batu Mejan, open 8am to midnight daily. The main menu goes from pasta and risotto to schnitzel and seafood, with a rib eye steak. Brunch, the bar and wine cocktails have their own menus. Book through the site or Chope.
Best for: A long menu at one address: breakfast from 8am, steaks and pasta until midnight
Wellness
Bali Dream Villa Resort Echo Beach Canggu has a resort spa with six items, among them a couple massage and a traditional massage. Book on the resort's own site.
Best for: Couples, with a couple massage on the list
Bar · Pererenan / Pantai Pererenan
A 65-seat European bistro and wine bar on Jl. Pantai Pererenan, cooking produce-driven food with classic technique. The wine list is European-focused, cocktails and aperitifs have their own card, and lunch runs to breakfast plates and coffee. Bookings go through SevenRooms on the venue's site.
Best for: European wine and bistro plates over a date night or late dinner
Café · Pererenan / Pantai Pererenan
Brunch Club Bali's Pererenan branch on Jl. Pantai Pererenan does brunch, lunch and cocktails all day. The group also has a Legian site. The house dish is Porncakes, a stacked pancake sold as a two- or three-stack in 14 flavours.
Best for: Friends or family over an all-day brunch of big sweet and savoury plates, with cocktails
Restaurant · Canggu
An Italian cafe and restaurant from the Venticinque Group, inside Grand Srikandi Mansion on Jl. Cepaka Utama in Dalung, inland from the Canggu coast. Its Chope listing describes rice-field views and an all-day menu, from breakfast panini to cured-meat boards and pasta.
Best for: Italian coffee, cake and pasta over rice-field views at Grand Srikandi Mansion
Café · Batu Bolong
An all-day cafe on Batu Bolong beach road, part of the Milk & Madu group. The room is spacious and shaded by palms, with a kids' play area, and the kitchen does brunch classics and lava-stone pizzas.
Best for: Families with young children and groups, from brunch to an early dinner or the daily sunset session
Restaurant · Berawa / Tegal Gundul
The Berawa flagship of Milk & Madu, an all-day Canggu cafe brand. It does hearty brunch, lava-stone pizzas and family-friendly dinners.
Best for: Families and groups, from a big post-surf brunch to an easy all-day meal for fussy and hungry tables alike
Restaurant · Batu Belig
Poule de Luxe makes cream puffs, macarons, tarts and viennoiserie in its French patisserie and bakery on Jl. Batu Belig. You can eat in or take away. It also supplies desserts to villas and restaurants, and for parties.
Best for: A pastry with coffee, a grab-and-go breakfast, or a letter cake or gift for a celebration
Café · Berawa
About 300m from Berawa beach, Ruko is an Australian-style neighbourhood cafe for breakfast and brunch. The food is healthy and locally sourced, 40-50% of the produce is local and organic, and the coffee is its own Indonesian blend.
Best for: Families, couples or solo travellers after a fresh, organic-leaning breakfast or brunch and coffee after the beach
Café · Canggu (Jl. Tanah Barak)
Secret Spot is a fully plant-based cafe serving vegan food from breakfast through dinner: croissants, bowls, curries and ramen. The coffee is roasted weekly on the island, with chicory as an alternative. Monday is pasta night, with live jazz.
Best for: Vegan breakfast or brunch of plant-based croissants and pastries, with island-roasted coffee
Restaurant
A daytime cafe on Jl. Pantai Batu Mejan run by a chef trained in Australian fine dining. The food is Australian cafe cooking with Japanese flavours, and the room is minimalist.
Best for: Brunch or lunch in a calm, design-led room, or a daytime stop with a laptop
Café · Batu Mejan
Avocado runs through the whole menu at The Avocado Factory, a cafe. Dishes run from truffle eggs benedict to avo pancakes and avocado basque cheesecake, in an eco-conscious build.
Best for: Avocado and brunch lovers by day, or burgers late into the evening
Café · Batu Bolong, Canggu
The Loft serves specialty coffee and a large plant-based selection at its Bondi-inspired all-day brunch cafe on Batu Bolong. The food leans to healthy breakfast staples, bowls and toasts.
Best for: A slow brunch after the beach, specialty coffee with a laptop, or a plant-based, healthy breakfast
Restaurant · Pererenan / Pererenan north
Near Pererenan beach, Touché keeps all-day cafe hours from early morning to late, with design-led interiors and an urban-leaning menu.
Best for: Brunch among design-led interiors, a daytime coffee with the laptop, or a casual meal
Café · Penestanan, Ubud
Alchemy is a breakfast spot in Penestanan where the whole menu is plant-based and gluten-free. At the raw breakfast bar you choose what goes on your plate, and the prices are clear before you order.
Best for: A plant-based, gluten-free meal, a breakfast after yoga, or laptop time off-peak
Café · Ubud
An organic grocery and bakery with an all-day restaurant attached, in Ubud since 1994. The kitchen covers raw vegan, Italian and traditional Indonesian dishes.
Best for: A long stay or a mixed group that needs one big menu with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices
Restaurant · Ubud
Open since 1986 on Monkey Forest Road, this restaurant has a bakery out front and a garden behind that looks over rice paddies. The menu is wide, running across Indonesian, Thai and Italian, and Sunday evenings bring a traditional Balinese buffet.
Best for: Groups or families after a garden meal with a broad menu and a dessert to share
Café · Ubud
Gelato Secrets is an Italian gelato brand that opened its shop in Ubud in 2009. The gelato and sorbetto are made fresh every day from all-natural ingredients. Some flavours are Indonesian-inspired, such as black rice and coconut pandan.
Best for: A cool-down dessert after sightseeing, for families and everyone else, for example near Monkey Forest or Jalan Raya Ubud
Café · Ubud
An all-day cafe on Jl. Suweta with a kids menu and group bookings for up to 20. There is a 110K breakfast set.
Best for: Families with children, a mixed group, a central place to meet, or anyone who wants a fixed breakfast
Restaurant · Kedewatan
Chef Will Goldfarb's dessert-only tasting-menu restaurant in Kedewatan. It sits inside a large botanical garden tied to the recipes themselves. This is a pastry chef's concept rather than a conventional dinner spot.
Best for: Pastry enthusiasts, or a special occasion built around a multi-course dessert tasting
Café · Ubud
A vegan and vegetarian warung and cake shop in Peliatan, with a budget all-you-can-eat buffet of home-style food. The cakes are made in-house, and dishes are cooked without garlic or onion so that Buddhist diners can eat them too.
Best for: A budget home-style lunch buffet for vegans, vegetarians or anyone avoiding garlic and onion
Café · Ubud (Peliatan)
A raw-vegan and plant-based cafe in Ubud with a plant-based academy attached. The kitchen leans towards raw, living food rather than standard cooked vegan dishes. There are cold-pressed juices too, and a rotating case of raw desserts.
Best for: A long daytime cafe sit over raw, plant-based food
Café · Jl. Monkey Forest, Ubud
Everything at this dessert and drinks shop on Jl. Monkey Forest starts with fresh coconut. The vegan coconut ice cream comes in the shell with roasted coconut curls.
Best for: A quick, cooling coconut break while you walk around central Ubud
Café · Suluban, Pecatu
An Uluwatu surf shop and coffee bar near the Suluban/Uluwatu beach entrance, known for its coffee and laid-back surf-community vibe.
Best for: brunch after surf and quiet work session
Café
Made’s Bakery Cafe Playground grew out of a small warung and has been a bakery and café on Jl. Dharmawangsa in Ungasan since 2025. Expect pastries, desserts and coffee, breakfast all day in large portions, and a playground that is free to use.
Best for: Families who need the children occupied
Café · Bingin, Uluwatu (Bukit)
A relaxed, vegetarian-leaning cafe set in a leafy open-air space near Bingin, serving wholesome all-day plates and hosting weekly live-music nights. It doubles as a social hub with regular Thursday music and a fitness/yoga community on site.
Best for: post-surf brunch near bingin; healthy plant-forward meal; laid-back live-music night; casual group hang
Restaurant · Pecatu (Jl. Labuansait)
A Pecatu cheap-eats staple where you compose a mixed-rice plate from a counter of vegetables, curries and proteins — plant-based eaters are well looked after.
Best for: budget mixed-rice plates; vegans and vegetarians; groups wanting to customise plates
Café · Jl. Mertanadi, Kerobokan (Seminyak)
A gelateria and caffe that makes its own gelato in a wide range of flavours. They run from classic fior di latte to local twists like lemongrass, ginger and sesame. It also pours coffee in a calm sit-down space.
Best for: Cooling off with gelato and coffee in the afternoon, kids included
Restaurant · Seminyak
A beachfront club right on the sand at Seminyak Beach. It runs from morning through sunset into late night, with dining, a bar, a pool and daybeds. It is an all-day beach club and restaurant rather than a quick stop.
Best for: Sunset drinks on the beach, a long lunch into evening on a daybed, or a special occasion by the ocean
Café · Petitenget / Kerobokan Kelod
Kynd is a big walk-in cafe on Jl. Petitenget for plant-forward brunch: smoothie bowls and colourful comfort food.
Best for: A vegan or vegetarian brunch with a smoothie bowl, on a lighter day
Café · Seminyak
Opposite Seminyak Village on Jl. Kayu Cendana, Sisterfields is an Australian-style cafe doing all-day brunch and specialty coffee. The space is bright, tiled and minimalist, and plates include truffle scrambled eggs, bacon benedict, smashed avocado and acai bowls.
Best for: Brunch and coffee between Seminyak shops, at a lively all-day cafe
Bar
This Seminyak bar is open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night bites. Live music and DJs play every night from 8pm. Cake Cups are 75K IDR, and booking is on the venue's own site.
Best for: Live music and drinks on a night out
Café · Seminyak (Jl. Petitenget, Kanvaz resort)
Bordeaux-trained pastry chef Vincent Nigita runs this French patisserie inside Kanvaz resort, pairing classical French technique with Indonesian flavours. Classic pastries sit alongside plated desserts in a weekend tea room.
Best for: Afternoon pastry and tea, or plated desserts in the weekend tea room
Warung · Jl. Nakula (Seminyak–Legian border)
In a quiet alley on the Seminyak–Legian border, this family-run warung cooks Javanese food. The kitchen starts early in the morning, so nasi campur and sides are ready by late morning. It is advertised as non-MSG and halal.
Best for: Halal diners, or anyone after simple home-style Javanese food, ideally at lunch around 12–1pm
Restaurant · Jalan Danau Tamblingan
An Italian restaurant on Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur's main strip. Pasta, mozzarella, burrata and gelato are made in-house daily, and the pizza is wood-fired and naturally leavened. The owner has made Italian gelato in Sanur since 1996, with 48+ flavours.
Best for: Families and groups after familiar Italian food at a casual sit-down dinner, or a stop for gelato
Bar · Jimbaran
A beachfront Mediterranean bar and restaurant on Jimbaran Beach, at Pemelisan Agung No. 27, formerly AKUA de Bilbao. The kitchen does Spanish tapas, mezze, handmade pastas, sourdough pizzas and grilled seafood from the bay, and the open terrace upstairs faces the sunset.
Best for: Sunset drinks and shared plates by the sea, or a long, social seafood lunch with a group
Restaurant · Kuta; Jimbaran
A beachfront Mediterranean restaurant with a pool on Kelan Beach, near Jimbaran. The seafood is locally sourced, and the chef is Frederic Boulay. There are daybeds, direct beach access and no cover charge.
Best for: Sunset seafood and an unhurried afternoon by the pool, or a last stop before an airport departure
Restaurant · Tanjung Benoa
The all-day restaurant and coffee spot of Kubu Garden Suites, on Jl. Pratama in Tanjung Benoa. The kitchen cooks Indonesian, Western and Italian dishes, and the bread is baked in-house.
Best for: A calm sit-down meal or an all-day breakfast near Nusa Dua
This is a themed shortlist, not the full catalogue and not an ordered route. Each linked place has to pass the publication gate, and the grouping uses stored collection rules rather than star ratings, review counts or paid placement.
The café belts of Canggu, Seminyak and Ubud carry the pastry and gelato scene, with a few dedicated dessert rooms. The spots here are sorted by area.
