Collection · Focused shortlist
A birthday, an anniversary, the night that has to land. Bali's special-occasion tables — the rooms, the views and the kitchens worth dressing up for.
Restaurant · Berawa near Finns
A large beachfront complex on Jl. Pantai Berawa. It runs four venues on one site: a beach club, the Super Club, a wellness club and a padel club. Its own website calls it the world's biggest beach club; we have not checked that. You enter on a day pass, and daybeds and sofas are booked separately.
Best for: A big, lively day out with a group, or sunset drinks in a party crowd
Restaurant · Munduk Catu
A restaurant and cocktail bar on Jl. Munduk Catu seating up to 132 across five indoor and outdoor areas, rooftop included. The kitchen does steaks, seafood and pasta, with a vegan list; the cocktail and mocktail list is long. Happy hour (4-7pm daily): buy two cocktails, get one free.
Best for: A date night, a group dinner or a birthday, with live acoustic sessions on Saturdays
Restaurant · Canggu
The beach club and restaurant at COMO Uma Canggu, on the sand at Batu Mejan. It runs from breakfast to a 10pm dinner close with live music and DJ sets. Separate menus cover the main kitchen, a seafood BBQ and the COMO Shambhala Kitchen.
Best for: A polished sunset dinner or special occasion by the ocean, or a leisurely family-style Sunday brunch at 680K per person
Restaurant · Pererenan, Canggu
Near the beach on Jl. Pantai Pererenan, Chef Wayan Kresna Yasa runs HOME, a modern Balinese restaurant. The kitchen reworks family and island recipes with contemporary technique. Vegan dishes are marked on every course, next to sate, seafood and traditional mains.
Best for: Tables that mix meat, seafood and vegan eaters over a considered Balinese dinner
Restaurant · Batu Bolong Beach
Japanese-contemporary dining at Hotel Tugu, right on Batu Bolong beach. The room is a reconstructed antique temple, and the terrace looks straight at the ocean. Sushi, Asian-fusion plates and cocktails.
Best for: A sunset dinner with a view, a date, or a special occasion by the sea
Restaurant · Batu Bolong
Trading as MASONRY., Mason runs a moody, minimalist grill on Batu Bolong. The cooking is wood-fired and leans Mediterranean, the charcuterie is made in-house, and there is a wine and cocktail list.
Best for: A sit-down meal of wood-fired grill, charcuterie and wine, from midday to late
Restaurant · Pererenan / Pererenan north
The Riviera Group's Italian trattoria in Pererenan does hand-rolled pastas and Neapolitan pizzas, with an extensive wine and cocktail list. The room is cozy and lively.
Best for: A date night, a group dinner over shared plates and wine, or a lively, casual evening
Restaurant · Canggu
A communal Italian dinner where everyone shares one long table. The multi-course set menu is family-style, inspired by an Italian grandmother's table. There is one seating, dinner only, and you book ahead.
Best for: Communal Italian set-menu dinners at one long shared table, one seating a night
Restaurant · Tanah Barak
On Jl. Tanah Barak, Santanera pairs a Latin American dining room with a rooftop bar. The sharing menu mixes Latin flavours with European technique and local ingredients. Contemporary artwork, a big seated room and a late-night bar make a full evening of it.
Best for: A special evening of rooftop cocktails and shared plates, as a date or with a group
Restaurant · Pererenan / Pantai Pererenan
Shelter, a wood-fired Middle Eastern and Mediterranean restaurant in Pererenan, is built inside a Balinese joglo with open, plant-filled architecture. A UK chef runs the kitchen, and a rotating calendar brings BBQs and vinyl DJ nights. Booking is recommended.
Best for: Special occasions, date nights and group dinners, booked ahead
Restaurant · Batu Bolong Beach, Canggu
SKOOL Kitchen is an open-flame kitchen on Jl. Pura Dalem that cooks meats and seafood over wood and charcoal. Dinner only, from 5pm: a tasting menu, à la carte plates and cuts priced by weight. It shares an address with The Lawn Canggu, another Project Black venue.
Best for: A special-occasion or date-night dinner by the beach, with drinks
Restaurant · Canggu
The restaurant, bar and gallery inside The Slow, a design-led boutique hotel on Batu Bolong. The kitchen is internationally inspired and runs all day, and the room doubles as an art and events space. It works for breakfast as well as an evening out.
Best for: A design-led brunch or dinner inside The Slow hotel on Batu Bolong
Restaurant · Batu Bolong Beach
Steps from Batu Bolong beach, YUKI is a modern Japanese izakaya. It serves fusion sushi, wood-fired specialties and house cocktails.
Best for: A date night, special occasion or group dinner with cocktails
Restaurant · Tegallalang / Kedisan
Akar is a jungle restaurant at Kedisan in Tegallalang, north of Ubud. It does breakfast and dinner, and the setting suits a special occasion.
Best for: A destination dinner with jungle views
Restaurant · Ubud
Food writer Janet DeNeefe opened this restaurant on Jalan Raya Ubud in 1992. The menu moves between Balinese cooking, from nasi campur to ceremonial curries and slow-cooked spice-paste dishes, and a modern Mediterranean side. Pastries come from Honeymoon Bakery, its sister business.
Best for: A Balinese meal in central Ubud, from breakfast through to dinner
Restaurant · Ubud
Viceroy Bali's restaurant, also branded as part of CasCades Suites, sits above the Valley of the Kings with jungle views. Central Ubud is about five minutes' drive away. The kitchen does a Balinese Rijsttafel tasting menu and Western dishes, with produce from its own organic gardens.
Best for: Couples or a small group sitting down to the Indonesian tasting menu with a valley view
Restaurant · Ubud
Cafe Wayan & Bakery's sister restaurant, in a garden by the rice fields near Nyuh Kuning and the Monkey Forest. Private dining is in tree-shaded pavilions; craft workshops run in the afternoon. Scheduled evenings bring a Balinese dance show (Kecak/Fire Dance) and a group buffet.
Best for: Groups after a garden dinner with a Balinese cultural show, or a meal in a private pavilion
Restaurant · Lodtunduh
The more experimental, ingredient-driven sibling of Locavore, opened in Lodtunduh in December 2023 and led by chefs Eelke Plasmeijer and Ray Adriansyah. This 30-seat tasting-menu room uses only local Indonesian ingredients, cooked with modern European technique.
Best for: A booked, multi-course tasting menu built on the work of Indonesian farmers, fishers and producers
Restaurant · Bisma
Japanese fine dining and teppanyaki in central Ubud, with local produce and Japanese proteins.
Best for: A special occasion over Japanese fine dining or teppanyaki
Restaurant · Kedewatan
Chef Chris Salans founded this Kedewatan fine-dining restaurant; head chef and co-owner Blake Thornley now leads the kitchen. The cooking applies French technique to Indonesian and Balinese ingredients. There is a multi-course tasting menu and, separately, a Chef's Table at the live kitchen.
Best for: A special occasion marked with a French-Balinese tasting menu in a garden
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
Restaurant · Uluwatu; Jimbaran
Italian fine dining at the InterContinental Bali Resort in Jimbaran. Handmade pastas and Mediterranean-leaning mains come from an open kitchen into an air-conditioned room lit by chandeliers. Sunday brunch has live music.
Best for: Couples and families dressing up for dinner, or taking their time over Sunday brunch
Restaurant · Uluwatu
Oceanfront Spanish restaurant-beach club built around sunset, parties and destination dining.
Best for: sunset drinks view; special occasion; date night special
Restaurant · Bingin
A modern French restaurant on a garden lane near Bingin Beach in Pecatu, serving casual French cooking with a barbecue influence — steak tartare, foie gras, grilled cuts and soufflé pancakes — across breakfast, lunch and dinner; set around a poolside terrace with tropical interiors rather than a beach view, with a screen-free policy at the table.
Best for: An unhurried, dressed-up meal away from the crowds — from an all-day breakfast to a leisurely dinner for couples or small groups.
Restaurant · Uluwatu; Jimbaran
Chef Mitsuaki Senoo runs the Japanese restaurant at the InterContinental Bali Resort in Jimbaran. Teppanyaki is grilled at open counters, there's a sushi and sashimi bar, and a private tatami room sits inside a Balinese-Japanese interior.
Best for: A couple or a group sharing a teppanyaki dinner at the counter, or sushi from the bar
Restaurant · Uluwatu; Jimbaran
Belmond Jimbaran Puri's open-air restaurant and bar sit right on the sand of Jimbaran Bay. Nelayan grills seafood and cooks Mediterranean dishes with Indonesian spices and French technique. At Puri Bar, tropical cocktails and local arak come with the sunset across the bay.
Best for: Couples and resort guests after a sunset cocktail or an unhurried seafood dinner, calmer than Jimbaran's crowded grill row
Restaurant · Uluwatu
A clifftop day club set about 162 metres above the Indian Ocean within The Edge resort in Pecatu, on the Bukit peninsula, known for its glass-bottom infinity pool that extends roughly 6 metres out over the cliff edge; it runs a food-and-cocktail menu by day and shifts to a slower lounge mood in the late afternoon.
Best for: Couples and groups after a swim-and-sundowner day at a cliff-edge pool; book ahead and arrive before sunset.
Restaurant · Pecatu cliffs
In-resort Indonesian dining room with polished service and strong special-occasion appeal.
Best for: date night special; special occasion; family early dinner
Beach club · Melasti, Ungasan
An adults-only beach club on Melasti Beach in Uluwatu, built around a pool and daybeds with music and ocean views, open from midday into the evening.
Best for: sunset drinks view; group dinner share; special occasion
Restaurant · Ungasan clifftop
A clifftop yakitori and open-flame grill restaurant at The Ungasan Clifftop Resort in Uluwatu, led by Australian chef James Viles, where everything is cooked over coals with no gas or electricity; the share-style menu runs from woodfired mortadella flatbread and yakitori skewers to pork-and-scallop fried rice, with lawn and cliff-edge views over the Indian Ocean.
Best for: Dinner for couples or groups who want live-fire, produce-driven sharing plates with a clifftop ocean view; reservations recommended.
Restaurant · Labuan Sait, Pecatu
A design-forward modern Japanese izakaya in Uluwatu, serving sushi and grilled plates with sake and cocktails, liveliest as an evening dinner-and-drinks spot.
Best for: date night special; group dinner share; special occasion
Restaurant · Seminyak
Boy'N'Cow has been a steakhouse and cocktail lounge on Seminyak's Eat Street (Jl. Raya Kerobokan) since 2017. Cuts are dry-aged on site for at least 30 days; the Wagyu is Australian, US and Japanese, A5 included. A mezzanine speakeasy pours barrel-aged cocktails and single malts.
Best for: A carnivore's dinner or special occasion over share-style steaks, Wagyu and cocktails
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
Restaurant · Seminyak
This contemporary southern-Italian fine-dining restaurant on Jl. Petitenget is led by Apulian chef Maurizio Bombini. There's a live kitchen, à la carte and seasonal tasting menus, and a rooftop hydroponic garden that supplies produce.
Best for: A special-occasion dinner, a couple's tasting-menu evening or the Sunday seafood brunch
Restaurant · Seminyak
Modern Indonesian dining on Jl. Petitenget since 2013, in a greenhouse-cathedral building by Inspiral Architects. It has 10-metre vaulted ceilings and rainwater-filtering columns. The kitchen does archipelago classics and contemporary takes, like Balinese yellowfin tuna and babi guling, with cocktails and wine.
Best for: Refined Indonesian food for a special occasion or a dressed-up dinner
Restaurant · Seminyak
The rooftop bar and restaurant at Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort serves a modern Southeast Asian menu with ocean views. Live bands and DJ sets play every night.
Best for: A couple's rooftop dinner with a view, cocktails at golden hour, or a lively night out with music
Restaurant · Seminyak
Seasalt is beachfront fine dining inside Alila, and the menu leads with seafood. Come for a date night by the coast or a brunch splurge.
Best for: A date night or a special occasion, with drinks at sunset
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
Restaurant · Kayumanis Sanur, Jl. Tirta Akasa
Kayumanis Sanur's Indonesian and Balinese restaurant, on Jl. Tirta Akasa No. 28, open daily 7am–10pm. The resort setting is intimate and the menu centres on traditional dishes.
Best for: A special evening of traditional Balinese food for a couple or a small party
Restaurant · Hyatt Regency Bali beachfront, Sanur Beach
Pizzaria is Hyatt Regency Bali's beachfront Italian restaurant and bar on Sanur Beach, with sea views. Antipasti, wood-fired sourdough pizza, pasta, seafood and meat are served at lunch and dinner daily. Sunday Brunch adds live grills and carvings.
Best for: An upscale beachfront dinner as a couple or for a special occasion, Sunday brunch with a group, or an early family meal
Restaurant · Jimbaran
A standalone Jimbaran restaurant opened in 2013 by chef Kevin Cherkas, formerly of elBulli, Arzak and Daniel. Its tapas are globally inspired and built on Indonesian ingredients; so are its cocktails and desserts.
Best for: Couples and groups after a tasting-style dinner of sharing plates, from BBQ octopus with Asian gazpacho to the Bali Breakfast dessert
Restaurant · Jimbaran
The AYANA Resort's steakhouse and seafood grill, up on Jimbaran's clifftop with ocean and sunset views. Dry-aged and wagyu beef and Canadian lobster go over a wood-fired grill. A beef sommelier and a salt-cart sommelier are on hand, and dinner starts in the Martini Bar.
Best for: A special-occasion dinner for couples or steak-and-wine lovers who want an upscale grill with a sunset ocean backdrop
Restaurant · Jimbaran (Muaya Beach)
A seafood cafe on Jimbaran Bay. You pick fresh seafood by weight from the display, and it is grilled over coconut-husk fires. Tables sit directly on the sand of Muaya Beach for dinner at sunset.
Best for: A special evening or a group seafood spread on the beach, with the sun going down over the bay
Restaurant · Jimbaran
The beach club and beachfront restaurant at the Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay. It steps down from a bar and daybeds to a 57-metre infinity pool and the sand. Seafood and charred meats are cooked over fire, and Sunday brings a rosé brunch.
Best for: Sunset drinks and daybeds by the pool, or a special-occasion seafood dinner and the Sunday rosé brunch
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
The beachfront grill restaurant at The Laguna, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa in Nusa Dua. Fresh seafood and dry-aged meats are cooked over Basque-style wood grills, alongside a Balinese menu. Tables are on a terrace beside the beach and the lagoon pools.
Best for: A seaside grill lunch or dinner with an ocean view, or the Sunday brunch, for resort guests and couples
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
The Indonesian restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Bali, on the cliffs above the Indian Ocean at Sawangan, Nusa Dua. Regional Balinese and archipelago dishes are served across three levels, including the Culinary Cave open kitchen. The centrepiece is the Archipelago Rijsttafel, a shared multi-dish rice-table feast.
Best for: An unhurried Indonesian dinner on a special evening, with cliff-top ocean views
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
The Apurva Kempinski Bali's Japanese restaurant in Nusa Dua, an offshoot of OKU in Jakarta. Contemporary izakaya-style dishes come out of an open kitchen at the centre of a bistro room, so you can watch the chefs work.
Best for: Apurva Kempinski guests or visitors after a polished Japanese dinner in Nusa Dua
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
The fine-dining restaurant at The St. Regis Bali Resort in Nusa Dua, in a white, open-kitchen room facing the Indian Ocean. Pan-Asian haute cuisine comes as multi-course degustation menus, backed by an extensive wine list, and there is a champagne brunch.
Best for: A special-occasion tasting-menu dinner by the ocean, or the weekend champagne brunch
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
An aquarium restaurant inside The Apurva Kempinski Bali on Nusa Dua, where tables sit against large tanks holding 80-plus marine species. Degustation menus focus on seafood, drawing on Indonesian coastal flavours and local ingredients, with wine pairings and a cocktail station.
Best for: A multi-course seafood tasting menu in an unusual aquarium setting, on a special occasion for couples or design-minded diners
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
An Italian restaurant at Kayumanis Nusa Dua Private Villa & Spa, in a glass-and-bamboo room over manicured gardens. Homemade pasta and wood-fired pizza sit beside prime cuts. The Bistecca di Angus Nero alla Griglia is chargrilled Black Angus steak with risotto, portobello and red-wine sauce.
Best for: Couples or small groups after an unhurried Italian dinner in a quiet garden, away from the beach crowds
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
The beachfront restaurant at The Mulia, Mulia Resort & Villas in Nusa Dua, facing the Indian Ocean from indoor and terrace tables. Mediterranean and Pan-Asian dishes run from handcrafted pastas to grilled seafood. Sunday Brunch adds a seafood bar, live grill stations and Italian antipasti.
Best for: Couples and groups after an oceanfront occasion meal, or the Sunday Brunch (11am–3pm)
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
A modern Indonesian restaurant at Kayumanis Nusa Dua Private Villa and Spa, named after a ceremonial roof structure of bamboo and palm fronds. Its glass-walled, bamboo-accented room serves archipelago dishes such as lemongrass Balinese chicken salad and black oxtail soup.
Best for: A lunch or dinner of regional Indonesian cooking in a quiet resort setting
Restaurant · Nusa Dua
At The Ritz-Carlton, Bali in Nusa Dua, this beachfront grill faces the Indian Ocean from indoor and outdoor tables. Premium meats and locally sourced seafood, such as barramundi, snapper and king prawn, go into a Josper charcoal oven. The menu rotates monthly around seasonal ingredients.
Best for: Couples and resort guests after a grilled-seafood lunch, a candlelit oceanfront dinner or a private beach dinner for two
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.
Uluwatu for clifftop views, Seminyak and Ubud for signature dining rooms and tasting menus. Book well ahead for the headline tables — each venue's page shows whether it needs a reservation.