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Restaurants in Bali range in price, quality, cuisine and location. Food at
restaurants in Bali is hot and exotic. Service at restaurants in Bali is the
best in the world. Bali restaurants are located near accommodation.
Most Bali hotels have restaurants which offer free breakfasts.
Eat where the Indonesians eat is my tip. Not only is the food
traditional Indonesian but MUCH cheaper. The only case of Bali Belly I
got was from a restaurant in Kuta which served fish cooked western style.
Some of the best restaurant meals in Bali I ate were in side streets of Kuta
and in Balinese villages on the way to tourist destinations. In Kuta I
enjoyed restaurant meals from $2 while a meal at the popular beach
restaurant area of Jimbaran Bay Bali was about $20.
The beachside Utopia seafood restaurant, Kuta Bali had
the freshest seafood, friendly service at reasonable prices. Owner Dirk Van
Puymbroeck let patrons store their surfboards in his restaurant wall rack.
Very convenient after a surfing to hose down at Utopia restaurant, open the
high quality freezer, select your fresh fish and eat it while connected to
free wi-fi broadband internet or watch good surfing movies on his big screen
TV. Restaurant location: near western end of Bene Sari Lane, Kuta Beach.
European former owner of Utopia Seafood Restaurant, Kuta Beach Bali
Many top end luxurious restaurants in Bali are at hotels near Nusa Dua
beach. Fabulous gardens surround poolside restaurants. Shady trees on
the beach are good if you want waiters to bring your restaurant meals
beachside.
The buffet restaurant atop Kintamani volcanic mountain has good views of
the lake inside the crater. An even better buffet restaurant in Bali
with good views of Mt Agung is at Salat, East Bali near
Candidasa. Food at this Balinese restaurant is reasonably
priced.
Good Balinese restaurant at Salat on top of a mountain with
views of Mt Agung Bali the tallest volcanic mountain in Bali.
I enjoy eating at local restaurants in Bali. Balinese name for restaurant is
warang. The warang on the sands of Kuta Beach near the end of Benesari
lane serves healthy cheap Indonesian food with a friendly smile. Lunch of
gadogado cost or fish rice and green vegetables costs about $1. My Thai
girlfriend tried to stop me from eating at that Kuta Beach restaurant saying
"you'll get sick" (Bali Belly) but it was she who got sick eating at an
expensive restaurant in Bali.
Take a walk under shady trees past the many cheap restaurants on Kuta Beach
Bali from Benesari lane to the
Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel. These Bali beach restaurants serve
a variety of food including Balinese, spicy food from Samatra, coconut
drinks, beer, fruit, etc. Soft drinks cost $1 a bottle.
Walk 2km under cool shady trees past restaurants on Kuta Beach Bali.
Wired view from cool, elevated beachfront restaurant near Bali's Legian
Beach.
Most hotels in Bali include free breakfasts with accommodation. Some like
the restaurant at Discovery Kartika Plaza server the best breakfast in the
world while other, bad restaurants in Bali might serve greasy fried rice (Nasi
Gorang). I could not understand why at cheap hotels the portions of pawpaw
were so small when I grows well in Bali.
See
photo of the best
looking restaurant on the beach in Bali at Seminyak Beach. I'd like to
try the food here one day and let you know how it tastes.
The "Ocean Terrace restaurant"at Nusa Dua in The
Laguna is a welcome escape from the madding crowd, right on a pretty
beach. The seafood is superb
and the wine list reasonable. Lunch and dinner prices here are the same
as the many trendy restaurants in Seminyak that many people now desire.
The best restaurants in Seminyak are inland slightly
and include Sarong, whose chef is formerly from Long Grain in Sydney.
The furnishings including languishing lounges and arty chandeliers help
make the experience memorable.
A new Seminyak restaurant that's becoming well known
is Sardine on Pettinget Street.
The French chef knows his seafood and you dine in a beautiful big
thatched setting overlooking a rice padd field that's like a dreamy
movie backdrop. The lighting
effects at night combined with the quality of food also make this a
memorable experience.
Ultimo's restaurant in Seminyak is usually busy, but
staff will seat you in the smoking section without telling you.
That's OK but not if patrons blow smoke towards you while you're
dining, as two Australian louts did when we visited.
Food varies from excellent to average; the osso buco is superb
but some meals are accompanied by crinkle cut chips that look like
they're straight out of a packet.
The Grocer and Grind in Seminyak is an interesting
café with middle aged ex-pats making for entertaining people watching.
The food is organic and fresh at very cheap prices in what could
be a New York diner atmosphere.
One of our party had an upset stomach after dining
here, so hopefully it was a one-off.
The restaurants along the Seminyak beach are also
adequate, but not attractive, so stick to the better quality Seminyak
restaurants away from the beach.
Wine prices at restaurants in Bali are very expensive
because of restaurant mark up and a high government tax, so try the
cocktails or the good old Bali staple drink - a Bintang beer. More
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