Best Restaurants in Bali: where to eat, quarter by quarter (2026)
The south of Bali is four or five separate places pretending to be one island, and a single list of the best restaurants in Bali is useless to all of them. Nobody drives ninety minutes for breakfast. What matters is which quarter you wake up in, and what that quarter is good at.
Below, the five that matter, each with what it does well, when its kitchens actually open and close, and what an evening there costs. Every name links through to the full list it comes from, with hours and prices read off the menus rather than guessed.
Eating in Uluwatu and the Bukit Peninsula
Uluwatu wakes at six and eats early. The cliffs run from Jimbaran round to Nusa Dua, and the kitchens are strung along one road, which means nothing here is more than fifteen minutes from anything else. Breakfast is the meal this coast does best: avocado toast, shakshuka, long mornings after the surf. Dinner is thinner on the ground and finishes earlier than people expect, so book if you care where you sit.
The names to know: Suka, Artisan and Milk & Madu on the main Uluwatu road for breakfast, Ama when you want the busy version of that morning, Shaffa GastroBazar for the wood-fired Mediterranean kitchen, quieter and further out than the hustle, Mana above Suluban for dinner, Seed and Saltwood down in Bingin, and The View for the terrace. Full lists: the best restaurants in Uluwatu, breakfast in Uluwatu, dinner in Balangan, avocado toast in Uluwatu, beaches in south Bali with where to eat after each one.
1. SUKA ULUWATU – Uluwatu
Restaurant · 4.8 from 10760 Google reviews · 7:30 AM – 10:00 PM
Also on our list of avocado toast in Uluwatu and restaurants in Uluwatu.
2. Artisan - Uluwatu – Uluwatu
Restaurant · 4.8 from 3232 Google reviews · 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Also on our list of restaurants in Uluwatu.
3. Shaffa GastroBazar, Wood-Fired Mediterranean Kitchen – Uluwatu
Mediterranean Restaurant · 4.7 from 571 Google reviews · $$$ · 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM (Mon to 4:00 PM)
Also on our list of the Uluwatu sunset and avocado toast in Uluwatu.
4. Milk & Madu Uluwatu – Uluwatu
Cafe · 4.7 from 1738 Google reviews · $$$ · 6:30 AM – 10:00 PM
Also on our list of avocado toast in Uluwatu.
5. Seed Bingin – Bingin
Restaurant · 4.7 from 1360 Google reviews · 7:30 AM – 11:00 PM
Also on our list of shakshuka in Bali and avocado toast in Bali.
6. The View Restaurant Bali – Balangan
Restaurant · 4.7 from 416 Google reviews · $$$$ · 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Also on our list of dinner in Balangan and the Uluwatu sunset.
7. AMA by Ours – Uluwatu
Restaurant · 4.6 from 863 Google reviews · $$$$ · 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Also on our list of avocado toast in Uluwatu.
8. Mana Uluwatu Restaurant & Bar – Uluwatu
Restaurant · 4.5 from 2953 Google reviews · $$$$ · 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Also on our list of the Uluwatu sunset and restaurants in Uluwatu.
9. Saltwood Bingin – Bingin
Restaurant · 4.4 from 513 Google reviews · $$$$ · 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Also on our list of avocado toast in Bali and avocado toast in Uluwatu.
Best restaurants in Canggu and Berawa
Canggu queues. It is the busiest eating quarter on the island and the one that turns over fastest, which cuts both ways: the standard is high because nothing survives being mediocre, and the room you loved last season may be something else now. Breakfast runs late, dinner runs later than the Bukit, and almost everything takes walk-ins if you are early.
The Avocado Factory, Watercress in Berawa, Zai Cafe and Sari Kitchen are the ones our lists keep returning to. See avocado toast in Bali and shakshuka in Bali.
10. The Avocado Factory – Canggu
Restaurant · 4.5 from 3947 Google reviews · $$ · 7:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Also on our list of brunch in Bali and avocado toast in Bali.
11. Watercress Berawa – Berawa
Cafe · 4.8 from 223 Google reviews · $$$ · 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Also on our list of avocado toast in Bali.
12. Zai cafe – Canggu
Restaurant · 4.8 from 2963 Google reviews · $$$$ · 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM (hours vary Fri, Sat)
Also on our list of shakshuka in Bali.
13. Sari Kitchen & Community - by Ekosistem – Canggu
Restaurant · 4.7 from 1615 Google reviews · $$ · 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Also on our list of shakshuka in Bali.
Best restaurants in Seminyak and Kerobokan
Seminyak books a table. This is where Bali does the sit-down evening, with the prices that come with it, and where most of the island's Greek and Middle Eastern kitchens ended up. It is also the one quarter where turning up at eight without a reservation is a genuine mistake.
Sisterfields, Coffee Cartel, Estia and Al Jazeerah appear across our lists. Start with hummus in Bali, which is mostly a Seminyak and Kerobokan story.
14. Sisterfields – Seminyak
Cafe · 4.8 from 16983 Google reviews · 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Also on our list of brunch in Bali and avocado toast in Bali.
15. Coffee Cartel Seminyak – Seminyak
Cafe · 4.5 from 1565 Google reviews · $$ · 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Also on our list of shakshuka in Bali and avocado toast in Bali.
16. Estia | Woodfire Greek – Seminyak
Restaurant · 4.9 from 1822 Google reviews · $$$$ · 12:00 – 10:00 PM
Also on our list of hummus in Bali.
17. Al Jazeerah Signature – Seminyak
Middle Eastern Restaurant · 4.4 from 4528 Google reviews · $$$$ · 10:00 AM – 3:00 AM
Also on our list of hummus in Bali.
Eating in Ubud
Ubud is an hour inland and eats differently. It eats early, it books out, and two of its kitchens serve one sitting a night and nothing after it. It has also quietly become the most expensive quarter on the island for dinner, which is worth knowing before you sit down.
Tasting menus at Locavore NXT and Apéritif, fire at Ferro, fish at Nautilus, the river at Arcadia. The full thirteen are in the best restaurants in Ubud for dinner. At lunch, do what Ubud does: the pig is Gianyar's, and the best babi guling in Bali starts a few minutes from the palace.
18. Locavore NXT – Ubud
Restaurant · 4.8 from 795 Google reviews · $$$$ · 5:30 – 8:30 PM (plus lunch Thu, Fri, Sat; closed Sun)
Also on our list of dinner in Ubud.
19. Apéritif Restaurant - Fine Dining in Ubud, Bali – Ubud
Fine Dining Restaurant · 4.7 from 708 Google reviews · $$$$ · 12:00 – 3:00 PM, 6:00 – 11:00 PM
Also on our list of dinner in Ubud.
20. FERRO Grill Restaurant & Bar – Ubud
Restaurant · 4.8 from 1252 Google reviews · $$$$ · 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Also on our list of dinner in Ubud.
21. Nautilus – Ubud
Seafood Restaurant · 4.9 from 3214 Google reviews · $$$$ · 3:00 – 11:00 PM
Also on our list of dinner in Ubud.
Best restaurants in Jimbaran and Nusa Dua
The east side of the peninsula is calmer water, later sunrises and grilled fish on the sand at Jimbaran. Nusa Dua is resort country, which means the good eating is inside the resorts and priced accordingly. Both are on the way to and from the airport, which is most of why people end up eating there.
The beach side of it is covered in beaches in south Bali, with the distance from each beach to the kitchens worth stopping at.
22. Cuca Restaurant – Jimbaran
Tapas Restaurant · 4.7 from 3944 Google reviews · $$$$ · 12:00 – 11:00 PM
23. Legong bumbu Bali, Seafood Jimbaran – Jimbaran
Seafood Restaurant · 4.7 from 3338 Google reviews · 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
24. Lucid Cafe Bali – Jimbaran
Cafe · 4.9 from 2027 Google reviews · $$ · 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Questions people ask about eating in Bali
Which part of Bali is best for food?
Depends what you want the evening to be. Ubud has the tasting menus and the highest bills. Seminyak has the sit-down dinners and most of the Greek and Middle Eastern kitchens. Canggu has the volume and the queues. Uluwatu and the Bukit have the best breakfasts on the island and thinner dinner options. Jimbaran has grilled fish on the sand. There is no single best quarter, which is the whole reason this guide is written one quarter at a time.
How much does dinner cost in Bali?
A warung plate is 40,000 to 70,000 rupiah. A proper dinner in Canggu or Seminyak runs 250,000 to 500,000 a head with a drink. Ubud tasting menus start well above that. Breakfast on the Bukit is 55,000 to 115,000 depending on what is on the toast. Every price in our lists is read off the kitchen's own menu, and where a kitchen does not publish one we say so rather than guess.
Do you need to book restaurants in Bali?
In Ubud and Seminyak, yes, and for the one-sitting kitchens book weeks ahead. In Canggu you can usually walk in before seven. On the Bukit most places take walk-ins, but the tables with the view go first, and that is what you came for.
When do restaurants in Bali close?
Earlier than most people expect. The Bukit largely stops at eleven and Ubud is quieter still, with the tasting menus finished by half eight. Canggu and Seminyak run latest. Where a kitchen serves past eleven, our lists say so in its entry.
Is Bali good for vegetarians and vegans?
Unusually good, and not only in Ubud. Plant-based menus are standard rather than an afterthought across Canggu and Ubud, and most kitchens elsewhere will take the egg or the cheese off if you ask when you order. Where a dish is marked vegan on the kitchen's own menu, our lists say so; where it is a request rather than a printed option, they say that too.