Best Babi Guling in Bali: 16 warungs, and when to go before it sells out (2026)
Babi guling is the one Balinese dish most visitors have heard of before they land: a whole young pig, stuffed with spice paste, roasted on a spit until the skin cracks. It is eaten at lunch, sold from warungs that do almost nothing else, and it runs out. The crackling goes first, often by early afternoon, which is the fact most lists leave out and the one this list is built around.
These are sixteen warungs across the island, grouped by where you are staying, each with the hours it keeps and what reviewers say about it this year, good and bad.
The short version
- Most agreed on: Pande Egi outside Gianyar, 4.6 across more than eight thousand ratings.
- In Ubud: Gung Cung by the palace at lunch, Ibu Gendut if you want it for dinner.
- In the south: Bu Ning in Kuta, 4.7, for the soup and the red crispy pork.
- Near Canggu: Jero Kawan in Munggu, down a lane by the rice fields.
- Earliest: Bu Desak Sapat in Tegallalang, from five in the morning. Latest: Bu Dayu in Kuta until two, and Pande Bangli beyond Ubud until three.
- Go before one. After that the skin is often gone.
What is babi guling, and what comes on the plate
Be guling, in Balinese, is a young pig roasted whole on a spit. The belly is stuffed with a spice paste of turmeric, chilli, garlic and ginger, with vegetables such as cassava leaves, and the pig is turned over the fire for hours until the skin goes brown and hard. Guling means to roll or turn. It began as ceremonial food, cooked for temple festivals and family rites, and Gianyar, the regency around Ubud, is the one most associated with it. Today it is sold every day from warungs that make little else.
Order nasi babi guling and you get a plate, not a slice. Rice, a few slices of the roast meat, a shard of the crackling, fried pork, and lawar: long beans or young jackfruit chopped with grated coconut, spices and minced pork. Red lawar has blood mixed through it; white lawar does not. Most places add urutan, the Balinese pork sausage, and a bowl of soup, usually a pork bone broth. The special or complete version adds more of everything, often satay.
It is spicy by default. The sambal is usually already on the rice, so if you want to control the heat, ask for it on the side before you order. At the warungs on this list a plate costs between about 25,000 and 60,000, and a few ask more.
When to go: babi guling opening times, before it sells out
The pig is roasted in the morning and the plate is meant to be eaten the same day: lawar in particular keeps for about half a day. So babi guling is a lunch, most warungs open between eight and ten, and the crackling is the first thing to go. Across this list, reviewers who arrived after one or two in the afternoon are the ones who got a plate without skin. A few places break the pattern.
| Warung | Where | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bu Desak Sapat | Tegallalang | 05:00 | 11:00 |
| Sari Kembar 99 | Kerobokan | 06:30 | 22:00 |
| Pak Malen | Seminyak | 08:30 | 18:00 |
| Pak Dobil | Nusa Dua | 09:30 | 16:00 |
| Ibu Gendut | Ubud | 09:00 | 22:00 |
| Bu Ning | Kuta | 10:00 | 22:00 |
| Pande Bangli | Bangli | 19:00 | 03:00, evening service |
| Bu Dayu Kencani | Kuta | 10:00 | 02:00 |
Hours from each warung's Google listing on 26 September 2026. Most places close earlier once the pig is finished.
Babi guling in Ubud and Gianyar, where it comes from
Gianyar is the regency around Ubud and the reputation starts here. Most of Ubud's warungs are a lunch; Ibu Gendut is the exception, and the two further out are for an early start and a late night.
1. Warung Babi Guling Pande Egi – Gianyar
The big one in the rice fields outside Gianyar town. 4.6 across more than eight thousand ratings, which for a babi guling warung is a lot of people agreeing. The room is large, the view is paddy, and the menu goes past the pig: sate lilit, a pork soup, and be genyol, the fried pork regulars order alongside. Reviewers put the most expensive plate at 42,000. It is also the place most often called too popular: on busy days there is a waiting list, and a few recent plates arrived lukewarm. Go before the lunch rush, and bring cash; one reviewer says it takes neither cards nor QRIS.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.6 from 8108 Google reviews · $ · 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
2. Babi Guling Gung Cung – Ubud
A couple of minutes from the palace, and where locals come at noon. You order at the counter on the street and carry the plate upstairs; the third floor is the one to aim for, cooler and looking over the roofs. Three portion sizes, the smallest listed at 35,000. Open half ten to half four, and reviewers say the skin can be gone after one. Two things to know: 10% is added to the bill without the menu saying so, and the green chilli on the side is very hot.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.3 from 1049 Google reviews · $$ · 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
3. Babi Guling Ibu gendut – Mas, Ubud
The one to go to for dinner. Most babi guling in Ubud is a lunch; this one runs from nine in the morning to ten at night, 4.7 across twelve hundred ratings. Reviewers come back for two things besides the pig, grilled pork ribs and a pork satay they call the most tender they have had, and the soup comes free. Reviewers mention the owner almost as often as the food. A few long-time regulars say prices have gone up and portions down since 2021.
Restaurant · 4.7 from 1261 Google reviews · $$ · 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM
4. Warung Babi Guling Ibu Oka 3 – Ubud
The name most visitors arrive knowing, and the most honest note on this page. Ibu Oka now runs three branches and the rating has slid to 3.8. The reviews say why: the skin is often sold out by mid-afternoon, plates late in the day arrive cold, and it is cash only. If you go, go to this one, the third branch at the end of an alley on Jalan Tegal Sari, for the room: long and open over a stream and trees, cooler than anywhere in central Ubud. Go before one. Around 60,000 to 65,000 a plate.
Indonesian Restaurant · 3.8 from 2392 Google reviews · $$ · 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
5. Babi Guling Bu Desak Sapat – Tegallalang
Open from five in the morning, closed by eleven. This is the babi guling for the day you are up early anyway, for the rice terraces or on the way down from Kintamani. There is a queue before the doors open and a sign saying nobody comes in before five. A mixed plate is 35,000, and reviewers say that arriving around six means you still see the whole pig and get every part of the plate. The queue itself is the complaint in almost every bad review: there is no system, so hold your place.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.5 from 481 Google reviews · $ · 5:00 – 11:00 AM
6. Babi Guling Pande Bangli – Bangli
Beyond Ubud, and open again at night. Bangli is the regency on the road up to Kintamani, and this stall runs two services, nine to one and then seven in the evening to three in the morning. Locals drive up from Denpasar for it, and on a busy night the queue runs out of the door. The plate is big, with lawar, fried pork, crackling and skin; one Bangli regular recommends the kikil, the pork leg. It is a small, hot room, and the drinks are bottled tea and water.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.4 from 761 Google reviews · $ · 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM – 3:00 AM
Babi guling in Seminyak and Kuta
The south has the most choice and the longest hours, including Bu Dayu in Kuta, open until two in the morning.
7. Warung Babi Guling Bu Ning – Kuta
The best-rated babi guling in the south on this page, at 4.7. A standard plate is about 45,000. What reviewers single out is the soup, kuah balung, a pork bone broth that comes hot, and the red crispy pork. The menu goes further than most, with rica-rica pork and babi hong. Parking is easy, and they sell their crackling and chilli in packs to take home. Ten in the morning to ten at night.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.7 from 2395 Google reviews · $$ · 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
8. Warung Babi Guling Pak Malen – Seminyak
The most reviewed babi guling we found, on Sunset Road. Nearly ten thousand ratings at 4.4, and the easy one: a big car park, quick service and an air-conditioned room upstairs. The spice is stronger than most, and reviewers say you can ask for it less hot. Plates run about 50,000 to 80,000 a person. It also sells frozen babi guling to take away. The complaints are about portions: a few visitors found the special smaller than they expected.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.4 from 9675 Google reviews · $$ · 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
9. Guling Sam - Sam Merekak Kuta – Legian
Not quite babi guling, and worth the detour for that. Samsam is roast pork belly rather than the whole pig on a spit: the skin crisp, the fat and meat underneath still juicy. The special mixed plate, about 55,000 with a drink, puts samsam, roast pork, satay and lawar together with a bowl of soup. It is busy at lunch and dinner and hot inside, with fans rather than air-conditioning. Ten to five, then six to ten.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.6 from 1528 Google reviews · $$ · 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, 6:00 – 10:00 PM
10. Warung Babi Guling Bu Dayu Kencani – Kuta
Open until two in the morning. A roadside warung on the veranda of a shophouse on Jalan Raya Kuta, busy with Gojek drivers at every hour, which tells you most of what you need to know. About 35,000 to 45,000 a plate, a sambal reviewers rate, and no restroom. The skin is the weak point: on some nights it is soft, or swapped for crackers.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.5 from 4076 Google reviews · $ · 10:00 AM – 2:00 AM
11. Babi Guling Sari Kembar 99 – Kerobokan
The cheapest way in, and open from half six. A takeaway pack starts at 15,000, or 20,000 with satay, and a plate at the table runs 25,000 to 50,000. Grab drivers name it as their favourite. It is cash only, a bank transfer has a 50,000 minimum, and parking costs a few thousand. The skin and crackers are not always in the pack, so check before you leave.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.3 from 2880 Google reviews · $ · 6:30 AM – 10:00 PM
Babi guling near Canggu
All three sit west of Canggu towards Munggu, among rice fields and village roads rather than on the tourist strip.
12. Babi Guling Jero Kawan – Munggu
Down a lane in Munggu, and the one reviewers call worth the drive. 4.6 across fifteen hundred ratings, in a residential street near the rice fields west of Canggu, with a garden to eat in. About 40,000 to 50,000 with hot tea, the rice and the rest served separately, and a sambal made with green chillies. It fits neatly before or after Tanah Lot. Ten to nine.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.6 from 1586 Google reviews · $ · 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
13. Babi Guling Men Lari – Munggu
The busy one on the main Canggu road. A complete plate is 50,000: the pig, soup, lawar, and some organs, liver and a stuffed intestine, which reviewers warn first-timers about. It is very spicy, and the reviewers who loved it say so too. Try the cincau with brown sugar alongside. Nine to ten, plenty of tables; parking is the problem.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.4 from 2898 Google reviews · $$ · 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM
14. Babi Guling Slingsing "Bu Suci" – Cepaka
Generous with the crackling. On the Munggu to Kapal road, 4.5 across nearly three thousand ratings. Reviewers single out the amount of crisp skin and a spice level that is balanced rather than loud. A plate and a drink come to about 40,000, they take QRIS, and parking costs 5,000. The room is simple and hot. Noon to half seven.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.5 from 2969 Google reviews · $ · 12:00 – 7:30 PM
Babi guling in Jimbaran and Nusa Dua
Two on the peninsula south of the airport, one of them ten minutes from it.
15. Warung Babi Guling Sari Dewi Bp. Dobil – Nusa Dua
The famous one in Nusa Dua, and it sells out. Seven and a half thousand ratings at 4.4. Reviewers say come early, at half nine when it opens or by eleven at the latest, because the pig runs out. You order and pay at the counter, take a number and find a table, and the broth is what regulars praise most. About 45,000 to 60,000 for the big plate. Service is brisk to the point of rude on busy days, and it closes at four.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.4 from 7431 Google reviews · $$ · 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
16. Rumah Makan Babi Guling Karya Rebo – Kedonganan
Ten minutes from the airport, and it takes phone orders for pickup. Kedonganan, by the Jimbaran fish market. The pork bone soup and the satay are what reviewers praise, and a shop at the front sells crackling to take home. One warning: several reviewers were told the skin was sold out only after they had paid, so ask before you order. Around 55,000 a plate, eight to half past nine.
Indonesian Restaurant · 4.2 from 5387 Google reviews · $$ · 8:00 AM – 9:30 PM
Questions people ask about babi guling in Bali
Where is the best place to eat babi guling in Bali?
It depends where you are. Around Ubud, Pande Egi outside Gianyar has the most agreement, 4.6 across more than eight thousand ratings, and Gung Cung by the palace is the lunch locals come to. In the south, Bu Ning in Kuta is the best-rated at 4.7 and Pak Malen on Sunset Road is the most reviewed. Near Canggu, Jero Kawan in Munggu. In Nusa Dua, Pak Dobil, if you get there before it sells out.
What is babi guling?
A young pig stuffed with spice paste and vegetables, then roasted whole on a spit and turned over the fire until the skin is crisp. In Balinese it is be guling; guling means to roll or turn. It began as food for ceremonies and is now sold daily from warungs, served as a plate with rice, crackling, lawar, sausage and soup.
What is lawar?
The chopped side that comes with babi guling: long beans or young jackfruit with grated coconut, spices and minced meat. Red lawar has blood mixed in, white lawar does not. It is made fresh and keeps for about half a day, which is one reason babi guling is a lunch.
How much does babi guling cost in Bali?
At the warungs on this list, between about 25,000 and 60,000 for a plate. The cheapest way in is Sari Kembar 99 in Kerobokan, where a takeaway pack starts at 15,000. Ibu Oka in Ubud and Pak Malen on Sunset Road sit at the top, 60,000 and more. The special or complete plate usually adds satay and more of the sides.
What time does babi guling sell out?
Usually by early afternoon, and the crackling goes first. Reviewers who arrived after one or two at Ibu Oka, Gung Cung and Karya Rebo are the ones who got a plate without skin. Pak Dobil in Nusa Dua opens at half nine and reviewers say to be there by eleven.
Is babi guling spicy?
Yes, by default, and at Men Lari and Gung Cung very. The sambal is usually already on the rice, so ask for it on the side before you order if you want to control the heat. Some places, Pak Malen among them, will make it milder if you ask.
Where can you eat babi guling at night in Bali?
Bu Dayu Kencani on Jalan Raya Kuta is open until two in the morning. Pande Bangli, beyond Ubud, runs an evening service from seven until three. In Ubud, Ibu Gendut in Mas stays open until ten, and in Kuta so does Bu Ning.
Is babi guling healthy?
It is rich rather than light: roast pork, crackling and fried pork on one plate, with lawar that can contain blood. It is at its best, and safest, when it is fresh, which is another reason to eat it at lunch rather than late in the day.