A pleasant cafe with a beautiful panoramic view in Penestanan.
Pros:
- A cozy; beautiful panoramic view
- Health-conscious menu, you can see that the Balinese owners care about the quality of the ingredients: only coconut oil for frying and olive oil for salads, farm chicken, organic rice; no msg (glutamate) added to the food or sauces containing msg (most ready-made sauces use glutamate, including soy sauce).
- Every Sunday there is an organic buffet, starting at 5:30pm, price 85k including main course, soup and dessert.
- The kitchen is partly open, you can see how they cook. They don't use cheap aluminum utensils (kind of unhealthy) and microwaves
- It's nice to wander through the little alleyways in the neighborhood and then stop by this cafe, which is a little off the walking path.
- The cafe sells cute costume jewelry and girly little things.
- You can get there by bike from Vespa Cafe and leave it near the cafe; from Champuan Street you can't get there, leave your bike at the parking lot and climb up the stairs.
- no smoking in the cafe
Cons:
- slow and poorly English-speaking staff
- the most popular and cozy seats (especially those with a view) are often occupied; and if you're lucky enough to sit at a table with a view on a sunny day, you'll miss the sun umbrellas.
- prices are quite high, plus 10% tax
- free wi-fi only works until 17.30
- not very clean and kind of shabby(
What to try?
1. Balinese tapas for 2 - an assortment of Balinese appetizers, a portion for two people.
2. Nasi Campur Campuan - specialty, fried rice with a choice of vegetables, fish or chicken or bacon. Served with soup.
3. Candlenut curry - Balinese curry with choice of tempeh (tofu) or chicken and organic rice
4. Pesto Pasta - certainly not Italian pasta, but if you want European. Vegetarian or with chicken/bacon.
5. Interesting drinks, such as water infused with Champaka flower (first glass is free), tea with Chia seeds, ginger and honey, homemade sodas and turmeric-based healing drinks. There is also Luwak coffee, but I can't guarantee it's real, i.e. wild.
