Dinner in Balangan, Uluwatu

Off the one menu

There is a vegetarian side to dinner that people do not expect: the stroganoff has a version made from jackfruit, cooked the same slow way as the beef, and the grill does vegetables over the coals.

Prices in thousands of Indonesian rupiah: 88k means Rp88,000.

See the full menu Reserve a table

The evening menu, dish by dish

The whole of what the kitchen sends out at night, with what is in each dish and what it costs. Prices are in thousands of rupiah: 88k means Rp88,000.

Wood & Fire

To Share

Pasta & Risotto

Pizza & Flatbread

To share, before the fire

Dinner here tends to start flat on the table rather than plated: a few things in the middle, warm flatbread, and everyone reaching. Order three or four between two, more if the table is long.

Prices in thousands of Indonesian rupiah: 88k means Rp88,000.

Pasta and risotto

Not everyone at the table wants meat off the coals, and the kitchen knows it. Duck confit through pappardelle, smoked beef folded into ravioli, mushroom risotto finished with truffle oil and parmesan mousse.

Prices in thousands of Indonesian rupiah: 88k means Rp88,000.

The bar and the wine

The wine list is short and chosen rather than long: malbec from Argentina, shiraz from Barossa, primitivo. The bar runs classics and a few of its own, and keeps going after the kitchen slows down.

Prices in thousands of Indonesian rupiah: 88k means Rp88,000.

Dinner in company

The room is built for tables rather than couples: the sharing plates come first, the fire section arrives in the middle, and the evening runs long because nobody is moved along. If you are six or more, book ahead and say so, and the team will put the table together before you arrive.

A longer look at eating in Balangan, what is open when and what it costs, is in the journal.

Dinner with a view, and then lantern light

The terrace is open to the air over village roofs and palms, with a line of ocean past the rooftops. The light turns at about six and the whole room turns with it. After dark the chandelier and the lanterns take over, the tables go quiet, and nobody moves anyone along. Tables by the rail are the ones to ask for, and they go first.

It works as a dinner date without trying to be a date restaurant. The tables by the rail are the ones couples ask for, the light goes at about six, and after dark nobody comes to move you along. If you are planning a romantic dinner or a quiet anniversary, say so when you book and we will put you by the rail.

Slow cooked, aged, fermented

The evening leans on things that took days rather than minutes: beef aged and fermented in the house, beef slow cooked into a flatbread, duck folded into a pie with fermented tomato. The fire does the rest.

Sunset dinner, then the lanterns

A sunset dinner here starts at the rail: the light turns at about six, the terrace turns with it, and the ocean past the rooftops goes gold for twenty minutes. Then the chandelier and the lanterns take the room and the evening settles in. Jimbaran bay is twelve minutes across if you want the sand afterwards, Uluwatu twenty-five the other way. The rail tables are the sunset seats and they are booked first, so ask for one when you reserve.

Before you come up

Balangan Beach is about four kilometres down the hill, ten minutes by car. Jalan Pantai Balangan is the road that takes you from the sand out to Jalan Uluwatu, so whichever way you are heading afterwards, you pass us anyway. Parking is at the restaurant and there is usually space in the evening.