Bali Food Guide: 14 Must-Eat Restaurants in Ubud & Seminyak

We love exploring local food. It’s why we travel.

Whenever we visit a new city, we try to experience as much of the regional cuisine as we can. We rarely go to restaurants that serve non-local food so if that means having to ignore a Japanese restaurant in Bangkok in spite of its great reviews and my love affair with sushi, then so be it.

But Bali is different.

We learned that on our first visit to the island in 2009. We stayed the entire time in Ubud and I remember having more difficulty finding authentic warungs (simple Indonesian restaurant) than restaurants serving international food. That’s what our guide Kadek told us too. There are just more international restaurants in Bali now.

I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that Bali has been such a popular tourist destination for so…