When a new restaurant opens in quiet Sanur, there’s always a buzz as this sleepy part of Bali is filled with restaurants yet very few are worth going to. Minami in Ubud is where people go for refined Japanese cuisine. I had never had a chance to visit the Ubud outpost so when I heard …
A few people had mentioned Kayumanis as a good place for dinner in sleepy Sanur and we never got around to trying it because I didn’t know exactly where it was then a couple of months ago, while dropping off some dry cleaning, we cut through a tiny side street and there it was. We …
On a breezy Wednesday evening, after a long afternoon at the beach, A and I decided to get a quick dinner somewhere nearby on Sanur’s main street, Jalan Danau Tamblingan. Since the summer season has officially begun and the yearly tourists have arrived on the island, most of the restaurants were packed, including our local …
It’s the middle of the summer holidays and the kids are bored – what to do? We’ve been to the beach almost every day, to the new play area Cubby House in Seminyak, to Ubud on day trips and to the Bali Galleria’s Time Zone, eaten lots of ice cream and tried several fast food …
In an easy-to-miss side street just off Sanur’s Jalan Danau Tamblingan is a tiny sweet-looking cafe called Putih Pino. A friend brought me here for a coffee and cake one afternoon in December and I have been back several times since to have a coffee, with beautiful latte art, and a slice of whatever …
Clockwise from top left: Tables on the terrace, honey pork ribs, spicy red prawn curry. We had heard about CharMING and it’s sister restaurant MING, Le Resto a few doors away at the southern end of Jalan Danau Tamblingan in Sanur from several people and had put it on our go-to list. We were going for a …
A few months back, a friend invited me to lunch at The Porch. It’s a tiny wooden Manado-style house, with a porch and a shaded terrace which serves as the restaurant for the guests of Flashback’s Bungalows. There is an outdoor kitchen with a proper Australian-style grill and a few more tables on the wooden …
Travels with a Gourmet 