14 Best Cafés in Ubud 2026: Coffee, Brunch & Work-Friendly Spots

Coffee is treated as a craft at Seniman Coffee Studio, the Ubud café of a Bali roaster that calls itself the original specialty coffee and design studio. Its own roastery selects and roasts the beans and runs weekly cupping sessions. The bar pours full-bodied espresso, crisp filter coffee and rotating Indonesian single origins in a room of rustic wooden tables and recycled chairs with an industrial, art-studio look.

We'd order a filter brew of Kintamani, roasted in-house, then take a bag of the same beans home. The café is a short walk from Ubud Palace and the art market. Anyone keen to learn can book a two-hour espresso, latte art or manual brewing workshop, held every Monday and Saturday.

Tucky makes its espresso with Fazenda Primavera, a 100% Arabica single-estate coffee with notes of chocolate, honey, nuts and berries, and its cold brew with Karana Kintamani beans from Bali's highlands. The brunch menu, served all day, gives familiar classics a South and Southeast Asian accent: akuri, the Indian spiced scramble, or scrambled eggs topped with braised beef short rib and mint chutney.

Laptops and books are welcome for a longer stay, and the café is a five-minute walk from Ubud Market. Come before 4 PM, when the room turns into Bacari, its sister wine and tapas bar. Oat and almond milk are available, and several dishes can be made vegan on request.

Tea becomes a slow ritual at Chontea, which looks at tea culture through a Japanese lens. Specialty teas from Japan and across Asia are paired and presented in the spirit of omakase, served in Japanese glassware and tea ware, alongside handcrafted brews and experimental coffee. The tea house sits in Alaya Grounds, the rice-field dining enclave of Alaya Resort Ubud in central Ubud.

Seating is limited, so we'd reserve a slot online; a per-person deposit confirms the booking, and walk-ins are seated only when chairs are free. Matcha lovers can also buy ceremonial and heritage-grade Kyoto matcha to take home. Groups of more than six should arrange a private tea time through Instagram.

Across the road from Ubud Palace, Milk & Madu keeps its menu simple: familiar breakfast favourites, done well, from 7 AM every day. Ricotta cakes in the Russian syrniki style, cinnamon-bun French toast and the Big Brekky lead a breakfast menu that runs until 4 PM, before the menu moves on to lava-stone pizzas and cocktails.

On weekdays, the brekky set is the deal to know: a breakfast from the set menu, a regular coffee and a house juice for one price, served from 7 AM to 11 AM for dine-in guests. Weekend brunch comes with live music on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 AM to 2 PM. Parties as large as 20 can reserve online.

Since late 2004, KAFE has fed central Ubud from a menu that runs from keto to vegan. Most of its vegetables are organic or in conversion to organic, grown at Yogi's Garden, a partner farm to the north of town, and the kitchen cooks with butter, coconut oil and olive oil, avoiding seed oils and preservatives.

Breakfast brings smashed avocado toast with a poached egg, buckwheat pancakes with berry compote and cold-pressed juices such as the Green Healer, and daily specials run alongside the printed menu. KAFE stays open until 11 PM, with last orders at 10 PM, so it works for dinner as well. To book, send a WhatsApp text. Delivery ordered directly from KAFE costs less than through ride-hailing apps.

Floor cushions, a guru wall of spiritual teachers and a green outlook set the unhurried pace at Clear Cafe, a central Ubud favourite for healthy meals. Most of the menu is vegetarian, vegan or raw, with pescatarian dishes made from seafood bought every other morning at 5 AM off the docks at Kedonganan. The nut milks and dressings are made in-house.

Breakfast leans Mexican and wholesome: huevos rancheros on homemade corn tortillas, a breakfast burrito with ranchero sauce, or a smoothie bowl topped with house granola and peanut butter. Everything is cooked in pure coconut oil. Ask for floor seating if you plan to linger, and look out for the Saturday Bahasa Indonesia class if you are staying a while.

Rice-field views, a garden that starts where the terrace ends and a 50+ Mbps fibre connection make The Hidden Space, south of central Ubud, a café built for remote workers. Every seat has a power outlet, the tables are made for laptops, and single-origin coffee runs all day, from siphon and Vietnamese drip to cold drip.

Arrive before noon for the Special Breakfast; after that, the rice plates with Balinese sambal matah keep a working day going. The café hosts informal meetups, open studio mornings and a weekly Indonesian–English language exchange, with no membership needed. The team admits you might walk past twice, so save the pin before you set off. It closes on Sundays.

Everything that leaves the kitchen at Unity Cafe Bali is gluten-free and coeliac-safe, from vegetarian breakfasts to vegan-friendly lunches. West of central Ubud and away from the traffic, the café has plenty of indoor and outdoor seating, ample parking and fast WiFi. The team invites guests to relax and stay as long as they like.

Order the Unity eggs Benedict: poached eggs, mushrooms and spinach on pumpkin-chia gluten-free muffins with a coconut hollandaise. The organic coffee, healing teas and ginger shots will carry a morning of work, but plan around the hours: last orders are at 3:45 PM. Dogs are welcome on a lead. The kitchen cooks only with extra virgin coconut oil or ghee.

Fully plant-based and mostly raw, Sayuri Healing Food draws on Ayurvedic, Chinese and macrobiotic traditions. Every nut and seed is soaked and dehydrated below 48°C. The café shares its home in Ubud with a plant-based chef academy, and every day brings kirtan, ecstatic dance, sound journeys or yoga.

Breakfast is served all day, so a raw breakfast burrito in a zucchini wrap works at noon as well as at 8 AM. The raw desserts are a point of pride. WiFi is available for customers and the kitchen takes orders until 10 PM, which makes Sayuri the pick of this section for an evening laptop session.

Will Goldfarb's dessert restaurant runs Powder Room as its daytime bakery and sweet shop, selling croissants, pop-tarts and botanical bomboloni with vanilla crème brûlée, alongside handmade candies from local ingredients. A 'second life' section adds twice-baked croissants and sourdough soft serve.

For a full morning, we'd order the continental breakfast, which brings yoghurt and granola, a baked good, jamu, and coffee or tea, then add a bomboloni for the road. Weekend focaccia and country loaves must be pre-ordered by 5 PM on Thursday. The counter also sells pantry goods such as house ricotta, sambal hijau and apple butter. Powder Room closes on Mondays.

The Seeds of Life pairs raw and cooked vegan food with a Taoist tonic bar of medicinal mushrooms, tonic herbs and elixirs drawn from Chinese, Ayurvedic and Indonesian traditions. The café grew out of raw food retreats and trainings that began in 2008, and it has served central Ubud since 2014.

Breakfast runs all day. The Epic Papaya 'Salmon' Benny layers raw zucchini bread, papaya 'salmon' and hollandaise, while avo on toast comes on house sourdough. The coffee is Balinese, organic and biodynamic, and fresh spring water is used throughout the kitchen. A second branch has opened west of the centre.

Nothing on the menu at The Raw Temple is cooked: the café, in the quiet north of Ubud, serves organic, sugar-free, 100% raw vegan food from locally sourced ingredients, along with cold-pressed juices, superfood smoothie bowls and raw desserts.

The raw Full English brings papaya-coconut sausage, coconut bacon, chayote hash browns and a cashew scramble; for something lighter, there is avocado on almond bread. Stay into the evening: the grounds host daily live music, kirtan gatherings and meditation sessions, and the café is open until 11 PM. For a longer reset, the team runs a 7 Chakra Juice Detox and a raw food academy.

Alchemy Ubud, a plant-based café west of the centre, runs on build-your-own bowls, and its entire menu is also gluten-free. Many dishes are raw, meaning never heated above 43°C, and suppliers are chosen for organic and regenerative farming.

Mornings start at the breakfast bar: pick a base of smoothie, coconut yoghurt, nut milk or chia, then three fruits and two sprinkles. At lunch the salad bar works the same way, with greens or grains, toppings, a protein and a dressing, and set bowls such as the kimchee bowl suit anyone who would rather not choose. Takeaway containers are biodegradable, and Alchemy's raw vegan culinary academy is also based in Ubud.

Set inside The Yoga Barn, with long community tables, Garden Kafe has been a fixture of Ubud's yoga scene for more than a decade. It began as one of Ubud's original healthy-eating cafés, and the kitchen still cooks raw, vegan and vegetarian dishes from local, seasonal produce, with gluten-free options throughout.

Come straight from class for a kitcheree bowl of organic lentils and brown rice, or the vegan green bowl with tofu teriyaki and edamame; chicken breast can be added for extra protein. The juice bar makes cold-pressed juices and herbal tonics, and bringing your own bottle earns 10% off a refill. The café can also host private groups of up to 50.