25 Best Restaurants in Seminyak 2026: Where to Eat Now

Merah Putih has been reworking recipes from across the archipelago on Jalan Petitenget since 2013, in a glass-walled hall with vaulted white columns and full-grown palms indoors. Readers voted it Gold for Best Indonesian Restaurant in Honeycombers' Bali's Best Awards 2025.

Dishes come to the middle of the table to share. At dinner the nine-course tasting menu runs from yellowfin tuna with watermelon to Sumatran beef curry, and à la carte favourites include Balinese slow-cooked duck (bebek menyat-nyat) and pulled-pork bao.

Lunch is the cheaper way in, with nasi campur sets, and every menu has proper vegetarian and vegan options. The bar pours more than 200 wines and cocktail flights.

Chef-owner Maurizio Bombini has cooked Southern Italian food rooted in his Puglian heritage at MAURI since 2018, and it is one of Seminyak's most polished dining rooms.

Choose between two five-course tasting menus, Signature and Discovery, with wine pairings, or go à la carte; the Parmigiano ravioli is the dish regulars recommend. The Sunday brunch won Best Sunday Brunch at the Exquisite Awards 2025, and the wine list holds a 2026 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.

Ultimo is the busy, good-value Italian on Jalan Kayu Aya, Seminyak's "Eat Street", with an air-conditioned lounge, a terrace for people-watching and live music every night.

The menu covers the classics, with seafood pastas, fettuccine with salmon and caviar, and tiramisu. It is the place to go when a group wants a lively dinner without fine-dining prices.

Sardine sits in an open-air bamboo pavilion on Jalan Petitenget, looking over a rice field that is lit up after dark: a rare green view in the middle of Seminyak. It was named Best Seafood Restaurant at the Exquisite Awards 2025.

The menu is seafood-led, with clams and beer, lobster ravioli, grilled octopus and a trio of tartares. It runs all day, from lunch to a 4 – 6 PM tapas window for sunset over the paddies, then dinner; on Saturday nights it turns into a party with DJs and dancers.

KILO opened in Seminyak in 2014 as the Singapore brand's first venue abroad, and it still does Latin and Asian flavours in shared plates.

The squid ink rice is the most-ordered dish, along with the truffled tai yuzu roll. It is now open all day from breakfast, and there is a buy-one-get-one happy hour from 12 to 6 PM.

La Lucciola has been on the sand at Petitenget since 1993, in a two-storey thatched pavilion beside the Petitenget Temple, and it is still Seminyak's classic sunset dinner.

The Italian-Mediterranean menu leans on seafood, such as barramundi baked in parchment and coral trout, with a lemon soufflé to finish. Upstairs has the best view of the sunset.

Nostimo brings a Greek taverna to Jalan Petitenget, with mixed grills of pork or lamb, grilled octopus, souvlaki, gyros and keftedakia meatballs made for sharing.

It is casual and fun, with a daily happy hour from 4 to 6 PM and live music on Sunday nights. There are now branches in Canggu and Ubud too.

Boy'N'Cow is Seminyak's serious steakhouse: beef from Australia, the US and Japan, grilled over charcoal, with dry-aged cuts aged on site for at least 30 days. It was named Best Premium Steakhouse at the Exquisite Awards 2025.

Order the porterhouse or a tomahawk to share with roasted bone marrow, then head up to the mezzanine lounge for single malts, cocktails and cigars. The restaurant is halal certified.

Part of chef Will Meyrick's group, Mama San is a buzzy, warehouse-style dining room serving the flavours of Southeast Asia, from crispy soft-shell crab to slow-cooked beef rendang.

The Feed Me menu is the easy way to try a lot with a group. It now serves all day, with a Vietnamese lunch menu until 5 PM, and vinyl DJs play in the upstairs lounge at night.

Will Meyrick's newest Seminyak restaurant, Buzo on Eat Street, mixes Japanese technique with Italian comfort cooking: robata skewers and sushi alongside handmade pasta and pizza.

Try the chili miso beef pizza, the miso ricotta agnolotti, or milk bread with roasted bone marrow. It is open from noon, and on Friday and Saturday nights a DJ plays with 2-for-1 cocktails from 7 PM.

Head chef Daijiro Horikoshi runs Takumi, Seminyak's go-to for refined Japanese cooking, with seasonal menus built from local and imported produce.

The 18-course omakase at the sushi counter runs on Friday and Saturday nights, and there is a 10-course nigiri menu on Fridays, a six-course chef's menu, à la carte dinners and a kaiseki bento lunch.

Open since 2013, Barbacoa cooks over fire: an asado pit, a parrilla, charcoal and a wood-fired oven, with a menu that runs from Argentine steakhouse to Mexican taqueria.

Go for the wood-roasted pork belly, the Wagyu rib fillet with chimichurri butter or lamb birria tacos, and sit outside facing the working farm or indoors with air-conditioning.

Sangsaka is a small, wood-fired modern Indonesian restaurant of about 40 seats, run by Kieran Morland with Yunika Morland, whose Javanese family recipes shape the menu.

Each dish is named for its region, from Singaraja-style suckling pig to Kalimantan mud crab and beef cheek kalio. Upstairs, the Di Atas cocktail bar stays open until 1 AM.

Fu House on Jalan Petitenget cooks Thai-inspired food over open flame and smoke in a retro room styled on a 1950s Chinatown eatery. It won Best Modern Asian Restaurant at the Exquisite Awards 2024.

Start with snacks like the dry beef curry donut, then smoked duck khao soi, massaman beef curry and wood-grilled meats, with Thai-accented cocktails.

Made's Warung opened its Seminyak branch in 1996 and is still the easy, open-air place to try classic Indonesian dishes such as nasi campur, sate lilit, nasi goreng and gado gado.

Prices are friendlier than most of the street, it suits families, and there are cultural dance performances in the evenings.

The original Motel Mexicola fills a building with hand-painted tiles, candlelit shrines and colourful murals, holding up to 400 guests. Tortillas are pressed to order for the Mexico City-style taqueria.

Order the birria tacos, the aguachile and a frozen margarita. It works for families at lunch and gets loud and party-like later at night.

Chef Dean Keddell opened Ginger Moon on Eat Street in 2012, and its sharing menu of dumplings, steamed buns, grills and thin Asian-style pizzas still draws a loyal crowd.

The steamed bun quartet, with babi guling and beef rendang among the fillings, is the order. Two-person banquets keep it good value, and it is family-friendly.

On the fourth floor of the Double-Six Luxury Hotel, The Plantation Grill serves steak and seafood in a 1920s colonial-style room.

The 2026 menu has dry-aged Australian steaks, including a 600g T-bone, and A5 Japanese wagyu, plus grilled jumbo tiger prawns and black truffle mac and cheese. It is dinner only.

Rayjin has served fusion Japanese teppanyaki since 2013, and the counter seats in front of the grill are the ones to book.

The Saikoro steak is the house signature, and the popcorn shrimp, nori tacos and miso black cod are worth ordering too. The Petitenget outlet has no sign outside, so follow the map pin.

Chai'Ba, founded by Raj Kapadia, is a lively Indian kitchen and bar on Jalan Raya Basangkasa, covering both North and South Indian cooking.

Order the tandoori king prawn, seekh kebab, Chettinad lamb curry or the Indian fish tacos. Most dishes can be made vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free, and Jain options are offered.

Open since 2014, Bo & Bun is a Vietnamese-led canteen with French-bistro styling and an easy menu for lunch or dinner.

"The 12 Hour" pho is the dish to order, along with twice-cooked pork belly buns, Pattaya pork ribs and Thai green curry, and there is a 2-for-1 drinks deal every day.

The Seminyak branch of the famous Ubud warung, Naughty Nuri's is all about pork spare ribs marinated in Balinese spices and grilled over charcoal, washed down with its twisted martinis.

There is also pork knuckle, Korean ribs, crispy duck and a wagyu burger. It is loud, busy and casual.

Founded in 2010, Taco Casa is the casual, good-value Mexican option, with tortillas, chips, beans and salsas made in-house.

Get the eight-layer burrito, the barramundi fish tacos or sizzling fajitas with a margarita. It is walk-in friendly and kid-friendly, with plenty of vegetarian and vegan options.

ShiShi is a three-floor venue on Jalan Petitenget: an izakaya lounge on the ground floor, with the main club and an R&B room above.

The all-you-can-eat izakaya dinner, with Wagyu tataki, the ShiShi 24k roll and Korean fried chicken, can roll straight into the club on a dinner-and-club session.

Opened in 2015 by the team behind Sisterfields, BOSSMAN is Seminyak's late-night burger stop, with about ten burgers built on smashed patties, from the double Smashin' to a spicy buttermilk chicken burger and a vegetarian option.

It is open until 5 AM, which makes it the place everyone ends up after a night out.