I’m so happy that you found our website. Now you can really get started on adding some exciting adventures to your holiday in Bali! BALI ASLI offers our guests truely memorable unique culinary and cultural adventures. The traditional Balinese cuisine we serve, pays homage to our community, the people who farm, forage, and fish in the nearby fields, forest and oceans. It is prepared using wood fires, mortar and pestle, our hands and lots of love! No electricity is used to produce our food at BALI ASLI, allowing the authentic flavours to shine. BALI ASLI aspires to inspire and pass knowledge to a new generation of people, so they can make a difference to Bali’s environment and tourism industry, without exploitation and sustaining it’s integrity.
Live life, Eat well.
Penelope Jane Williams
Chef and Creator
Bali Asli Restaurant
Where We Are
BALI ASLI is located in Gelumpang village, near the town of Amlapura, Karangasem regency, in the north east of Bali. It is about 2 hours drive from the airport, and 30 minutes from both Candidasa village and Amed village. BALI ASLI is nestled in the foot hills of Mount Agung, Bali’s most sacred mountain, surrounded by rice fields, there is not a building to be seen.
The Restaurant
BALI ASLI promotes Balinese cuisine and culture without exploiting it or it’s people. We embrace our community, supporting those who fish, farm and forage in the nearby fields, ocean and jungle. Our menu offers traditional Balinese food using an authentic Balinese style kitchen. We cook on wood-fired, mud brick stoves, allowing the real flavours of Bali to shine. Most of our ingredients are either grown in our garden, in our neighbour’s garden or purchased from the local market.
The Cooking School
The cooking school runs unique classes themed on “a day in the life of…” every class includes an adventure into local areas off the beaten track. Whether it is learning how to plant rice or plough with a cow, fishing in a jukung canoe and cooking on an open fire or making cocktails from cashew nut wine, our students always leave with fond memories and new skills to experiment with when they get home.