Author: agulden

Food at Alchemy is raw, vegan and they have juice and smoothie bar, salad bar chocolatier and a health food store. Their famous clinic is located upstairs.

We popped in to Alchemy in the afternoon just to try their raw cakes. There were quite a few to choose from but we ended up having these two:

Lemon Coconut Cake
Cashews, coconut, palm nectar, lime, salt, Irish moss, dates, coconut oil, vanilla, Kangen water (no idea, don’t ask)

Banofee Pie
Banana, coconut, oats, palm sugar, xylitol, cashew, coconut oil, cacao butter, Irish moss, lacuma, vanilla, cinnamon, salt.

After we stuffed ourselves with these delicious and incredibly light cakes we made friends with Alchemy’s lovely staff around their jewellery section. I don’t know how it happened but they started modelling for us. I had to take my camera out 🙂

Alchemy
Website: www.alchemybali.com
Address: Jalan Penestanan Klod, Ubud, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Phone: +62 (0)361 971 981

When you step inside Clear Café, you might think you are in Manhattan at one of those upper class restaurants. The décor is somewhere between contemporary industrial and traditional Balinese with rusted beams and large tables made out of thick –I mean really thick –volcanic stone. The partition between the first room and the second one is made out of coins.

The style of food at Clear Café is international. It is not completely vegan but they have a few vegan dishes on their menu and they all have vo sign (vegan options) next to their names. One thing they don’t accept is credit card and they do not have wine. And you take your shoes off before you enter but that is a Balinese tradition anyway.

I had Nasi Campur (as above) which is a traditional Indonesian dish. It is served with Balinese curry soup and homemade sambal. Here’s how their vegan version goes: tofu and tempeh sate with peanut dipping sauce, fried tofu, green beans, potato cake and curry soup. All of that for 40.000 Rp.

As a side salad I had Ubud Thai (as above) which is local young papaya, red pepper and spiced peanuts with authentic Thai dressing. This is also 40.000 Rp.

Clear Café
Address: Jalan Hanoman No. 8, Padang Tegal Kaje, Ubud, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Website: www.clear-cafe-ubud.com
Ph: +62 361 889437
Hours: 8:00 am – 11:00 pm

Although I just came back from Bali, I realised that I have a few restaurants that I haven’t blogged about yet. The Seeds of Life is one of them. As I go through my photos and notes, I keep finding things I haven’t mentioned before. I might even have to go back and redo some of the ones I have already posted. So stay tuned Peoples…

The Seeds of Life is a raw food paradise. I have never been crazy about raw food as I do have some serious digestion problems with it, however, I wanted to try this place regardless. Apart from raw food café section, they have a tonic bar, raw food chef certification courses and a fantastic tea selection. OK, here’s what we had:

My friend had Pad Thai

I had a raw wrap. It comes with a really nice tomato salsa to die for. And, beetroot chips as seen in the photo.

The Seeds of Life
Address: 2 Jalan Gootama Ubud, Ubud, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Phone: +62 361 970650
Website: www.theseedsoflife.net

Soma Cafe is one of the organic cafes of Ubud where you can eat healthy foods and listen to live music in the evenings. The outside seeing is quite pretty with its open courtyard. There is a conference room where people from the same community get together for workshops etc.

The style of food here is Asian fusion with many vegetarian and vegan options. Here’s what we had:

Grilled Vegetable sandwiches with cashew cheese although they are served more like a stack of vegetables on bread.

Green Papaya Salad

Soma Cafe is located at Jalan Gautama and check out the shop upstairs.