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Kafe is located on Hanoman Street and is a very popular meeting point for visitors as well as expats. Also, sister café of The Garden Kafe of The Yoga Barn. Every day from 8 till 11 they serve healthy food with vegan and vegetarian options.

They are big on environment: they encourage people to use less plastic bags and sell items made out of recycled material at their very own shop called Kafe Kares along with organic food, Kafe mugs and health products. Certain percentage of Kafe Kares’ profit goes to charity across Indonesia. Even the furniture here and fittings made from recycled wood! These people are dead serious when it comes to environment: they even have their Kafe Environmental Policy.

This lively café, just like many others, has Wi-Fi although it is available all day on the second floor and only until 5pm downstairs.

Back to food business Peoples. I have had many meals at Kafe but this is my favourite:

Tempeh Cashew Nut Curry (as seen below). It comes with red rice and the price is 41.000 RP.

Kafe delivers too! Their kafe-delivery-menu can be found here.

Kafe
Address: 44B Jln Hanoman, Ubud-Bali
Phone: +62 361 780 3802
www.balispirit.com/Kafe

Down to Earth Café is one of the famous cafes in Ubud. It has a feeling of expansion over the years as there is a health shop downstairs, an ice cream and desert shop next to the health shop. Right after those, another shop where they sell bags, clothes and gifts. The restaurant itself is upstairs. Balcony is particularly nice especially if you have your mosquito repellent on.

Here’s what I had:
Seitan Kebab 75 000 Rp
Moroccan style seitan, baked on a skewer, served with crunchy salad with seeds, baked pumpkin with rosemary. It was supposed to be served with either brown rice or potato fries but I had some mushrooms, tomatoes and cucumber instead. You never get what’s written on the menu here. I must admit, seitan was dry and quite poor in taste department, too.

Down to Earth Café
Jalan Goutama Selatan
Ubud – Bali
Ph: 0361 976546/7835545

The Garden Kafe at The Yoga Barn is another great place to eat in Ubud. Although their menu is not completely vegan or vegetarian, there is a huge variety of delicious options. The garden-kafe-menu can be viewed here. The Garden Kafe is also part of The Yoga Barn which is the ultimate Mecca of yogis.

I have been to The Garden Kafe a few times so far however, what you see below was my first meal there.

Cashew Ginger Tofu 43 Rp
Tofu, greens sautéed in aromatic spices and it comes with red rice.

Meg’s Big Bowl 53 Rp
Greens, veggies, roasted seeds, avocado, tofu and tempeh crunch

Watermelon Hydrate 31 Rp
Watermelon, lime, mint

Raw Mixed Berry Cheese Cake 37 RP

The Yoga Barn
Address: Jalan Raya Pengosekan Ubud, Ubud, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Website: www.theyogabarn.com
Phone:+62 361 971236
Hours: 6:00 am – 9:00 pm

I loved Soma Kafe so much the first time, I had to go back there again. It’s not just great food with lots of vegan and vegetarian options that makes me want to go back but also the atmosphere. They have beanbag cushions on the floor. You sit there, do some work on your computer (connection is good) and talk to the owner, Johnny, who is incredibly friendly. Yesterday, for example, I asked where I could buy the same plates and bowls and he immediately drew me a map and introduced me to his daughter (she designs them and an Aussie guy makes them).

This is Soma’s courtyard and those green thingies on the floor are young coconuts.

OK Peoples, here’s what we had yesterday:

Tower of Power 47 Rp
Stack of grilled jicama, mashed purple sweet potatoes, grilled pineapple, ginger mashed pumpkin topped with grilled onion and served with local greens with sprinkled sesame seeds on top.

Ruby Moon 52 Rp
Sweet potato beetroot mash with steamed greens, grilled tempeh, shitake mushrooms and cashew cheese.

Mango Madness 33 Rp
Luscious mango with coconut milk, cinnamon, cardamom, clove and nutmeg.

Carrot Pumpkin Cake 27 Rp
Milled heirloom rice flour, raisins and vanilla coconut cream. This beauty is gluten free.

Atman Kafe is located on Hanoman Street and is always busy. The décor is very earthy and their food is incredible. The name Atman means the innermost essence of each individual to the Supreme Universal Self. In Layman terms, the little voice or knowing within your heart that guides you and if you follow its wisdom it will guide you far better than your mind ever will.

I must admit, here at Atman Kafe, I have had the most interesting dish of my life here. The one with jackfruit (below). Here, I have a copy of Atman Take Away and Delivery Menu for you.

Jukut Nangka

Jukut Nangka (pronounced joo-koot Nung-kaa) 52 Rp
Jukut Nangka is a local dish which is slow cooked young jackfruit with local spices and beans, served with red and white rice.

Belly Juice 41 Rp
Aloe vera, apple, celery, carrot and turmeric.

Atman Kafe
Address: Jl. Hanoman no 38, Ubud, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Website: www.atmankafe.com
Phone:+62 361 8620505
Hours: 7:00 am – 10:30 pm

 

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.