News That Matters

Spice

tropicalife.net spice category

Kilo Restaurants

Kilo Restaurants

Spice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_blockquote type="type1" border_color="#00e3ff"] After the success of their restaurants in Singapore, Kilo recently opened up their first overseas branch, in the heart of Seminyak. [/vc_blockquote][vc_column_text] Designed with modern Balinese architecture, wood furniture and big windows overlooking a well-manicured landscape, Kilo serves refined comfort and adventure food for those looking for good taste in a casual space. Serving for lunch and dinner, the dishes in KILO are influenced by several cuisines such as Japanese, Italian and Spanish. One dish I found incredibly tantalizing was the squid ink rice. To be honest, this is not an appetizing looking dish. The black colour resulting from the squid ink can be a bit overwhelming for first timers. However, it is ...
L’Assiette Restaurants

L’Assiette Restaurants

Spice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_blockquote type="type1" border_color="#00e3ff"] French for ‘plate’, L’Assiette has devoted themselves to serving high quality French Cuisine with appealing twists. [/vc_blockquote][vc_column_text] The restaurant’s interior resembles an open-air art space where paintings, wood sculptures and antique objects are either hanging on walls or making interesting corner pieces. The dining area is a friendly clutter of objects and colour – welcome to provincial France. There is a gallery adjacent to the restaurant and here the displayed works of art are for sale. L’Assiette’s reputation rests on its fine French cuisine along with one or two interesting Asian dishes. The menu is decidedly French however and projects the same homely approach as the décor of this casual dining r...
Rondji Restaurants

Rondji Restaurants

Spice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_blockquote type="type1" border_color="#00e3ff"] Fine Cuisine & Libation [/vc_blockquote][vc_column_text] A trip to Ubud is not complete without a visit to the Blanco Renaissance Museum. There are two very good reasons for this excursion. Firstly, the museum presents a fascinating collection of art works of the legendary Don Antonio Blanco and the attached Rondji Restaurants is the worthy second reason for a visit. This delightful Ronji restaurant is a visual as well as a gourmet experience. Inpired by and named after the wife of the late Don Antonio Blanco, Rondji is immediately captivating with its expansive timber decked floor up there in the tree tops and tangle with nature. The interior dining area is housed under an exposed timber roofing structure of tr...
Room 4 Dessert

Room 4 Dessert

Spice
Just in case you haven’t heard, there is a delicious treat waiting to be discovered in Ubud called Room4Dessert. This is the creation of the palate seducer Will Goldfarb of previous Room4Dessert fame in New York City. Famed for creating avant-garde desserts and known as ‘The Prince of Pastry”, Will is the unchallenged master of turning simple ingredients into seductive plates of delicious desserts. Local products and Indonesian preparation techniques have given Will a whole new string to his sweet bow. Indonesia has an enticing range of products like belingo, kemangi, palm sugar, tombong, snakefruit and klepon that have added zest to his already well-honed art. Room4Dessert serves 9 different desserts, each with its own character, presentation and taste. Here are 5 of my favourites. Choc...
Tapis Restaurant at Kayumanis Jimbaran

Tapis Restaurant at Kayumanis Jimbaran

Spice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_blockquote type="type1" border_color="#00e3ff"] This elegant restaurant sits unobtrusively in a quiet corner of Jimbaran. Tapis Restaurant at Kayumanis offers a pleasant environment for dining and a menu of authentic Indonesian cuisine. [/vc_blockquote][vc_column_text] The restaurant is relatively small and presents as a luxury home. Timber furnishings dominate the interior and while there is an Indonesian authenticity with the menu, dishes are presented in an appealing modern mode. I made myself comfortable at one of the tables and started my culinary journey with tuna sambal matah - pan seared tuna with sesame seed served with Balinese chili sauce ‘matah’. I followed this with the restaurants rendang, a rich beef stew based with coconut milk and the delicate sw...
Banyubiru at The Laguna

Banyubiru at The Laguna

Spice
Combining great cuisine and interactive renditions, Banyubiru at The Laguna Luxury Resort & Spa offers an exquisite cultural dining program, involving a Balinese Blessing, fire dance performance and dinner ceremony that take the guests into an intimate journey through Balinese and religious performances. This fascinating dinner program begins with a gathering of guests at the Cascade bar close to the lobby to view a fire dance enacted by three dancers and two musicians. At the conclusion of this dramatic dance I was escorted with the rest of the guests to an open area just in front of a Pura (temple) in the Temple Garden. Here for the blessing I took part and experienced first-hand the basic ‘five steps’ of the Balinese Hindu prayer procession. A walk through the garden followed this ...