Night Rooster

Right across the street from its award-winning sister restaurant Locavore, the Night Rooster is the perfect spot for pre or post-meal drinks in Ubud. The inventive cocktail menu was conceived by Raka Ambarawan (known locally as the ‘King of Cocktails’), and it uses local ingredients like fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices. They look complicated on paper but go down smoothly. An excellent place to start is Ashes (Rp 165,000), a heady blend of vodka, whiskey, homemade fortified wine, blowtorched dehydrated fruit, palm sugar, and burnt cinnamon bark, with a side of molasses cracker and smoking pine cone. Expect the food to be as impressive as Locavore’s, with standout dishes like deviled eggs, corn dogs, and sweet-and-sour braised rabbit leg with kimchi mayonnaise.