Thread: Anybody's been to Mozaic Restaurant?

Haven't been there for a while, but the food was very good when I did go.
Also try Warung Enak and Induhs in Ubud. There is a mass of great restaurants in Bali now Milan, many of them comparable to the best in Europe and Australia.
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The Lamak in Ubud is very good.

http://www.lamakbali.com/

Mozaic is perhaps the best restaurant in Bali in my very humble opinion, and I'm not alone as The New York Times named it as one of the ten best restaurants in Asia. The Chef has a global reputation and people travel across the world to go to it..hence the need to reconfirm when the bookings are heavy. Although a phone call (and they call you) is usually enough.

They have the most knowledgeable staff, for food and wine I've had in Bali and are the equal of any.

The menu is a six course degustation menu..hence the small sizes, plus nibbles in-between. I've been many times and never left less than satiated and quite full.

Price wise, its Rp495.000 a head, which is extraordinarily cheap when compared to similar eateries anywhere else in the world. Or for that matter many of the 5 star hotels or Seminyak places (like Ku De Ta, Warisan or Sarong).

If you miss it you are missing perhaps the finest dining experience in Indonesia.

Just a note, we always skip the wine matching and go for either something off the list or, better still, bring a bottle of our own. We've had a couple of wine matches we weren't happy with.

As others say, Lamak is very, very good but it's not in the same league (and doesn't pretend to be). Indus I would avoid like the plague. Great view..have a coffee...but the food is shockingly bad. Also avoid Ary's Warung..overpriced and quite average for what it is.

Originally Posted by Roy

On this one Simon, let's just agree to disagree, but personally, I've never gotten out of Mozaic for 495K a head, and since I never dine alone, it's more like 1.5 million for the two of us to have dinner there. Of course, if you ever want to treat, :P I'll be there in a heart beat, because as you say, the food is wonderful, and Chris is brilliant.

What do you pay for corkage? We've never brought a bottle of our own there.

Yep, its the bits on top that add to the price and the maddening Indo thing of not including tax and service in the price (illegal in many countries now). Try to get out of any hotel in Jimaran for 1.5m..impossible. I agree, in Bali terms it ain't cheap but in terms of it's global positioning, it's a bargain. And it's a bargain next to to the very overpriced and average Sarong, the current beautiful people's favourite.

And yes, Chris is brilliant. When I thought I had a touch of off salmon about a year back he was very concerned and I had two calls over the next two days to check (I was fine). I've never had that anywhere in the world (and we eat in a lot of restaurants).

Corkage is Rp75.000 a bottle..very reasonable.

Milan,

I’ve never been to Mozaic and I also don’t have any intention to go there, this is not a matter of the price, it’s simply that I don’t need this when I’m on Bali.
I know that the Mozaic is rated excellent and if you compare it with prices in Europe, you will consider it as a bargain, but when I want great French food, I will get it here, or I will simply go to France, but I don’t have any desire to have it on Bali.

There are a lot of great restaurants on Bali and compared with Italy the prices are ridiculous, guess I’d better not mention what you have to pay for a decent menu with some nice wine in the Toscana, but frankly, I love to be somewhere in thongs, shorts and a t-shirt and enjoy some authentically Balinese food with a bintang from the
bottle, get to know some real people, I enjoy this ten times more than anything else.

I know that people living on Bali will probably have a different point of view, but for my excuse, I’m still a tourist yet, more or less!
Another thing, Balinese expat wine drinkers can be a pain in the ass, no matter where they come from!

Best regards
Thorsten