The Locavore Table, Reopened
Eelke Plasmeijer has moved Locavore into a teakwood villa — and rebuilt the tasting menu from the rice up.
For ten years Locavore set the bar for what an Indonesian tasting menu could be. In 2025 it closed Jalan Dewi Sita and moved up the road — into a teakwood villa with a tea pavilion, a fermentation kitchen guests can walk through, and seven tables. The new menu is twelve courses, all of it sourced within sixty kilometres of Ubud.
You should book the long lunch, not the dinner. It begins at 1pm, runs three hours, and ends with kopi luwak the chefs roast themselves. The reservation list opens sixty days out and closes in an afternoon.
Our concierge holds two seats most months. Mention dietary notes and we will pass them ahead. The kitchen reads them.
The fermentation room smells like a forest in May. The menu tastes the same.
A long lunch at Locavore is the kind of afternoon that rearranges your sense of what Indonesian food is. Plan around it — the rest of the day will be quiet.