Everything on this Map above is within about one mile of the Moonstar Palace. The Legend below is a Guide to all the places named on the Map. Note that these are just a few highlites. They represent but a fraction of what you will find within these few blocks. If we named them all this page would be two miles long. It is all in constant flux, so what is here today, may be gone tomorrow...

ZANZIBAR

A beachside patio restaurant originally started by a bunch of expatriate italians. Good Italian food and salads. A nice place for sunsets. A five minute walk from the Palace at the end of Double Six Road. Caters to foreigners. Left and right of Zanzibar are numerous other beachside cafes. they vary in popularity and quality month by month, year by year. Take your pick this week.

BLUE OCEAN

Probably the oldest restaurant in Legian right on the beach. Formerly a hippy and surfer hangout, and still the only place left in Bali where you can still get eggs, bacon, toast, coffee, juice, fruit salad, yoghurt and potatos for one dollar! Caters to foreigners. A few feet away from Zanizibar.

TEKOR

Tekor is right down the road from the Zanzibar and the Blue Ocean and is where lots of expats dine. The food is consistent and delicious and everybody seems to congregate there. It’s right across the street from the beach and the prices are right out of another time. Tekor makes you feel right at home. The Balinese waitresses are sweet and friendly, the menu is diversified, part Indonesian, part Euro-American, and people from everywhere gather there.

RYOSHI

Great if you’re into Japanese food! Seaweed salads with tahini dressing, steamed veggies, rice, tofu, etc, plus a full sushi bar. Good tempura. Caters to expatriates, Japanese tourists and Balinese. Three minute walk from the Palace. Go to the top of our gang, turn right and walk two hundred and fifty feet.

AROMAS

World class, pure vegetarian restaurant. Full menu of yuppie, new age cuisine. Take a taxi to Kuta. Caters to tourists. Aroma’s proves that the debilitating epidemic infecting all female workers of American health food establishments which leaves them shuffling about in a zombie-like state and moving at a snails pace has reached global proportions.

SAWADEE

This Thai restaurant is exceptionally beautiful. All tables are individual, grass-roofed gazebos in a garden. Best bet is the green curried eggplant served in a whole coconut- with or without chicken or shrimp. Green Papaya salad is as good as you get in Thailand from those ladies on the beach with the mortar and pestle and the plastic bag full of veggies that make it for you on the spot. Cheap. Caters to foreigners. Ten to fifteen minute walk from the Palace.

GADO-GADO

Right on the beach. Five minute walk from the Palace. Lunch or dinner. Serving a continental and pacific rim menu. A beautiful setting with white linen tables on a patio under almond trees on the sand looking out at the surf. World class cuisine. Caters to expatriates and foreigners.

KUDETA

Kudeta is the latest in the endless series of great new restaurants that are constantly outdoing one another. Right on the beach. Fabulous architecture. Pacific rim cuisine, a touch of Indonesian, Thai and sophisticated Aussie all mixed together. Try their seared ahi salad with dill yogurt dressing for lunch. Kudeta is, as of this writing, THE Place-To-Be for all the jet setters. Every afternoon looks like a photo shoot for the lives of the rich and famous under thirty-five. Go there for sunset.

LA LUCIOLA

Go immediately to La Luciola! Another great continental and pacific rim yuppie menu. Right on the beach out in the ricefields. Take a taxi. Caters to yuppie expatriates and those in the know. Unfortunately, they have begun taking reservations. No one in Bali takes reservations. Probably because no one had telephones until a few years ago. This odd western custom has not been received well in Bali. Imagine someone that was so selfish that they would actually use their telephone to call a restaurant and ask the restaurant to take a perfectly good empty table and not let anyone sit in it just because they wanted to hoard it all for themselves for later?.. Eat here at least once. The food is just as good as any western Pacific rim restaurant except all of the entrees are only about four to eight dollars apiece. Try their tasmanian salmon. It kind of ruins your ability to ever enjoy a meal of farm-fed american commercial salmon again. Next door to a big temple.

THE LIVING ROOM

Some enterprising French chef took a rice field along the road behind the beach, made a beautiful formal garden right out of the Versailles, filled it with white linen covered glass tables, and opened only at night with about one thousand candelabras burning everywhere in the garden on wrought iron stands. The Living Room is out of this world. You only thought places like this existed on movie sets. One night at the Living Room and you are selling the house, quitting your job, taking the kids college money and moving to Bali.

T.J.’S

The classic Balinese Mexican restaurant. Great atmosphere. Eat lying in overstuffed bamboo sofas. Get there early if you want a sofa. The tables are mediocre. Ninty percent of the allure of T.J.’s is the bamboo sofas.

POCO LOCO’S

Better mexican food than you can find anywhere in Bali by a long shot. And pricey too. Caters to australian tourists, surfers and foreigners. Good veggie burritos. Walking distance from the Palace is about ten to fifteen minutes, or three minutes on the motorbike.

MADE’S WARUNG

Made’s has the distinction of being the first Balinese restaurant back twenty years ago when all of south Bali was just rice fields and coconut groves as far as the eye could see. You had to hitch hike or motorcycle down here on a dirt trail from Denpasar to get to the beach and there was nothing at all- nothing except Made’s- just stuck out there in the middle of nowhere in the empty rice fields catering to surfers and adventurers. And now, twenty years later, Made‘s is the first Balinese restaurant to build a branch in the burbs as the original Made’s falls prey to urban blight- that part of Kuta now being a polluted, treeless asphalt jungle. The new Made’s is an architectural replica of the old Made’s except that twenty years of experience has taught Made that you shouldn’t build your restaurant two feet from the road because things change. So the new Made’s is set back so far behind shrubs and a huge patio that it’s almost hard to find, but nice and quiet and unpolluted when you get there. And there’s a giant parking lot in the back!

KETAPUT

The best and only classic, authentic, Indonesian restaurant in Bali. Fantastic food! Lots of vegetarian. Delicious!!! I can’t even describe the food because it’s so original and exotic. Ketaput is one of those restaurants that you go to with friends and no one remembers the evening when it’s over because the dining was so all consuming. In downtown Kuta by McDonald’s. You can get some great photos of beggars sleeping in the arms of Ronald McDonald, or pretty young Balinese girls dressed in little Phillip Morris girl uniforms at work for American corporations out looking to create new markets passing out free introductory Marlboro cigarettes to all the local kids.

AXIOM

Wait a minute.. are we in New York? Axiom is an ultra modern, chic little air conditioned restaurant just five minutes walk from the Palace that has consistently good dining of the quality you would find in Manhattan or Paris. Full bar. Great ambience. Go there!

TRATTORIA

Great Italian food, excellent New Zealand lamb, and a turnaway crowd every night. Better be there right after sunset if you don't want to have to stand in line for a table.

CAFE MOCHA

Right on the main drag. If you get tired of the heat and want to sit in an air conditioned cafe, this is the place. It's also a bakery. Full line of French Pastries, bread, quiches, etc, and yes, they have cafe mocha.

BALI DELI

When Bali Deli came to town, any lingering thought that Bali was in the third world vanished. Full wine cellar, full deli from all over the world, a better bakery than you ever found anywhere back home, and staggeringly beautiful little Balinese checkout girls.

ALAS ARUM/TOKO BINTANG

The two big markets in Seminyak, that lucky for us, are right at the top of our little lane! They have anything you could ever find in a western supermarket, even fresh organic produce.

BODYWORKS

The original luxury spa of Seminyak. There are two of them now. Massage, facial, manicure, pedicure, you name it. And in beautiful mediterranean style compounds. You need to phone and book your slot here as they are usually quite full.

THE FITNESS CENTER

It's only a five minute walk from the Palace to the gym. It's underground and air conditioned and right on the beach beneath the Warna Cafe. Ample equipment and friendly staff and a variety of inexpensive vacation plans.

CLUBS

Gado-Gado Road is like the original Star Wars bar scene. Every night looks like Halloween there and there are a thousand motorcycles parked in front of all the bars and night spots lined up for about two blocks. It is standing room only and the frenzy builds until around 1:30AM when the entire hoard thunders out the club doors on cue and roars off to whatever disco is happening that night.

DOUBLE SIX

A huge structure right on the beach. The grand daddy of all Bali discoteques. You can hear the bass line from the Palace thundering through the bedrock like a seismic wave, if you press your ear really hard to the pillow at night. Double Six is world famous. Double Six has the distinction of driving the Jakarta based, seven-hundred room Legian Sheraton Hotel next door into bankruptcy before it could even open for business, by the sheer volume of it’s music. Double Six Road is named for Double Six as once upon a time not too long ago it was just a motorcycle track out in the ricefields to get to the disco.