Bridges’ Kitchen: A Hive of Activity in the Lead-Up to Mother’s Day
by Catriona Mitchell Australian chef Nicolas Lazzaroni is the inspiration behind Bridges’ constantly evolving menu, which features sophisticated Italian and Asian dishes. I …
Posts in category Ubud News
Breaking the Silence – Five Decades Later
by Catriona Mitchell Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, Roger Paget has been studying Bali for six decades and lecturing around the archipelago for fifty years. …
Living on the Street, Disguised as a Man: How Nila Started From Zero
by Catriona Mitchell Nowadays Nila is the owner of the well-known restaurant and farm, Sari Organik, located in the rice-fields of Ubud. But she’s a …
Ubud Village Jazz Festival is coming to town!
It’s official! On 9 & 10th August, the first Ubud Village Jazz Festival will be held at ARMA. 22 international and Indonesian jazz bands are …
Heritage Rice: Indonesia’s Living Legacy – with Slow Food Bali
by Catriona Mitchell For those who weren’t sweating over the downward dog at Bali Spirit Festival yesterday morning, an altogether less exertive event was on …
Villa Country
by Diana Darling By the latest count, there are now 17.5 gazillion villas in Greater Ubud, meaning that part of Bali with no …
Ubud’s New Market
Tourists were herded through this mess by the busload. No one knows if any of them ever came back to Ubud.
A Hub in Ubud
photo left: One of the 25 founding members, Eiji Han Shimizu at the launch. by Rio Helmi On Monday the 4th …
Farewell, Dewa Nyoman Batuan
by Rio Helmi “Where are all your children? It is so quiet in America…” Yesterday, the last day of February, I attended …
Ubud – Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time Ubud really was a village. During an early childhood trip here with my family in 1963, my older sister left behind a bag with all our tickets etc, that my father put her in charge of, on the side of the main road in Ubud where we had…