Mejekawi at Ku De Ta

Mejekawi means "sacred table" and runs as the technical tasting kitchen above the original Seminyak beach club — thirty seats, one seating, two degustation menus of five or twelve courses, and a kitchen that references Indonesian recipes through modern technique. The room is glass-encased over the ocean and runs on the open-kitchen counter that Ku De Ta downstairs has never matched.

Book the counter for the twelve-course tasting with the wine pairing. Stay for the late drink at Ku De Ta below if the brief is the long night. The right answer for the second-week Seminyak dinner when the beach-club register has worn thin and the brief is a proper technical kitchen.

The Seminyak dinner that proves the kitchen.