Hujan Locale settles the question of where to take a date in central Ubud when neither of you wants to pick between the kitchen and the bar. Will Meyrick's two-story shophouse on Jl. Sri Wedari treats both sides of the house with equal seriousness.
The restaurant arrived in 2014 as the Ubud project of Meyrick, the chef behind Mama San and Sarong down in Seminyak. The menu travels the archipelago, Sumatran beef rendang to Betawi style chicken, with most large plates landing between 120,000 and 150,000 IDR before service and tax. DestinAsian called the place a street food celebration in its coverage, and that framing still reads as the most accurate single line on record.
Meyrick built the menu from street food research trips across Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi, then dressed the results for a proper dining room. The slow cooked beef rendang and the babi panggang remain the orders the staff push first, and they push them for a reason. Starters open at 35,000 IDR for the betel leaf snacks, which makes the early part of the menu cheap by Ubud standards.
Couples who want a real dinner attached to a real drink love it, and so do groups passing those betel leaves around the downstairs tables. Anyone hunting a pure cocktail den should walk a few minutes over to Night Rooster instead, because Hujan Locale stays a dining room at heart. Our Bali bar guide maps where Ubud's drinking actually concentrates.
The room reads colonial trading house: whitewashed walls, dark timber, rattan chairs, ceiling fans turning above a marble topped bar. By daylight the ground floor runs casual, closer to a Parisian cafe bar than anything else on the street, a comparison the restaurant itself leans into. After dark the lights drop, the cocktail list takes over, and the upstairs dining room becomes the table worth booking.
The drinks lean on Indonesian ingredients without sliding into gimmick. Order the Brem Negroni, built on Balinese brem rice wine, or the Hujan Manhattan, each 95,000 IDR plus the standard service and tax. The Butterfly Pea Martini photographs well and drinks better than its color suggests.
Skip the imported bottle list unless the occasion demands it, because Indonesian duties push wine to roughly double its retail price here as everywhere on the island. The mojito section, raspberry, coconut or classic at the same 95,000 IDR, suits the afternoon crowd more than the dinner hour. A cocktail downstairs before dinner and a second with dessert upstairs is the rhythm the room rewards.
The dinner crush runs 7pm to 9pm, heavier on weekends and through the July and August high season. The kitchen serves noon to 10pm daily and the bar pours until 11pm, a full hour past most of central Ubud. That late license makes Hujan Locale the default last stop on Jl. Sri Wedari.
Google reviewers hold the restaurant at 4.6 across more than 2,300 ratings, and the pattern stays consistent year over year. Praise lands on the staff, the rendang and the cocktails; complaints land on the plus plus charges and on weekend waits for walk in tables. Honeycombers kept it on its 2026 list of the best dinner restaurants in Ubud, a list it has rarely left in a decade.
Best time to go: a weeknight at 6pm, opening with a Brem Negroni at the downstairs bar before moving up for dinner. Book ahead from Friday through Sunday, when the room fills by 7:30pm. For the island's other candlelit rooms, start with our Bali date night ranking, where Locavore Bar makes the strongest Ubud counterargument.
Sources: Hujan Locale official site (2026); DestinAsian coverage; Honeycombers best restaurants in Ubud (2026); Travelfish Ubud review; Google reviews via Wanderlog (n=2,376).
