Before Seven
234 places in this guide are open by seven in the morning, out of 964 that publish hours at all. Sixty per cent of them are cafés, against thirty-three per cent of the guide as a whole. Early Bali runs on coffee.
Nine hundred and sixty-four places in this guide serve a meal and publish their hours. Two hundred and thirty-four of them are open by seven in the morning — about a quarter. If you surf, dive, fly early or simply have not adjusted yet, that quarter is the entire island as far as you are concerned, and nothing sorts for it.
What the group is made of is the interesting part. A hundred and forty-two of the 234 are cafés and bakeries against ninety-two restaurants. Cafés are sixty per cent of everything open early and only thirty-three per cent of the guide's meal places overall — so the early economy is close to twice as coffee-weighted as the island is. Kitchens do not open early here. Baristas do.
Push the line back an hour and it thins fast: forty-four places are open by six, and not one in the entire guide opens before five. There is a floor, and it is five in the morning.
The honest result is the one that says nothing. Places open by seven have a median Google rating of 4.70. Places that are not have a median of 4.70. Opening early predicts nothing at all about whether the food is good, which is worth knowing mostly because it means you can pick on the usual grounds and ignore the hour entirely.
It clusters the way the rest of the guide does: Canggu has thirty-three, Ubud twenty-seven, Denpasar twenty-two and Pererenan nineteen, with Cemagi carrying fourteen — high for its size, and worth knowing if you are staying north of Canggu and do not want to drive in for breakfast.
Sisterfields Seminyak
Cafe, Bar in Seminyak. 4.8 on Google across 16.8k reviews.
Livingstone Petitenget
Cafe, Bakery in Petitenget. 4.8 on Google across 14.2k reviews. Rp 50–200K.
Alas Harum Bali Tegallalang
Recreation center, Vegetarian restaurant in Tegallalang. 4.6 on Google across 23.1k reviews.
Gigi Susu Canggu
Coffee shop in Canggu. 4.8 on Google across 8.9k reviews. Rp 50–150K.
Brunch Club Legian Legian
Cafe, Breakfast restaurant in Legian. 4.8 on Google across 7.2k reviews.
Barboa Bali Canggu
Cafe, Breakfast restaurant in Canggu. 4.9 on Google across 5.3k reviews. Rp 75–225K.
Bread Yard Seminyak
Restaurant in Seminyak. 4.8 on Google across 6.4k reviews. Rp 50–200K.
Milk & Madu Tibubeneng
Cafe, Bar in Tibubeneng. 4.7 on Google across 8.4k reviews.
el lago Kintamani
Cafe in Kintamani. 4.7 on Google across 7.5k reviews. Rp 50–150K.
Brunch Station Uluwatu Uluwatu
Bar, Breakfast restaurant in Uluwatu. 4.9 on Google across 3.8k reviews. Rp 75–175K.
Corner House Bali Kerobokan
Western restaurant, Breakfast restaurant in Kerobokan. 4.6 on Google across 9.1k reviews.
Montana Del Cafe Kintamani
Indonesian restaurant, Cafe in Kintamani. 4.7 on Google across 6.5k reviews. Rp 50–175K.
Natys Restaurant Seminyak Kerobokan
Breakfast restaurant, Indonesian restaurant in Kerobokan. 4.8 on Google across 4.8k reviews.
Ely's Kitchen Ubud Ubud
Restaurant in Ubud. 4.9 on Google across 3.7k reviews. Rp 250,000+.
And the rest
nüde cafe BabakanCangguCafe4.9 ★ 3.6k · Rp 75–225KView on mapGoogle Maps
Coco BistroSanurAsian restaurant4.8 ★ 4.6kView on mapGoogle Maps
Revolver SeminyakSeminyakCafe4.6 ★ 8.4kView on mapGoogle Maps
AKASA Specialty CoffeeKintamaniCoffee shop4.5 ★ 11.1k · Rp 50–175KView on mapGoogle Maps
Livingstone HolygroundUbudCafe4.8 ★ 4.2k · Rp 50–200KView on mapGoogle Maps
Cretya UbudTegallalangBar4.5 ★ 10.9k · Rp 250,000+View on mapGoogle Maps