Our sister company Agency X are our partners in creative projects across the Locavore Group business. They compliment our restaurant groups development with creativity in ideas, businesses, experiences and project management. All the design work for NXT and the art direction on the project vision is through our partnership with Agency X. 

Based in Bali but working on big projects with International and domestic clients, they are a cross discipline style agency that develop ideas which live across different experiences and mediums. Primarily working in Food and Beverage, their often disruptive approach looks at opportunities the current landscape isn't serving and find exciting dynamics in being different from the rest.

Agency X Website

@agency_x_

AGENCY X

Black Hand Gang Studio was established in 2020 as Indonesia's first pioneering printmaking facility. The company has grown dynamically, diversifying into a wider range of artistic mediums and introducing innovative new services for clients.

At the heart of the company lies an extensive printmaking studio, recognised as a pioneer of the Indonesian print movement. The studio facilitates access to resources and education for emerging and established artists, as well as the wider printmaking community. The company has held major exhibitions in Bali and Jakarta in collaboration with institutions such as the Macan Museum and the Ruci Gallery.

Their Ubud-based studio hosts ongoing series of workshops for the wider public to participate in learning about printmaking, craft activities and producing their own artworks to take home.

Their commercial services offer clients the benefits of 'experience through art'. This is achieved through consulting and curation, artwork production, artist collaborations, interior design, and sales and rentals from their collection.

Focusing on the power of art to create experiences, the team works across different media and project scales, collaborating with a variety of partners on different concepts. Their extensive experience also includes collaborating with local Balinese and Javanese artisans to produce paintings, textiles, wood carvings and other traditional crafts with a contemporary spin.
Their community-led offshoot, the Asia Pacific Print Club (APPC), has members from over ten countries and regularly organises group exhibitions across Asia.

The Foundation Sigar Mangsi actively supports social projects, such as art therapy programmes in collaboration with schools, social organisations, and local orphanages.


BHG Studio Art Services

BHG Print Studio

@bhgstudio.id

BLACK HAND GANG

In seeking our architect partner for NXT part of the brief was innovation in how the space is an integral part of the restaurant project experience. BPA was awarded the work and have partnered with us to create a refreshing and creative modular space that reflects our aspiration to be closer to nature and regenerate more inspirational ideas for others to follow. 

Budi Pradono and his team are based in Jakarta and their portfolio features high profile government projects and private dwellings, and they have several initiatives such as Bintaro Design Week and other design competitions for architecture to solve environmental and social challenges.

Budi Pradono Website

@studio_bpa

Watch 'The Creators – Budi Pradono'

BUDI PRADANO

Our friends at ClimeMates run a large-scale composting facility here in Bali, and they’re the ones we trust with our organic waste. They take care of the bones, shells and other compostable materials that don’t go to our Black Soldier Fly larvae or internal systems. They help us manage waste not only at NXT, but across other Locavore Group outlets as well. It's a solid behind-the-scenes collaboration that keeps things circular and makes sure ‘valuable’ waste doesn’t end up in landfill.

@CLIMEMATES

CLIMEMATES

We couldn't be happier with Dekton as our preferred work surfaces for countertops, kitchen islands and bars. Working with the kind support from Builders Shop Indonesia we have extensively used Dekton throughout the spaces and facilities at NXT. 

No plans to not use Dekton for future fit outs in NXT or our other venues. 

Builders Shop Website

Dekton Website

DEKTON & BUILDERS SHOP

Digital Nativ and their team craft ideas from commonplace components. Their visionary approach to solving problems is part ingenuity and part artwork. 

We have worked with them on several NXT installations and digital elements. They are partners in designing our B.I.O. Library – an open-source database of edible biodiversity with 3D scans  – and our Stream Of Consciousness installation.

See Their Installations

@digitalnativ

Watch 'The Creators - Digital Nativ'

DIGITAL NATIV

EcoBali offers a full-circle approach to responsible waste management, from separation at the source to recycling, composting, consulting and educating communities. They handle the non-organic waste at NXT through two key streams: recyclables and tradables. Certain plastics and other materials that still hold values are collected two to three times a week and sent for repurposing.

EcoBali Website

@ecobalirecycle

ECOBALI

Gaya group has two distinct halves. Gaya Ceramic Design Studio is run by husband-and-wife team Marcello and Michela, who create bespoke ceramic collections with incredible craftsmanship. 

We have a long running relationship with the people at Gaya and set them a new challenge with our brief for NXT to explore themes around nature and the space we have created. We have worked with them on many of the pieces that feature as part of our dining experience at NXT, and some are for sale in the Concept shop. 

We are forever simply mesmerised when they present their works by the creativity of ceramic finishes, designs and overall quality. It is literally eating from works of art.

Gaya Design Studio Website

@gaya.ceramic

GAYA CERAMIC

The other half of Gaya is their Art Center run by the wonderfully talented Hilary Kane. 

Established as a dedicated studio to develop the art of ceramic and explore traditional techniques with their incredible facilities, featuring several kilns and tools not found anywhere else in Indonesia. The centre runs workshops, offers an artist residency programme, and houses a space dedicated to pushing the limits in ceramic creativity. 

Not typically working outside of artistic pursuits, we were lucky to inspire Hilary to create some unique pieces that will feature as part of our dining experience at NXT. Truly one-of-a-kind craftsmanship.

Gaya Arts Center Website

@gayacac

Watch 'The Creators – Gaya Ceramic Arts Center'

GAYA ARTS CENTER

Junglo are a team of certified forest makers who have helped us rewild areas of our NXT landscape. They use the Miyawaki Method created by Japanese botanist Dr. Akira Miyawaki, which focuses on understanding the original ecosystem that existed in an area and trying to recover it. 

Working with Junglo we have planted forest around our Eco Cottages with an approach that centres around biodiversity, fungi-rich soils and high plant density to help return the native nature around NXT and create a better habitat.

Junglo Website

@junglo.ecosystems

JUNGLO

Our favourite coffee gurus in Indonesia are the team at Hungry Bird Coffee. Their Canggu basecamp is a house conversion where they have their own lab and roastery to experiment with specialty local coffee beans from Indonesia and abroad. 

Headed by founder Edo who is a self confessed coffee geek, they have an interest in many farms and work with Arca, a coffee farmer from Kintamani, on special lots and processing. Not just great coffee roasters, but their brew craft and espresso know-how is up there with the best, and they pretty much win all the national competitions and have been on winners podiums in International coffee competitions and forums. 

They help work with our beverage team on coffee programmes, innovations and service.

Hungry Bird Coffee Website

@hungrybirdcoffee

HUNGRY BIRD COFFEE

Kevala Ceramics are long time collaborators with the Locavore Group on many of our projects and a trusted partner for creative servingware commissions. 

We were excited to brief owner Wendy Thomas and her team on NXT and the theme of nature and sustainability. Working together with British designer Sarah Howard we commissioned a production of custom stoneware ceramics made by hand, with a particular focus on using recycled and upcycled waste. 

Glazes that use crushed glass from Sungai Watch river trash collections in Bali, old plaster moulds used to make new collection pieces, and ceramics mixed with natural stone waste from construction sites are all methods that feature in the pieces they have made for our diningware at NXT for use in the Canteen restaurant.

Kevala Website

@kevalaceramics

Sara Howard Website

@sara__howard

KEVALA CERAMICS

Led by Aaron, Kulture Mushrooms began as a home-grown mushroom cultivation project back in 2010, named Urban Kulture. What started as an independent project then evolved into a full-scale operation housed within Locavore NXT.

Inside our Root System, you’ll find their glass Mushroom Chamber, dedicated to cooler-growing varieties, and a separate fruiting room for heat-loving species. Completed with their lab for inoculation and colonisation, this setup allows for the in-house cultivation of a wide range of rare and high-grade mushrooms in Bali: Lion’s Mane, Reishi, Chestnut, multiple types of Oyster, Pioppino and more. Many of these end up in our dishes, becoming part of our creative process, some of them are turned into products that you can find in our Design Store and online. Kulture Mushrooms also runs the occasional workshop, for those curious enough to start their own fungi journey at home.

Kulture Mushrooms Website

@kulturemushrooms

KULTURE MUSHROOMS

Working with Agency X, we curated several of our favourite local contemporary and traditional artists from Bali to produce works for NXT. Nyoman Arisana's 3 metre wide circular painting titled 'Circle Of Life' depicts the habitat of NXT in a traditional style reminiscent of ancient Balinese paintings. Wayan Upadana's study of classical Dutch Delftware flips the ceramics on their head when exploded into a chandelier. Local wood carving experts Komang and Wayan expertly carved out of proportion Jackfruits stack in the lobby bar, hidden wooden columns reveal the calamity of village arak consumption, and the iconic Balinese door holds many secrets…

Wayan Upadana's sculptural artistry is no stranger to innovation, in our study of Delftware ceramics we decided to work with resin to create lifelike objects to allow us to produce the two sets of the work. His studio is in Gianyar, Bali, and his works have been shown internationally at many high-profile solo and group exhibitions.

@wayanupadana_studio

Nyoman Arisana's visionary painting aesthetic defies history and time, often appearing to be ancient artefacts using his creative ageing techniques and his magical spiritual expression. His studio is in Gianyar, Bali, and his paintings are shown in galleries and exhibitions all over.

@nyomanarisana

Our friends Komang and Wayan from our local wood carving village community, work with their various teams and specialists in carving, door production and temple cravings. Carving the details on these large-scale installations took over a year to produce.

Artworks At The Bar

Artworks In The Dining Room

LOCAL ARTISTS

Mahteh Ceramic is a ceramic studio located in the idyllic Lodtunduh neighbourhood, just near our restaurant. Founded by Séline and Marco, their work features earthborn, sculptural pieces which reflect their unique backgrounds in the architecture and graphic design fields.

We’ve collaborated closely with them mainly to explore natural materials from our surroundings: clays from specific Balinese terroirs and even cooking ashes from our Main Kitchen. Some of our dishes are also served in a gaiwan-inspired bowl and claypot.

MAHTEH CERAMIC WEBSITE

@MAHTEH.CERAMIC

MAHTEH CERAMIC

Sub Zero Wolf are leaders in meticulously crafted and expertly engineered kitchen appliances. We have worked with them for several years on the kitchens for our Locavore LAB. For LabX – our new research and development kitchen at NXT – we were supported by Sub Zero Wolf to develop the open-kitchen facility and take our innovation to the next level. 

We also partner with them on 'Journey Of Flavours', our short film series documenting the LAB X project.

Sub Zero Wolf Website

SUB ZERO WOLF

TOMO Studio is an independent creative studio in Jakarta, and our very clever web devs. They helped us to design and create this platform that you're on right now, along with our 

 and a lot of quite technically challenging interactive teaser content that we made together leading up to NXT being announced.

TOMO Website

@TOMO__STUDIO

TOMO STUDIO

Wedoo builds machines that turn waste into something useful, which makes them a natural partner for us. We use their shredder in our Circular Waste Centre to break down organic waste before it goes into compost or becomes food for our lovely little Black Soldier Fly larvae friends.

Beyond that, we’re working together to create upcycled products through their recycled design lab, 

, that can be used across the restaurant.

Wedoo Website

@wedoo.id

WEDOO

ZBIO provides NXT with Black Soldier Fly (BSF) larvae, which help us divert up to 40kg of surplus organic waste daily. Whatever doesn’t go to our composting facility and to the livestock is fed to these larvae. An efficient, natural method that keeps our waste system circular.

ZBIO Website

@zco.bio

ZBIO

Last season we told you about the hunt. The itch to disrupt, the fences we climbed, the ants we kept in our socks. We went looking for what was over that hill.
We went both closer and further to find The Source.

We came home with our hands heavy and full. A whole season of foraging further and growing what we couldn’t find, cashed in at the table.
Our library of ingredients is deeper and wider than it has ever been, as is our knowledge.
The harvest was used root to fruit, skin to seed, test to failure, failure to success.

The hunt brought us here.
And what has become of that?

Where?

When?

The Source 2.0

Into the Wild is a groundbreaking platform bringing together creative chefs and bartenders from across Asia Pacific to Bali for our annual Creative Basecamp events. A gathering of community leaders where sharing ideas, creativity and camaraderie collide on sustainable creative culinary and mixology craft.

New to 2026, we are launching the first Liquid Basecamp, the sister event to our Culinary Basecamp held later in the year. On 5th - 7th June, a unique troop of Asia Pacific’s creative bartenders will spend three days… Into the Wild; foraging in the jungles of Bali, hosting unique bar events, mystery ingredient challenges and more.

Mars Chang – To Infinity & Beyond, Taiwan

WHERE?

WHEN?

A unique troop of Asia Pacific’s creative bartenders will spend three days foraging in the jungles of Bali.

Into the Wild: Liquid Basecamp 2026

A 6-day retreat of mycology experience at Locavore NXT, hosted by our friend Aaron Boyer of Kulture Mushrooms. You will learn about the many layers in the world of fungi, including cultivation, cordyceps, extraction, mycofabrication and regenerative applications, all taught as interconnected systems.


• Commercial cultivation systems 
• Agar, liquid culture, spawn & fruiting
• Cordyceps production
• Mycofabrication & biomaterials
• Functional & medicinal mushrooms
• Extraction techniques
• Lab setup & equipment


• 6 nights accommodation at Garden View by Purely, Ubud
• All learning sessions & excursions
• Guided visit to a Balinese food forest
• Dining experience at Locavore NXT

A 6-day deep dive into the world of mushroom.

Bali Myco-intensive Retreat 2026

Guided by our forager, you’ll explore, learn and taste the local ingredients as sourced in Bali's jungles and farmlands. We will help you plan the schedule around your reservation at NXT.

The day begins at 8:30 AM with a light breakfast and coffee at NXT, before heading out into the jungle. The journey then ends with lunch in nature featuring some traditional Balinese food, cooked using a wide range of wild ingredients from around the landscape.

This 3 - 3,5 hour experience will help you understand the landscape behind The Source tasting menu and further deepen your overall dining experience.

IDR 1,250,000++ / person (car transportation from NXT to the jungle is included).

Book your lunch or dinner experience at NXT to go foraging with us.

Explore, learn and taste the local ingredients as sourced in Bali's jungles and farmlands with our foragers.

Foraging Experience

This season, we go back to where it all begins. Wilder ingredients, we work less with middlemen, pull on our boots and forage further, use farms to grow the harvests we can’t yet find, let go of ingredients that have become too familiar, lean harder into our rooftop food forest, neighbouring rice paddies and the jungles around us.

Featuring ingredients you think you know, alongside others that we find wilder, delightfully unusual and unique. From sacha inchi and coconut flower, to three kinds of sapodillas, slipper lobster and Surinam cherry, all found close to home.

You will also have the option to go foraging with our team, either around NXT or deeper into the jungle, before your dining experience.


Our new tasting menu begins 28th January.

The Source

The third edition of our annual mega-collaborative adventure is back. Every year, we pitch our tents and invite creative chefs from around the world to join our annual basecamp event, Into The Wild.

This year is wilder than ever with our friends travelling from Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, as well as Indonesia. Here are the participants:

Over several days, a troop of creative chefs go ‘Into the Wild’ and spend time trekking through jungles, foraging, cooking their own lunch in the jungle, sharing stories, ideas and knowledge over drinks at the campfire.

The weekend culminates in our infamous mystery-ingredient-challenge dinner service with mystery ingredients for the chef teams to cook with and serve to guests in less than 8 hours.

Dinner event
Sunday, 31st August 2025
18:15 to 20:00


by 15 international chefs @ IDR 2,500,000++

 (alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks) @ IDR 750,000++
or


One heck of a wild weekend. Dust off your compass, we’re going off the beaten path with this one.

Where

When

Our annual 'creative basecamp' featuring 15 chefs from across Asia who'll go on an adventure and host a mystery-ingredients challenge dinner.

Into the Wild 2025

Over three days, a local community of 10 chefs from Bali, Jakarta and Bandung come together for NXTpedition. From sharing their knowledge of local ingredients to foraging at farms and jungles across the island, it’s a busy weekend. To celebrate, they are hosting a special dinner event, featuring a menu designed from scratch using the ingredients they found along the way.
On 15th June, it all comes together to be served on your table by these chefs from around Indonesia.

Participating chefs:
Ben Cross, Mason Group
Eka Sunarya, Kubu at Mandapa, Ritz-Carlton Reserve
Hans Christian, August Jakarta
Iñaki Bolumburu, Nomad Chef
Jethro Vincent, Bokashi
Jung Chan Hyuk, Jung Chan Dining
Kieran Morland, Sangsaka & Luma
Nic Vanderbeeken, Apéritif

And the hosts, Eelke Plasmeijer and Ray Adriansyah, Locavore NXT


Don’t miss this one-night-only collaborative dinner.

10 chefs from across Indonesia come together to forage and create a tasting menu from scratch on the day.

NXTpedition

As part of the Ubud Food Festival, we're hosting a special ‘Field Trip’ at Locavore NXT. A behind-the-scenes walk through our space, followed by two hands-on workshops exploring our Fermentation process and Mushroom cultivation. The experience ends with a collaborative dinner at the Canteen, featuring Chef Peter from Dirty Supper (Singapore). Spots are limited.

Behind-the-scenes walk through NXT's space, followed by hands-on workshops and a collaborative dinner.

Field Trip

NXT is now over a year old, and like any living organism or bold idea, we grow through stages and begin to strengthen, mature and express ourselves in more vibrant ways. After refining our formulation and composition through new discoveries, research and developments, here we find ourselves, with a completely new tasting menu…

This season’s tasting menu, Nature’s Compass 2.0, is the continuation of our original tasting menu: deeper in flavour, sharper in vision and unapologetically more alive.

Nature's Compass 2.0

Shared Habitat is a collaboration between The Punch and Locavore NXT. With the entire Locavore NXT space transformed exclusively for this event, we present an immersive experience through exclusive behind-the-scenes access to NXT, a variety of food and drink surprises by Locavore Group team, interactive exhibitions, creative showcases, and thought-provoking talks by The Punch.

The Punch Gala & Awards Ceremony 2024: A Celebration of Bali’s Changemakers at Locavore NXT

Shared Habitat

NXT is ‘more than a restaurant’ it’s a destination of nature-inspired creativity, sustainability, and a beacon for a localised rebellion to fuel the global rethink.

The incredible natural world we share instinctively ‘knows what to do’ in harmony with their habitat and environment. NXT follows this direction provided by nature, and it becomes our compass and guide. We seek to disrupt humanity's current trajectory of imbalance and return to the natural world as a guide to our decisions, actions, and partnerships.

On 28th November 2024, we are launching a completely new tasting menu, ‘Nature’s Compass’–the latest expression of our commitment to working creatively with nature, featuring newly curated experiences and artworks in our space.

A completely new tasting menu featuring newly curated experiences and artworks in our space.

Nature's Compass

10 chefs from Asia's leading creative restaurants are gathering in Bali to explore local ingredients and its unlimited possibilities. For four days, they will go on an adventure to do foraging and sharing cooking techniques and inspirations. On the final day, at Locavore NXT they will come up with an unpredictable, one-night-only dinner. A mysterious Black Box will be unveiled by the chefs, filled with local ingredients – some exciting, some a bit unexpected. By lottery, these experienced chefs will pair up into duos and each duo will create their own snack and main course, using the ingredients from the box.

It’s a night of creative culinary surprises – even for the chefs.

10 chefs from across Asia gather to forage in the wilds and host a mystery-ingredients challenge dinner.

Into the Wild

A six-day retreat of mushroom cultivation in a sustainable and eco-friendly form, hosted by Kulture Mushrooms. The course covers growing and cloning mushrooms, working with agar as a means of cultivation, setting up your own fruiting chambers, with bonus sessions — myco-fabrication, medicinal mushrooms, business mastermind, fine dining at NXT, and foraging experience.

It’s an intensive program, so spots are limited to 8 participants only; For those who really want to deep dive into the world of mushrooms.

A six-day retreat of mushroom cultivation in a sustainable and eco-friendly form.

Bali Myco-Intensive Retreat

We’re hosting a 'more than a restaurant' experience for Ubud Food Festival this year, inviting guests to take a walk through our collaboration with Nature. 

Tickets include a visit to NXT, a tour of our facilities and a dinner set menu experience with snacks and drinks.

Click 'Book A Ticket' to find out more and get a spot. 

An exclusive tour, series of workshops and dinner experience for Ubud Food Festival.

Same tasting menu, whole different experience.

A seasonal tasting menu inspired by a celebration of the world around us as we accompany Nature through its constant flux... now also for lunch.

20+ courses 
Rp 1.950.000 per person
Features animal protein
Pescatarian, vegetarian & vegan options available upon request

Alcoholic drinks pairing 
Add Rp 750.000++

Non-alcoholic drinks pairing 
Add Rp 550.000++

What time?

Same tasting menu, whole different experience. Lunch now open every Thur, Fri & Sat.

Open for Lunch

Like-minded chefs across Asia are gathering at Locavore NXT to share, explore, connect... and take on a creative culinary challenge.



The group of tastemakers will spend several days together exploring local ingredients, sharing culinary techniques, stepping into the wild for foraging trips and connecting over their common passion for doing things differently.

But, on the final day, they're going head to head in a clash of competitive innovation with a 'mystery box of ingredients' challenge.

We're opening on Sunday 12 May for a one-off dinner featuring off-the-cuff creations from the chefs, who will have only the morning to develop and prepare new dishes for a very unique tasting menu experience.



BOOK NOW

All proceeds from the event will be donated to our partners at Sumba Hospitality School to give a new generation a helping hand in their careers.

WHERE

WHEN

WHAT TIME

Be our guest at a one-off creative dinner experience by chefs from all over Asia.

Localised Rebels 

Our onsite cabin accommodation – The Wood Rooms – is now available to book as part of 'The Full NXT Experience'.