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

The creative art studio at Black Hand Gang were the first dedicated print making facility in Indonesia. 

Proudly representing a new movement in printmaking in Indonesia, BHG combine traditional techniques with contemporary art direction and innovation of the medium. Working with established artists from Indonesian and international names, they publish limited editions of prints for exhibitions and sales. 

Working with clients such as Locavore, they also produce commissions, collaborate on ideas and produce the works. In the Concept Shop at Locavore NXT there is a display of several artwork commission specially made for the project, including many botanical mono-prints, some natural pigment from plants, and other artworks inspired by the project. 

Their studio is in Ubud and they host many workshops and other activities onsite.

Black Hand Gang Website

@bhgstudio.id

BLACK HAND GANG

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aaron is the founder of Kulture, a mushroom cultivation programme and specialist mushroom product company with a focus on using fungi for health, nutrition and sustainable food. 

We have been working closely with him as our onsite Mushroom Man at NXT to explore the exciting, lesser-known local fungi that we can cultivate together and use in our cooking or sell in our Concept Shop.

Kulture Website

@kulturemushrooms

AARON AT KULTURE

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

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

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

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

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

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:

Beyond a ‘pop-up 28-hand dinner’ nonsense, instead we’re actually spending time hanging out together for four days; trekking through jungles, exploring what we can forage, cooking for each other and having lunch outdoors, sharing stories, ideas and knowledge over drinks at the campfire.

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

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.

Where?

When?

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.

WHERE?

WHEN?

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

Every week, from Wednesday to Sunday, Chef Putu of Nusantara teaches the craft of authentic Indonesian dishes. Guests can choose between 

, where the day starts at 7 AM for coffee and 

(snacks), followed by a trip to the traditional market, and 

, where the day starts at 10 AM to discuss your personal menu before learning to prepare a range of Indonesian dishes.

From Wednesday to Sunday, Chef Putu teaches the craft of authentic Indonesian dishes at Nusantara.

Nusantara Cooking Class

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 NXT bar is now open for walk-in guests, with no dinner reservation required. 

Swing by to sip on our beverage menu of local ingredients cocktails, craft beers, wines and creative non-alcoholic drinks... among the banana trees, arak palms and hidden artworks by local creatives. 

Visitors also get a peek behind the glass at our small-batch beverage lab, where we research and develop new drink ideas.

Walk-ins now welcome at the NXT bar. Visit 8pm - 11pm, Monday to Saturday. No booking required.

NXT Bar Open

MAKE A RESERVATION

Locavore NXT

RESERVATIONS

Locavore NXT takes our local ingredients philosophy further than we have ever gone before. It is a space we have built for creating, experimenting, collaborating, working closely with nature and – we hope – bringing the world of food one step closer to where it should be.

It’s a bit more than a restaurant. It’s a localised rebellion.

You can make a reservation at Locavore NXT for the full dining experience or check our website to find out more ways you can visit NXT, including upcoming events and programs.

Thursday - Saturday
Seatings from 12pm to 1:30pm

Monday - Saturday
Seatings from 5:30pm to 8:30pm

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Our vision is to present a rich, deeply passionate showcase of traditional Indonesian cuisine in a contemporary experience that reflects the developing and creative nature of Indonesian culture.

Nusantara means archipelago in bahasa Indonesia and with an estimated over 17,000 islands, 1,300 tribes, 300 local languages, 3,000 cuisines, its diversity is what makes the country.

Our Nusantara is an ethno-culinary portrait of the country. Yet we represent more than just the food itself – also the local ingredients, cooking techniques, serving style and rituals that all make up the heritage and culinary culture.

Our menus cover certain regions of Indonesia, where some of the strongest recipes and culinary inspirations originate. Many of our dishes are lesser-known, very local, and often not commonly found outside of those regions. Key to this is our ongoing research in discovering lost recipes, techniques, and dishes that have been forgotten or no longer practiced. Our team is bringing these back to life.

As the sister restaurant to Locavore NXT, Nusantara benefits from the same supply chains of very high-quality ingredients, organic and heritage produce, support for local farmers, and of course, only Indonesian ingredients.

Above our restaurant is a private dining space that was once Locavore’s food laboratory and test kitchen. This space is now available to book for dinner for parties of 8-12 people, where you can enjoy the Nusantara set menu as an intimate dining experience in a room rich with culinary history.

FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK HERE

Every Wednesday to Sunday our chef Putu teaches the craft of authentic Indonesian dishes. The itinerary and menu can be customised to provide a personal experience, whether it's for yourself or as a special gift for someone else. 

Restaurant Nusantara - by Locavore

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Nusantara

INQUIRIES

Locavore moved out. Nature took over. Then the Herbivores came along.

Herbivore is a vegetation takeover of Locavore’s original restaurant venue in downtown Ubud.

Local plants run rampant across seasonal tasting menus to provide a wildly different “all flora, no fauna” experience of our local-ingredients-only philosophy.

Guests can choose from a three and five-course for lunch only or seven-course tasting menu created by chef Arnaud, with a rice-based alcoholic beverage pairings or a seriously crafted non-alcoholic pairing.

The latest chapter of Herbivore, Tasting Menu Vol. III lands on 7


3 courses with options, plus savoury and sweet snacks | IDR 395.000++
Additional Drinks Pairing | Alc. IDR 250.000++ Non-Alc. IDR 200.000++
Available for lunch only.



5 courses, plus savoury and sweet snacks | IDR 595.000++
Additional Drinks Pairing | Alc. IDR 450.000++ Non-Alc. IDR 350.000++
Available for lunch only.



7 courses, plus savoury and sweet snacks | IDR 795.000++
Additional Drinks Pairing | Alc. IDR 595.000++ Non-Alc. IDR 450.000++


The price displayed excludes service and government tax.

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Herbivore

Peggy's Brass Knuckles is currently taking a break due to relocation.
Stay tuned on our Instagram to find out when we're coming back.

Peggy’s Brass Knuckles is our restaurant done proper.

Real chefs, real produce, and really sharp knives. Peggy’s is our idea of a proper restaurant, where we make dishes that we love cooking and want to eat ourselves, with decent drinks too.

Peggy’s is also more than just a proper restaurant. We have an onsite butcher’s shop and bakery, with a retail space that sells some of the ingredients we make ourselves. Plus a cafe that makes a good cup of coffee and a bar with our favourite locally brewed craft beers on tap.

As with all restaurants by Locavore, all our ingredients are only sourced locally except for our extended beverage list, which features a curated mix of imported wines and spirits. It’s important for us to stick to only using food that can be found around us, even if that means going the extra mile in the kitchen. Better in here than out there.

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Peggy's Brass Knuckles

LabX is our creative playground at Locavore NXT. It's our dedicated food laboratory and testing kitchen for culinary research and development... the space for all our new culinary innovations to begin. 

Our R&D team is constantly experimenting with local ingredients to discover new tastes, techniques and, ultimately, recipes that will feature on the tasting menu and beverage menu at NXT. Some of the breakthroughs in LabX might also make it into our range of food products sold in the Design Store.

LabX

Club Soda is currently taking a break due to relocation.
Stay tuned on our Instagram to find out when we're coming back.
See you (in another postcode)!