Introducing LocaLab

The Design

Locavore NXT

Welcome to a series about our Lab. A journey of new flavours, jars of mystery and bingo moments of edible discovery. (With a fair share of non-edible discoveries along the way).

Our culinary research and development kitchen is designed to explore the diversity of ingredients and techniques used to create new food ideas.

Driven by a desire to use all that nature provides, what hidden gems will we stumble upon?

And what has this got to do with what's NXT?

Welcome to the first stage of our reveal. We can't tell you anything, but we can show you some clues.

Our small restaurant Locavore is very much open. Click 

OUR NEW PROJECT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND OPENING Q2 2023.

There’s a great motto that we hold close to our apron-adorned chests here at Locavore…

We think it's important to take some action which demonstrates that creativity and sustainability can work together without compromise. That’s our guiding light for the future of Locavore – for what is NXT.

So, welcome to the first stage of our reveal. Something to whet your appetites and stir your curious minds – some clues and sneak peeks. Get digging and stay tuned as we release more hints along the way...

The Under Construction Issue

Journey of Flavours

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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.

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Every Wednesday to Sunday our chef Adi 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.


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++


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Herbivore

Peggy’s Brass Knuckles is our restaurant done proper in Jakarta.

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

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Peggy's Grocery is the grocery shop of Peggy's Brass Knuckles – our restaurant done proper in Jakarta.

A big part of the fun that our chefs have at Peggy's Brass Knuckles is finding the best local ingredients in Indonesia to feature on the restaurant menu, and making anything we can't find (but really, really want) ourselves.

Peggy's Grocery is where we get to share all the tasty things we discovered or created, and you get to take them home and enjoy some proper good food in your own kitchen.

We live next door to the restaurant with an onsite butchers, bakery and retail space for all the ingredients that we make ourselves, along with some tasty things our friends make too. Plus a café that makes a good cup of coffee, and a bar with our favourite locally brewed craft beers on tap. 

Pop in to have a look and enjoy a drink, or order online and have everything you want delivered.

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Peggy's Grocery

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

Your favourite postmodern happiness portal in Canggu.

Staying true to Locavore philosophy, Club Soda serves innovative cocktails, non-alcoholic concoctions and a food menu inspired by Asian and Japanese small plates, all of which celebrate the sole use of local Indonesian ingredients.

Sip on original inventions and non-traditional traditional mixes paired with light dishes teamed up into Chill, Fire and Kushiyaki & Yakitori.

Meanwhile Club Soda's sibling brand, DUB Soda, will be with you bringing the good time to its fullest with our artisan Hi-Fi sound system. This ‘jazz-kissa’ style corner of pure musical appreciation will house collaborations with some of our favourite creatives from around the world. Stay tuned on our Instagram to find out what’s on.

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Club Soda Canggu

Your favourite postmodern happiness portal in Jakarta.

Club Soda Jakarta is our craft cocktail bar in the capital, serving multi-hyphenated creative refreshments wrapped up in an art installation and enveloped by sonic audio waves.

Staying true to Locavore philosophy, Club Soda serves innovative cocktails, non-alcoholic concoctions and a food menu inspired by East Asian small plates at Club Kitchen, all of which celebrate the sole use of local Indonesian ingredients.

Sip on original inventions and non-traditional traditional mixes paired with light dishes like Bao, Rice Bowls, Noodles.

Meanwhile Club Soda's custom-built speaker stacks, DUB Soda, will be there as pulse of the night, bringing the good time to its fullest.

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Club Soda Jakarta

Enter a doorway... you’re invited to take a step into the unknown. 

Our craft cocktail bar of local ingredients and custom house-made concoctions by our alchemist Raka take you on a unique personal experience of storytelling. Indonesian folk tales and supernatural stories are woven into the drinks, atmosphere, and experience in our intimate creative space. 

Expect the unexpected and take your own journey through the night as we stir your imagination.

Night Rooster by Locavore

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Locavore NXT Night Rooster

Night Rooster

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When Locavore chefs Eelke and Ray want a break from the culinary high-craft of their tasting menu, they sit down and enjoy a damn-fine sandwich, burger, or coffee from their ‘cafe’ Locavore To Go.

The cafe is a casual off-shoot of their ideas and passions. Using many of their own produce from their adjacent butcher shop, Local Parts, the menu highlights span from the famous Burger à la Ray to classic sandwiches, charcuterie platters, and daily changing comfort food.

Ever wanted to pick an item to be cooked from the butcher shop but not have to cook it yourself? Just point at the butcher showcase chiller, take a seat, and we will cook it for you.

Coffee and drinks are also up to scratch with beans from local roastery Hungry Bird.

Locavore To Go

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Local Parts

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When chefs demand to go meet the farms, make relationships, and ensure the product is ethical and very high quality, you result in a great network of farmers and craft food suppliers. Whilst the team supports a balanced approach to eating meat, they do want the best from the meats that they use. It made total sense to help others have that opportunity too, so they opened their own Butcher Shop using only ethical, locally raised, and high-quality meats.

Local Parts is also a specialist in charcuterie and has perfected its own interpretation of classics using local meats – along with a large range of pickles, sauces, rubs, and other packaged goods for you to boost your own home cooking experiences.

Here you'll also find the ‘best of’ local partners such as Braud sourdough, 8 Degrees Cheese, and local salts.

Local Parts by Locavore

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VISIT AGENCY X WEBSITE

AGENCY X WEBSITE

Agency X is a multidisciplinary creative agency, based in Bali, specialising in imaginative and unique food & drink experiences. We are Locavore Group's strategic partner for creative projects and work with other clients too.

Combining the disciplines of communications, creativity, culinary, operational, art & design, interiors, brands, architecture, experiences and more, we develop original ideas that surprise, delight and inspire people.

Are you looking for a custom creative design for your new hotel, restaurant, bar, or other F&B project? 
Or interested in licensing an existing design IP?

Find out more about us, our projects and get in touch with business enquiries
via the Agency X website below.

Agency X

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Close Up Construction

Close Up Plants

Close Up Thrift Shop

Close Up Design Materials

Some of you may believe that a detective’s most important tool is their magnifying glass. Get all up in the grill of that evidence and you’re bound to find a missing clue that solves the mystery.

So, here it is. All the evidence in plain sight – right up close. Feast your physical eyes on these materials being used in our adventure and see what you find out. But don’t touch!

Feeling Analogue

Blessing The Land

Plans, Plans (Pelan, Pelan)

What Do You Call A Man With A Spade On His Head?

Paper Trails

Emerging Shapes

Eelke & Ray Looking At Things

Biodiversity Future Library

Creating With Gaya

The Sky's The Limit

Looking Like Something

Watch us step into the unknown, curtain twitcher.

Our journey to help shine a light on a new way of doing things has begun, and here you'll find all the snapshots for your wall of evidence...

What do they tell you? That SOMETHING is happening?

Behind the Scenes                         

Spaghetti

Doughnuts

Egg Sandwiches

What does taking action to inspire others look like?

It could look a bit like this. Give it a go. 

Change is Hungry

The Sims

Mass Effect

Pacman

When you haven’t finished a project, but still need to talk about it, hmmm?

Here are some clues, brought to you through the medium of mad video games.

Video Games 

Leave A Trace

Shared Habitat, Shared Identity

Final Illusion

Landscape Yourself

It Is A Matter Of Taste

We're quite caught up these days with reducing our footprints. 

We try to be responsible by treading very softly. Our ultimate goal – the sign of any great environmentalist – is to hush through life without leaving a trace.

But maybe we have forgotten that there is another, much better, option.

Do leave one. Be what you do. Express ideas that do good. Get creative with your action.

Statement Pieces

Gaya Ceramics

Here's to the incredible team of people who have partnered with us on this project.

It’s not an easy brief, but doing something different isn’t always meant to be the easy road. 

realise that the space out there is far more interesting, impactful, and potentially serving a positive change... why would you ever look at an old map again?

Thanks to everyone in the ‘Fam’ that joined us on this daunting project (and survived the journey). 

This series is for you. Superstars, the lottaya.

The Creators

Our head chef Eelke has a tattoo across his wrists that we all have a good laugh at – "Fail Again, Fail Bettar". We're not sure if it's misspelled ironically or a beautiful proof in the pudding, but the sentiment behind it is something we all work by here at Locavore. Don't let a fear of mistakes stop you from trying great things. Keep trying. Wear the mistakes on your sleeve.

In that spirit, we're sharing a couple of bloopers from the making of this magazine issue. Here's some content that we thought would be really cool but, for a number of reasons, really wasn't. We'll try not to let it stop us from working with chickens again. Fail again, fail bettar.