Visit Any Of These 4 Charming Cafes Near Tirta Empul Bali When Hunger Strikes

Pangkon is the easiest café to reach from Tirta Empul on foot. It is about 300 m down the temple road, in the same village. (Warung Sripadi, a vegan warung about 50 m from the gate, is closer still, but it is a meal stop rather than a café.) It is a restaurant with a small agrotourism garden, and its open bale (Balinese pavilions) look over working paddies.

You do not need to eat here. A Bali coffee, an iced lemongrass tea or a young coconut on a pavilion is the better use of a half-hour after the melukat, and the garden lets you see coffee, cacao and spice plants without driving to a plantation. Around 1,000 Google reviewers rate it 4.1. Tour groups stop here at lunchtime, so a mid-morning visit is quieter. For a sit-down lunch, it is also one of the picks in our Tirta Empul restaurants guide.

Sruma is a small coffee spot on the edge of the rice terraces in Mancingan, the hamlet that Tirta Empul itself belongs to. Its 6 am opening makes it the best answer for travellers who drive up from Ubud early to beat the tour buses. Order a coffee and a pastry at 7 am, then reach the temple when the gates open at 8.

The menu runs from IDR 8,000 for a basic black coffee to about IDR 50,000 for a beer or a glass of arak, with bakery items and snacks in between. Regulars order the passion fruit drink. It is a local hangout with music in the evening, and IDN Times notes it also rents scooters, which helps if you want to ride on to Gunung Kawi without a driver.

Most visitors pair Tirta Empul with Gunung Kawi, the 11th-century shrines carved into a river cliff 5 minutes away. Getting to them means more than 300 steps down to the Pakerisan river (some counts say 371) and the same back up. Kafe Kawi sits at the entrance, beside the ticket booth and above the rice fields, before the stairs go down. That makes it the obvious place for a Bali coffee and a plate of pisang goreng (fried banana) before you start the descent or once you climb back up.

Treat it as a café, not lunch. The menu is short, prices are fair for a site café, and the view of the terraces is what you are paying for. Our Gunung Kawi guide covers the shrines, the dress code and the walk.

Kira is a young, minimal coffee shop on the main road through Tampaksiring town, with washed-grey walls and a glass door shaped like a window. It is a local hangout more than a tourist stop. WhatsNewIndonesia mentions games to play, so you can stay a while, which makes it a good rainy-afternoon option.

It is new, with only a handful of Google reviews so far, so treat it as a neighbourhood café rather than a destination. Its use is location. The palace road is where your driver will pass anyway, and Kira is quicker to reach than the Jalan Raya Uma cafés.

Satria is the first plantation you reach heading north from Tirta Empul, and the easiest one to add to a temple morning. A guide walks you through a garden of coffee, cacao and spice plants and shows the roasting pan. Then you sit down to a tray of about a dozen small glasses: Bali coffee, coconut and vanilla coffees, ginger, lemongrass and mangosteen teas, and hot chocolate.

The tray is free. You pay only if you order kopi luwak or buy something in the shop, and travellers who have reviewed it say there is little pressure to do either. It opens at 9 am, an hour after the temple, so it fits best straight after your bath. Satria sells kopi luwak, like every plantation on this road, so read the kopi luwak section below before you go.

Two names, one gate. Google lists the place as Umah Bali Kuno coffee, while plantation guides and drivers call it Pemulan Bali Coffee Plantation, and both give the same address at No. 16 on the Kintamani road. The guided walk here goes into more detail than most. You see coffee plants, cacao and herbs, then the traditional roasting station, before the free tasting flight of local coffees and herbal teas.

The name means “old Balinese house”, and Google lists it as both a café and a tourist attraction, so expect more of a visitor site than a simple coffee stall. It opens at 8 am, the same time as the temple, so you can come here first if the melukat queue is long when you arrive. Give it 30 to 45 minutes.

Beanary is the café to choose if you need a table and Wi-Fi for an hour. It is a calm, open space with mountain and rice-field views, set up for co-working, and the menu starts at IDR 10,000, cheap even for Tampaksiring. Local nasi goreng and mie goreng sit next to the espresso drinks, so you can turn a coffee into lunch without moving.

It is south of the temple, on the way back towards Ubud, so it fits the end of a morning better than the start. Pura Mengening, the quieter spring temple below Tirta Empul, is close by if you want a second water temple without the crowds.

Satoorasi is a small, artsy coffee house in the paddies on the same road as Beanary. Irrigation canals run past the seating and coconut palms frame the view of the hills. The menu is short and cheap, coffee, matcha, chocolate and lychee tea, croissants and fries, and nothing costs more than IDR 35,000.

Regulars praise the signature chocolate drink as much as the coffee, which makes it a good stop for anyone in your group who does not drink coffee. It opens around 8 am, so it suits a coffee after the temple rather than before it.

SOMI calls itself the number one café in Tampaksiring, and it has the reviews to back that up. It sits in open rice fields with Mount Agung on the skyline on clear mornings, and it has both indoor and outdoor seating. Unlike most places on this list, it has a full kitchen, with breakfast and brunch plates, Balinese and Indonesian dishes and Western comfort food.

The price range is wide because the menu is. A coffee starts at IDR 15,000, while sharing platters reach IDR 400,000. Mornings give the best chance of seeing Agung before the cloud builds. The café dog is part of the welcome.

Terra is the late-opening option. It keeps the kitchen going until 11 pm, and its rooftop is the place to watch the sun go down over the rice fields. Downstairs is green and plant-filled, with tables at the edge of the paddies.

The menu covers hot and iced coffee, tea, matcha, milkshakes and fruit juices, plus nasi goreng, mie goreng, waffles and snacks, and it serves arak if you want a local drink after dark. Prices top out around IDR 65,000. If you are staying in Tampaksiring rather than Ubud, this is your evening café.

If the coffee itself matters more than the view, drive the extra few minutes to Treelosofi. It is a proper specialty bar at the edge of the paddies, with espresso, americano, cappuccino and mocha, cold coffees and a few non-coffee drinks such as matcha and chocolate. Pastries and light bites go with them.

There is shaded seating inside and out front. Its 4.9 rating comes from a small base of 63 reviews, so it is newer than most places here. Do not plan a Friday visit, and check its Instagram for other closed days.

Segara Windhu is the plantation to pick if you want the full story. The walk covers the whole process, from coffee cherries on the bush and drying racks to roasting and brewing. The tasting terrace looks over a patch of jungle, and baliholidaysecrets (updated June 2026) counts 12 to 14 coffee and tea samples on the free tray. A cup of kopi luwak costs IDR 50,000 to 80,000 (₹265 to ₹420) extra.

If you only have time for one plantation and are heading north to Kintamani afterwards, make it this one. It sits on the way up, so the stop costs you almost no extra driving. For a meal stop on the same road, see the restaurants near Tirta Empul guide. For the caldera cafés further up, see cafés in Kintamani.