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Tucked into the streetscape of Ubud’s pedestrianized Jalan Goutama, <a href="https://locavorenxt.com/family/night-rooster?destinasian">Night Rooster</a> is a late-hours lounge that quietly and confidently awaits an in-the-know crowd. Streetside, there are cushioned pews and a movie montage, but the real magic happens indoors where plush red couches, puffy pouffes, curio-filled cabinets and low-lit lamps create a den of cool. The bar is the part of the <a href="https://locavorenxt.com/family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Locavore Group</a>’s family of restaurants and venues known for championing sustainable regional produce. Naturally, ingredients are drawn from their own distillations, ferments, and spirits including handcrafted vermouths and bitters. Award-winning mixologist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rakathenightrooster/?hl=en?destinasian">Raka Ambarawan’s</a> drinks list reads like a children’s book of medicinal folklore, with anthologies that are playfully brought to life in cocktail form. The first in the lineup and one of the longest-running is Ashes, a concoction of Scotch whisky, vodka, and homemade fortified wine blended with palm sugar, burnt tropical fruits, and cassia bark. It arrives at the table smoldering and smoking with a whiff of pine cones. The Eccentric Eats menu is more than a match for the moody cocktails and works well to soak up the booze. Try a pastrami sando loaded with sour cream, mustard chives, and dill pickles, and follow it with smoked spicy pork sausage topped with jicama sauerkraut and lobster emulsion on toasted milk bread. —Penny Watson
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+62 813 3794 1987 
<a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/hLXH5kGnN7RYsZT3A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jl. Goutama Sel. No. 5, Ubud, Kecamatan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia</a>

The interior of Night Rooster, a cocktail bar in Ubud, Bali.

Night Rooster: Late Night Lounge