Top Ubud Food & Drink Classes in 2026

Immerse yourself in Balinese culture and cuisine on this half-day cooking class with a small group. Visit a traditional morning market (morning class only), see a local Balinese house, tour a farm, then learn to make a variety of authentic Balinese dishes to enjoy afterwards. Includes hotel pickup and transfers from Ubud.

Dive deep into Bali’s rich culinary scene with this hands-on cooking class, including a morning market tour to explore local ingredients and culture, with stress-free round-trip pickup from Ubud included. Try your hand at making and tasting chicken in coconut curry, Balinese steamed fish in banana leaf, boiled banana in palm sugar syrup, and more, with help from your teacher and their assistant.

Immerse yourself in Balinese cuisine in this farm to table cooking class on a farm in in Ubud. Visit a traditional market to shop (morning class) and learn about ingredients. Afterwards, pick your own produce at a farm and learn how to make several authentic dishes, which can you savor afterwards with tea and coffee.

While most cooking classes give you the chance to create a few dishes, this experience lets you learn to prepare nine Balinese classics, making it the ultimate choice for food lovers. As well as mastering the basics of Balinese cuisine, you’ll benefit from the insider knowledge of your guide. Opt for the morning tour to include a market visit and shop for ingredients like a local.

The ideal experience for foodie travelers—an authentic Balinese cooking class, hosted by a local chef in the jungle surroundings of Ubud. Learn about the spices and ingredients used in Balinese cookery and discover new flavors at the morning market, and choose your ingredients for the class. Then, at the workshop, learn how to use them using traditional techniques, and eat your masterpieces as a sit down meal.

Live like a local among the locals with this private hands-on cooking lesson. Join your host, Putu, her grandparents, her husband, and their children for lunch or dinner in their traditional compound home. Learn about the spices Putu uses, the traditional Balinese medicines she makes, and the rice, fruit, and animals her grandparents tend on their farm as you prepare and eat a Balinese feast, washed down with local alcohol.

Cooking in Sidemen takes place in a traditional open-air kitchen surrounded by forest, where a shared class for up to six prepares traditional Balinese dishes with ingredients sourced from the farm. A local chef explains Balinese culture and cooking techniques, and lunch rounds out this half-day class.

Get a taste of the authentic Bali in a sustainable way when you join a cooking class at this community-run organic farm and cooking school. Pick veggies from the green garden, tour a traditional market (morning experience only), and prepare a delicious meal of six Indonesian dishes. Once you and your small group have prepared and shared your feast, take home a recipe book to recreate the flavors.

If you’ve tried Bali’s unique cuisine and want to be able to recreate it back home, this small-group Balinese cooking class is an ideal activity for you: The morning session visits a local market to shop for fresh ingredients. Learn about spices and techniques from a professional Balinese cook, then enjoy eating the fruits of your labor. Transfers from Ubud hotels are included.

There’s no better way to get to know a culture than through its food, and this Balinese cooking class on an organic farm outside Ubud is so authentic you even use a traditional wood-fired stove. Learn about organic farming and Bali’s subak system, recognized with UNESCO World Heritage status, pick organic ingredients from the garden, and prepare a meal of six delicious Balinese favorites along with healthy juices.

Experience the true flavors of Bali with our Authentic Balinese Cooking Class in the serene Sidemen Village. Immerse yourself in traditional Balinese culinary culture as you learn to prepare six classic Balinese dishes using fresh, local ingredients and time-honored techniques. In this hands-on class, you will create: 1. Uraban – a flavorful Balinese vegetable salad with spiced grated coconut 2. Bergedel Jagung – delicious crispy corn fritters 3. Pesan Be Pasih – traditional Balinese fish wrapped in banana leaves and steamed 4. Dadar Gulung – sweet coconut pancakes rolled with palm sugar filling 5. Balinese Fish Corn Soup – a comforting local soup combining fresh fish and corn 6. Sate Lilit – aromatic Balinese minced seafood satay wrapped around lemongrass sticks

Take a day tour around the Ubud area to check out some of Bali's most popular attractions. Stop at Tegalalang Rice Terrace, Tegenungan Waterfall, Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, an art market where you can shop for souvenirs, Puri Saren Palace (Ubud Palace), and Tirta Empul Temple, known for its natural springs.

There are few better souvenirs to bring back from your travels than a new cuisine. Discover the fine art of Balinese cooking, from grinding spice pastes in a pestle and mortar to preparing food in banana leaves, on this small-group experience. Beyond the deliciousness, you’ll go deeper into Balinese culture, with a visit to a typical home plus, if you book the morning tour, a trip to a local market.

Learn how to make traditional Balinese dishes like steamed fish wrapped with a banana leaf, chicken meatball soup, crepes with palm sugar and grated coconut, and more from a chef during this small-group cooking class. Discover more about Bali’s culture with a visit to a Balinese house and garden before heading to a farm to get cooking. Then, enjoy the fruits of your labor with a romantic candlelit dinner.

Adrenaline junkies will thrill to this adventure combo: white-water rafting the Ayung River and roaring through Bali’s lush countryside on an ATV. Discover hidden waterfalls, cool off in refreshing waters, and whizz through rapids with the help of your rafting guide. After a buffet lunch, don a helmet and boots to ride around the rice paddies on an ATV. Choose from a solo or tandem ride to suit your preferences.

Bali is a well-known culture for healing and traditional medicine. Even at 21 century the Balinese people still prefer to use the recipes which pass the testing by ages and made from the herbs and spices. We invite you to discover the ancient Bali healing medicine traditions and learn the old recipes with us! During the class, you will cook 2 herbal drinks. You will also know for what it is used, how to use and get some knowledge of traditional medicine of Bali

Silver jewelry making is an age-old Balinese craft that's vital to the island’s rural economy. On this private tour, try out the art coached by a silversmith at a traditional village workshop. Tour the village to understand the craft's importance; and learn to shape, cut, and finish your design before keeping it as a memento. Prebooking will secure your place for a time that fits your schedule. Upgrade your experience to transport, a cooking class, a sightseeing tour, and more.

There are few better ways to experience local culture than a cooking class. In this small-group class, join your Balinese host on a visit to a typical market, then enjoy coffee and cake as you learn about herbs and spices in the organic garden. Next, master Balinese cooking techniques—including the use of a stone mortar—as you prepare and eat a delicious 5-course lunch in a traditional open kitchen.

Ubud’s original cooking school since 1992, founded by cookbook author, restaurateur and Ubud Food Festival founder and director, Janet DeNeefe. Seven different classes, seven different menus, all deeply Balinese.

Enjoy the freedom to build your own itinerary but none of the dangers of self-driving Bali on this private build-your-own day tour. Meet your driver/guide in your hotel lobby—pickup covers Ubud and the main south Bali hotspots—and plan out a route that suits your interests. That could include temples, rice terraces, waterfalls, coffee plantations, markets, villages, or beaches.

This is more than a cooking class, it is a complete Balinese cultural experience. Guests begin the journey with a visit to a traditional morning market, where they learn about local spices, herbs, and daily market life. Back at the authentic Balinese family compound, guests are introduced to the unique structure and philosophy of a traditional Balinese house, gaining insight into how Balinese families live and the cultural meaning behind each area of the compound. The experience continues with a traditional welcome snack and drink, followed by a hands-on cooking class where participants prepare authentic Balinese dishes using fresh local ingredients. Guests also discover the traditional use of Balinese herbs and spices through an introduction to Balinese herbal medicine. By combining culinary learning, cultural storytelling, traditional architecture, and local family hospitality, this experience offers a deeper and more authentic connection to Bali than a typical cooking class.

Spare yourself the stress and risk of self-driving Bali on this private door-to-door tour. Soak in volcanic hot springs, enjoy lunch with a view of the Batur volcano, tour a coffee plantation, and see four key highlights of Ubud: Tegenungan Waterfall, Elephant Cave, Tegalalang Rice Terrace, and the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary.

Our cooking classes are designed to give you a taste of traditional Balinese cuisine, using local ingredients from our farm, during the cooking class, you will have the opportunity to visit our organic vegetable garden and learn about the various herbs and spices that are important in Balinese cuisine.