If you haven’t tried Nasi Campur, then did you really even “Canggu”? The staple food of locals, hungry surfers and budget backpackers, Nasi Campur literally translates to “mixed rice”, but also usually means MSG…

Gone are the days where living in Bali meant being marooned on a tropical island, far away from our creature comforts, and having visiting family smuggle in care packages of our hometown faves. If you’ve been stranded out here in Canggu, and…

Welcome to Folie Kitchen & Pâtisserie, aka. Canggu’s most instagrammable venue, ever. Tropical floral murals, baby blue booths, baby pink walls, white marble tables, pastel coloured crockery, palm-print napkins and tiny colourful tarts,…

What does life in Bali mean to you? For most people it’s a lifestyle by design. It’s waking without an alarm. It’s Bali time. It’s unplanned chats over coffee. It’s about calling every meal brunch coz you’re honestly not quite sure what time it is.…

Everyone knows that come nightfall, Batu Bolong is the place to be. With a weekly rotation of live music gigs, dirty pub parties, beach raves, and Sunday sessions, its every Canggu revellers party playground. But the lawless good times generally don…

What’s this then.. Santorini in Canggu? Nai! Dine in the Greek Islands, without having to lose a page in your passport. Pull up a chair at the new Santorini Greek Restaurant Bali, order a glass of chilled white and stare out over the stunning…

What do you think of when you hear the words “comfort food”? Our guess is it’s probably not sushi.. but hang with us a minute, because all that’s about to change. Comfort food isn’t just a term coined by starving millennial vegans to describe…

Canggu Beach bars are a rupiah a dozen; the shorelines stacked with infinity pools, DJ booths and technicoloured bean bags. If you are in the market for something special for your Canggu vacay, step beyond the same-same, and into the newly launched…

In a town full of vegan-this, gluten-free that.. there’s finally something refreshingly non-hipster and downright decadent cooking in our hood. Cook and Baker by Aurora bakery is an ever-so-sweet boutique bakehouse, fresh out of the oven on Jl Raya…

Are you all hipster-ed out? Tired of the same-same? Oh boy do we feel you. The Canggu café scene has been overtaken by enough beaten avocados, smoothies in bowls and faux vegan “mock meats” to make anyone gila! Take a break from the same old and…

A Canggu day without coffee is like.. just kidding, we have absolutely no idea. If there’s anything us Gu girls do know, it’s a good cup of coffee. Follow our lead to the brand new Dua Tiga café and wake up to something tall, dark & rich every…

Now, if there’s one thing we know, it’s good coffee. A lot of coffee, silly amounts of coffee, bucketfuls of coffee, ALL THE COFFEE!  GOWES Coffee is the newest in the Gu, a sweet little coffee hidey hole located on Jl. Pantai Berawa, making it an…

Now, we love a salad bar and are all about the probiotics, superfoods and healthy choices, on most days at least, but there are times when a girl just needs a burger, right fam? We all know those days when lettuce and sunflower seeds just don’t cut…

Bali is known as the island of the gods and for good reason too – with over 20,000 thousand temples dotting the landscape of our beautiful volcanic island home, we we are blessed to have the gods of Bali watching over us. While we are…

Some say coconuts are the fruit of life, but at Gu Guide we’d argue that’s the coffee bean. Coffee straight up GIVES US LIFE. Whether you are #teamcoffee, or #teamcoconut.. do we have something for you! Introducing Coffee & Coconuts Bali, the…

Canggu’s pizza-and-burger game has long been a strong one, but it’s really levelled up with the newest arrival to the hood: say hello to Naked Bun Bali and wave goodbye to your diet. See ya next year (maybe)! Located next to Taco Casa Bali, the…

Cover your eyes with your hands. You are sitting in a boutique bar, sipping a wasabi dust-rimmed cocktail. Classic Banksy-style street art adorns the wall. Low key French hip hop sets the mood. Are you in downtown Paris? The streets of London? Tidak…

Life in Canggu is a combination of magic, sunsets, rice fields.. and pasta. YES PASTA! Specifically that slung straight out of the La Pasteria Bali kitchen. Mama Mia! Quite possibly our new favourite place EVER; La Pasteria is a humble Italian…