Frestro & Bar — Restaurant in Bali

Amazing restaurant that deserves 3 Michelin stars! Food to fall in love with that are NOT obscenely overpriced, absolutely commendable service, utterly excellent staffs, breathtakingly beautiful interior and best of all, Muslim friendly food menu for those who will be concerned.

Our night began horribly when we were turned down by Potato Head, MerahPutih and Sarong. Upon chance we stumbled upon Frestro and at first, we thought we were taking a risk as there was nearly no patrons at all. We were already desperately famished and to make it worse, it's my dad's birthday and we were nowhere near getting a decent place for dinner. Frestro is a surprise in how it is designed as it looks like just another bar/bistro from the front but entering the place, you will find deeper in is the classy dining area and it is the fine-dining kind of exquisite. Considering it's location, look and feel, we were additionally thoroughly impressed that they did not follow many other places' resolve to unjustly pricing their menu. And then when the food started coming, our opinion of the place was solidified. The open kitchen concept was splendid as well. In the end, we had a great birthday dinner as we hoped in the beginning. Thanks so much Frestro for saving our first night in Bali! Hope to dine there...

Food gets 4 star but menu choices, price and ambiance get 2.

The reasons? Outdoorsy was uber hot, mind you its pretty much dining in a glass house with few wall fans on. HOT. Don't make the same mistakes like we do and come during lunch hour.

Indoor was not that hot - it's an aircon area with comfortable seats but mosquitoes all over the place! We had to move back to the front/outdoorsy area, sigh. And the mosquitoes followed us. It was that unpleasant for us but feast for the mosquitoes.

Our service staff was a trainee and didn't know what's in the menu, he did ask his senior, whom replied "you can just see the photo". Okaaay.

At the bottom of each page on the menu book, it's stated that we only need to pay government tax 10 percent. Truth is, there's a hidden service tax 11% so we're slapped with 500k bill for an appetizer, 2 mains, an ice tea, and a cocktail. Too much for this kind of establishment.

That's the 4 reasons that make us not coming back. Food taste okay, fresh pasta was pretty alright, but it's not that exceptional that will let us forgive the uncomfortable place. And why did my iced lychee tea get no lychee fruit?

I get it now why it's empty during...

We placed our order and the waiter came back to tell us, the item my date wanted was all gone so he chose another.. then maybe 15-20 mins later, the waiter came back again to tell me the item I wanted was all gone as well.. why did it take so long for them to figure this out?? I chose another item, i was told it was also all gone... Very disappointing.. I settled on the duck and my date got the chicken.. Then my dates food came out far ahead of mine since they waited way too long to tell me they were out of what I originally wanted. My date was able to finish his meal by the time mine actually arrived. Do we not understand that people should be served their food at the same time so they can eat together??? We were asked if we wanted dessert, we took a look but nothing interested us.. they then offered us a complimentary dessert... Only after the fact that we didn't order one. I feel like that should have been offered off the bat. The dessert we got wasn't even on the menu but I will say this, it was delicious. Our meals were also delicious but vegetable portions were very small. For example, my dates dish was described to come with carrots... He literally got 1 carrot. Kind of a joke...