La Baracca — Restaurant in Bali

Warning! The electric fans in this restaurant are hazardous and are extremely dangerous!

In this resteraunt the staff leaves black markers on the tables for guests to scrible on the walls.

Doing this, I stood on a chair to write on the wall. Because the fan was mooving at high speed and it was dark at night I was unaware of the danger.

The metal blades moving at high velocity sliced my finger open. If I was not wearing a ring on my index finger I am sure my finger would have been sliced off.

These high speed electric fans made of metal are not caged or placed out of the way of guests who are wanting to ingage with the atmosphere and are not given a proper warning. The fans look almost invisible in the dark moving at very high speed. Guests need to be warned about the hazards before being invited to write on the walls.

For example: Hazard tape or proper cages for the fans should be installed. All guests should be warned about the fans before seating. Markers should be kept behind the counter and only given under supervision untill the fans are enclosed in a protective cage, replaced or removed.

I am also uncomfortable with the restaurant because when the accident took place the staff lied to me because this is not the first accident that has taken place. If the fans are not replaced or removed this accident will not be the last. I can only warn you.

It is only by a stroke of luck I did not end up in the hospital that night, or worse.

The pizza has been very delicious at La Baracca's and I really like the location in Ubud. This however does not negate that the infrastructure in this building is a public health hazard.

Please be warned! Your health and safety...

Walked past this restaurant on our first visit to canggu and so it was high on our list to try on our trip this time around. We were disappointed from start to finish. Fair enough it was Friday, so super busy night but it felt like people were being crammed in left right and centre, which took away from the ambiance that the low lighting and candle on each table had tried to create. It was super loud and felt crammed. When we sat down nobody gave us any menus and we assumed they would come back with some, but after watching other people being seated and given them we realised we had been forgotten about and so we asked the waiter. We had the breaded mozzarella and bruschetta to start, the mozzarella was nice but the bruschetta bread slightly burnt. We were still optimistic for our main dishes to arrive and initially we weren’t too fussed about how long it seemed we had waited given how busy it was. However then we saw other diners who came in after us get their meals, we were starting to think we had been forgotten about again. Then the front of house asked us if we would like to see the dessert menu and we informed her we hadn’t had our main course 😅. Both our pasta dishes were ok but just that. We both felt that they didn’t match all the amazing reviews we had seen and that we have ate better Italian food in canggu. We really wanted to like this place...

Not the best dining experience. The meatballs in the spaghetti meatballs were so soft they were actually mushy - when I bit into it I thought I was eating something raw! Perhaps too much egg in the mixture? They also looked grey and did not taste much of meat, which is concerning. Thankfully they took the initiative to take the pasta off the bill, but in the food business, quality control is everything, so this is an important note to make.

The tuna tartare salad was horrifying - it looked dull and there was no care for presentation at all, the fish was just shredded and scattered all over the greens. I didn't eat any of the fish for fear of food poisoning. Had been excited to try the seafood pasta but they didn't have it and only told me after I had ordered, so was quite disappointed. My ginger aglio e olio (this combo is suspect) was average, but there was no garnish, so it came as a pile of beige. Would have appreciated some parsley and chili flakes on top.

The server made a mistake and realized that she didn't charge us for the two coconuts we ordered, so we were chased down as we were leaving the restaurant and had to go through another payment...