Arundina Restaurant by Orchid Garden — Restaurant in Denpasar Timur

DON’t go ! Be careful ! See the photo I applied here! They want to make foreigners fools. First time saw such a SCAM. We arrived in this restaurant because I saw one insta blogger recommended it: I followed their instagram and checked a menu highlight (menu was posted 1st of February 2024 in Indonesian language.) So we decided to visit it 25.03.2024. When we arrived we saw only one table occupied with two guests. So we sat and the waiter gave us menu in English . Prices were on 35%-70% higher than in Instagram menu. We asked , why prices are higher? They said it’s a new menu. So we stood up and went to the table where two other guests sat and left just 3 min ago and we picked the menu on their table: prices were as in Instagram , menu was in Indonesian. So we brought menu to the waiter , and he left on saying it’s an old menu . We said to him that it’s the menu that was on the table where other 2 guests just left. So waiter doesn’t know what to answer. He said he will call to the manager, manager didn’t come, so we just left. Bad attitude to the foreigners. Don’t recommend!

I applied here price differences of the menu in English and Indonesian side by side. And menu that was in...

First time to this restaurant, waiting for the rain that was falling heavily, before walking around enjoying the orchid garden at Duta Orchid. While enjoying the beautiful view of the orchid garden, my husband and I enjoyed hot drinks of lemongrass tea and red rice tea. It's light and refreshing. On each table there is a pot of beautiful flowering orchids. At first we only ordered snacks like french fries, chicken wings and banana fritter. Surprisingly, it tasted very good. The fried bananas are crunchy and the bananas are sweet, but the brown sugar is not too sweet. It's perfect. Then we tried the vegetable fried rice and meatballs with vermicelli and ketupat/tipat (rice cake boiled in a rhombus-shaped packet of plaited young coconut leaves). The fried rice is delicious, but the meatball soup is so so. I don't think that ketupat/tipat fit with meatbalk soup 😕. Finally, what is also impressive is, the price is relatively cheap (200k in total). They also serve traditional snacks ie sweet coconut omelette (dadar gulung), sweet coconut rice porridge...

Terrible place. We were just passing by and decided to stop for lunch. In the end, we waited 40 minutes !!for our food — even though the restaurant was almost empty, with only one other table occupied. The food arrived cold and completely tasteless, and the portion was ridiculously small. I strongly do not recommend...