Ubud has grown and evolved a fair bit since my visit.\u00a0 One of the changes is a relatively new Restaurant I had heard good things about, so I asked Julie if she knew it.\u00a0 The restaurant is called Bridges<\/a>, it opened less than a year ago and was recently voted the number one restaurant in Ubud by Trip Advisor<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a casual fine dining restaurant\u00a0 with Western and Asian influences, their new menu for example includes Three Spiced Carmelised Duck –\u00a0 Sliced crispy duck coated in a thin star anise, orange and cinnamon caramel and the Crispy Skinned Pan-fried local Barramundi on a golden caper-dill rosti. Served with saut\u00e9ed zucchini ribbons and a lime-saffron cream sauce.<\/p>\n Recently Julie helped organise a literary event <\/a> there that included a delicious 4 course meal, the highlight of which was a rather lovely dessert of chocolate mousse duo (orange and espresso).<\/p>\n Not sure when I will get the opportunity to visit Ubud again, but when I do I think Bridges will be on my list of local attractions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A restaurant recommendation from Bali Decades ago I visited Ubud in Bali and was captivated by its beauty. My friend Julie made a more recent visit and fell in love with the area and the people, to the extent that she moved there permanently putting down some real roots. Julie is the co-author of A … Continue reading “Bridges in Ubud”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[611,609,613,610],"class_list":["post-20103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-festivals","tag-bali","tag-bridges","tag-trip-advisor","tag-ubud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20103"}],"version-history":[{"count":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29890,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103\/revisions\/29890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tn_p82505831-300x225.jpg\" "\\"IF\\"")
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