Completing the wholesome journey, guests are invited to the lobby to enjoy Balinese dance and gamelan performances before they dine and savour the craft behind the dinner menu on the final day. The culinary experience is open to guests and visitors alike and is proudly supported by TEKA, Phaidon and Hardie Grant.
Chef and Author Petty Elliott
Petty Pandean-Elliott is an award-winning Indonesian chef, writer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author of several bestselling Indonesian cookbooks. She was the judge for Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants and the World’s 50 Best Restaurants as well as the guest judge on Indonesian Iron Chef in 2017.
Petty was featured in Where Chefs Eat published in 2017 by Phaidon and was listed as one of Indonesia’s most powerful women by The Peak magazine in 2015. As a tribute to Indonesian cuisine, Petty is collaborating with Phaidon to publish The Indonesian Table in 2023.
Chef I Wayan Kresna Yasa
I Wayan Kresna Yasa is a Balinese chef born on the island of Nusa Penida, off Bali’s east coast. He trained and worked in the US for six years, cooking at the likes of Acadia in Chicago and New York’s Blue Hill Stone Barns.
In Bali, he is known for the deftness of his cooking, his deep respect for the environment, and his drive to put the flavours of his home on the global culinary map. He helped launch Room4Dessert with chef-owner Will Goldfarb, before transitioning to hospitality company Potato Head.
Wayan is now global executive chef and culinary director for the Potato Head family. He opened Ijen – the group’s first zero-waste sustainable seafood restaurant – and Kaum which is known for its revival of rare tribal recipes from across the archipelago. And his most recent venture is plant-based Indonesian restaurant Tanaman, which was listed as one of the best new restaurants in the world in Condé Nast Traveller’s June 2020 issue.
Tjok Maya Kerthyasa
Tjok Maya Kerthyasa is an Indonesian-Australian writer living in Ubud, Bali. She spent just under a decade in Sydney where she wrote for Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine, before moving home to Bali to reconnect with her family and her ancestral home.
Since returning, Maya has hosted culinary-based events, starred in an Indonesian food-based web series called Masakan Rumah, and co-authored the recently released Balinese food and recipe book, Paon (Hardie Grant). Her mission is to see Balinese cuisine better understood and celebrated around the world.
TEKA
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