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Salad bar
Indonesian

Vegetarian restaurant attached to Freedive Gili and Gili Yoga, on the main street at 100 metres north from where the boats arrive. Offers Indonesian food, salad bar, cakes, and raw cakes at the counter and international veggie dishes on menu. Nasi campur and salad counters available until 5pm. Air-conditioned interior. Open Mon-Sun 7:00am-10:00pm.


Venue map for The Banyan Tree
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112 Reviews

First Review by MikaBryony

snelephant

Points +16

Vegan
02 Apr 2017

Amazing

Me and my bf are both vegan and we fell in love with Banyan Tree. The breakfast is amazing my favourite was the Chocolate Peanut bowl (and I asked for extra granola with raw peanut butter and toast on the side) his favourite was the Scrambled Tofu. He is allergic to mushrooms and they speak good English and had no problems with changing some of the meals for him.

Our favourite lunch/dinners was the Coconut Curry, so tasty and not spicy as I hate spice! The Jackfruit Sandwich was also incredible as well as the Peanut Tofu Stir Fry (good for spice lovers!!) Also try the Orange Crush drink! 10/10!

Wifi is also good and you can sit inside with Air con or on a lovely balcony overlooking the beach. Can't wait to go back to Gili and visit this place again

reissausta ja ruokaa

Points +1897

Vegan
25 Mar 2017

Great nasi campur and they have air-con!

I wasn´t too interested in ordering from the menu here, because they had nasi campur counter here. So next to the cashier they have several dishes that you may choose to accompany your rice: tofu, tempe, sauces and more warm salad -like dishes. Ask which ones are vegan, some of the dishes are actually boiled eggs that strangely don´t look like eggs (they were grey-brown). Nasi campur dishes were very good and better than in the usual non-veg stalls.

I visited here in November 2016 and service was very poor. The staff didn´t smile, greet and they seemed to want to avoid the customers. The Indonesian staff had either no knowledge on which dishes were vegan. I hope they have found a way to motivate the staff or find new people to work there. Because otherwise this was a perfect beautiful restaurant, the building is well built, the menu is great and all.

They also have a salad bar next to nasi campur counter. They have indoor seating upstairs and hooray! air-con. But I noticed one waiter leaving the balcony door open all the time, so he had no idea what is the idea of air-con.

Updated from previous review on 2017-03-25

Pros: Very good nasi campur

Cons: Closes early, Staff were very unmotivated to work

Kvegana

Points +49

Vegan
18 Jan 2017

Amazing!

I ordered the tofu curry and it was the best one I've ever tried. It was slightly sweet and slightly spicy in just the perfect amounts. The portion was generous and filling. The seating is upstairs in a nice area. All food items were clearly marked for vegan, gluten-free and a third category which I can't remember. They even have vegan desserts! :)

Pros: food tastes amazing, generous portions, easy to find

Cons: service is a bit slow

MikaBryony

Points +50

Vegan
07 Dec 2016

Average

Nice looking place, lots of good seating areas with an upstairs balcony.

But... not very welcoming or enthusiastic, chips not cooked... bland food with bad textures and no real flavour.

Looked and felt very new hopefully it improves soon.




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