A birthday deserves more than a good restaurant. It deserves an evening in which every element, from the first cocktail to the final bite, is considered with the occasion in mind. In Ubud, that evening is at Apéritif.
Apéritif offers a birthday dinner in Ubud built around the specific needs of the occasion. The group celebrating together, the couple marking the day privately, the guest who wants the full degustation experience in the main dining room. Each has its own option and its own pace.
A Birthday Dinner for a Group
The Private Dining Room seats up to 10 guests around a long table and is held for the group across the whole evening. It carries a minimum spend and is arranged through the reservations team rather than booked online.
The room is set in the same Art Deco style as the main dining room, with white tablecloths and full place settings. For a group marking a birthday together, the appeal is a table that stays in one conversation and a room that belongs to the party for the night. The evening runs through the full degustation, opening with cocktails and canapés.
The Private Dining Room is designed for groups rather than for couples, so a party of two celebrating together is better served by the option below.
A Birthday Dinner for Two
The Romantic Candlelight Dinner is arranged for couples who want the occasion to be kept private. It runs in seven-course and five-course formats and follows the same culinary sequence as the standard menus, presented with additional detailing for the occasion. It can be arranged at Apéritif or at CasCades.
For a birthday that calls for privacy and a slower pace, this is the setting built for two.
Guided by the Moon as a Birthday Menu
Guests taking a birthday dinner in the main dining room are served Guided by the Moon, the degustation menu structured on the lunar cycle. It runs in seven-course and five-course formats, opening with cocktails and canapés at the New Moon and closing with mignardises at the Final Moon.
The seven-course format carries two courses that the shorter menu does not. The After Full Moon brings organic chicken with lobster, Jerusalem artichoke purée, kremes and Albufera sauce. The Dark Moon adds a chocolate course with tamarind and almond ahead of the mignardises. For a birthday table, that fuller shape is usually the one to book.
Optional supplements extend the menu further. The Venison Wellington with foie gras, rendang and sweet potato, and Kagoshima Wagyu A5 are both available as additions, as is a cheese platter. A cauliflower course with caviar, oyster gel, crab and sambal matah can be added at the Growing Moon.
Wine Alongside the Menu
Wine pairing is available in seven-course and five-course configurations, matched to whichever degustation the table has taken, and is offered across all menu options, including the vegetarian and vegan degustations. The sommelier team builds the pairings course by course, and adjusts them as the menu changes with the seasons.
Wines are also available by the glass. A Coravin system allows some bottles to be poured in 125ml measures without drawing the cork, which puts a small pour of something rare within reach of a single course rather than a whole evening. For a birthday table where one glass should be more memorable than the rest, this is worth raising when the booking is made.
Beginning the Evening at Pinstripe Bar
Pinstripe Bar sits adjacent to Apéritif and opens daily at 4 pm, making it the natural place to gather before a 6 pm table. It works as a speakeasy drawing on the Prohibition era, with live jazz and a cigar selection.
Its cocktail list, The Clairvoyant, is built around the life of Miguel Covarrubias, the artist who documented the Harlem Renaissance in New York and later spent time in Bali during the 1930s. Each drink takes a figure or a moment from that story as its starting point, giving a group something to talk about before anyone has even looked at a menu.
Starting at the bar and moving through to the dining room gives the evening two distinct halves, which suits a birthday better than a single seating does.
Planning a Birthday Dinner in Ubud at Apéritif
A private dining room is offered for those who want to gather with more private experience. Enquiries go directly to the reservations team, since the room carries a minimum spend and cannot be booked online. Dinner service runs from 6 pm to 8.30 pm.
The dress code is smart-to-formal. Vegetarian, vegan and pescatarian menus need 24 hours’ notice, and most allergies and dietary requirements can be accommodated with advance notice. Menus change with the seasons, so it is worth asking what is currently being served when booking.
Reservations and private dining enquiries can be made online.
