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International
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-9:00pm.


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122 Reviews

First Review by MikaBryony

vinks

Points +470

Vegetarian
27 Jun 2019

Beachfront veg*n food

Great place with great choice. Delicious food. Reasonable prices by Western standards and prices include the tax and service. Great smoothie (inc. bowls) and dessert selection as well. You can sit inside, on the beach or get a takeaway. If you eat in, it can take a while before the staff come to collect your order - they are pretty slow unfortunately.

Ninchen3

Points +36

Vegan
10 Aug 2025

Delicious Food & Drinks

Delicious vegan and vegetarian dishes and super friendly staff. Highly recommended!

Pros: Food, Staff

Cons: Crowded

JenPater

Points +6

Non Veg
10 Aug 2025

Unfriendly staff

The staff is the most unfriendly I’ve experienced on the island. The food is alright but doenst make up for bad customer experience. Rather go to Kayu Cafe!

Updated from previous review on 2025-08-10

LukeTurner

Points +176

Vegan
27 Jul 2025

Cake!

Fantastic vegan cake available here - they provided a vegan cake when I got married on Gili T and it was praised by everyone (most attendees were not vegan but still thoroughly enjoyed it). Hope to return one day!

maki93

Points +145

Vegetarian
28 May 2025

Loved it

Nice and comfortable interior. You can choose to sit inside, out on the side of the street or on a balcony. Ate a sushi bowl here for the first time. It was really great!
Had a vegan bagel for breakfast. As a German the bread was a letdown, but it's great they have stuff like this on the menu.

Updated from previous review on 2025-05-27

MindfulSam

Points +245

Vegan
21 Apr 2025

Great place, lovely vibes, quick service

This little place is great, the staff are friendly and helpful, the service was quick and you can choose to sit by the beach or inside with aircon. We came here 3 evenings, for one breakfast and we took away a sandwich for lunch as well.

Pros: Friendly staff, Lots of choice, Quick service

DianaEscalante

Points +897

Vegan
19 Apr 2025

Good service and delicious vegan options

We ordered the nasi goreng and tofu peanut stir fry.
They both had unique tastes, full of flavour.
The staff here are also great and it's a good spot overlooking the beach.

Updated from previous review on 2025-04-19

Pros: Vegan options

Bobarroso

Points +1446

Vegan
07 Apr 2025

Best vegan ice cream

They sell an incredible vegan popsicle/ice cream! Really delicious and too many good flavors to choose from

mrslittlewood

Points +131

Vegan
05 Apr 2025

Decent well labelled food

Lots of choices for the vegans!
The cauliflower wings and purple wrap was exceptional. Went here 3 times in the end and it was all wonderful

Pros: Lots of options , Clearly labelled , Lovely beach front location

GregWheeler941

Points +168

Vegetarian
28 Mar 2025

Exceptional meal - highly recommend

We had a really tasty meal sat right on the beach front. Cannot recommend the tofu peanut satay with broccoli and bok Choi enough. Banh mih also great!!

Leo27

Points +2120

Vegan
14 Dec 2024

Giden gem

We just walked by and had a lovely light lunch. Nice service altough they don't split up bills. Food and atmosphere are more than nice. Cute inhouse cat is happy for a play or hug.

Had a fabulous second meal (dinner this time) and was great again

Updated from previous review on 2024-09-02

Thatglutenfreegirl

Points +183

Vegan
05 Nov 2024

Not what I expected

Great location but I unfortunately didn’t enjoy my food.
I only went for breakfast so I don’t want to completely talk badly as I may have just ordered something I just didn’t like but location was good.

Pros: Location

Cons: Food, Coffee/ drinks wasn’t great

EmmaTween

Points +166

Vegan
26 Oct 2024

Perfect

Great location and great food with super friendly staff.
Lots of good vegan options and ability to make things vegan too. Vegan cakes which were epic!

Pros: Choices, Locations, Cake!

im_vegan_btw

Points +91

Vegan
21 Oct 2024

Kind of disappointing

Had high hopes. Lovely place, nice staff, lots of clearly marked vegan options, but our food wasn't good. We had cauliflower and pulled jackfruit burger. Big portions but cold, mushy, and bland. We couldn't finish it.

We were eating quite late, just before kitchen closing, so maybe we just got cold stuff left over from the day.

Every 30k nasi goreng or fried noodle I've had from a random warung has been much nicer.

Pros: Decor, Staff, Lots of options

Cons: Bland, cold

LisaFualalo

Points +144

Vegan
16 Oct 2024

Lovely decor and staff, and great food!

The place was so cute inside. I ordered the Vietnamese spring rolls (which are rice paper rolls), and the cauliflower buffalo wings. The rice paper rolls were pretty standard, just tasted like ones I would make for myself, but I really loved the cauliflower buffalo wings with the vegan ranch. The sauce was delicious! I also had a bite of the hubbys jackfruit sandwhich which was delicious and light! I also purchased the caramel cupcake for later on and let’s just say that didn’t last long!

Updated from previous review on 2024-10-16

HappyAussieDylan

Points +464

Vegan
16 Oct 2024

Taste and service

On our final night at Gili T we felt like a change from warungs/local indo food. We knew this place was vegan friendly. Half the menu is vegetarian and half vegan.

I had the pulled pork sandwich. I was looking for something simple and with texture and it hit the mark. It came with a side of chips too. Serving size is pretty generous on this one.

My wife (the best) and I also shared the rice paper rolls (please note the menu calls them spring rolls) and buffalo wings. He made the chocolate smoothie vegan by removing the yogurt.

Service was soooo cheerful and nice, just a pleasure to sit here and enjoy a lazy slow meal after a full day snorkeling.

Thankyou😄Ps they have a few vegan sweets downstairs.

Updated from previous review on 2024-10-15

Pros: Variety , Different twist on foods , Taste

Cons: Nothing

dani11inad

Points +660

Vegan
06 Oct 2024

A little disappointed

Nice outside and indoor seating. Many vegan options even though it could be more considering it is a vegetarian restaurant. My partner had the daal which I absolutely recommend. It was delicious. I had ramen. The noodles were not ramen noodles and they were over cooked. The ramen itself tasted funny, somewhat sour. Me and my partner both didn’t like it. Buffalo wings were great.

Pros: Daal, Buffalo wings, Friendly staff , Many vegan options

Cons: Rather expensive , Ramen

AlishaMcKirdy3

Points +314

Vegan
04 Oct 2024

Amazing vegan options

So many vegan breakfast options! We loved it here, highly recommended their oatmeal and blueberry pancakes. We also had oat flat whites which were okay.

DodoS

Points +16

Vegan
30 Sep 2024

Must go at Gili T.

Great variety of vegan and vegetarian dishes from starters to dessert.

Updated from previous review on 2024-09-30

Pros: Fresh ingredients, Absolutly tasty and delicious, Very friendly staff

JackLight

Points +1542

Vegan
31 Aug 2024

Top rated for a reason

We loved this place, so many options for seating, very extensive menu, happy staff and the food was delicious. So many sweet treat options too

Pros: Big menu , Delicious food, Sweet treats

FedenRoorda

Points +5561

Vegan
16 Aug 2024

Room for improvement, but good options

Vegetarian restaurant with nice seatings and vegan menu options. Although my expectations were high, I feel like the price is not really worth it.

I tried the Vegan Pulled p*rk sandwich. Which was nice, but needs more taste, different bread and more fries. Gave the feedback to them about the bread not being the nicest and they just defended themselves and didn’t take my feedback as a customer.😅 The other day I tried the Buddha bowl. It was nice, but quite dry, sauce the same as the sandwich and I literally got two pieces of tofu.🤣 Come on, how do you serve that? I asked about it and they didn’t gave me more, that’s it. You get two pieces. The staff is just doing their job but that’s it. Room for improvement.

zuzanna.zagorska

Points +585

Vegan
15 Aug 2024

it’s okay

nothing crazy, quite pricey but a lot of vege options

JaimeSJ

Points +297

Vegan
05 Aug 2024

¡Legumbres!

Fuimos para desayunar y para comer. Las opciones son interesantes, sobre todo en cuanto a ensaldas y para tomar legumbres que no sean soja. El trato es considerado. El lugar está muy pensado para Instagram, eso sí.

Gemkvegan

Points +2077

Vegan
21 Jun 2024

Nice food but not met expectations

Had some salads which were nice and the juice was good, but a bit expensive. Scrambled tofu was tasty. The smoothie bowl was really bad though - chunks of ice floating in it, very liquid with not much flavour. They forgot my order (although they didn’t admit this), and it took a very long time to come.

yuvrajc

Points +32

Vegan
11 Jun 2024

Amazing food

Went there a couple of times and each time was as good! Totally worth checking out!

MaliaMadison

Points +64

Vegetarian
01 May 2024

Smoothie bowl hit the spot

I’d been craving a smoothie bowl for awhile and the mixed berry bowl did not disappoint. Smoothie was a good consistency and the homemade grandma on top was banging. Ginger turmeric tea was lovely as well.

Josephinemil

Points +291

Vegan
14 Apr 2024

Best cafe on Gili T

Such an amazing menu, everything looks and sounds incredible, staff were amazing and such a perfect and sweet lil spot! Couldn’t recommend higher!!

Pros: Amazing menu, Great staff, Delicious cakes




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