The Restaurant
Mauri opened in 2018 at Jalan Petitenget No. 100 — the senior dining street that runs north from Seminyak's Eat Street into Kerobokan — under chef-patron Maurizio Bombini, a Pugliese-born veteran of Italian fine-dining kitchens across Europe and Asia who had been Bali's executive Italian chef at the Bvlgari Resort and Mandapa before opening under his own name. The two-storey room, named after Bombini's childhood nickname, holds forty seats on the ground floor facing an open live kitchen and a five-seat chef's counter on the mezzanine for the intimate evening tasting. The interior reads as a quiet contemporary Italian villa rather than a beach-island restaurant: pale travertine, dark walnut, a hand-laid Pugliese mosaic floor, and a wine wall running the length of the south side.
The kitchen runs two formats — an à la carte menu of about a dozen seasonal plates and a seven- or nine-course tasting that Bombini paces from the live kitchen. A large part of the ingredients are produced in-house in the rooftop hydroponic garden that sits over the second floor and supplies the restaurant's daily greens, herbs, and seasonal vegetables; the balance comes directly from named Balinese farmers Bombini has worked with for years. Signatures include the hand-pulled burrata that Mauri makes in-house every morning, the cavatelli with ragù bianco of Bali pork, a Pugliese-style orecchiette with cime di rapa and anchovy, a slow-braised Wagyu cheek with red wine reduction, and a hazelnut semifreddo that has been on the menu since opening.
The wine list runs to about three hundred and fifty labels with deliberate Italian regional depth — Barolo, Brunello, Etna Rosso, Friulano, Trentino — and includes a careful selection of older vintages that the sommelier will walk a guest through on request. The chef's counter format on the mezzanine, where Bombini paces the tasting himself, has become Bali's standing once-an-occasion Italian seat. Mauri has held the Best Italian Restaurant Bali award at the Awards every year since 2019 and is on the World's 50 Best Discovery list. For the Bali evening that needs to read as a serious fine-dining occasion rather than a beachfront concession, Mauri is the island's standing answer.
Why This Is Bali’s Impress Clients Pick
Mauri is the Bali impress-clients room because the format does the credential the menu cannot. The rooftop hydroponic garden — visible from the dining room as a working installation rather than a decorative gesture — is the kind of farm-to-table statement that a senior visitor immediately registers without the host needing to declare it. The chef-counter format on the mezzanine, where Bombini paces the tasting himself, gives the evening a once-an-occasion frame. The Italian regional wine cellar holds the depth a host needs for a real gesture. The Petitenget address, on the senior dining street north of Eat Street, gives the room the city geography no resort dining room can match. And the World's 50 Best Discovery credential, quietly displayed rather than promoted, reads as the kind of taste a client notices but the host did not need to declare. For the Bali client dinner, this is the address.
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