Issue N° 01 · Vol. I Pererenan · Bali · Indonesia Est. [2024]

4pm — 1am · 7 nights

An Asian Restaurant · Pererenan

Optimistic.
Always.
After dark.

Hiramasa kingfish dressed in chili-lime ponzu. Wagyu beef tartare on shio kombu bread. Charred octopus, sweet-and-sour gurame, chicken katsu noodles built for sharing — paired with a citrus-led bar program that keeps going past midnight.

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Hiramasa kingfish sashimi on a fluted pink plate at Optimist Bali — 01

**Fig. 01 · Signature**Hiramasa Kingfish · Chili-Lime Ponzu · Pererenan

Communal marble table under pink neon at Optimist Bali

Fig. 02 · The Communal Table · Friday, 9:14pm

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The House Mood

A bar room disguised as a restaurant.

Chapter OnePererenan, Bali

Pererenan was missing one specific thing — a room you walk into at 6pm + don't want to leave until 1am. We built that room in 2024.

Italian marble communal table. Stainless steel under candlelight. Plaster walls textured with embossed symbols you only catch on the second look. A mirrored ceiling that doubles every glass on the table.

The kitchen leans Asian — Japanese fundamentals, Indonesian heat, the occasional Italian wink. The bar leans technical + citrus-led, never cloying. Both finish each other's sentences.

Come for the kingfish. Stay for the third cocktail. Leave optimistic.

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The Kitchen

Asian flavors, Bali heat, classical technique.

Eight PlatesBuilt To Share

A short menu that turns over often. These are the plates regulars ask for by name — each sized for the table to keep arguing about which one to order again.

Kingfish Sashimi

Hiramasa kingfish sliced thin, dressed with chili-lime ponzu, white sesame, citrus oil. The first thing on every table.

RawColdLight

IDR165k

Beef Tartare

Hand-cut wagyu, smoked egg yolk, crispy shallot, gochujang aioli. Served with shio kombu bread for the scoop.

RawWarmShare

IDR185k

Charred Octopus

Slow-braised Pacific octopus, charcoal grill, black garlic dashi, salsa verde. Soft enough to cut with a butter knife.

HotGrillShare

IDR245k

Sweet+Sour Gurame

Whole local gurame, fried until shattering, glazed in tamarind palm sugar with red chili + spring onion. The signature plate.

HotWholeSignature

IDR320k

Chicken Katsu Noodles

Panko-fried chicken, hand-pulled noodles, smoked dashi broth, soft egg, scallion oil. The 11pm move.

HotBowlComfort

IDR175k

Mango Granita

Watermelon-mango shaved granita, camembert cream, coconut caramel. Cold + savory + funky in equal measure.

SweetColdAfter

IDR95k

N° 03 · The Bar

Built for the third drink.

Citrus-led, technical, never cloying. The bar program is the second kitchen — same care, same speed, same opinion about what good tastes like.

House cocktails turn over with the seasons. Long pours arrive cold, balanced, finished tableside when the room is loud enough to deserve it.

Thursdays bring guest bartenders from somewhere unexpected. Friday + Saturday the bar runs until 1am, the kitchen until midnight, the vinyl until the last person leaves.

Optimist Sour

Mezcal · calamansi · palm sugar · egg white · single dot of chili oil

Pandan Highball

Toasted pandan-infused gin · cucumber tonic · single shiso leaf

Tamarind Negroni

Aged gin · campari · house-tamarind vermouth · grapefruit twist

Coconut Old Fashioned

Toasted coconut bourbon · palm sugar · burnt orange peel

Fig. 03 · House Signature

The Optimist SourServed chilled · single chili-oil dot · 2026

You are full of Optimistic
energy now.

— Stamped on every plate · Pererenan, Bali

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The Room

Italian marble. Stone floors. Mirrored ceiling.

ArchitectureOf A Late Night

Built around a single communal table topped in cool Italian marble + stainless steel. The walls are textured plaster, subtly tattooed with embossed symbols you have to lean in to read.

By 9pm the pink neon catches the mirrored ceiling, and the whole room glows.

It is the kind of room that makes you stay one drink longer than you meant to. The kind that holds first dates + tenth anniversaries the same way.

Designed in Pererenan, opened in 2024, lit by candles + a single line of pink neon.