Cumi Bali

Restaurant · Singapore, Singapore

About Cumi Bali

Cumi Bali has operated from Tras Street in Tanjong Pagar since 2021, having relocated from its original Tanjong Pagar Road premises a short walk away. The restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand distinction, a recognition reserved for establishments offering good cooking at moderate prices, awarded for its Indonesian home-style cooking rather than a fine-dining format.

The kitchen builds its dishes around bumbu, the spice pastes that form the base of Indonesian cooking, blending chilli, shallot, garlic, galangal and other aromatics into pastes specific to each dish rather than a single house seasoning. Its namesake cumi, squid cooked in a spiced sauce, anchors the menu alongside ikan bakar, grilled fish prepared with a blend the restaurant describes as combining eighteen spices, and sate Madura, skewered meat in the style associated with Madura island off Java's northeast coast, served with a peanut-based dipping sauce. Beef rendang and a rotating selection of vegetable and tofu dishes round out a menu aimed at sharing among a table rather than individual plates.

The dining room is decorated with Indonesian artefacts and furnishings, giving the space a warmer, more personal character than the office towers surrounding it in the Tanjong Pagar district. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as unpretentious and family-friendly rather than formal, consistent with the restaurant's positioning as home-style cooking rather than an upscale interpretation of Indonesian cuisine.

Cumi Bali serves lunch from 11:30am to 2:30pm and dinner from 6:00pm to 9:30pm, seven days a week including public holidays, a schedule aimed at both the office lunch crowd working nearby and dinner diners arriving from across Singapore. For Singapore's Indonesian community, the restaurant is one of the more established options for home-style rather than banquet-style Indonesian food, and its Bib Gourmand listing has drawn a wider following of Singaporean diners seeking the cuisine outside of Indonesian household kitchens.

Address

Opening hours

Daily

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Contact

• Phone: +65 6220 6619
• Website: https://www.cumibali.com/

Category

Indonesian Restaurant in Singapore

Tags

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