Berawa has a new spot that would rather be your local than your resort. Etta The Place opened on 6 October 2026 on a quiet road that bends toward the beach. Etta says its restaurant, coffee window, rooftop pool bar and disco are the first parts to open, with the 15 hotel rooms upstairs slated to follow before the end of the year.
That order is the whole point. The kitchen is run by Executive Chef Ashlee Malligan, who, according to The Peak, worked at Bacchanalia under Ivan Brehm and was head chef at Nouri and Appetite, and the founder is behind Singapore names like Lucali BYGB. So if you already eat at Etta’s Singapore cousins, you have a reason to book a dinner on your next Bali trip, whether or not you sleep there.
A Hotel That Acts Like a Pub
Etta is the work of Gibran Baydoun, founder of design practice BYGB Studio and That’s Proper Hospitality Group, the team behind Lucali BYGB, Corduroy Palace and Proper Slice BYGB. The building works like a village pub, with the whole neighbourhood claiming the lobby, the bar, the coffee window and the rooftop.
Plenty of hotels say they are “for locals.” Etta’s version is more convincing on paper because the rooms aren’t even open yet. The pitch imagines a neighbour who lives three minutes away and a guest who checked in that afternoon ending up at the same table. For anyone tired of resort buffets and pool loungers reserved with towels at 7am, that is a very appealing picture!
The name comes from Baydoun’s grandmother, Ruth Etta Collins. Her Detroit townhouse, along with 90s cinema, shaped the interiors: brick floors, chrome blinds, glass blocks, celadon green tile downstairs and deep burgundy above. Custom furniture from STVMP, Mahardika Design, Foolniture and Bothwell sits alongside vintage Indonesian fabrics, and Sungai Design pressed river plastic into the bar flooring and hearth tiles.
Win Win Is Why You Go
Win Win is the restaurant at the centre of it all, and it’s the reason to make the trip to Berawa now.
The detail we like most is the wall of wine fridges sorted by price tier, so you pick your own bottle without the awkward sommelier dance. If you’re the type who plans a whole trip around one excellent sandwich, watch for Win Win by day.
Coffee, Soft Serve and a Rooftop
Legacy Fine Roasters & Creamery is a street-facing window wrapped in glass block. It pours strong American coffee and canned cold brew, plus soft serve. DJs set up in the window on unpredictable schedules, which sounds like the kind of happy accident that makes a regular out of a passer-by.
Our pick for a first visit is Chez Kiki, the rooftop pool bar above Berawa Beach. It’s an easy afternoon plan for a group of friends, and we’d take it over another sunset beach club with a bottle-service queue.
After dark there’s Palace Disco, which Etta says runs on vinyl, cassette tapes and strong cocktails.
The Rooms Are Coming Later
The 15 rooms are slated for late 2026, and the team says they are due before the end of the year. Those are the team’s own plans, so check before you book flights around them. Each room is named after a mother the team knows. TVs come out only for movie nights on request.
The nightly ritual is the part people will talk about. At 6pm, a silver martini trolley does the turndown service instead of a chocolate on your pillow. Blondies, a 15-seat kitchen counter that Etta says will serve a tasting menu from Chef Malligan built on house fermentations and micro seasonality, is also slated for late 2026. Guests reportedly go home with a custom souvenir cassette tape.
Where Bali Hospitality Is Heading
Berawa sits in Kuta Utara, the same Badung district as Canggu. Restaurant-led stays aren’t new there: The Slow on Jalan Pantai Batu Bolong has long pulled non-guests into its kitchen. Etta flips the emphasis by making the restaurant and hangout the main draw and treating beds as the add-on.
Etta also says it gives 1% of quarterly revenue to local causes, including Sungai Watch, a Dalung orphanage and environmental groups. The release adds that staff uniforms are hand-tailored by local Indonesian mothers and that the team gets quarterly IDR 500,000 bonuses for their own community causes.
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🗓️ Date: Open since Tuesday, 6 October 2026
📍 Location: Etta The Place, Jl. Pemelisan Agung, Tibubeneng, Kuta Utara, Kabupaten Badung, Bali
🍽️ Open now: Win Win, Legacy Fine Roasters & Creamery, Chez Kiki rooftop pool bar and Palace Disco
🛏️ Coming next: 15 hotel rooms and Blondies kitchen counter, both slated for late 2026
📧 Enquiries: Getin@etta.place
Etta’s bet is that people will come back for the room’s energy before they ever need a bed, and a rooftop pool, a price-tiered wine wall and a martini trolley make a strong opening argument. If Berawa is already on your list, plan dinner at Win Win and an afternoon at Chez Kiki now. Then follow Etta The Place on Instagram and keep an eye on its website for word on when those 15 rooms open for booking!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Etta The Place.
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