Best Eats by FoodieS 2026 has unveiled its annual list of Indonesia’s best restaurants, recognizing standout venues across the Fine Dining, Upmarket Venue, and Casual Dining categories. Beyond the category winners, the awards also highlight an overall Top 10 ranking—bringing together the highest-scoring restaurants from across the entire selection to reflect the country’s most outstanding dining destinations this year.
Every restaurant on the Best Eats by FoodieS 2026 list earned its place. But the Top 10 are something else — restaurants that, when judged across every dimension, rose above the rest. They come from three different categories, span two cities, and range from a casual Balinese kitchen to a French restaurant that arrived as one of Jakarta’s most talked-about openings of the year.
The Best Restaurants in Indonesia
No. 10 — Li Lian 丽莲, Jakarta
Best New Opening. Li Lian at Park Hyatt Jakarta was designed to feel like a multi-generational family home — a tea bar, six private rooms, and a Cantonese kitchen where classic dishes are reinterpreted with seasonal local ingredients, and the Peking duck is roasted over rambutan wood until the skin cracks just right. A debut that arrived fully formed.
No. 4 — August, Jakarta
Best Hospitality. The food at August is internationally recognised and consistently excellent. But what sets August apart is the experience that surrounds it. Guests are greeted by name. Preferences are remembered. Special occasions are acknowledged. The August team has built a standard of hospitality that the rest of the industry quietly measures itself against.
No. 2 — Costa, Jakarta
Guided by the Catalan principle of mar i muntanya — land and sea — Costa is Chef Ryan Thejasukmana’s tribute to exceptional produce. Restrained, precise, and deeply seasonal, it is the restaurant that best demonstrates what happens when a chef finds a clear point of view and builds an entire dining room around it.
No. 1 — Kindling, Jakarta
Restaurant of the Year. Set in a refurbished 1900s mansion in Cikini, Chef Vallian Gunawan has built something genuinely rare: a restaurant that feels like home, tastes like memory, and lingers long after the meal is over. Rooted in his Chinese-Indonesian heritage and the street food of Medan, Kindling is the best restaurant in Indonesia in 2026.
