Mopi's Place

Top choice in Flores


This open-sided Indo-Australian affair starts with local coffee, house-made soy milk and freshly baked bread; it progresses to exceptional Indonesian mains with plenty of veg options and – if the musically gifted locals are around – morphs into a dance floor as live reggae echoes off the mountains.

Order by noon and you can be sitting down to an evening nasi bamboo buffet of tapa kolo – coconut rice cooked over coals in a bamboo tube, with chicken (and/or fish), veggies and accompaniments (150,000Rp per person, for a minimum of two).