Bali, Cangguthe Crate Café, Bali's best super smoothies

The location

Crate Café is on a side street off the main street of Jalan Pantai Batu Bolong.

The space

Crate is modern, minimal and large with open sides with a cool canteen vibe. You can either sit outside at a wooden bar with parasols or in the main seating area with large wooden tables, comfy, pink couches and smaller tables featuring pictures of visitors under a plate glass top.

To order, you stand in line, pay and receive a number, then sit down and wait to be served, all of which is very fast and efficient. You can also order a take away, from the same line.

We visited Crate Café twice and both times it was packed but we still got our food within 15 minutes.

It’s quite noisy, as there are so many seats and it gets pretty busy. Plus, we really didn’t have much of a choice of where to sit. The WiFi is very strong, but they won’t appreciate it if you settle in to work there.

We ordered the Bluebs chia pudding, the Mangoliciouse smoothie bowl and a slice of vegan banana bread.

The Bluebs was served in a big glass mug. It was a layer of chia pudding soaked in coconut milk, then a layer of nana cream made with blue spirulina, papaya and banana – all topped off with mango and kiwi balls. Often, when you have a banana based smoothie or ice cream, the banana flavour really takes over, but it didn’t here.

The mix between the jelly chia pudding and the ice cream on top was an interesting texture combination, but very delicious!

The Mangoliciouse smoothie bowl was a bit more traditional. The base was a mix of frozen banana, mango and lime topped with roasted cashews, pumpkin seeds, papaya balls and fresh, shredded coconut. The base was delicious, but the toppings were the best part, because of the large helping of fresh coconut.