E2C Coffee and Eatery Ubud

Blackstone Yacht Club Bali in collaboration with Kayana Creative Digital Agency

About this project

E2C Coffee and Eatery is a newly established coffee shop located in the cultural heart of Ubud, Bali. Designed as a rustic and homey sanctuary, E2C offers a tranquil escape for international tourists, digital nomads, and locals who appreciate premium culinary quality amidst the bustling destination.

We partnered with E2C to architect their digital presence from the ground up. Our objective was to translate the physical warmth of their space into an inviting, elegant digital storefront that drives brand awareness and real-world foot traffic.

Year

2022 — 2023

scope

Digital Strategy, Content Production,
Social Media Management
& Performance Ads

The Brief

E2C Coffee and Eatery sought Kayana Creative’s expertise to establish a robust digital footprint across Instagram and META Ads. As a new player in Ubud’s highly competitive F&B landscape, the goal was to effectively showcase the café’s refined, homey ambiance and premium offerings. The objective was to cut through the destination noise, attracting and engaging a specific demographic of international tourists and digital nomads, positioning the brand not just as a café, but as an exclusive destination.

The Solution

Kayana Creative developed a bespoke, end-to-end digital strategy for E2C, moving away from hard-selling tactics toward an elegant, narrative-driven approach. We focused on producing high-quality cinematic Reels and macro photography that highlighted the café’s rustic aesthetics and culinary precision. This creative production was paired with an algorithmic META Ads campaign and a centralized interactive reporting system, ensuring coherent brand visibility that naturally cultivated audience curiosity and drove visits.

What we delivered

Social media strategy & planning

We formulated a comprehensive content calendar and sharp creative briefs, translating E2C’s rustic vision into structured, purpose-driven visual communication pillars.

Creative production & art direction

Tight production collaboration delivered premium visual assets—ranging from cinematic, slow-paced Reels to macro photography that precisely captured product textures and Ubud’s homey essence.

Copywriting & digital presence

We established an elegant digital persona through soft-selling storytelling, ensuring every caption moved beyond transaction to build a genuine emotional connection with the audience.

Performance marketing (META Ads)

The curated visual assets were distributed with algorithmic precision via META Ads, efficiently targeting international tourists and digital nomads for maximum market penetration.

Interactive performance reporting

We engineered a centralized, interactive metrics dashboard using Google Sheets, providing the client with complete, transparent, and real-time visibility over campaign growth and trajectory.

We engineered a centralized, interactive metrics dashboard using Google Sheets, providing the client with complete, transparent, and real-time visibility over campaign growth and trajectory.

The Ambition: Piercing Through the Global Destination Noise Ubud is not just a location; it is a global cultural and culinary epicenter teeming with international travelers and expatriates. Launching a new coffee shop within this hyper-competitive landscape presents a massive market penetration challenge. E2C Coffee and Eatery emerged with a vision of a rustic, homey space—a second home for coffee connoisseurs. However, without calibrated digital execution, that physical warmth would fail to pierce through the audience’s screens. The challenge was clear: E2C required a robust digital footprint to immediately position itself not as “just another café,” but as an essential destination.

The Shift: From a Coffee Shop to an Exclusive Refined Sanctuary Instead of competing on price wars or brand-diluting promotions, the strategy focused on packaging emotion. The core message shifted from a transactional food purchase to an invitation to experience tranquility. The target audience was precisely mapped through META Ads: international tourists seeking authenticity, digital nomads longing for inspiring workspaces, and Denpasar-Ubud locals who appreciate quality. The approach was purely soft-selling; transforming E2C’s profile into a visual gallery that triggers cognitive ease before the audience even makes the decision to visit.

The Expression: End-to-End Creative Orchestration Avoiding fragmented workflows, the execution of this campaign was entirely governed within the agency’s internal ecosystem. The team worked in perfect synchronization, moving seamlessly from the strategic boardroom to the user’s screen:

  • Account Management & Planning: Translating the client’s vision into an organized content calendar and meticulous creative briefs, ensuring every visual asset served a distinct communicative purpose.

  • Creative Production & Visual Design: The field production team captured the essence of Ubud through cinematic-scale Reels and macro photography showcasing the precise texture of latte art. Visual designers then structured these raw assets into elegant layouts, maintaining ample white space on the Instagram feed.

  • Copywriting: Moving away from aggressive, hard-selling language. Every caption was penned like an exclusive journal entry—soft-spoken, narrative-driven, and respecting the audience’s intelligence.

  • Social Media & Ads Management: Day-to-day platform management operated in parallel with precision-targeted META Ads, ensuring the poetic visual narrative landed on the screens of the exact demographic at optimal times.

The Impact: A Fully Integrated Digital Foundation For a newly established brand, true success in the initial phase lies in the creation of a self-sustaining marketing ecosystem. By lifting the operational burden entirely, the full lifecycle was executed with total transparency. E2C Coffee and Eatery successfully translated their homey physical space into an inviting digital storefront. Beyond mere aesthetics, the performance reporting provided centralized data access so that every growth metric, audience expansion, and campaign direction could be monitored and evaluated efficiently.

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TAKK

TAKK Contemporary Dining Bali

TAKK partnered with Kayana Creative to build a distinctive digital presence for its contemporary dining experience in Petitenget, Bali. Our role was to translate TAKK’s thoughtful cuisine, intimate hospitality,
and refined character into a cohesive brand journey across website, social media, campaigns, and reservation-led communication.

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About this project

TAKK is a contemporary dining destination in Petitenget, Bali, built around thoughtful cuisine, intimate hospitality, and meaningful moments around the table. From its early brand development, the vision was clear: to create more than a restaurant, but a distinctive dining experience where food, atmosphere, and conversation come together naturally.

Kayana Creative partnered with TAKK from brand introduction to post-launch marketing, shaping its digital presence through website development, social media marketing, content and campaign direction, and strategic brand communication. Our role is to translate the experience guests discover at the table into a consistent brand journey—from the first digital touchpoint to the moment a reservation is made.

Year

2025 — 2026

scope

Integrated Branding
Marketing Consulting
Website Design & Development
Social Media Marketing
Creative & Campaign Direction

The Brief

TAKK sought Kayana Creative to build a brand presence that could reflect the same level of intention found in its dining experience.

The challenge was to introduce the restaurant with a refined and consistent identity, while ensuring every digital touchpoint from website to social media, could communicate its culinary character, intimate atmosphere, and reservation-led experience without relying on conventional hospitality marketing.

The Solution

Kayana Creative developed an integrated brand and marketing direction built around thoughtful storytelling and understated sophistication.

We translated TAKK’s dining philosophy into a cohesive digital experience through website development, social media marketing, campaign direction, and strategic communication. Every touchpoint was designed to create desire before arrival, guide audiences toward reservation, and ensure the experience discovered online feels consistent with the one waiting at the table.

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Key Takeways

Objective
Position TAKK as a distinctive contemporary dining destination in Bali through strategic hospitality marketing and brand communication.

Kayana Creative’s Role
Act as TAKK’s Brand & Marketing Partner, connecting strategy, creative execution, and digital experience across every touchpoint.

The Challenge
Introduce a new dining brand in a competitive market without relying on conventional restaurant marketing.

Approach
Use experience-led storytelling to translate TAKK’s atmosphere, craftsmanship, and dining philosophy into compelling communication.

Scope of Work
Integrated brand strategy, website development, social media marketing, creative direction, campaigns, and reservation-focused marketing.

Expected Outcome
Build stronger brand recognition, audience consideration, and reservation intent through a consistent and memorable guest journey.

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Final thoughts

Today, TAKK stands as more than a dining destination. It is a brand experience shaped with intention, from the first digital encounter to the moment guests take their seats at the table.

For us, this collaboration reflects what hospitality marketing should be: a thoughtful balance of brand strategy, creative direction, digital experience, and storytelling. Working together to turn attention into desire, and desire into a reason to visit.