Santouits Sandwich Bar, Imbi
January 17, 2021Santouits might be Greek for sandwich, but this new cafe speaks the universal language of love for crisply warm, freshly grilled panini, packed with punchy fillings - now available for pick-ups and deliveries.Santouits serves a sourdough sandwich for every type of tastebud.For the meat maniac, tr...
Get Baked, Paramount Garden
January 16, 2021Croissants that come close to pastry perfection; country loaves and butter blended with kombu or mentaiko: Get Baked - PJ's latest destination for oven-fresh delights - promises more carbs than our calculators can count, forcing us to postpone our Rebel Wilson diet plan for the sake of flaky, flu...
Burrow, Bangsar Shopping Centre
January 15, 2021Burrow is KL's new cavern of canelés, cakes and cookies, available for takeouts. Cosy and charming, it's now lovely with leafs but is sure to be lively with laughter later this year.Canelés are the cornerstone of Burrow's baked temptations, offered in multiple varieties. Burrow's bakers do just...
Sumairu, Subang Jaya
January 10, 2021Subang's latest Japanese restaurant tackles tonkatsu for lunch and yakiniku for dinner - the latter features plenty of protein possibilities, from lamb loin to beef brisket. Pork is respectably represented by choices like iberico cheeks that pack a firm bite and juicy chew (RM36). Grill the fresh...
Square 19 Glass House, The Hub SS2
January 6, 2021For lovers of natural light, Square 19 Glass House offers a sleek, sunbathed setting surrounded by leaves and water. The menu is peppered with intriguing elements. Bar bites like chicken karaage come with tempting twists; the bite-sized meat is crisply crusted with crushed Mama instant noodles fo...
MK Krua Teerak, Pandan Indah
January 5, 2021For an authentic Thai experience that's totally Muslim-friendly, MK Krua Teerak offers the mouth-watering cooking of a Bangkok-born Thai chef who inherited her recipes from her grandmother, also a chef. She runs this restaurant (whose name loosely translates into 'lover's kitchen') with her Mala...
The Curious Gardener, Bangsar South
January 1, 2021If your resolution for 2021 is to remain curious and ready for adventure, check out KL's latest wonderland of cocktails, where plants outnumber people, where a conservatory's worth of herbs and vegetables runs rampant throughout the space and in the beverages, where a speakeasy-style shed entranc...
Cork & Cleaver, Bukit Tunku
December 29, 2020If you're game for dining outdoors amid greenery galore, Cork & Cleaver might be your next new favourite haunt, especially if meat is your sustenance of choice.Start with the salmon hinava - inspired by the Sabah Kadazan-Dusun people's equivalent of ceviche - featuring raw cubed salmon cured ...
Michelle Young, Bukit Jalil
December 28, 2020A visit to Bukit Jalil's new Michelle Young bakery-cafe in the morning is a blissed-out balm for the sweet-loving soul, with the scent of fresh-from-the-oven cookies and cupcakes in the air. While this space currently only offers takeouts and deliveries, it should eventually turn into a charming ...
Craft, APW Bangsar: Cha & Maki
December 27, 2020Perched like a secret treehouse in APW Bangsar, Craft promises a cosy, charming setting that blends inspirations from Taiwanese teahouses with Japanese sushi parlours, serving a well-executed variety of cha-based beverages and maki rolls to relish on the move.The concrete steps that lead up to Cr...
Sisu Pantry, Klang
December 24, 2020In recent years, Nordic concepts like Sweden's fika and Denmark's hygge have been embedded in Malaysia's cafe culture, becoming buzzy catchphrases for the positive-vibes-only psyche that pervades KL's IG-filtered communities. While Sisu Pantry seems to ride that wave, borrowing one of Finland's...
270 sqft, Sea Park
December 22, 2020270 sqft may not sound like a lot of space, but it's enough to harbour the hopes of its founder Vivien, who opened her first cafe in Sri Petaling in March this year and ran it for nine months before relocating to Sea Park in a change of scene, name and concept.Much of 270 sqft's furniture isn't i...
Bizbox Cafe & Business Centre, Petaling Jaya
December 21, 2020With a name like Bizbox, combining a cafe and a business centre, customers might expect a stark, sterile space that's purely workmanlike. But this new space is a pleasant surprise, passionately put together by friendly founders Edgar and Jessica - as warm and welcoming, cosy and comforting as hom...
Eatery by Nutmeg, 163 Retail Park
December 20, 2020Fried catfish, po' boys and gumbo: Mont Kiara gets a little taste of Louisiana, courtesy of Eatery by Nutmeg, a new Cajun cafe concept in 163 Retail Park mall. Eatery's fried catfish fillets are lovely, served hot and crisp in the cornmeal-crusted style of the south, moist and fresh-tasting withi...
Pulp + Beans: Craft Chocolate Gifts in Five Natural Flavours
December 18, 2020Seeking a great gift for a chocolate-loving friend? Check out this distinctive new Malaysian brand, promising handcrafted temptations that harness natural ingredients to beautiful effect, paying homage to the cacao tree's harvest of pulp and beans. The team of Malaysian friends who've launched Pu...