Spotlight

Build your own steak with fries and other beefed-up ensembles at 1 Utama’s new Asador Alexander, matching your choice of seared cut with side and sauce. Back to basics: The wet-aged Angus striploin is skilfully flame-grilled, its confident crust concealing smooth succulence, going great with...

Mooly is Dataran Prima’s new stop for positive PJ vibes, poppyseed lemon cake served comfortingly warm, and pistachio milk foam cloud with pandan coconut water coolers.

Hainanese chicken rice balls and Nyonya-inflected nasi lemak in PJ: Millennium Square’s new family-run Big Basket Kitchen channels classic comforts, relying on home recipes by father, mother and cousin. The rice balls prove deliciously dense and moist, fragrantly infused with flavour, smooth w...

Fans of cosy condo cafes, detour to Bangsar’s Enroute Delphi, welcoming the public in Bangsar Permai on Tandok Road. Avocado toast sprinkled with chilli flakes, served with fries, makes a substantial meal with silky Brazilian single-origin coffee. Greek-inspired specials surface from time ...

Kampung classics in a calm city hideout: On the scenic hills near Parliament, Taman Duta's Rimba Place serves meals like the Daging Salai Set, spicy santan fare with meltingly tender beef, complete with ulam, tangy sambal and sirap selasih.

Urariin Coffee is Bandar Bukit Mahkota’s new caffeine stop, brewing with a house blend of Brazilian, Indonesian and Ethiopian beans. The Banana Caramel Latte is brightly balanced, its smoky-sweet caramelisation buoying the coffee’s chocolaty butteriness.

Helmed by a Korean husband and his Malaysian wife, Hartamas’ friendly new Cafe Seongsu bridges Korean crowd-pleasers and Western brunch favourites, from cheese chapagetti to croque madame, rose tteokbokki to French toast, ramyeon to eggs Benedict, coupled with creamy misugaru lattes, yuja americ...

Buttermood is Mont Kiara’s new Korean-run bake shop for salt bread with a confidently crisp bite, scones with a convincingly crumbly chew and butter tteok with coppery caramelisation. Also find feathery madeleines, beautifully browned financiers, fresh milk and other firm favourites. Butterm...

Bean Brothers Coffeehouse opens up beautifully in Setia Alam, peering through curved windows over broad bands of treetop green and sky blue. Feathery foliage brings this cinematic landscape calmly inward with olive and timber tones, warm and welcoming for breakfast of berry quin...

Shoko Cafe is Shah Alam's new stop for house bakes like butter tteok, with convincing caramelisation that conceals a supple chew. Pair with the salted maple latte, sea salt americano with aromatically savoury cold foam, and salted brownie chocolate beverage that evokes brownie à la mode. Future...

Event space Assemble & Co is hosting a new twice-weekly pop-up in Bukit Petaling: Voyage Kitchen & Patisserie and Emberwood Coffee Roasters combine forces for pandan red bean and avocado pistachio cakes, plus scones and house bakes with plenty of coffee choices and matcha coconut lattes...

Mo's Place is PJ's airy new spot for chunky Hainanese chicken chop, char koay teow, nasi lemak sambal udang petai and other mainly local favourites in Section 51a.

Safehouse Sky Society is the city’s new rooftop cafe for Mont Blanc cold brews, matcha coconut coolers and Snickers-inspired chocolate peanut butter beverages, sharing a striking fourth-floor space with Raja Chulan’s Sky Society event venue. 

Azusa Ramen is Damansara Perdana's new ramen bar, pouring patience into 12-hour slow-simmered tonkotsu broth, mazesoba and other classic bowls.Ebi Ramen brings crustacean comfort, with springy noodles topped by tiger prawns in soothingly rich broth with seaborne sweetness.

Three Guys Cafe has launched its latest branch in USJ Taipan, resembling a reading room lined with hundreds of books, wrapped in warm timber, like a personal library made playful with Tintin and Walter Mitty posters, plus retro prints and maneki-neko motifs. Japanese-inspired rice bowls remain...