Spotlight

Bold brews amid brooding, Brodyesque architecture: The Brewtalist is Bangi's striking new spot with sharp, sculptural lines, its monolithic starkness framed by monochrome prints.The Brewtalist's house coffee is intense, a medium-roast Brazil-Colombia blend that begins bitter before cascading into...

Sunway Geo Avenue's Cafe Roffle does justice to Korean croffles, with a crisp crust that conceals a tightly laminated chew. Flavours include the Dubai, topped with melted chocolate, crackly pistachio cream kataifi and ice cream. Dubai chewy cookies are also available, plus simple in-season savo...

Scale the steps for snacks and sips in Sin Chew Kee Road’s new Tangga, a stairway to classic kuih with cappuccinos in weathered, wood-worn calm. Kuih keladi, kacang merah, koci and panggang come from PJ Old Town’s Aneka Nyonya Kuih, while a custom Colombian-Brazilian-Ethiopian coffee blend b...

Soft-launching May 11, Cozone is Old Klang Road’s upcoming comfort zone for cafe enthusiasts seeking sourdough sandwiches, mango cheesecake, popsicles and pistachio dirty lattes in a bright, welcoming bungalow space.

The Niang's is Subang’s new spot for Peranakan pleasures, from pai tee to pongteh, laksa to lam mee. Snack on scrumptiously aromatic turmeric quail eggs, share in classic comforts like chicken pongteh.

In Parisian novelist Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, one bite of a tea-soaked madeleine unlocked a lifetime of memories, returning the narrator to the lost Sundays of his childhood. PJ’s forthcoming bakery Proust will serve its own European-inspired reveries in Seventeen Mall sta...

Desserts and drinks, homemade with care and thoughtfulness: Yuu Kissa is 16 Sierra’s new Japanese-inspired refuge, lovingly conceived by Windther and Chloe. Seasonal Japanese melon is the core of the current signatures, the Melon Sand, sandwiching fresh, sweetly ripe melon chunks with Greek y...

Hé Ni Coffee has a new home, moving from PJ Old Town to Section 22, steeped in a soulful neighbourhood spirit, welcomingly wood-framed with lived-in warmth. Founders Wen Shuan and Jeffrey bring heart and humanity to Hé Ni, serving their personal bakes like strawberry mousse cake and banana ...

Straddling Ara Damansara and Shah Alam, Eleven at Saujana is a friendly new neighbourhood cafe for everything from avo toast to key lime pie, spaghetti puttanesca to shrimp fried rice. For sunshine, serenity and steak frites, take a table by the leafy-viewed windows and try the Black Angus st...

Crêpes du Café is Kota Damansara’s new French-inspired crêperie, a family passion project by trailblazing Malaysian mixologist Shawn Chong, who spent five formative schoolboy years in Paris. Crafted by co-founder Amy, conscientiously cooking with an instinct for balance, these white-flour crê...

Elo Coffee Roasters is the new caffeine supply corner inside the Kiara Subang Jaya cafe, freshly transplanted from Mont Kiara to SS19 Subang. Sip soothing piccolos with Elo's ever-evolving stable of house-roasted blends. Also try Kiara's Hainanese chicken chop, a pure throwback to old-school ...

Zalaye Claypot brings a new noodle experience to Subang: Claypot White Prawn Mee in pork-prawn broth. This stall serves slick yellow noodles and thick rice noodles in stock shaped by the body of pork bones and the sweetness of prawn shells, mixed with fluffy egg, topped with prawns, pork, fish ca...

Salt bread and bagels with a Borneo highland salt twist: SS2’s new Salt Bake serves its own spin on oven-fresh favourites. Salt Bake harnesses Sarawak’s Bario natural mineral salt from the Kelabit Highlands, fire-dried in bamboo tubes for cleanly rounded, mellow salinity. Salt bread with fou...

Tatih Coffee Company has launched a new espresso bar in Desa Alam, taking baby steps from roasting coffee to brewing espressos. Tatih specialises in commercial blends at competitive, cost-conscious rates for cafes, starting at RM30 per 250 grams, with wholesale prices no higher...

PJ pork pursuers, point your snouts to Sea Park's new Kinfolk for a swine-dining, crackling good time. Go whole hog with smooth starters like porchetta di testa, a thin-sliced rosette of collagen-rich rolled cheek, tongue, ear and skin with a clean-tasting, supple-textured bite, perfect wi...