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Serene, spacious and soothing, Ara Damansara's new Sokaya by SHK serves distinctive cafe delights infused with Middle Eastern and Indian inspirations. For a saffron-steeped escapade, the saffron chicken curry with Persian rice pilaf is perfectly paired with a complimentary starter of comforti...

Hit the road to the new drive-through-inspired cafe of The Hub Coffee Roaster - the brand’s fifth outpost sets a course for filter and espresso-based beverages in a sunny Setapak space with welcoming warmth.

Babi Kuah Hitam is billed as ‘an Indian boy from Klang cooking bak kut teh in Bangsar’ - founder Logan grew up living near Klang's Teluk Pulai Bak Kut Teh, so he’s no stranger to the soulfulness of BKT.  At this new stall in Lucky Garden’s Chun Heong Kopitiam, Logan ladles out his own thoughtf...

From Mayfair and Milan to Malaysia: EL&N London is Pavilion Kuala Lumpur's pretty-in-pink paradise, painted in pastels, promising a perpetual summer of sakura blossoms.Fast approaching its first anniversary in KL, EL&N London pampers the palate with picture-perfect pleasures - from onl...

Rum enthusiasts, rejoice: Malaysia welcomes a new experience that embodies the essence of the Caribbean - Duppy Share blends the funky joyfulness of Jamaica with the elegant beauty of Barbados for a very special series of rum with its own unique character and charm.  One of the UK's best-sel...

Taman Len Seng’s new Tian Xing by AZR crafts up cakes and coolers to cheer up Cheras. This is the first cafe spin-off of Aozora Cake Workshop, serving specialities such as fluffy-fresh pink guava cakes, matched with matcha coconut quenchers.

TTDI’s new Betawi boasts an Indonesian-inspired selection that spans bebek Betawi to Maranggi beef sate, Lombok-style ayam Taliwang to ikan bobor bayam and pepes jamur panggang bambu. Bebek Betawi is for duck devotees, braised in Sumatran spices, cooked with coconut milk for a lip-smacking lus...

Moving from Kota Damansara to Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Simply Sandwiches' latest location is a pleasant place for grilled cheese in various varieties, on its own or layered with protein possibilities like fried eggs. This calm hideout is perfect for work-from-cafe mornings. Simply Sandwiches 41a,...

Bringing a bit of Abuja to Ampang, the new African Kitchen is founded by a friendly Nigerian-Malaysian family, offering everything from efo riro to catfish pepper soup, asun spicy roast to agege soft bread. Of course, West Africa’s quintessential jollof rice is a must here - one of KL’s most sou...

Paperplane takes flight in one of downtown KL’s most enduring malls, with cool caffeination to keep the city buzzing. The Blueberry Matcha brings together tangy-sweet fruitiness with bitter earthiness in a perky, potent quencher.PaperplaneLG-K17, SOGO, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, 50100 Kuala Lum...

Okazu One Bite is Taman Universiti's hideout for homely Japanese comfort fare - highlights include the impressively priced beef hambagu with egg yolk over rice with pickles, impeccably prepared with a fresh-and-hot, tasty-and-textured patty for RM14.90. Dig in with a serene second-floor view of t...

Anthuriums and aloes welcome us to USJ Subang Jaya's new Coffee Space, where light, leaves and lattes come together, It's a calm corner for contemporary coffee concoctions laced with elements of flowers, fruits and herbs.Coffee Space had a brief test run early this morning and will reopen later t...

True to its name, Damansara Jaya’s new People's Park Cafe promises a pleasant escape with a sunny, leafy view for strawberry shortcakes paired with pineapple coffee - a friendly cafe to serve the neighbourhood community.

With a kitchen that reputedly comprises some Beijing-origin chefs, PJ's new Jing Cheng tempts us in for Peking Duck, pleasurably prepared for a lovely lunch. The menu is peppered with intriguing offerings, from mustard-glazed duck webs to crispy mushrooms coated in crab roe to spicy Lao Gan M...

From Taipei to TTDI, this marks the first Malaysian outpost of a Taiwan-born cafe brand in Taman Tun Dr Ismail. Inspired by Taiwan’s main mountain ranges, M5 Coffee serves speciality drinks named after the Coastal Range, Alishan Range and other Taiwanese summits. For Malaysia, M5 has created...

Meet the new Prime Shoulder Pork Steak by ANTE, specially flown in from the U.S. for a limited time only!

Chon Dak is a family of authentic Korean restaurants, started by Jinju-born brothers, sharing traditional household recipes at affordable prices - watch our video about Chon Dak here!

The Lazy Man is working hard this Labour Day, launching a new PJ home-based mini cafe. It’s a cosy corner in SS4 to sip on The Lazy Man’s Cincai blend of Papua New Guinean, Ethiopian and Brazilian beans, a nutty medium roast with a fruity finish, easy to enjoy for an espresso-based beverage. ...

With a partly Greek-inspired selection and setting, PJ’s new Aegean Blue serves specialities such as satisfying moussaka, steaming-hot with comfortingly tender layers of potatoes, eggplant, minced beef and kefalotyri melted cheese.  The service is warm and welcoming, while the kitchen is capab...

Petaling Street's new Barra brings Barcelona-born chef Ignasi Prat's interpretation of a contemporary tapas bar crawl to Chinatown: The menu explores 21st-century globalised Spanish cuisine - creamy rice in lobster broth with Carabinero scarlet prawn and saffron aioli; Jerusalem artichokes with a...

Fusing Latin American flair with Asian flavours, Damansara Perdana’s new Hora Feliz cooks up fun creations. Start with Shoyu Beef Tacos, tender and tasty with Thai mango slaw and chipotle mayo in corn tortillas, and Duck Croquettes, crispy to the bite, creamy to the chew, coupled with spicy l...

Innovative bakers, chasing consistency in quality: Wheat & Co equals wheat plus different companions - the most basic theory for baking.Wheat & Co sources all-natural ingredients for all its bakes to provide the most authentic flavours and forms. In the past four years, Wheat & Co has...

The friendly founders of Taman Paramount’s new Nareo Donut include a Malaysian who spent seven years working at Melbourne’s well-known Shortstop Coffee & Donuts. He brings the spirit of Sutherland Street to PJ, pairing fresh-every-morning donuts with fresh-brewed coffee. Nareo has its own ...

Launching this week in Damansara Uptown, The Charcoal Grill cooks up a carnivorous storm with signature chops of chicken, pork and lamb. This new PJ location is the second outpost of The Charcoal Grill, which was first born as a stall-based grill in Subang and Shah Alam before becoming a full-f...

A house abandoned for a decade, revived as a homely bakery-cafe: Look for Look For Us, a welcoming space for cinnamon rolls gorgeously glazed with cinnamon cream, pistachio cakes, and lovingly brewed coffee.

Soft-launching this Friday, Mossarium Cafe is a delightful destination for fans of philodendrons and platyceriums - lovingly crafted by welcoming founders, this is a lush retreat to soothe the soul. Sip matcha lattes amid monsteras and moss walls - Mossarium seeks to be a community...

Eight years old and still going strong, Luce Osteria Contemporanea is a lovely choice for pizzas, pastas and other Italian pleasures, from a unique volcanic pizza inspired by Mount Vesuvius to a porcine rendition of Roman saltimbocca.Explore Luce's evocative setting in Raja Chulan's Old Malaya,...

Basking in the sunshine of a beautiful skylight, Old Klang Road's new The Eighth Cafe serves up a soothing cafe experience, brewing up smooth tiramisu lattes and coffee matcha lattes for a morning escapade.

Luce Osteria Contemporanea: 8 years, dozens of different pizzas, countless contented customersWatch our video here about Luce - full feature to follow this week!

Set to soft-launch later this week, Bandar Sunway's Kooky Bowl keeps the Kooky empire rolling to a new neighbourhood, following in the footsteps of Kooky Cream and Kooky Plate. Here, the Sunway University campus crowd can savour a mix-and-match medley of East-and-West fare by day, with a diversit...

KL's new cafe with old-world charm, a five-minute walk from Merdeka Square: Fiftig Seofon (translated to 57, a tribute to 1957) is a lovely fresh space in a heritage townhouse. In this sanctuary of serenity in the city centre,. the welcoming team serves specialities from East to West, from Na...

With inspirations that stretch from Nice to Naples, Section 17’s new NICE Bistronome brings together the repertoires of a brasserie and ristorante, with French escargots and Italian arancini sharing a single menu. Chef Andy Choy’s command of the captivating open kitchen marks NICE Bistronome ...

Chinatown’s cafe boom continues with the soft-launch of Neighbour Club, the latest spin-off of the JWC Coffee Roastery group.  Sip on JWC's signature blends and single-origins, plus coffee coolers like the Kaya Butter Coffee and Guava Fizz, while shopping for snacks like Choc Oh Sourdough Cracke...

Spearheaded by South Korean founders, Damansara Perdana's new Bibimer is a hole-in-the-wall kitchen that specialises in customisable bibimbap and kimbap. For the egg-cloaked bibimbap, choose a base of white or multigrain rice; protein such as tuna, soy or spicy dakgalbi, and soy or spicy bulgogi;...

Luna Kitchen beams into Tun H.S. Lee Road this week, serving house-baked banana loaves coated in creamy chocolate chips, complemented by some of this street's most satisfying coffee. Sandwiches should be available later this month, followed by a hot kitchen of Russian and Eastern European special...

Soft-launching this Friday is KL’s first outpost of the OFFFFive (5 Coffee) series of cafes that have spread across Penang, Malacca and Johor in recent months. Specialities comprise coffee with floral and fruity flourishes - sunflower-topped coconut lattes, camellia flower-infused lattes, ora...

Soft-launching in Bandar Sunway, Traffic Bean is the first Klang Valley offshoot of a Penang-born cafe. Traffic Bean’s coffee is fun, fruity and flamboyant - stop for the calamansi americano, go for the peach blossom, a cold brew of jasmine tea with elderflower and osmanthus.

The Exchange TRX’s latest restaurant-cafe, Union Bistrot dishes out a distinctive range of recipes and caffeinated concoctions in a sleek space. Start with the coffee - the Coffee Flight is an engaging way to explore three different experiences from the same Liberica coffee.  Head barista Jun...

Our favourite new Chinese restaurant of 2024, Da Fu Di embraces an elegant, exhilarating exploration of China's culinary heritage, marshalling Hong Kong and Malaysian collaborators with a mastery of timeless traditions.From Pickled Midsummer Ginger Root with Century Eggs to the Signature Herbal B...

From beautiful yakiniku platters brimming with Miyazaki A5 wagyu beef to hand-crafted wagyu gyoza and sando, plus hearty rice bowls bursting with colourful produce, as well as an array of contemporary snacks and seafood treats, Gyú is a great new choice in Bukit Jalil for Japanese food fans.This ...

All bound for Mumu land: Fans of friendly new neighbourhood bakery-cafes, make a move for Mumu Cafe. Pair the buttery bliss of coffee buns with coffee for a simple but satisfying Sunday stop. Snack on a bright lemon madeleine while Cruel Summer plays on the speakers. Fun fact: Mumu’s name i...

Petaling Street’s new contemporary patisserie-cafe, Nucre Patisserie weaves together Japanese, French and Malaysian inspirations in a serene two-level space. From wagashi to entremets, parfaits to plated treats, Nucre infuses intriguing innovations into sweet flavours and scrumptious textures. ...

Single Dose Coffee is Bangsar’s new coffee house - literally - in the home of the Tyler Coffee Workshop education space on Limau Nipis.Tyler Wong’s spin-off specialises in a fortnightly-changing curation of coffee from multinational roasters, currently spanning Tokyo to Dubai.Beans are availa...

New in Bukit Damansara, Neba Coffee offers calm and caffeination in a two-level space in Menara Manulife. Its menu includes blinis, the Eastern European-inspired thin crepes, served here in savoury styles such as with fried chicken, honey and butter.

B.Land PJ’s colourful new cafe-restobar, Yum Yum Seng Seng makes a toast to morning-to-night merriment with upbeat vibes - come for the hot lattes and asam boi pop coolers, stay for playful pan-Asian twists on Japanese-inspired ramen and rice bowls. 

Chinatown’s newest cafe, Sandolicious is a whimsical wonderland of dessert sandos and distinctive drinks inside Petaling Street’s freshly launched B Hotel. Sandolicious’ signature treat is its cookie sandwiches - crunchy French-style sable biscuits layered with melt-in-the-mouth cheesecake f...

New in The Gardens Mall, it's a red-letter day for Red Kettle, soft-launching its latest location in its most striking space yet.  Nearly a decade after first unfolding in Taman Desa, this is Red Kettle's third branch, burnishing its reputation for welcoming service and heart-warming comfort...

Blend Coffee Roasters' Shah Alam cafe is a pleasant stop for a morning perk-me-up, soothing in white. Sip in serenity amid the well-tended monsteras, fiddle-leaf figs and philodendrons. Blend Coffee Roasters16, Jalan Tengku Ampuan Zabedah A 9/A, Seksyen 9, 40100 Shah Alam, Selangor.

Moody and mysterious, Jilid Enam is a hideout for chicken sandwiches and coffee, rice bowls and pizzas, with a creative vibe enhanced by books and vinyl records to explore.  Espresso-based and filter coffee showcase a constant rotation of local roasters, while periodic kitchen takeovers by...

Bangsar's new Juno jazzes up the neighbourhood with the colour, confidence and cool of a casually chic wine bar.With vibrant vibes to pair with small plates and sip-worthy glasses, the contemporary cross-continental European menu embraces olives to oysters, cheese to charcuterie, scallops to st...