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, orange oat lattes and pineapple sparkling americanos ..read more

Soft-launching in Bandar Sunway, Traffic Bean KL 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 ..read more

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 serves this in a trio of forms: The coffee flower on French press, cascara cherry husk via nitro cold brew, and beans through pour-over, taking customers on a jackfruit-jazzed journey of progressive flavours. A fun trip to take. British chef Marco Pierre White’s inspirations surface in some o ..read more

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 Braised Chicken inspired by Hong Kong's Eighteen Flavour Chicken, every recipe takes patience and painstaking skill to prepare, elevating the essence of exceptional meat, seafood and vegetables. Flavours and textures are fine-tuned to pure perfection, free of MSG or artificial additives - Da Fu ..read more

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 stylish, sakura-suffused space breathes a modern sleekness into a traditional yakiniku restaurant - it's a welcoming pork-free place for families and friends to feast together over everything from unagi chirashi bowls and engawa don to sizzling sets of succulent Japanese beef, scallops and ..read more

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 is a nod to its founders, the two Mu sisters, who first began this business as home bakers. 02-1, Pangsapuri Azalea, Bukit Sungai Long, 43000 Selangor ..read more

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. Zen is a garden of green, a medley of matcha in the forms of mousse, gel and sorbet, bolstered by black sesame micro sponge, black beans and lemon foam. Heavenly Pandan might be paradise for the local palate, layered with kaya, pandan buttercream, coconut sponge and vanilla chantilly. T ..read more

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 available for take-home purchase in convenient single-serving containers, as well as for dine-in brewing, paired with homemade desserts like madeleines or caneles. It’s a casually intimate experience, with pleasurable filter and espresso-based possibilities to explore. Single Dose Coffee is on a tria ..read more

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

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.  ..read more