A Coffee Lover’s Guide for Where to Drink in KL and Selangor

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Written by Tan Kai Bin

Our contributing expert for this feature is Tan Kai Bin, the co-founder of Blaq Coffee and Bean Shipper, two interesting Malaysian-based services that ship boxes of freshly roasted coffee beans to customers’ doorsteps. Kai Bin works closely with respected local roasters and can also sometimes be spotted as a barista at pop-ups. Check them out at blaqcoffee.com and beanshipper.com

Kai Bin recommends filter coffee for budding enthusiasts in KL and Selangor. “Most of the time, roasters do offer different varieties of single origins for their filter coffee, and usually they tend to keep the best beans for filter coffee!”

“We coffee people always recommend that our customers try filter coffee, as it’s the brewing method that brings out the flavour of coffee, especially for black coffee drinkers!” he adds.

Here are Kai Bin’s six favourite choices for where to enjoy coffee in KL and Selangor, and what to order for a pleasurable combination of coffee and food.

1. Artisan Roast at Taman Tun Dr Ismail

What To Order – Nitrokopi, Filter Coffee, Cheesecake and chocolate slices

Address: 4 Lorong Rahim Kajai 14, Taman Tun Dr Ismail

Find: Contact details and map for Artisan Roast

2. Beam at Bandar Sri Damansara

What to order: Filter Coffee (on syphon)

Address: 25, Jalan Gangsa SD 5/3B, Bandar Sri Damansara

Find: Contact details and map for BEAM

Read Review: BEAM at Bandar Sri Damansara: Restaurant Review

3. RGB at Jalan Damai

WTO – Sandwiches, espresso-based coffees

Address: 35, Jalan Damai, Off Jalan Ampang

Find: Contact details and map for RGB

Read Review: RGB at The Bean Hive at Damai: Restaurant Review

4. Sprezzatura at Phileo Damansara

WTO – Sandwich and espresso based coffee (Indonesia Toraja)

Address: 116, Block E, Phileo Damansara 1

Find: Contact details and map for Sprezza

Read Review: Sprezza at Phileo Damansara: Restaurant Review

5. The Roast Things at Dataran Prima

TRT is not a cafe, hence they do not take walk in customers. But however they do organise workshops from time to time (and attendees can find coffee to drink of course!).

Address: Unit 12, Level 9, Block A, The Tube, Prima Avenue, Jalan PJU 1/39, Dataran Prima, Aman Suria, Kelana Jaya

Find: Contact details and map for The Roast Things

6. Brew N Bread at Shah Alam

WTO – Filter coffee and variety of breads.

Address: Ground Floor, One City Mall, Jalan USJ 25/1

Find: Contact details and map for Brew & Bread

Read Review: Review: Butter Up at Seri Kembangan, Brew & Bread at One City USJ Subang and Coffee Factory at Setiawalk Puchong

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I have hard time understanding how some of these cafes make any kind of list, unless it’s the TOP 10 WORST or TOP BOTTOM.

Artisan Roast – ash after taste, really bad roast and mostly expired coffee. Not very skilled baristas, old filter coffee… Yes, Artisan has been great shortly after its incarnation, but it soon rested on its glories and became laughing stock among real coffee enthusiasts.

Beam – totally agreed. Great coffee and nice place to visit.

RGB – Probably best on that list. Great coffee, very good and interesting roasts, very knowledgeable
roaster and lovely place overall.

Sprezzatura – has got to be one of the bottom quality coffee in town. The boys are great, they run absolutely lovely cafe, but they are hopeless when comes to roasting. The coffee is really bad and very inconsistent. Just visit any outlet which carry their beans and look at the hopper alone. These are some really bad beans and not skilled at all roast.

The Roast Things – Never tried. Heard little encouraging reviews to bother to test it.

Brew N Bread – Just. No.

Whoever wrote that, has very qeustionable coffee knowledge. I highly recommend getting to know about coffee before sharing opinions sbout it. Just a quick hint – 3d teddy bears and chocolate syrpo art in your late does not constitude to “quality” coffee.

All these are artisan coffee made via coffee machine. How come no write up on old fashioned coffee which Malaysians just luving it the way they were ……Hainanese Uptown Ding Ding way where they never go out of style like this…… And it is just a fraction of the price with smoother and robust taste especially those made with 007 hand stirred but not shaken or machine-create.
It’s coffee man, Ipoh Mali Man- break it down – Gals say Hari Hari Ya…..Guys say Saya Mau Ya….Dun belivee me, just watch Updown foam you up…..Updown foam you up.
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A Coffee Lover’s Guide for Where to Drink in KL and Selangor

1. Artisan Roast at Taman Tun Dr Ismail

2. Beam at Bandar Sri Damansara

3. RGB at Jalan Damai

4. Sprezzatura at Phileo Damansara

5. The Roast Things at Dataran Prima

6. Brew N Bread at Shah Alam

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