Aspresso Coffee and That Place La at Danau Kota, Setapak: Restaurant Review

Setapak is this entry’s suburban spot for simple egg-filled brunches by neighborhood newbies Aspresso and That Place La.

1. Aspresso

All-day Breakfast

Start with Aspresso, a cozy first-floor hideout at the Danau Kota commercial blocks where customers can customize their all-day-brekkie platters to choose what exactly they want to eat. 

Five items in one serving cost a very fair RM11.90: An egg-pork-potato fiesta of scrambled/sunny-side-up/omelet (six eggs in one shot!), bacon and hash brown.

Light Meals

Other possibilities that can be ordered for this plate include chicken sausages, mashed potatoes, mushrooms and baked beans. Aspresso also offers light meals of sandwiches and pastas.

Coffee

The coffee comprises specials ranging from Indonesian Gayo Highland Acehnese single-origin to Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, crafted meticulously through V60, aeropress, chemex and siphon methods.

Aspresso’s affogato? Pleasantly creamy. 

Caution: Wi-fi is not yet available at Aspresso; since Maxis’ connection erodes to an E here, phone surfers won’t want to linger very long for now.

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2. That Place La

Next up, only a one-minute drive from Aspresso: That Place La, a Platinum Lake condo cafe where expectations should likely be lowered. It’s a nice, bright and clean setting nevertheless.

Baked Eggs

Wish we could call this a morning-glory, but the baked egg with tomatoes, cheese and chicken ham seems reminiscent of something I’d mix and microwave as a teen. Still, it’s merely RM3.50.

Coffee

Not much to say about That Place La’s latte; maybe the other dishes here fare better. There’s roast chicken, spaghetti bolognese, sago gula melaka and more. 

That Place La scores in the soundtrack department though, playing John Hiatt’s ‘Have A Little Faith In Me’ and Tasmin Archer’s ‘Sleeping Satellite;’ Aspresso relies on ‘All Of Me’ Sinatra muzak.

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