Review: WIP on the Park
April 28th, 2025
Cafe Lapis is a cosy neighbourhood hideout in Wangsa Maju. This cafe offers some unorthodox temptations, such as slow-roasted pulled lamb sandwich with tangy tabbouleh and more.
Desa Sri Hartamas' Calories is spearheaded by the two sisters who run Bangsar's popular Mimpikita fashion boutique. This new cafe offers a fair mix of recipes to woo breakfast, lunch and tea crowds.
Rimba & Rusa at Kota Damansara is a two-level venue, blessed with a big-budget polish that's certain to be catnip for the Klang Valley's cafe paparazzi.
The Hungry Spoon, located at Sri Petaling, is helmed by two chefs whose friendship spans 10 years and three countries - Suet Fei and Rahim first met each other a decade ago, when they enrolled at KDU's school of culinary arts.
Cafe Dola balances the familiar and the fresh for its look, from the choice of lights to the Peranakan-inflected flooring, the cement bar to the woodwork of Nolin Teh Carpentry. There's an attention to detail too for the menu.
Bandits Coffee Bar hijacks the limelight this week; breaking into Bukit Damansara, this wild bunch of brunch-crazy baristas - armed with avocados and helmed by a notoriously tattooed ringleader - seems set to steal the hearts of KL's cafe enthusiasts.
Looking for another friendly cafe in SS15? Brewyard Coffee is worth a stop too, with some interesting corners to explore.
Fling a stone in Subang's SS15 neighbourhood and you risk hitting a cafe (or a cafe visitor - eek!); thankfully though, there's no need to sift through a pile of pebbles to uncover an understated gem like Flingstones Cafe, a venue that's as fun as its name.
Power couple Meor and Leena might be expecting their third child within a matter of weeks, but they've already delivered one very healthy labour of love this month - a visually beguiling new cafe with bespoke chevron-patterned tables by Lain Furniture, open-terrarium plants and a children's play corner, stowed on a serene street in Shah Alam.
Skillet At 163 - which replaces Mediteca at Fraser Place this month - represents an intriguing initiative by chef Raymond Tham and his terrific team to showcase inventive fare with an international flair.
Enduring more than five years now in Bandar Utama, Kitchen Creatures has proven to be one of Centrepoint's most dependable destinations for a satisfactory meal at prices that encouragingly still seem more hitched to 2010 than 2015.
Yellow Brick Road is a place that needs to be enjoyed on its own merits - with compassion for its limitations, with the understanding that brunch is only a meal, a kiss is just a kiss, and a wizard who rules an Emerald empire may simply be a circus magician from Nebraska.
Scarcely two months old, Swich's new branch marks a major milestone with the launch of a menu for hot food.