Review: WIP on the Park
April 28th, 2025
Every neighbourhood deserves a a cosy venue like Cafe Vina, situated across the street from a row of terrace homes, spearheaded by the family who founded Pizza Uno in the 1990s (they've since sold their stake in the Italian restaurants).
Trying to take a passion for pork to tempting new thresholds, Iberico Kitchen is devoted exclusively - as its name indicates - to the Pata Negra breed of acorn-foraging Iberian pigs, with a porky potpourri that swoops from Iberico salads to Iberico burgers.
Ticket To Korea tries to take culinary travellers on a first-class trip to explore Seoul's soul food.
South Korea's G-Cova chicken franchise fires its opening salvo in Malaysia, launching in Mont Kiara Meridin this month.
Colouring up Taman Desa's culinary landscape, Red Kettle could become a boiling-hot new neighbourhood hangout, thanks to its warm crew
Fans of Thai food in KL can find succor in this fascinatingly adorned outlet, which features a plethora of recipes rarely available elsewhere.
Chocolate lovers might want to check out Chocolate Chapters and Mychocolab.
The two women who run Rubberduck are no quacks - Kat and Lin, bolstered by a hard-working crew, have launched a new alfresco cafe that could float close to the top of Plaza Damas' best bets for freshly baked cakes and fragrantly brewed coffee.
One of this month's most intriguing F&B openings in PJ is Gee & Geek, conceived by a band of childhood buddies who studied together in SMK Taman SEA & have reunited to run a restaurant less than 500 metres from their alma mater.
Fifteen months after it first popped up in Taman Tun Dr Ismail and became one of this neighborhood's most soulful hangouts, Quartet is jazzing up its F&B selection with a retuned, rocking menu for 2015 that aims to drum up the appetites of cafe lovers.
The two sisters behind Fat Spoon have finally launched their sparkling new restaurant, simply called Mei, a contemporary Japanese joint in Desa Sri Hartamas that seems set to replicate its elder sibling's well-earned success in Damansara Uptown.
Olé! For fans of Spanish fare in KL, it's time to check out or return to Nexo, which is blazing in a bold new direction this year, with a kitchen led by terrific young chef Isaac Goh, whose talent, skill and eagerness to hone his craft make him a man to watch.