Pampas Reserve at Suasana Bukit Ceylon: Restaurant Review

KL’s latest steakhouse, Pampas Reserve at Bukit Ceylon’s Suasana residences, is the spin-off of long-enduring restaurant Pampas at Changkat Bukit Bintang. This new venue is more upmarket, showcasing a serene, sophisticated interior and an alfresco area surrounded by fine foliage. It’s a lovely setting, one of our current favorites.

Meaty Menu

The menu’s meaty, mainly beefy: Begin with beef carpaccio, beautifully plated, topped with a satisfactory salad, house-made balsamic dressing and Parmesan cheese. RM28 before taxes.

Steak

Move on after that to a steak: Maybe 300 grams of the CAAB Black Angus sirloin (RM88).

Requested rare, executed with expertise. Not mind-blowing, but still mouthwatering.

Burger

Pampas whips up a well-conceived beef burger, boasting a quarter-pound patty that comes out chunky-juicy, topped with egg, beef bacon, onions, cheese and tomato relish.

Alcohol

No lack of wine or other specifications of liquor; the Allesandro (Baileys, Kahlua and vodka blended with vanilla ice cream, RM30) is our kind of nightcap.

P.S. Sean’s away Nov. 7-17 in a mystery location 8,765 kilometers from KL where Maxis charges an unconscionable RM48 for 20MB of data roaming. Daily blog entries have been scheduled in advance and will be automatically posted, but apologies as comments can only be replied far later.