Ten @ Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur

Arriving at Ten at around 7pm, I find that I might be the only one of 5 guests to have arrived, and I may wonder if I have made the right choice. Well, where Ten is concerned, I have. Busier later in the week and weekends, a quiet early-week evening makes the service, while not [...]

Matsuya @ Jalan Telawi 2, Bangsar

I reach for the glistening morsel with my chopsticks, and place it on my tongue, I makes sure that it’s fish-side down. It feels like silk on my mouth, the fish supremely silky, the rice delicate and subtle with a suggestion of vinegar and a hint of soy. Ah yes, I have been back to [...]

Cape Mentelle Wine Lunch @ Prime, Le Meridien KL

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We were recently invited by Moët Hennessy Diageo Malaysia, to Prime, Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur, for a wine lunch with Cape Mentelle. There we met Robert Mann, Estate Director of Cape Mentelle along with Kate Lamont, West Australian Chef and Ambassador, who prepared a spectacular 5 course meal to compliment the Cape Mentelle wines that [...]

Dinner at La Vie en Rose with Yves Cuilleron from Rhone Valley

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You won’t believe, with whom I’ve just had dinner. Am still a bit star struck but will try to pull myself together to write this post. Cured foie gras, with poached pears and aged balsamic Last weekend, we had the pleasure of meeting Yves Cuilleron over dinner at the French restaurant La Vie en Rose, [...]

Millesime’s Wine Lunch Friday

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I can never seem to pass up on good food & good wine at an affordable prices. Introducing Millesime’s Wednesday & Friday Wine Lunch Menu. And, so long as you drink the wine with the food and not before lunch, I don’t believe a single glass of any wine will leave anyone too tipsy to [...]

Gourmet Hour at Millesime , Solaris Dutamas Kuala Lumpur

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If you like your fine wines, and having a place to go for some high-brow happy hour, Millesime is the place to be. Every Monday to Fridays, Millesime hosts a Gourmet Hour, which is essentially their version of happy hour, and it starts around the time one kicks off work, between the time of 5.30pm [...]

Hennessy XO Appreciation Grows, Chef Edward Lee @ Equatorial Hotel Kuala Lumpur

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Getting to the Hennessy XO Appreciation Grows Event at Equatorial KL early was a bonus. We got to chat with Chef Edward Lee for a good half hour, and found him to be a rather sociable, down to earth and overall, cool guy. Quick chat with Chef Edward Lee, before he had to disappear into [...]

Cava and the Cvné Wines from Rioja, Spain

We recently attended a Wine Dinner at Cava, Jalan Bangkung Bangsar with the Wine experts of Cuné wines, Mr Oscar Urrutia and Mr Roderick Hull. Cuné or Cvné, is situated in the traditional neighbourhood of Rioja, where the oldest wineries of Rioja Alta have established themselves. In 1879, two brothers decided to set up a [...]

Garibaldi Italian Restaurant and Bar @ Bangsar Village

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The day Garibaldi opened its doors to the public, it became immediately clear what Kuala Lumpur had been missing all these years: a warm, intimate ambiance, fabulous cuisine, and Chef-attended service. Garibaldi might have even launched a bit of a culinary metamorphosis in Kuala Lumpur, and in my humble opinion, it remains one of the [...]

Valentine’s Day at Samplings on the Fourteenth

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I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. I find all that wishy-washy propaganda just a way for Hallmark and restaurants to make money. I mean, all these over sized fuzzy greeting cards certainly don’t make me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. Restaurants with their exorbitant prices don’t either. Then [...]

Daniel Boulud Bistro Moderne

Given what little time I had in Singapore, I had to work fast. I had been given a ‘must eat list’ by Singapore gourmands, Camemberu, Keropokman and LadyIronChef. The one synonymous name that came popping up was DB’s. Originally from Lyon, France, Chef Daniel Boulud had finally opened shop at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Why [...]