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 [...]

Our Top 8 Favourite Steak Joints in Town

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There’s a steakhouse on every corner of the city these days, but where can you go to enjoy a piece of beef, that suits every occasion and mood of dining? Like take us two hungry monkeys for example, we sometimes like dining on high end gourmet steak in tres chi-chi, contemplative surroundings, but sometimes, we [...]

Samplings on the Fourteenth

Located at the East Tower on the 14th floor of Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Samplings on the Fourteen tries its utmost best to elevate its guests’ dining experience with gracious service, inventive cuisine, a fine collection of vintage wines and stylish design that is only surpassed by the stunning floor-to-ceiling views of the [...]

Mosaic at Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur

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Once upon a time, there was Biba Cafe at the Mandarin Oriental (MO) KL, where we used to hangout for breakfast.. and dine on eggs benedict till our heart’s content, while waiting for the exhibition center in KLCC to open their doors at 10am. Now, Biba Cafe is no more.. and in its place is [...]

Food Porn.. at Daniel Boulud’s

Sunday food porn.. There is nothing better, than sharing a platter.. Over Bellini’s. Daniel Boulud’s.. I like this place.     Read the full post, here. Add: db bistro, Marina Bay Sands, 10, Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956  

The Hungry Hog

Over the weekend, we traipsed down to Subang Jaya to seek out this cosy little joint for affordable, pork burgers. Long before the Hungry Hog became a cafe, Cumi used to tell me about this website that did online catering, specializing in well, pig. The Hungry Hog website did non-halal catering for small parties and [...]

Winemaker’s Dinner Party at Prime, Le Meridien KL

We were recently invited to the Winemaker’s Dinner Party held at Prime, Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur. This was also a guest appreciation night and the staff had transformed the dining area of Prime Restaurant, into an open space with wines stations strategically located around the area – ideal for mingling and testing out the wines [...]

Degustation Dinner at Millesime

Millesime, which opened late last year in a grey space in one corner of Solaris Dutamas on Mont Kiara, is what we call a mellifluously named restaurant (the word means “vintage” in French) with familiar innovative dishes on the menu that people have come to recognize as the trademark of a well-travelled, even eminent, chef [...]

Delicious Guest Appreciation Night

Weekend photos of an event we were recently invited to.. the Delicious Guest Appreciation night at The Marc Residence, Kuala Lumpur. About the delicious group.. named after the signature Delicious Restaurant, the Delicious Group now consists of seven F&B outlets operating under three separate F&B entities. The five Delicious Restaurants are located across the Klang [...]

Ben’s General Food Store

Malaysian made pizza isn’t what it used to be. It’s better. Better, we’d venture to say, than it ever was. A combination of factors including heightened food fetishism, the quest for authenticity, the economy.. have conspired to give us way better gourmet pizzas than say, in the past decade or so. The idea of thin [...]

G3, Twitter & the Royal Wedding

If you can brave the long lines of cars heading into Bangsar Village during lunch hour looking for parking, or the constant circling of automobiles on Telawi looking for an empty lot, you’ll find decent food at this cool looking hangout called G3. Yes, the G3 Kitchen and Bar is named as such because it [...]