Eleven at Saujana, Shah Alam

Straddling Ara Damansara and Shah Alam, Eleven at Saujana is a friendly new neighbourhood cafe for everything from avo toast to key lime pie, spaghetti puttanesca to shrimp fried rice.

For sunshine, serenity and steak frites, take a table by the leafy-viewed windows and try the Black Angus striploin, succulently medium-rare with seasoned fries.

Crêpes du Café, Kota Damansara

Crêpes du Café is Kota Damansara’s new French-inspired crêperie, a family passion project by trailblazing Malaysian mixologist Shawn Chong, who spent five formative schoolboy years in Paris.

Crafted by co-founder Amy, conscientiously cooking with an instinct for balance, these white-flour crêpes come in sweet and savoury styles, some blanketed with brûléed bananas, peanut butter and Kapiti ice cream, others rolled with shimeji mushrooms, battered oyster mushrooms and garlic butter.

For the heartiest helping, have these smooth, thickly tender crêpes crowned with chicken fillets, cherry tomatoes and a garlicky-rich, kitchen-simmered pomodoro sauce, paired with rouge-hued elderflower soda sweetened with strawberries and apples. Très charmant.

Elo Coffee Roasters, Kiara Subang Jaya

Elo Coffee Roasters is the new caffeine supply corner inside the Kiara Subang Jaya cafe, freshly transplanted from Mont Kiara to SS19 Subang. 

Sip soothing piccolos with Elo's ever-evolving stable of house-roasted blends. Also try Kiara's Hainanese chicken chop, a pure throwback to old-school kopitiam nostalgia with the kitchen's own comfortingly savoury gravy.

Zalaye Claypot, Subang Jaya

Zalaye Claypot brings a new noodle experience to Subang: Claypot White Prawn Mee in pork-prawn broth. 

This stall serves slick yellow noodles and thick rice noodles in stock shaped by the body of pork bones and the sweetness of prawn shells, mixed with fluffy egg, topped with prawns, pork, fish cakes and chives. 

Steamy and soulful sustenance for RM10, rooted partly in Singapore Hokkien mee inspirations but transformed into something subtly unique, worth coming back for in USJ 20’s Four Superstars Chicken Rice Shop.

Fromage, Bangsar Shopping Centre

Morbier, Munster, Mimolette: Fromage is Bangsar’s new curated cheese boutique, a French-founded comptoir of more than 30 European cheeses, mainly expressive French AOP classics, complemented by select Italian, Spanish and Swiss specialities.

Check the chillers for washed-rind raunch, sheep’s-milk resonance and cellar-ripened richness - pungently pleasurable powerhouses, cut to order by the funk-fluent team for take-home indulgence.