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.

Salt Bake, SS2 Petaling Jaya

Salt bread and bagels with a Borneo highland salt twist: SS2’s new Salt Bake serves its own spin on oven-fresh favourites.

Salt Bake harnesses Sarawak’s Bario natural mineral salt from the Kelabit Highlands, fire-dried in bamboo tubes for cleanly rounded, mellow salinity.

Salt bread with four cheeses - cheddar, mozzarella and Parmesan inside, Emmental melted on top - is gently crisp to the bite, tenderly full-bodied with a buttery chew.

Also savour the salt bread bagel with a lightly golden crackle. 

Other salt bread flavours span local inspirations like serunding and pandan Gula Melaka; the bagel selection includes gochujang garlic butter, seaweed and ube.

Market Coffee, Menara Sentral RAC

Market Coffee is Brickfields' fresh, friendly stop for brews and bakes, calm and comfy for a workday afternoon refuge from the office.