Wabi Sabi House, Ara Damansara

Wabi Sabi House is Ara Damansara’s new stop for Japanese-inspired comfort fare: Savoury and sweet sandos, onigiri and mitarashi dango, paired with Yakult matcha coolers and more.

This friendly cafe formally opens this Friday, 10 July, but is trial-running now with a shorter menu of thick tamago sandos, soothing hojicha lattes and other beverages.

Dose & Dial, Shah Alam

Dose & Dial is Shah Alam's new stop for sips and sweet snacks, by two Section 7 guys who want to nurture a neighbourhood space for their friends and community to hang out.

TBA Cuisine, Shah Alam

Shah Alam's new TBA Cuisine is a spacious spot for Western crowd-pleasers: Creamy-tangy Parmesan tomato pasta with smoky streaky beef, crispy deep-fried chicken wings with cilantro sauce, and burgers with house-made lamb patties in firm buns with peppery potato wedges.

Jinja Shiokkk, Cyberjaya

Dapor Sabariyya, Bangsar

 

Yummy Momo House, Bukit Jalil

 

Mid-Life Coffee, Chinatown KL

Mid-Life Coffee is the Chinatown neighbourhood's new filter coffee stop, specialising in filter coffee with Japanese-roasted Philocoffea beans.

Mid-Life's friendly founder Robinn serves purely black pour-overs to properly showcase Philocoffea, a brand co-founded by Tetsu Kasuya, the first Asian to win the World Brewers Cup in 2016.

Philocoffea’s beans are coveted for clarity, cleanly balancing aromatics and acidity with Japanese restraint, approachable for daily drinking with minimal muddiness, anchored by back-to-the-farm traceable sourcing.

Mid-Life currently makes use of Philocoffea’s Rudder blend: The Medium brings together Ethiopia, Colombia and Guatemala with a lingeringly bittersweet lift, perfect for perk-me-ups.

Tell Me by Picasso Media: Part Five

Tell Me by Picasso Media: Part Four

Tell Me by Picasso Media: Part Three

Tell Me by Picasso Media: Part Two

 

Tell Me by Picasso Media: Part One

Grain & Leaf, Shah Alam

Grain & Leaf is Shah Alam's family-run place for pizzas and pastas by three sisters and their mother, crafting their own pizza dough and pasta sauces.

For fans of robust pastas, have 'em creamy with chilli flakes, dill and lemon or punchy with salted egg, garlic and chilli oil, topped with smoked salmon and smoked duck respectively.

103 Coffee, Tun Razak Exchange

103 Coffee is soft-launching its sixth space, a sleek but soulful two-level location in TRX with a welcoming sense of heritage and homecoming.

Sip on coolers exclusive to this new timber-framed branch in KL’s urban core: 103’s top-tier team infuses Malaysian and Asian inflections into cold-brew craft from a linear counter that channels coffee-bar theatre.

J Cloud is a soothing pour of Ethiopian anaerobic cold brew with jackfruit and oat milk, capped with foam of clarified jasmine tea. Spark is an expressive refresher of Ethiopian Alo Bacha cold brew, fruit-bright with sparkling cascara, pineapple, yuzu, strawberry and bunga kantan.

Explore 103 Coffee TRX at 13, Jalan Barat today, 7:30am to 6:30pm, then every day beginning this Tuesday. The upper floor will likely be unveiled later next month.