Vincenzo's Pizzeria, Menara AmpleWest

Vincenzo's is the city's new Italian restaurant for Neapolitan-style pizzas, harnessing a high-hydration dough of Caputo 00 flour, fermented for three days.

Try one blanketed with burrata, fior di latte, San Marzano tomatoes and basil for lavishly creamy mouthfuls of Eat Pray Love indulgence.

Shio Artisans, Taman Tun Dr Ismail

Shio Artisans has launched its new flagship cafe in TTDI for sourdough shio pan, bagels, babka and more in a bright neighbourhood space.

Baker-founder Terry and his team promise salt bread that’s patiently fermented with flour and fruit yeast cultures for a convincingly crisp crust, feathery fluff and buttery bounce.

Shio pan is out of the oven at 10:30am, glossy and golden, served pure and simple or sweetly laced with maple butter, with a mystery twist soon to surface.

Also try Shio Artisans’ tomato feta toast with kombu butter, bagel with cranberry cream cheese and babka braided viennoiserie.

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Scruffee Cafe, Taman Desa

Home-baked bagels and happy barks come together at Taman Desa’s cheerful new caffeine lounge in a doggy daycare destination, a collaboration between Scruffee and Soulbrew. 

Snack on crisp bagels studded with plenty of pistachios, slathered with raspberry jam, while sipping strawberry milk.

Between Sips, Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park

Between Sips is Kuchai Maju’s new cafe that couples classic Chinese pastries with contemporary Chinese tea coolers.

Between Sips’ founders journeyed to China to learn the craft of peach blossom pastries, floral-fruity with jujube and hawthorn paste.

Sip on soothing beverages like Spring In Bloom, delicate with Dongting Biluochun tea, rose and lychee.

Lèk by Lala Chong, Ara Damansara

Lèk by Lala Chong is Ara Damansara’s new seafood specialist for clams, crabs, cuttlefish and more, a next-gen offshoot of PJ’s long-running Lala Chong.

Try the LaLa Kuey Teow, a wat tan hor twist on Lala Chong’s famed fried mee hoon with lala. The kuey teow is soulfully steamy in a gravy of ginger, spring onions and silky egg, loaded with lusciously fresh clams.

Other Lèk exclusives include hearty crab meat fried rice.

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Zeit & Zaatar, Titiwangsa

Zeit & Zaatar is Titiwangsa's new Palestinian restaurant run by a father and his two sons.

Try the take on musakhan, the national Palestinian dish, hearty with roast chicken on flatbread, lavish with sumac-spiced onions, nuts and olive oil.

Other Levantine offerings include msabbaḥa, the cousin of hummus, with warm whole beans.