Gourmet luxury travel - Malaysia and the world
Words: Alan Mclean Photos: Monica Tindall In the week that followed my visit to Luce Osteria Contemporanea I was waking up to thoughts of Italian pizza. But those were not the thoughts that troubled me. The challenge I faced was to say something meaningful a…
Words: Shaun Humphries Photos: Monica Tindall I’ve always loved a good Sunday roast. Back in Canada, a Sunday roast usually includes an actual pot roast served up with mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetables and various fruity pies. Closing my eyes, I ca…
Words: Patricia Podorsek Photos: Monica Tindall Many will tell you that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the food at Maison Francaise reaches beyond such a subjective viewpoint. Artistically-presented arrays of color and form grace every plate. And …
Sustainable Seafood and an Excellent Value-for-Money Lunch Words: Louise Miller Photos: Monica Tindall Picture this – You are sitting in the sultry shade of an Italian trattoria, the sun beating down outside, the Adriatic lapping gently at the shore …
Words: Shaun Humphries Photos: Monica Tindall Nestled in the recently revamped and re-energized tree-lined KL road named The Row, 2OX (Two-Ox) French Bistro looks like it came straight out of a food and travel magazine. It’s bright and warm. It’s casual and …
Words: Heather Onderick Photos: Monica Tindall Often living abroad, one craves what one can’t have. For me, living in Malaysia, I am always nostalgic about my time in Barcelona. I crave the neighborhood cafe in Europe, with an open air concept, regular c…
Sister restaurants, Stoked and Flint, are two of our favourites in the city for their simple cooking techniques with high quality ingredients, but equally so for their expertly chosen wine selection at incredibly good prices. Featuring two cracking US winerie…
The Michelin Guide might not yet have reached Malaysia, but Michelin starred chefs have no problem finding their way across its borders. For one week only Alexy Fuchs, head chef of the Michelin starred Le Gavroche, is partnering up with Mezze’s group executive ch…
Words: Shaun Humphries Photos: Monica Tindall I sometimes like to escape. Not for long and not completely, but I do enjoy altering my reality once and awhile. In KL, that can (at times) be difficult with the daily diet of traffic jams and mind-numbing shopping m…
Words: Kirsten Durward Photos: Monica Tindall Vintry group is always a favourite for us, we love the energy and passion of owner Yin-How Wong, we love the simplicity of the food, and we love the range of wines on offer. We always know we are going to have […]
Words: Han Sen Hau Photos: Monica Tindall Forget Water. Wine Flows In Mars. It wasn’t too long ago when NASA made the announcement of its breakthrough discovery of water on the red planet, thus prompting the space agency’s quest for its Holy Grail. With the pros…
The Art of Haute Cuisine at Rendez-Vous Words: Claire Matheson Photos: Monica Tindall It is no secret, I am in love. From the moment I tasted my first boeuf bourguignon, my first tartiflette, my first moules marinières and my first soupe à l’oignon I fell hard. Je su…