Grazia Cafe @ Sutera, JB

     Where is a nice place to have high tea with your buddy? Today, let's introduce a nice coffee house to you. Grazia cafe located at the taman sutera, which is nearby the Sutera Shopping Mall. This is a small but nice ambiance cafe. 

Knowledge of coffee

Decoration of the cafe

     The interior design was great. Wall decorated with several painting and there was a book shelf which provide you a reading material while you are enjoying your coffee. Besides, there was a corner which displayed the type of coffee beans, books about the coffee and accessory to sell. You can having your meal at the dining table, sofa or bar table as long as you are comfort with. By the way, if you wanna to have a long section here, please don't choose the low sofa without back seat, you really will torture your backbone.

Left top: Flatwhite, Right top: Caramel Machiatto,
Left below: Cafe latte,  Right below: Double Ristretto Cappucino

Left top to right down: Smoked duck aglio olio, Chicken chop, Cheese cake, Tomato Sauce Pasta

     The latte art here was quite nice as well as the taste of coffee. The carameal machiatto was strongly recommend for the sweet lover. Double ristretto cappucino smells good! Overall, all the coffee here really achieve a standard level. But they can't do a latte art on flat white ;(

     For the spaghetti, smoked duck aglio olio was delicious. It has little bit spicy but the taste will lingering in your mouth for long time. The chicken chop also recommended as the chicken was grill with nice, tender and juicy. However, the pasta with tomato sauce was too simple and lose to the aglio olio. Other than that, here also has pizza, sandwich and cakes.

     The cheese cake was really a suitable dessert. Really delicious and won't feel bored with the cheese.

     Overall, this is a nice shop with friendly screws, nice ambiance, nice food and cheaper price. You may make a visit here.

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Adress: 80, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/3, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

     

Italiannies @ Paradigm Mall PJ

Italiannies has several branches in the country. The one I visited was at Paradigm Mall.  From the minute you walk into the restaurant, you will be greeted with black and white photographs  decorating the walls, warm, yellow lighting and dark wooden furniture which all add up to Italiannies homey ambiance. The open kitchen where the chefs bake the pizza attracts people to stop their move and watch. The chef put the dough into an old style wood fired oven to bake it. Can imagine that the pizza must be delicious.

The wall was decorated with black & white historical photographs.

Minestrone soup quite nice.

artichoke crostini

complementary bread

       You will be served with complementary breads. The appetisers we ordered was artichoke crostini. The layers texture of the artichoke gave us a special taste. The cheese melted on the roasted bread and we already half full after ate it and the minestrone soup. The minestrone soup quite nice too.

     We decided to ordered pasta as our main courses. Penne Bolognese was nice. The bolognese sauce and the minced meat made you can't stop your spoon in order to finish the penne. In addition, Parmigiana which was a  Southern Italian dish was made with a shallow-fried sliced filling, layered with cheese and tomato sauce and then baked. This was match with the angle hair pasta and definitely full and contented after eaten. 

 

Penne Bolognese

 Parmigiana

     There was a promotion. You can enjoy 1 main course + 1 appetiser for only RM25.90++.  A good ambiance and delicious food for you to have a gathering here. Be alert with the promotion period as you can enjoy the meal with cheaper price!

Italiannies Paradigm mall
Lot CF15 & 23, Level CF, Paradigm Mall,
Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor, Malaysia.
tel: +603 - 7887 4677

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Pitstop Cafe: coffee~ dine~ games @ PJ

   
     When you are waiting for your meal in a cafe, what would you do? Playing candy crush? 4 pic 1 word? or just Facebook or twitter? The modern technology makes us indulge into our Ipads or smart phones and less connectivity between human. Let's us abandon our technology devices and start to play a game with friends while we are waiting our meal!

This game only suitable for 3 years old child.

     As you can see from the photo, this <Pitstop cafe> provides variety of games on the shelf which includes board games, card, etc. But some games lost its instruction papers so this confused us as we were not familiar with the games XD

     Recently, it has valuable promotion! 1 course meal + 1 drink + 1 mushroom soup + 1 free flow ice-cream with price RM 18 ~ RM30 according to the main course you choose. The food taste normal. The chicken chops basically quite nice and cheap. The <black and white chicken chop>  was chicken chop with mushroom and black pepper sauce. The <honey brown  sauce chicken chop> taste sweet and quite nice.  I like the wedges as it was crispy! But personally I found the mushroom soup was not really nice, it was too dilute. The apple soda drink also not recommended, taste like colouring drink only. 

     The portion of meal is quite big and the price is reasonable. The comfort environment and games provided attracts a lot of customers. Another attractive point is their self-serving ice-cream top up. They will give you a biscuit cone and you can go take your ice-cream as much as you can! The flavours includes chocolate, Oreo, mints, yam, strawberry, etc. But when I went to take it, almost all flavours finished and left orea and chcolate flavours only. That time was only 1830. I wondered why they don't top up the ice-cream...Haiz..

disappointing mushroom soup..

apple soda 

Honey Brown Sauce Chicken Chop RM19.90 per set

Black and White chicken chop RM19.90 per set

Pitstop cafe

No 627, Jalan 17/8, Section 17, Petaling Jaya 46400 Selangor
Contact : 03 – 79318813
Business Hour : 11AM – 11.45PM (Daily)


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Vary Pasta @ Damansara Jaya

     Today, let's us try some pasta. This Vary Pasta hides in a backstreet and I lost my way to reach this place. The road is so narrow and you need a skillful driver to fetch you here. GPS also if you are so blur as me.

     This is a small Italian restaurant with warm interior design. Although the restaurant is not too spacious, there is still a good place for couple or friends gathering there. You can see there are several artistic pictures hang on the wall. This bring you a good mood and feel to enjoy your meal. Beside the nice environment, the waiters there are friendly too. They are willing to help you to take the photo if you want to. 

  

   Once you open the menu, you can screen from appetizers till desserts and your jaw will drop on the table while you see the price. The price is just too...........cheap. There is no government tax or service charge. Suitable for students to have birthday celebration here.

     Beside the price, the food is the real attractive point. The pasta is strongly recommended. Spaghetti Olio Ronccino has good smell of olive and it is just make you can't stop your fork! Another nice spaghetti is Spaghetti Garlic and Herbs which has strong smell of garlic and it is tasty too! 

     For the meat lover, you can choose Fish Fillet Mexican style which has lot of vegetable on top of it. Most of my friends like this dish. Besides the fish, there is layer of potato at the bottom. Another valuable meal is the chicken chop which consist of chicken chop and spaghetti. Honey Rum chicken also quite nice. Lasagne is suitable for those cheese lovers. The extremely much cheese make people feel full easily and will bore with the cheese quickly. So if you are not crazy about cheese, you better choose another dish.

Spaghetti Garlic and Herbs RM 9.50

Spaghetti Olio Ronccino RM15. 

Fish Fillet Mexican style RM15. The fish is hidden beneath the vegetable.

Lasagne RM 15.50. Can you see the overflow cheese?

Chicken chop with spaghetti RM14.50

Honey Rum Chicken RM19.50

Pork Chop RM14.50

     This restaurant ever been written in local news paper The Star and roasted pork knuckle is recommended. Try it out if you like pork knuckle.

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Address: No.21G, Jalan SS22/23, 

                Damansara Jaya, 

                47400 Petaling Jaya, 

                Selangor.

Contact: 03-7710 6100

Monte's Restaurant & Wine Bar @ KL

     A good meal ends with good talk. This is an opening message when you've open the Monte's menu. The restaurant provides a comfort environment in addition of delectable western cuisine. You can screen through the menu from appetizers to desserts and there is standard price for the meal, or maybe expensive for a student.

     The waiter will serve you with the bread and butter at the beginning and it is free. You can fill your stomach while waiting for your meal. The bread is soft and marvelous with the butter.

     Everyone has a dream even Monte... Monte's dream is a sweet mocktail. If you prefer sour mocktail, you may order Cinderella. Is Cinderella's life sour and sweet?

Monte's dream (RM13)

     Poultry: Canju chicken was served with tomato salsa, potato salads and vegetable. This was quite a nice dish and too full for a small appetite girl. The grill chicken chop was tender while the tomato salsa make the chicken more juicy although I felt there was lack of tomato sour taste. 

     Next, Chicken Maryland. The chicken chop was fried with bread crumbs and the side dish have sausage,  banana fritter, vegetable, french fries and fried corn ball. In summary, all are fried stuff. If you love to eat fried stuff,  this is suitable for you. The portion was really big and too much for a girl. 

     In addition, Mushroom Chicken is recommended. The mushroom gravy was pour on the grill chicken and i felt there was same grill chicken as canju chicken. Besides, there was herbed rice and vegetable. The mushroom gravy taste little bit like cheese and it was just perfect with the chicken. 

     We all astonished when the Honey Chicken reached on the table. This was totally a small sized whole fried chicken! The honey sauce was served in a small bowl and you can dip the chicken with it. The side dish was the french fries. I think this was suitable for kids as they like fried chicken. Nothing special other than a normal fried chicken.

Chicken Maryland RM27

Canju chicken RM28

     

Mushroom chicken RM22

Honey chicken RM28

  

Seafood: Norwegian Salmon Stick served with tomato salsa. Well, the different with Canju Chicken was the salmon was softer, smaller, more expensive. But indeed, the salmon will taste better as it was just well-cooked and smooth to swallow. There were salad and potato wedges too.

Norwegian Salmon Stick RM35

Pasta: Spaghetti Vongole was recommended for those love plain food. The spaghetti was cooked together with the clamps, chili and garlic. The spaghetti was mixed with small amount of soup which has accumulates the essence of clams and taste fabulous! 

     Next, Spaghetti Spinach Cream Sauce was a healthy choice. The spaghetti was cooked with button mushroom as sundried tomatoes. But the spaghetti was not made from spinach as we thought. Haiz...

Spaghetti Vongole RM25

Spaghetti Spinach Cream Sauce

     Unfortunately, we didn't order the dessert because our stomachs already bloated. So sorry can't introduce you guys any desserts.

Monte's Restaurant & Wine Bar

Lot F 112, Level 1, Bangsar Shopping Centre , Jalan Maarof, 59000 Kuala Lumpur 

Tel (603) 2094 1112/3 

Open Monday - Sunday, 11.30 am till 11 pm

http://www.montesrestaurant.com.my/index.html