Bad Cafe by Wood & Steel

I visited this place quite a while ago. When me and my friends heard of this place, we wanted to visit it to see how’s it like. So when we reached Sri Hartamas, we literally drove in circles around the area because we couldn’t look for the café. Finally we took a closer look and realized it was located in one of those grey commercial buildings in sri hartamas.
The place was really new and BAD was one of the shops that were opened. I simply adored that place. The furniture here in BAD are all made of wood and they were all different from one another. We had to take orders at the counter and head to our seats. We sat upstairs and the ambiance of the place was peaceful and it’s a perfect place if you need to get any work done. We also had cakes to go with our coffee. I thought the cakes here were a little too dry, especially the red velvet cake. Our coffees on the other hand were really nice and fragrant.

I had been here once long time ago, as I was looking for a place to sit down get some work done, and then I spotted this café from the highway, so I’d decided to give it a try. The first impression was very good and it’s actually a duplex unit. The ambience and the decoration are quite cool as well. I saw there is a pole behind the counter and the waiters actually use the pole to slide down from the second floor, like how those firemen do in the movie. LOL! It is actually VERY COOL!
The waiters and barista were quite friendly to us. However, I do not think it is a good place to sit for long, as all of the tables and chairs are made of wood, in different designs. I actually do not feel comfortable on sitting those chairs, maybe they are nicer for deco purpose. LOL. Nothing special for the desserts there. But I yet to try their other food.

Wood & Steel’s latest venture is the Bad Café, where it is more coffee-​centric than the original restaurant, and its taste is much more refined.
For starters, their latte tastes superb, and while it may taste amazing, it is also their food that should be well mentioned. They have many main courses, ranging from their pastas to their eggs benedict, which tastes as good as they look like on the menu. However, their old address in Glomac seemed to have a better ambience, as this place now looks more like a hole on the wall rather than a proper restaurant.
That being said, Bad has been a big hit, and while you may see its pictures flooding Instagram like a bad water house, its reputation precedes the food, and that, my friends, is a ding ding on the bell.

Well not to long ago I used to spend quite sometime here, because a very close friend of mine was running the place. So after he left I had not visited Bad Café as frequently as I used to. But I am still going to write you a review to help you decide on whether you would to make a trip to this lovely place located at Publika.
So Bad Café by Wood & Steel is pretty popular amongst the teenagers and college going kids. Let me briefly explain to you why this is so, first things first if you and your friends are SHISHA and COFFEE lovers this is the place for you. Yeah you heard me right shisha and good coffee at the same place, what more can you ask for right? Food, they serve food too. How much more amazing can this place get? So Bad is pretty well known for having quite a good range of flavours for their shisha bongs.
Besides that they mood there is quite chilled out but it has quite loud music playing which can make it quite annoying at times especially when you are trying to have a decent conversation with your buddy. The coffee they serve there is nothing great, it is pretty regular the the once you will get at most coffee Café’s today.
With all that being said, it is a must go to place if you are planning to have a chill out weekend with a bunch of friends who enjoy good coffee, shisha and a nice cosy area to chill at.

Bad Publika is a pretty decent place to bring your place to hangout with some shisha. There’s nothing special about the food or drinks at the place. Coffee is pretty decent though. The décor by wood and steel definitely plays one of the roles of making the place what it is. There are tons of picture frames hanging by the walls and interesting furniture as well.
The thing about the place that it brings in quite a lot of youngsters. For those of you who have been a frequent customer, you might know that the place used to be young and ji’s. To be honest, I loved the concept a lot more than how it is right now.
Parking is pretty easy. You just have to go to the basement parking to get yourself a spot.

I’ve only been here once and I vowed never to step in again. Well, on first impression, I liked BAD. It has that industrial look and it’s set up really well. I like the Marilyn Monroe illustrations as you climb up the stairs. I also like how spacious it is. It’s basically a place that’s easy to photograph with a lot of interesting details and nice corners.
But when I stepped in for coffee with a friend, we were both really tired and took a seat. The café was empty at this time. The server or barista saw us walking in but he was with his friends and they were chatting and laughing. Maybe my friend and I were not dressed like one of the cool kids, but I he didn’t move a muscle to find out if we were okay.
I made a bet with my friend to see if they would ever serve us, and we sat there for 30 minuted with nothing. That’s when we took our bags and left and the server doesn’t say a word when he saw us leaving. He just continued laughing with his friends. Never seen service as impersonal and as apathetic as this in any café.

If you have been reading my reviews, previously i wrote about Wood & Steel in Kota Damansara well, i guess they help young passionate barista to open up a new café which is called Bad Café by Wood & Steel.
As you enter Bad Café in Publika (they use to be in Desa Sri Hartamas, Glomac but moved) the interior isn’t as attractive in Glomac, it is smaller and somehow the dim lights inside doesn’t attract the crowd. I love how they hype the place with good music and also friendly service.
Not to mention the coffee is amazing! Also their pasta is very saucy and generous with ingredients, perfectly seasoned and big portion which is so worth the price. I feel that this café is a little overrated and common like other café. What is their specialty besides hanging paintings on the wall?
Outdoor Seating — Yes
Wifi — Yes
Service — Good