Bistro à Table

I like Bistro à Table because it’s in Section 17, where there are not many places around to have a dinner for an occasion. The set-​up here is lovely, very clean and polished, and very modern. The service too is excellent, the manager has been trained very well to educate and explain to customers about the food.
Despite all of this, I think the food falls below the mark. Everything sounds very promising on the menu, but sometimes I find that the chef here, Isadora Chai, is trying to be fancy for the sake of being fancy because she uses a lot of truffles and caviar, and yet the food falls short. The signature maple syrup coddled egg is a bit overrated in my opinion.
But I must say that her specialty is dessert. The pavlova is to die for, and if you visit at a time when Pakistani mangoes are in season, you’re luck. The Valrhona dark chocolate fondant is one of the best fondants I’ve tried in KL. There was once when I visited just for dessert, and Chef Isadora personally came out to present us the bill. But she said something, ‘Here’s the bill for your one dessert’, which I didn’t appreciate because it implied that I was a bit cheap. But anyway, I will go back for dessert again.

If you think you can only find French cuisine in KL area, then you are very wrong. Bistro a Table is located at Seksyen 17, behind Decanter Restaurant. The décor is simple and classy, same goes to the menu.
My brother and I ordered the escargot as our entrée. Instead of cheese and herbs, they prepared their escargot with clarified butter. It came with 3 cute little egg-​sized cup, with puff pastries on it. The puff pastries were light and you could easily break it. Although the escargot was cooked in clarified butter, it wasn’t very oily and the butter gave it some saltiness. I had their Shredded Duck Confit with Pasta and I was looking forward for some delicious hand-​made pasta. It was not too bad and surprisingly the duck wasn’t dry. Unfortunately, I couldn’t say so for the Scallop Wrapped with Pasta. The scallops tasted like frozen ones, but the broth was really delicious!
Apart from their ala carte menu, they have set menus of 5 courses starting from RM128++. On top of this, they have «Degustation Nights» on every first Monday of the month. This is where you get to taste some new experiments from the chef. Just leave them an email or drop them your business card and they’ll be updating you on their upcoming feature dinners. The degustation events are strictly by reservation only.