Dewakan

I am most excited about Dewakan not because it’s fine dining but because it’s modern fine dining featuring Malaysian produce and ingredients. I have been here for two menu sets (they just changed to the second this Nov) and I am still excited and can’t wait to see what more brilliant dishes Chef Darren Teoh comes up with!
The location may be a little odd given that it’s in a college uni but the chef is a lecturer there which explains the link. There are one or two dishes per set course that doesn’t quite do it for me but I am still intrigued with his creativity and play with our local ingredients. I have been blown away with some of the dishes too like the roast mushrooms, prawns with crunchy prawn head etc and the ice creams (pisang goreng! Pulut! Gandum!). And of course it helps that plating is gorgeous.
And i do appreciate that the lunch and dinner here can be affordable too. But most of all, i applaud their effort and mission to highlight local produce in such a modern gastronomic experience. Dewakan is one to look out for!

The location is a bid odd, but I think Dewakan may be the best fine dining restaurant in KL at the moment. You have to cross over the KDU university campus to find it, but once you get in, you’ll feel like you’re in any other restaurant in the city.
The service is really, really good and the food is next level stuff. The chef (Darren Teoh) uses mostly local ingredients and the flavours are Malaysian too. It’s strange to taste Malaysian flavours instead of French or European in a fine dining restaurant, but he does it really well. The best part: It’s so affordable. A ten-​course menu is RM175, which is the kind of price you can never find in KL. At Sage I think it’s that price for three courses.
There’s one dish that’s like a Chinese coffee shop porridge but a fine dining version with mushroom consommé. And they have this gula Melaka dessert with pulut ice cream that is so, so clever. Next time I have an occasion to celebrate and I want nice food, I will definitely go back to Dewakan. But one thing that sucks is they don’t have wine! So it’s BYO for now.