Lafite, Shangri-la Hotel. An exclusive french restaurant with good selection of appertizer, main course, desserts and wine for special occassion. However, the set menu for lunch at RM55++ for 3 course is quite good value for money. Food Quality: Location: Jalan Sultan Ismail. Phone: 03-232-2388. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM100 per person.

	Chalet, Hotel Equatorial. A Swiss restaurant serving excellent meal. Until 1994; they served the best Christmas brunch; they have now limited the choices of entrees. Food Quality: Location: Hotel Equatorial, Jalan Sultan Ismail. Phone: 03-261-7777. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM80 per person.
	Scalini's La Piccola Italia (Italian Resturant). This place is probably the most popular Italian restaurant in town at the moment, hence reservation is recommended for weekdays. Black truffle is used on their 'raw beef' and 'pasta with lobster'. We find their pizza excellent, home cooked soup and pasta are good, but lemon tart is a bit too sweet. Their pasta's portion is rather small, perhaps they expect an entree to follows as in Italy. Food Quality: Location: 19, Jalan Sultan Ismail (Opposite Equatorial Hotel). Phone: 03-245-3211. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM60 per person.
	Ciao, Jalan Tun Razak. An authentic Italian restaurant; owned and run by Italian. Don't forget to try their dessert panna cotta (an Italian custard) which is excellent. Food Quality: Location: 428, Jalan Tun Razak. Next to RHB 1. Phone: 03-985-4827. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM60 per person.
	Polo Lounge, Istana Hotel. We enjoyed their buffet lunch, which is excellent. Food Quality: Location: Istana Hotel, Jalan Raja Chulan. Phone: 03-241-9988. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM50 per person.
	Villa Danieli. The interior design of this restaurant is grand and impressive. On our first visit to this place for a dinner, we savoured crab cake and antipasto (cold dish) for starter; for main course, we ordered duck pappardelle and a seafood pasta; and finished off with tiramisu which is generously dosed with rum. On other occassions, we tried minestrone soup, thick tomato soup, beef fillet, salmon, panna cotta and find them above average. For a change, this hotel give 3 hours of free parking to patron. Food Quality: Location: 5th. floor, Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail. Phone: Open for dinner. Price from RM110 per person.
	Our Place. A small French restaurant claim that the cook used to work in Lafite, Shangri-la. We have tried the smoked salmon, pan fried duck breast and it is pretty good. Food Quality: Location: 30, Jalan Walter Grenier, Off Jalan Imbi. (Two doors away from Deja Vu). Phone: 243-0191. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM60 per person.
	Grappa Another expensive Italian outfit operate by the management of Scalini. We ordered wild mushroom soup and salad as starter, pan roast duck, oven baked lamb, pasta and Risotto (Italain rice) for main course, tiramisu, grappamisu (tiramisu with grappa spirit) and straberry with ice cream for desserts. We find the soup lack of salt, both main course, dessert and ice cappuccino are excellent except the risotto which is below our expectation. We have yet to find a place that serve risotto to our expectation. This restaurant does not serve compliment cold water but Italian mineral water at RM12 per 500ml bottle. Food Quality: Location: 1, Jalan Telawi 5, Bangsar Baru. Phone: 287-0080. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM85 per person.
	A&V Lazar Chargrill Restaurant, KLCC A branch of Melbourne, Australia restaurant serving aged steaks. The set menu start from RM30 to RM60 inclusive of a soup, main course (steak 100gm to 250gm, roast chicken or lamb cutlet), dessert and coffee, which is good value for money. We had their beef borth (made with mince beef, beaten egg and tomatoes, nice), pumpkin soup (creamy), roast chicken (tender and juicy), 250gm sirloin steak (tender, but less juicy than expected, may be because of improper temperature during shipment or grill's temperature too low), strawberry pancake and lemon pancakes. The steak is serve without sauce (which is proper) and can be improved further by serving on a warm/hot plate. Overall, this restaurant is a serious steak house one can find in KL. Food Quality: Location: Lot 137, First Floor, Suria KLCC. Phone: 380-5800. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM30 per person.
	Le Vogue, Renaissance Hotel. Appetisers are impressive with a blend of Italian, Japanese, Malaysian and generally Meditteranean food. The fresh oysters and prawns will delight cold dish lovers - fresh and abundant. Salad bar had many types of vegetables with olive oil, tartar sauce, sesame seed oil dressing right down to the regular thousand island. Other highlights - the ox tongue, sashimi with wasabi, fried prawns, chicken cake (as opposed to fish cake) and a combination of local delights. For dessert, strawberry mousse and fresh strawberries are a must with fruits and lovely chocolate cakes with vanilla icing. Overall, a good place for buffet dinner esp. when the company is great.However, their high tea is expensive and choices is disappointing. On our last visit in April '99, we find they still maintain an excellent selection of appetizers and desserts; however, the selection of main dishes has turned local and plain, and service is slow. Food Quality: 1/2 Location: Jalan Ampang. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM70 per person.
	Pacifica Grill, Mandarin Oriental Hotel A new kid on the block in November 98 offering Californian ie non-traditional, contemporary cooking. We savoured pacifica starter (a collection of appetizers eg marinated salmon, olyster, soft shell crab, warm soba and fried prawn wrapped in potato noodle) at RM39, barramundi (seabass) at RM43, wood fire ribeye at RM42 and Dessert Variety Plate (banana fritter, chocolate mousse, cheese cake, fruit cocktail and pipeapple tart) at RM22. We find the appetizer interesting, dessert normal, portion larger than average, taste as expected (ie light with a twist), most impressed with their servers whom are well trained, knowledgeable, prompt, wearing all black uniform, neat hair style like air stewardess and pleasant and wish they can serve the main course on a warm plate. During our last visit in August 2000, we had their business set lunch eg soft shell crab, soup, cod, steak and dessert. Although the fusion cooking cleverly combined western and eastern ingredients but we find the cooking unexceptional. They now serve the main course on warmed plate. Food Quality:1/2 Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, KLCC. Phone: 03-380-8888. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM100 per person.
	JW's California Grill. The setting of this place is classy with an open kitchen. Their fried soft shell crab, salmon sushi (fried salmon roll), rib eyes and desserts are good (chocolate dream is very rich), but we find their pasta uninteresting. To save cost, they no longer serve complimentary Evian for cold water and one should not take the wine offer at the very beginning for free. We find this tactics too successful or too embarass not to make people to choose wine. Food Quality: 1/2 Location: 3rd. floor, JW Marriot Hotel, Jalan Bukit Bintang. Phone: 925-9000. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM90 per person.
	Le Coq D'or A very old restaurant housed in a mansion, the decor basically remain unchanged as in 1950's without aircond. The menu selection is better than many and price is value for money. We savoured crab cokra soup, clear oxtail soup, cognac tenderloin and rum omelette for dessert, and find them bold, recommended for an experience. Food Quality: 1/2 Location: Jalan Ampang, opposite Wisma Selangor Dredging. Phone: 242-9732 Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM35 per person.
	Mississippi Slim's, Jalan Ampang A new local set up (December 98) with an American concept serving BBQ dishes and blues music at night. Their BBQ dishes come with a selection of sauces from sweet (honey mustard) to Texas spicy. We ordered BBQ beef brisket (RM24.90), 8oz sirloin steak (RM29.90, serve US style with large salad and no sauce on steak), apple cobble (RM11.90) and Chocolate sundae (RM12.90) for dessert. We find the price reasonable, main dish not bad but nothing special on dessert. Incidentally, the owner is Mr. Lim. Food Quality: 1/2 Location: 113, Jalan Ampang. Opposite Radisson Hotel. Phone: 264-8188. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM40 per person.
	Marce, Renaissance Hotel A Mediterranian restaurant serving tapas, pasta and Italian cooking. We ordered twenty vegetable soup, pasta platter, tiramisu and coffee. Both presentation and taste is as expected but we find the menu very expensive (a soup cost RM18, dessert at RM22). On our second visit, we had tapas and seafood paela. Food Quality: Location: Renaissance Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail. Phone: 262-2233. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM80 per person.
	Moussandra. A mediterranian restaurant serving Greek, Spanish and Italian foods. During our first visit, we savoured their set lunch (soup, chicken or lamb and ice cream) at RM22++, which is ok. On the second occasion, we ordered tapas (spanish dimsum) which consists of fried fish, eggplants, chicken pate, meat balls and fish cake for appetizer; lamb souvlaki (grilled lamb served with Greek salad and pita bread) for main course and baked chocolate cake for dessert. on our third visit, we tried meze (Greek dimsum), lamb casserole, lamb souvlaki and prafait. We find the food ok but price is on the high side. Food Quality: Location: 16, Jalan Pinang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur. Phone: 241-6821 Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM80 per person.
	Carmen's Seafood & Wine An elegant and contemporary design restaurant serving italian with an asian twist, a live band is perform from 9pm. We savourded their ox tail soup (tasty but slight salty), asparagus soup, pan fried goose liver, steamed reef fish (slightly over cooked but the sauce is excellent), tempura scallop; for dessert we had bomb alaska and date pudding. On our second visit, we had vegetable soup, crab bisque, oxtail soup, marinara pasta, steamed salmon and smoked salmon. May be because of our high expectation, we find the food a bit disappointed. Food Quality: Location: Wisma Lim Foo Yong, Jalan Raja Chulan. Phone: 243-4567. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM80 per person.
	Bon Ton This restaurant is more than 10 years old, is housed in a bangalow with 1950/60's setting. They serve Asian (Nyonya, Indian) and Western cuisine (twisted with local flavour). We ordered fish soup, tomato and mushroom soup, prawn and mango salad, halibul fish, chocolate mud cake and banana crumble for dessert. We find the fish good but the menu a bit pricy. Food Quality: Location: 7, Jalan Pinang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur. Phone: 241-3611 Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM70 per person.
	Eden Restaurant. A well known steak house with coral decoration. Quite a wide selection of seafood cooked in western style. Prices is higher than the Ship and Victoria Station. Food Quality: Location: Jalan Raja Chulan and SS22. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM50 per person.
	Orchid Room, Royal Lake Club. This restaurant is exclusively for members only. Their home made mushroom soup is excellent as well as their 'President style' grilled fish. Food Quality: Location: Lake Club. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM40 per person.
	The Ship Steak House. This chain restaurants is built like a ship, because the founder Mr. Foo was a sailor. This established steak house is well known for their sizziling steak and ox tail soup. However, they don't welcome guests to bring their own cake to celebrate in the restaurants by charging RM2 per person for using their plates. Food Quality: Location: Jalan Sultan Ismail, Jalan Bukit Bintang, SS21, etc. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM40 per person.
	Coliseum Cafe & Hotel, Jalan TAR. One of the oldest, if not the oldest western restaurant in town, established in 1921. Apart from the new coat of paint, the rest i.e. coat hanger, table cloth, all male servers remain time still as in 1950/60's. One of the rare western restaurant in town that still serve pork chop and gammon steak. Price is cheap, you can order a 3 course dinner for less than RM20 but don't expect constant smile by servers. One of their popular dish is sizziling steak start from RM28. Food Quality: Location: Next to Coliseum cinema, 98, Jalan TAR. Phone: 292-6270 Open for lunch and dinnet. Price from RM20 per person.
	Les Chefs, KLCC We visited this restaurant for lunch. We tried their set lunch which include wild mushroom soup, roast duck breast with orange sauce, lamp chop, chocolate cake and coffee, priced at RM35 or RM39. We are disappointed with the soup which was watery and tasteless, and find the cakes not as good as it used to be at Ampang Point. Food Quality: 1/2 Location: Level 4, KLCC. Phone: Open for lunch and dinnet. Price from RM40 per person.
	Pasta Fresca Da Salvatore, Phileo Promenade. This new (Aug 98) Italian restaurant serve a variety of freshly made pasta and allowed patron to combine varies pasta with different sauce (eg tomato based, white sauce and seafood). We had their mixed vegetable soup (a bit too salty), cold prawns (appetizer), veal with white wine sauce, veal with mushroom and marsala sauce (a better choice), tiramisu (a bit disappointed) and cream caramel for dessert. We find the food conventional but servers are friendly and price is reasonable for Italian chef. On our second visit we ordered pizza, ravioli, pasta and home made ice cream, and quite disappointed with the food and over eagerness of the italian manager to promote his wine. Food Quality: Location: 189, Jalan Tun Razak, B-0-4. Phone: 03-460-9466. Open for lunch and dinner. Price from RM50 per person.
	Planet Hollywood, KL Plaza. A theme restaurant decorated with surplus Hollywood props. The portion of food is huge (by local standard) but the price is higher and taste is lame. The service is less prompt than Hard Rock Cafe or TGI Friday. Instead, they place an attendant in the toilet expecting tips, which is cheap and should be discourage. Food Quality: Location: Ground floor, KL Plaza, Jalan Bukit Bintang. Phone: Open for lunch and dinnet. Price from RM50 per person.
	Les Tableaux. A most unconventional decor with everythings left incomplete. This place serves Belgium food and appeared to operate by two persons (i.e. the chef and the owner). We find the place over priced. Food Quality: 1/2 Location: 33, Jalan Walter Grenier, Off Jalan Imbi. (sandwiched between 'Deja Vu' and 'Our Place'). Phone: 245-9504 Open for lunch and dinnet. Price from RM70 per person.