‘Caffeinated Kuala Lumpur’, that’s my recent impression to the city judging from
the cafés boom scenario which has been go on from quite some time now. Tons of
cafés opening up not only in KL/Klang Valley but throughout the country for the
past 12 months, and till date new one continue popping up every other week. With that
being said, only a handful have managed to leave an impression on me and the Metal
Box Restaurant and Café @ Empire Damansara happen to be one of them. The café was introduced to me as one always crowded place where people
actually queue to try it out and it is owned by Chef Ryan, a former familiar
face at The Red Beanbag, another reputable breakfast place in town; a pretty catchy
intro which later brought me to this unique industrial themed café restaurant for
a late brunch ;)
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| Metal Box Restaurant and Café @ Empire Damansara |
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| one unique industrial themed café restaurant with shipping containers being the distinctive design |
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| just in case you wonder what's inside the container, a one-of-its-kind furbish kitchen would be your answer ;) |
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| Metal Box Restaurant and Café |
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| straightforward one page menu |
The menu here at the Metal Box Restaurant and Café is divided into three main sections: the most sought after All-Day-Breakfast, Entrée and Pasta, each presented with an array of palatable dishes creatively crafted by chef Rayan and his partner June. Among the items sampled, the perfectly baked (in-house) crispy croissant is one single pastry shouldn't be missed while visiting the café, fill it with perfect poached eggs on the double, homemade smoked salmon, flavorful wilted baby spinach, topped with okaka, aonoriko & homemade hollandaise sauce and there you have it, the Hemmingway, a delightful Sunday morning flavor which available all the time at the Metal Box Empire Damansara ^^
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Hemmingway, nicely baked in-house croissant bedded with poached eggs, smoked salmon and wilted baby spinach, my kinda delightful Sunday morning flavor, love the flaky exterior and nicely flavoured wilted baby spinach b^^d
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| Hemmingway (RM 18.9) |
Another favorite of mine goes to the Metal-Box™ Baked Egg, this sounded ordinary dish turn out to be a lovely bowl of scrumptious surprise. The inclusion of sliced smoked chicken breast, cannellini beans, diced chicken sausage, potato and eggplant into the soft-baked eggs topped with freshly grated gruyere cheese make this an irresistibly rich comfort food, one that I feel like having all the time ^^
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| Metal-Box™ Baked Egg, soft baked free-range eggs in a pot with sliced smoked chicken breast, diced chicken sausage, potato and eggplant, homemade cannellini beans in tomato coulis. Topped with freshly grated gruyere cheese, served with freshly baked French sour dough aside b^^d (RM 18.9) |
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| Steak A La Minute, grilled Australian grass fed striploin steak served with herbs roasted potato, sauté mushrooms and wilted baby spinach, creative infusion of the yuzu kosho butter sauce as it is just nice to compliment the steak, grill the steak more towards medium and this would be another perfectly done dish. |
Though yet to be labelled excellent for a coffee connoisseur, a nice cup of delicately done coffee here at the Metal Box is still a pleasant way to satisfy your morning coffee cravings as the place do serves some good coffee in the neighbourhood.
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| Cafe Latte (RM 9.9) |
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| Mocha (RM 11.9) |
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| brunch or breakfast this is one wonderful combination b^^d |
For those that seek to have their sweet tooth fix, the signature Specialty French Toast comprises of chunky pan-seared soft toast coated with nestum is a popular crowd–pleaser. I personally, however, would prefer the Bananatella Filo bar, served with smooth vanilla ice cream this crispy layers of filo pastry wrapped in with banana and Nutella almond cream is something that will be the perfect sweet ending to your meal :)
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| Specialty French Toast, chunky soft French toast coated with nesturm, pan-seared till golden brown, served with mixed berries coulis, diced peach, roasted pistachio & gula melaka shot (RM 15.9) |
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| Bananatella Filo bar, filo pastry wrapped in with banana and Nutella almond cream, served with vanilla ice cream ^^ |
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| Bananatella Filo bar (RM 15.9) |
Metal Box Restaurant and Café
G12 Empire Damansara,
Jalan PJU 8/8, Damansara Perdana,
47820 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Tel: 03 7731 9560
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