Restaurants

New Fook Lam Moon

Roast meats hang in the window of this titchy restaurant, which is indistinguishable from many in Chinatown, but New Fook Lam Moon is notable for offering a dozen...

Soho: 10 Gerrard Street, W1D 5PW

Rasa Sayang

Straits cuisine

Chinatown: 5 Macclesfield Street, W1D 6AY

Satay House

Satay House attracts a happy mix of expats, locals and fans of Malaysian food, who clearly make a special journey. We arrived at 7.30pm on a Thursday to find the...

Paddington: 13 Sale Place, W2 1PX

Sedap

Malaysian in Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell: 102 Old Street, EC1V 9AY

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Furnishings are inexpensive but stylish in this small dining room: simple wood furniture, multi-coloured seat covers, batik prints, carved screen, and small mirrors...

City: 54 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL

Awana

Framed covers of OK!magazine, a collage of famous faces and a signed photograph of Pierce Brosnan in the foyer suggest the kind of customer this restaurant is used to...

South Kensington: 85 Sloane Avenue, SW3 3DX

Bonda Café

Budget Malaysian caff

Paddington: 190 Sussex Gardens, W2 1PU

Bugis Street Brasserie

Until the 1980s, Bugis Street was a tourist nightspot in Singapore renowned for its parade of transsexual women. Today the area has been sanitised and the sex industry...

South Kensington: Millenium Gloucester Hotel & Conference Centre, 4-18 Harrington Gardens, SW7 4LH

C&R Café

Soho: 4-5 Rupert Court, W1D 6DY

C&R Restaurant

Faded menus on front windows aren’t usually a good sign, but C&R’s dining room is spick and span, with stone floors, blond-wood chairs, comfy rippled...

Westbourne Grove: 52 Westbourne Grove, W2 5SH

Jom Makan

In a somewhat incongruous location – an imposing building just off Pall Mall – Jom Makan breaks the mould of nearby Trafalgar Square’s boring grills,...

City: 5-7 Pall Mall East, SW1Y 5BA

Kam Tong

South East Asian flavours

Chinatown: 14 Lisle St, WC2H 7BE

Malay House

This simple little caff is still going strong after nearly a decade in the restaurant business, despite its curious location on a corner site of a traffic-laden...

Croydon: 60 Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 6AA

Malaysia Kopi Tiam

Malaysian fare in Chinatown

Chinatown: 67 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0NE

Melati

Not to be confused with the nearby Peter Street restaurant of the same name, this long-established three-storey restaurant also stands erect in a street lined with...

Soho: 21 Great Windmill Street, W1D 7LQ

Singapore Garden

Malaysian expats, who travel across town to visit this swanky restaurant, tend to be amazed by the number of well-heeled locals who consistently order the standard...

Swiss Cottage: 83A Fairfax Road, NW6 4DY

Taste Malaysia

It is the highest compliment of a particular kind to say that eating in Taste Malaysia feels just like eating at a mamak (Indian Muslim) stall in Singapore or...

Willesden: 32 High Road, NW10 2QD

Penang Satay House

With its bright green neon sign adding a dash of colour to a rather scruffy corner of Turnpike Lane, the veteran Penang Satay House has built up a firm local...

Turnpike Lane: 9 Turnpike Lane, N8 0EP

Satay Malaysia

There are more than 120 dishes on the menu at this small, friendly Chinese-Malay restaurant, so perhaps it's not surprising that the cooking can be slightly patchy....

Crouch End: 10 Crouch End Hill, N8 8AA

Nyonya

CURRENTLY CLOSED 'FOR RENOVATION' FEBRUARY 2009

Notting Hill: 2A Kensington Park Road, W11 3BU