Call for Nominations: Time Out KL Food Awards 2013

It's that time of the year again! 

Yes, Raya is indeed around the corner, but we're referring to another exciting event that's also got us pumped: the Time Out KL Food Awards! 

The awards, which honour the best of the best food finds in the city, are all the more exciting due to the fact that the nominees are all voted by the public! What better way to get to know the best restaurants in town than through the eyes of its seasoned dwellers? Plus, the shortlisted restaurants make an awesome makan-makan to-do list! Here's last year's list for your reference. 

Nominations are now open until 31st August 2013, so head on over to the voting page and enlighten Kuala Lumpur on your favourite food haunts! Categories this year include Best Cheap Eats, Best Healthy Eats, Best Place for Coffee, Best New Restaurant and many more. (We had a hard time picking just one favourite restaurant for each category, traipsing from one insanely scrumptious memory to another, but pulled through somehow). 

Happy voting! =) 

Joe's Kitchen & Barber Shop @ SS15 Subang

Price Range : Mid-range 

Cuisine : Pizza, pasta and hot dogs     

Recommended For : A multi-tasking meal

Catphobia-Friendly? : Yes

This simplistic, straight-forward pizzeria was just what we needed for a hassle-free dinner! After having our energy completely drained from just an hour’s trip to the H&M HQ (between the endless stream of determined shoppers and the mindnumbingly vast array of clothing displays in the behemoth complex, we surrendered in defeat and crawled out croaking for food), the scent of baking dough and cheese invited us through the door of Joe’s Kitchen.

Kokopelli Travellers Bistro @ Section 14, PJ

Price Range : Mid-range

Cuisine : Asian and Western 

Recommended For : A cosy date

Catphobia-Friendly? : Yes

We used to visit Kokopelli quite frequently back when it was located near University Hospital, long ago. One of the times that we had a hankering for their superb lasagne, our visit to the restaurant was met with severe disappointment when we learned that they had closed down.

It was only last year that we found out that actually they had moved to Section 14, PJ, in the row of houses right opposite Dataran 3 Two. Walking up the jungle-y driveway and through the glass doors, we were pleased to find that the restaurant had still retained its intimate, homey charm. Beautiful in its simplicity, with white being the primary colour of the interior, it conjures memories of a cosy cafe dined at on rainy Parisian nights.

The Humble Chef Cafe @ Plaza Damansara

Price Range	Budget
Type of Cuisine	Western-ish
Recommended For	A more comfy alternative to enjoying the Chef’s much-loved favourites
Catphobia-Friendly	Not a cat in sight! XD

We interrupt our rants and raves on the foodventures in JB to bring you: THE HUMBLE CHEF CAFÉ!! (Just in case you can’t quite tell how excited we are about this place, we’ve caps-locked and bolded it, and added an extra exclamation mark for good measure).  

d’italiané kitchen @ Sunway Giza

Price Range	Splurge
Type of Cuisine	Italian
Recommended For	Satisfying Italian food cravings
Catphobia-Friendly	Very =)

We absolutely love Italian food (well, who doesn’t, right?) and have been craving for a great Italian meal since watching Eat Pray Love. (Bob: Remember the scene where Liz was having a meal with her Italian tutor? The one where she was absent-mindedly cutting a piece of food on her plate and this delicious-looking juice squirted out of it? Yeah, I think I pressed ‘rewind’ a little too many times during this scene...)

Lucky for us, d’italiané kitchen just hits that Italian spot. The food here is crazy good! Here are some of our favourites:

Demi Tasse Cafe @ Wisma Cosway

Price Range	Budget
Type of Cuisine	Western and Asian
Recommended For	A yummy, speedy power lunch
Catphobia-Friendly	Yes

Keep your Monday blues at bay with Demi Tasse Cafe!

If you’re working anywhere in the Jalan Raja Chulan / Jalan Pinang area, make sure you stop by this cute cafe for lunch one of these days! With its efficient service and super cheap prices, this is the perfect lunch spot for those with limited time to spare for a meal. The menu consists of not more than 20 items, but they are more than enough for an enjoyable meal.

Kitchen Creatures @ Centrepoint, Bandar Utama

Price Range	Mid-range
Type of Cuisine	Western (with a heavy focus on Italian)
Recommended For	A casual date
Catphobia-Friendly	No cats around! Yay! =)

We figured we should probably start off the blog with one of our favourite obsessions: Kitchen Creatures! We’d discovered this place completely by chance on one random day where we’d had the unfortunate experience of having a terribly unsatisfying lunch somewhere in Damansara Uptown. Do you guys ever get this thing where if you’d had a crappy meal, you feel this need to compensate yourself with more (preferably yummier) food? While we realise it’s a very unfortunate (and not to mention highly unhealthy) habit, we just can’t help it!

Anyway, we discovered this cute little place later that night and the first thing that caught our eye was the pricing range. Most of the pastas and pizzas were only about RM10 – RM13. But then, we saw this: