This post is dedicated to CJD, my dear friend who was so kind to fetch me from the airport, let me bunk in her house, took me out for lunch, and basically, making me feel just at home :). This is for you.

Quoted from www.top-hat-restaurants.com:

"Top Hat is in one of the Kuala Lumpur's older and swankier neighbourhoods, hardby the Kuala Lumpur City Centre and Petronas Twin Towers.

It is housed in one of the few remaining grand mansions still extant in the city, with a large garden of angsana trees, overgrown with heliconias.

The restaurant, at once relaxed and stylish, soothing and classic has a distinctive air of a more gracious and graceful past.

The dishes, cakes and desserts of Top Hat are created by the restaurant's team of innovative young chefs. The chefs place a premium on food that intrigues, but above all that tastes good.

The menu is changed every 3 months.

It includes classic Western dishes with a subtle touch of Asian flavours. For starters, a variety of soups and salads are always on the menu. Succulent seafood platters, spice encrusted rack of lamb, grilled rib-eye steak, panfried halibut and seafood pastas are standard favourites as main courses.

The chefs also present local Malaysian Nyonya dishes: Top Hats (a signature starter and locally known as kueh pie tee), laksa and a variety of sambals and curries are regularly featured.

For desserts, the restaurant offers home-made delights such as ice creams, bread and butter pudding, crumbles, a rich variety of cakes and local Malaysian desserts like cendol, ondeh-ondeh, pulut hitam. Customers often order the cakes to take home.

The restaurant's innovative menu is complemented by one of Kuala Lumpur's most extensive cellars of carefully selected wines. With over 200 old and new world labels, there is a wine to match the customer's food choice and budget.

Top Hat has devoted a section of the restaurant to celebrate and enjoy the noble grape. Top Hat's resident wine expert and buyer will also arrange wine tastings.

For cigar aficionados, a discreet room is available for enjoying a fine Cuban with after dinner drinks."

Located in the heart of KL city and housed in a double-storey colonial style bungalow, Top Hat restaurant offers patrons a fine dining experience in a classic environment. Aunty Maria, CJ's mom and owner of the restaurant makes everybody feel right at home with her charming personality. She brings the restaurant to life, literally.

CJ suggested that we have lunch at Top Hat on Tuesday, which I readily agreed. It was a good opportunity for the both of us to catch up on old times. :)

Here are some pictures which I took of Top Hat during lunch while waiting for the food to arrive.

An overview of the exterior of Top Hat.

A view of part of the interior.

The appetising cake counter... delicious stuff I tell you...

For private functions, consider using the Antique Bar.

The wine room offers a dazzling selection of wines to cater to your taste.

Currently the major highlight of Top Hat is the weekly jazz performance at Top Room. For more information, please check out Top Room's blog at http://thetoproom.blogspot.com .

Here's a view of Top Room (located on the 1st floor of the restaurant)

Lovely isn't it?

And here's a promotional poster of the event:

Early birds who book by Thursday get one free drink! :D

For lunch, I chose nyonya laksa... this is Grandma's secret recipe...

This is devilishly good stuff I tell you. Yummy!!!

It comes with a set of Top Hats, the flagship dish of Top Hat restaurant. Lovely.

The taukehnio's daughter had the seafood noodles. I tried some of it, and it gets the thumbs up from me!

For dessert, I had the Signature Tiramisu in Strawberry Sauce. This is Australian tiramisu, which is different from Italian tiramisu. Sorry ah HI, my friend says this beats the tiramisu at Alexis wor. :) One word for this tiramisu... Heavenly!

Dining at Top Hat is always a wonderful experience. If you do drop by KL, don't forget to go to Top Hat Restaurant and savour the good food they have to offer... you will not be dissappointed.

location map of Top Hat Restaurant.

Opening Hours: Everyday (Including Sundays and Public Holidays)

Check out their website for more information.