Moussandra Mediterranean & Tapas Restaurant Solaris Dutamas Publika - A touch of Mediterranean fare in Kuala Lumpur

Yearning for some delicious Greek, Spanish, or Italian? Where can you get all these food in Kuala Lumpur?

The answer is simple, look out for Moussandra Mediterranean & Tapas Restaurant located at A1-1-8 Solaris Dutamas 1, Jalan Dutamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, one of the pioneering Mediterranean restaurants in Kuala Lumpur. Moussandra started business in 1996 along Jalan Yap Kwan Seng before moving to Fahrenheit and now at the present location.

It serves a variety of dishes which are specialties dishes to each of these countries. We were introduced to the style of Mediterranean dining. The night started with a few Tapas dishes. Tapas are appetizer serves in small portion and usually the Greek have these with beer and drinks. The Tapas are usually eaten with either Baguette or Pita bread.

First dish on the table was the Berenjenas Picantes which is Pan Fried Eggplant With Chili and Tomato. This dish had a little sourish taste due partly to the tomato based that was used to cook the dish.

Next came the Gambas Al Ajillo which is Garlic Prawn in Olive Oil. The garlic and the olive oil blended well with the very fresh, succulent and firm prawns. One of the popular dishes, that are ordered by many patrons to this restaurant.

The third Tapas, was the Terrina De Pollo which is Chicken Liver Pate. This is a dish you either like it or hate it. For me, I find the Pate have a strong liver taste i.e the chef have used adequate chicken liver to cook it which, is good and its leave an after taste in your mouth.

The fourth Tapas we savour for the night was the Datilles Con Bacon which is Beef Bacon Wrapped Dates Stuffed With Almond. The Bacon was grilled to the right texture and when you bite into you can taste the soft dates and the crunch of the almond in one mouthful.

After our round of Tapas, the first main dish for the night is Pizza Primavera – It is a thin crust pizza topped with grilled eggplant, roasted red peppers, spinach, anchovies, mozzarella and basil to give it an added aroma. We usually have meat based pizza but I was surprised to taste the perfect combination of all the ingredients in one simple pizza.

Lastly we had the Paella Valenciana – It is a Saffron Flavoured Rice with Squid, Clams, Fish, Prawns, Mussels, Chicken, Chicken Sausage & vegetable. It is served in a wok like pan and the used of quality seafood have blended well with the rice.

After finishing our main dish, the first dessert we had was the French Creme Brulee, This is another one of the must order dish here. The Creme Brulee was served with a topping of caramelized brown sugar which, when eaten together with the Creme Brulee was sensational. It leaves a tingling sweetness in your mouth but not too sweet. Most Creme Brulee served at other restaurants are usually the liquid form of brown sugar which, often than not is too sweet. Hats off, to the chef for this wonderful dessert.

To end the night, another dessert that we had was the Vanilla Ice Cream. This is another new twist where the chef have added some Rum to complement with the simple Vanilla Ice Cream.

So, the next time you have a yearn for Mediterranean food, you can give Moussandra a try. Who knows you might fall in love with it. Bon Appetit.

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Savaro by Felda Solaris Dutamas Publika by Best Restaurant To Eat

Savaro by Felda

Serving local Malaysian food is always very challenging. Here we get so many different places or hangout that serves any of the local favourite specialities. But, sometime it might be tough to get a restaurant where they serves a variety and above average local dishes.

At Savaro by Felda which is strategically located at Solaris Dutamas, with a sense of innovation and creative cooking by the chef, you have a new twist to these authentic local kampong foods and a blend of Western delicacies.

It was open barely 3 months ago, the concept was to allow its customer a chance to enjoy these dishes in a pleasant, cosy and relax ambience. Some of the drinks and dishes are not to be found anywhere and is exclusive to the Savaro.

 

I ordered the first in-house specialty which is Savaro Soda (SS) Lime. It is a cold drink which comprise of Strawberry extract mix with Cream Soda and a tinge of Peppermint. When the drink arrive in a tall glass, part of the strawberry extract was still flowing down from the top, making it a pleasant surprise to see the extract flowing down, drop by drop to the bottom.

It was a very refreshing combination for a hot afternoon. With the stirrer, you can mix the extract and pinch the fresh peppermint leaves to extract out the mint flavour. Based on your preference, it is entirely up to you on how minty you want your drink to be.

Rating: 3 of 5

Date of Visit: 09/21/2013
Spending: Approximately MYR 10 ()

Other Dishes From Savaro

Aromatic Oxtail Soup 

Assam Pedas Fish - Bamboo Stalk Rice 

Bambu Savaro Rice 

Savaro Noodles

Aromatic Oxtail Soup At Savaro by Felda Solaris Dutamas by Best Restaurant To Eat

Oxtail Soup

This is another innovative dish. Here the chef, have added some curry into the cooking of this traditional English Oxtail Soup thereby enriching it to be best of both world. With the spices added to it, it marries the authentic Malay version sup ekor flavour to this soup.

With a chunk of Australian beef tail which was slow cooked, the aroma and taste of the soup was mesmerising. You can taste the strong stew slowly down the throat as you take sips of this warm soup.

Unfortunately, the serving of the soup is not that much. You really have to enjoy every little sip before it is finish.

Rating 4 of 5

Date of Visit: 09/21/2013
Spending: Approximately MYR 15 ()

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Solaris Dutamas Ante Kitchen And Bar Porklicious Meal By Best Restaurant To Eat

There aren’t many restaurant that serves Western Pork meals and I gotten the opportunity to taste one at Solaris Dutamas.

Ante Bar And Kitchen which is located at A2-G1-09, Solaris Dutamas, Sri Hartamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, well a catchy name but soon I found out that it is a term used in the game of Poker. In fact, the original idea for this restaurant was to have a concept of Poker theme where patrons can come and enjoy a game or two on Poker while relishing the nice food and drinks, but unfortunately this is not possible in Malaysia – given that this is a public place.

The ambience of this restaurant is very relaxing and cosy; they even have a leather sofa for you and your friends to chill out.

There are a few specialties pork dishes. We start off with the starter, which is the Enoki Bacon Skewers –the combination was unique where Enoki is used as the wrapped filling.

The chef uses only tender pork cutlet, which were very well marinated and wrapped with the Enoki and prime cut bacon strips served on a skewer and barbeque to the right texture served with a yolk dip. The taste was superb, the Enoki really blended very well with the succulent meat. The combination taste of bacon, pork and Enoki was very seductive i.e. you won’t mind a second helping.

Rating 4 of 5

Date of Visit: 2013-09-07

Spending: Approximately RM 26

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Crunchy Crispy Pork Knuckle

Succulent Char Grilled New York Pork Steak

Juicy Hogger Pork Ribs

Sweet Roast Pork Belly

Crunchy Crispy Pork Knuckle @Solaris Dutamas Ante Kitchen And Bar By Best Restaurant To Eat

Eating Pork Knuckle always leaves me a strong guilty feeling as the cholesterol level will hit the roof. To me, this dish is a hard to resist dish and although feeling guilty, this is a must try and eat dish.

There are many variations of Pork Knuckle serve in many restaurants. Firstly there is the salty German version, which is the most famous type serves in most places, the Chinese version either serves in butter sauce, deep fried version or roast. I have the luxury of tasting the fourth one today in the last 3 months. You can view my other Pork Knuckle rendezvous in my other post.

  

At Ante Kitchen And Bar, the version serves here is an Oven Baked version. The chef have deboned and cut into bite size pieces making it less challenging to savour this knuckle which is suitable as a sharing dish.

The first taste of the knuckle skin was very crispy and crunchy. It was very marinated and not too salty to my liking. After savouring the crispy knuckle skin, the next attack is on the meat portion.

As it is oven baked, the end result is that the meat was a little tougher; it is not so succulent compared to those that were deep fried as the deep fried version if fry properly is a little more succulent. If the pork knuckle is overcooked before being oven baked/fried, the meat can be a little harder, tough and less juicy. For me, only the crispy knuckle skin was the saving grace for this dish.

Rating 3 of 5

Date of Visit: 09/07/2013

Spending: Approximately RM 78.00

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Succulent Char Grilled New York Pork Steak Solaris Dutamas Ante Kitchen And Bar By Best Restaurant To Eat

Cooking a perfect steak especially Pork Steak is very challenging. First of all, it will how the chef will marinate the steak for a period of time. For some, they will not be bothering about marinating it and will have to depend on the sauce that accompanies to flavour the steak.

  

Here, the chef had taken the time to marinate the meat prior to grilling it. Moreover the meat choice used by the chef was excellent as it chooses the meat with a layer of fats that makes it succulent when grilled. 

We are able to taste the marinate, which was in grain into the meat. The steak comes with in-house prepared raspberry cream sauce, which is of a sweet base, and blended quite well with the succulent and juicy steak.

The garnishing of the steak was potato wedges which was deep fried and a baked green apple (the apple was first peel of its skin beyond going for a salt water bath and oven baked). An unique garnishing indeed.

Price RM43.00

Rating 4 of 5

Date of Visit: 2013-09-07

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Juicy Hogger Pork Ribs @Solaris Dutamas Ante Kitchen And Bar By Best Restaurant To Eat

The Pork Ribs was very well marinated and it was cooked to a soft texture before it is sent to the charcoal grill.

The use of the piglet ribs is much better as the meat is more tender and easier to cook and grill. The in house BBQ sauce was a perfect combination to the juicy ribs which makes it very flavourful and tasty.

  

The serving is a full rack ribs and this is ideal as dish to share with your friends and companion but I understand that there are customers who can eat the whole plate by oneself. If you are a beer drinker, this is an ideal complimentary dish.

Rating 4 of 5

Price RM 75.00

Date of Visit: 2013-09-07

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Solaris Dutamas Ante Kitchen And Bar Sweet Roast Pork Belly by Best Restaurant To Eat

When it comes to Roasted pork – the Chinese version is always my benchmark. I am a great fan of “Siew Pai” – Roast Pork Belly.

Benchmark of a perfect Roast Pork Belly is a real crisp with the right amount of salt infused marinate. Chef of this “Siew Pai” spent a great deal of time to poke the Pork Belly skin with a special nail type of hammer to poke whole so that when it is grill the heat will penetrate and make the skin very crispy and crunchy. Moreover this method will extract out the fats layer making the pork belly more succulent and tasty.

The version serves here is slightly different and it comes with the sweet caramelized sauce which was served with the meat. Frankly speaking, I would have preferred the sauce to be served as a special dip instead of spreading onto the meat. This makes the skin to be a little softer and causes the skin to lose the crisp and crunch which turn off a great dish.

Price RM23.00

Rating 2 of 5

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