29 fine dining across 2 cities. All Malaysia guides.

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All 29 fine dining

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Dewakan

Dewakan holds two Michelin stars and a Green Star in Kuala Lumpur for chef Darren Teoh's single tasting menu, built on indigenous Malaysian ingredients.

Au Jardin

Au Jardin holds a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, plating produce-led European tasting menus inside a corrugated warehouse at Penang's Hin Bus Depot.

Gēn

  • ★ 4.7
  • RM398-498
  • Johnson Wong
  • George Town
  • Penang

Gēn is chef Johnson Wong's Michelin-listed tasting room in Penang, building menus from Malaysian produce and local fish down to their bones.

Akar

Akar earned a Michelin star in the 2026 guide for chef Aidan Low's Kuala Lumpur tasting menu, which pairs endemic Malaysian ingredients with Japanese methods.

Beta

Beta holds a Michelin star in Kuala Lumpur for chef Raymond Tham's Tour of Malaysia tasting menu, which moves course by course through the country's regions.

Molina

Molina holds a Michelin star in Kuala Lumpur for Dutch chef Sidney Schutte's seafood and vegetable tasting menus, served 51 floors up facing the Twin Towers.

Terra Dining

Terra Dining earned a Michelin star in the 2026 guide for self-taught chef Yu Cheng Chong's French-leaning, eleven-course Malaysian menu in Kuala Lumpur.

Chim by Chef Noom

Chim by Chef Noom holds a Michelin star in Kuala Lumpur for Thaninthorn Chantrawan's seasonal Thai tasting menus inside TSLAW Tower, Imbi district.

Nadodi

Nadodi runs chef Sricharan Venkatesh's progressive South Indian tasting menus from the Four Seasons Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, inside the Michelin Guide.

Sood by Chef Ton

  • ★ 4.5
  • Chef Ton
  • George Town
  • Penang

Sood by Chef Ton brings the Bangkok chef behind Le Du to a 150-year-old Farquhar Street building, Penang's loudest and latest new Thai dining room.

Mémoire

  • ★ 4.4
  • Chong Chian Fung
  • George Town
  • Penang

Mémoire stages chef Chong Chian Fung's molecular tasting menus on Beach Street, Penang childhood nostalgia rebuilt with smoke, dry ice and sparklers.

Curios-City

Curios-City hides an unsigned wabi-sabi dining room on Lebuh Victoria, pairing European technique with Malaysian twists across set menus in Penang.

Firewood

Firewood cooks everything over an open flame in a lofty heritage building on Pitt Street, Penang's purest expression of live-fire restaurant dining.

Kebaya Dining Room

  • ★ 4.4
  • RM138-158
  • George Town
  • Penang

Kebaya Dining Room sets Peranakan set menus under chandeliers at the Seven Terraces hotel, Penang's dressiest take on Straits Chinese cooking.

Sushi Azabu

Sushi Azabu, the Kuala Lumpur outpost of a New York sushi house, runs a 12-seat omakase counter at Isetan KLCC with seafood flown in twice weekly.

Blacklinen

  • ★ 4.3
  • Benny Yeoh
  • George Town
  • Penang

Blacklinen dry-ages beef beside a charcoal grill on level nine of The Millen hotel, chef Benny Yeoh's dark-toned grillroom above Penang's seafront.

Feringgi Grill

Feringgi Grill has run since 1973 at the Rasa Sayang resort, old-world trolley service and ocean views at the smartest table on Penang's beach strip.

Lai Po Heen

Lai Po Heen serves classic Cantonese dim sum inside the Mandarin Oriental hotel, overlooking Kuala Lumpur's KLCC park from its Jalan Pinang dining room.

Yun House

Yun House is Michelin Selected in Kuala Lumpur for its pork-free Cantonese menu and dim sum, set inside the Four Seasons Hotel on Jalan Ampang.

Bijan Bar & Restaurant

Bijan Bar & Restaurant has served refined Malay cooking on Jalan Ceylon in Kuala Lumpur since around 2003, in a room built on traditional Malay decor.

Hide

Hide serves a fixed tasting menu led by fish and shellfish at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Kuala Lumpur, where chef Shaun Ng cooks modern Malaysian food.

Jie

Jie in Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, serves two 10-course tasting menus of creative Chinese cooking built on Western technique by a chef of Chaozhou descent.

Li Yen

Li Yen is Michelin Selected in Kuala Lumpur for its Cantonese classics and Hong Kong-style dim sum, served inside the Ritz-Carlton on Jalan Imbi.

Sabayon

Sabayon serves chef Steve Ariffin's seasonal European degustation menus on the 51st floor of EQ Kuala Lumpur, above Jalan Sultan Ismail and facing the towers.

Sushi Ryu

Sushi Ryu runs two omakase menus at an eleven-seat counter inside Platinum Park, Kuala Lumpur, with lunch from RM279++ and dinner from RM579++.

La Vie

La Vie serves Asian-inflected European dinners in the Le Dream Boutique Hotel on Rope Walk, a Michelin-listed Penang room without the ceremony.

Thirty8

Thirty8 runs live show kitchens across Western, Chinese and Japanese counters on the 38th floor of the Grand Hyatt, Kuala Lumpur, with a KLCC view.

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