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2012-12-05
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They don't make 'em like this anymore: Furnishing a contemporary hotel with colonial history, this Majestic establishment is suffused with a sumptuous sense of nostalgia, evoking an era that's steadily inching out of living memory.Colonial Cafe's dining chamber, with its warm timber notes, leather chairs & white tablecloths, has stateliness to spare, but eagle-eyed customers will note there's also something of an atrium out back, blessed with sunlight streaming from a skylight.True to the settin
They don't make 'em like this anymore: Furnishing a contemporary hotel with colonial history, this Majestic establishment is suffused with a sumptuous sense of nostalgia, evoking an era that's steadily inching out of living memory.
Colonial Cafe's dining chamber, with its warm timber notes, leather chairs & white tablecloths, has stateliness to spare, but eagle-eyed customers will note there's also something of an atrium out back, blessed with sunlight streaming from a skylight.
True to the setting, the menu revisits classics like old-fashioned faggots (RM75++), a hearty, savory British winter warmer, made with minced beef, lamb & potentially some offal, paired with wild mushroom mash & mace-infused sauce.
Hometown fare: Malacca's chicken rice balls, a highlight of the Hainanese-dominated menu here.
Flagrantly fragrant rice, prepared painstakingly in small batches daily, with poached chicken that's smooth & succulent, plus soup & impeccable house-made condiments of chili & garlic. There's a 'but' nonetheless: this costs RM55++.
Mulligatawny (RM45++), reputedly once comfort food for employees of the East India Company. Colonial Cafe's curried lentil broth bears the telltale hallmarks of dahl.
Code 55 & 2 Bulat (shandy, gin, whiskey), a mixture that hearkens back to what happened here at The Majestic's location decades ago, when a mix-up over a Colt 55 & two bullets helped to prevent potential bloodshed (it's a long story).
East India Cocktail (cognac, maraschino liquor, cointreau, raspberry syrup, angostura bitters).
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