Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Specialty coffee roaster and brunch café in Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI), Kuala Lumpur
Common Man Coffee Roasters
Roaster First, Brunch Second
Common Man was founded in Singapore in 2013 and the TTDI branch, in Plaza Vads, is one of its outposts in Kuala Lumpur. It is a roaster first. The company roasts its own beans, sources arabica globally and runs a coffee academy, which means the person making your flat white has been taught by the same people who roasted the beans. That chain of custody is the point.
The menu is all-day brunch, house-made burgers and what Time Out calls their infamous pancakes. The website says breakfast, brunch and evening dining with happy hour deals, so the room works from first coffee to last beer. They sell retail beans, filter coffees and cold brews, and the website also lists wholesale and office coffee, which tells you how seriously the roasting is taken.
Time Out lists hours of 8am to 9pm daily, though I would check since the page is undated. Come in the morning, when the room is full of people who work with laptops and need a good double shot. Order the pancakes, order the coffee and stay as long as the table will let you.
- Order this
- The pancakes, A filter coffee, House-made burger
- The damage
- $$
- Go
- Weekday mornings
- Find it
- A-G-1 New Podium, Plaza Vads, 1 Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad, Kuala Lumpur 60000