Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Specialty coffee roaster and brunch café in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur
Feeka Coffee Roasters
A Pause on Jalan Mesui
Jalan Mesui is a short street off the loudest part of Bukit Bintang, all bars and massage signs and traffic. Feeka opened there in 2013 and named itself after fika, the Swedish habit of stopping for coffee and something to eat. The name is the whole philosophy. Inside it is bare walls, pale tones and plain furniture, a room designed to lower your pulse while the street outside does the opposite.
The coffee is the reason it lasted. A Kees van der Westen Spirit sits behind the counter like a piece of sculpture, and the roasting leans light, in the Nordic direction. If you do not want espresso, the baristas will brew you a Chemex or an AeroPress without making a ceremony of it. Weekdays fill with remote workers nursing a single cup, weekends with a slower crowd. Both are fine. Nobody hurries you.
The all-day brunch menu has been tuned over a decade. There are the classics, French toast and smashed avocado with dukkah and ricotta, and a few odd ones that work, like housemade almond butter toast and panko portobello mushroom tacos. Feeka has since opened elsewhere in the city, but Mesui is the original, and the original is where to go.
- Order this
- A light-roast filter on the Chemex or AeroPress, Smashed avocado with dukkah and ricotta, Housemade almond butter toast, Panko portobello mushroom tacos
- The damage
- $$
- Go
- A weekday late morning with a laptop, or a lazy weekend brunch
- Find it
- 19 Jalan Mesui, Bukit Bintang, 50200 Kuala Lumpur
- Website
- thewaytocoffee.com