Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Contemporary tasting menu, rooftop in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur
Molina
Fifty-One Floors Of Patience
Molina is on the 51st floor of a tower on Jalan Sultan Ismail, which is a lot of elevator for a dinner. The chef, Sidney Schutte, is from the south of the Netherlands, and he cooks with French technique, a Nordic sensibility and some Asian turns, leaning on seafood and vegetables. It holds one Michelin star in the 2026 guide.
Be ready for the long haul. The extended tasting menu runs about three hours, which makes it a special-occasion meal, not a weeknight bite. The guide praises the wine list and the views, and the skyline is exactly what you would hope for when the sun goes down over the towers. Valet parking is available, a small mercy in a city that tests your patience at the curb.
It is open Tuesday to Friday evenings from 6pm until midnight, and on Saturdays it adds a lunch seating from noon to 1:30pm and the evening one. It is closed Sundays and Mondays. I would send you here for an anniversary. For a Tuesday on a company card, I would send you somewhere with plastic stools.
- Order this
- The extended tasting menu, Seafood and vegetable courses, Wine pairing
- The damage
- $$$$
- Go
- A Saturday evening, or lunch if you want daylight
- Find it
- 51F, THE FACE Style, 1020 Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur 50250
- Website
- restaurant-molina.com