Modern French restaurant in a hotel in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur

Entier French Dining

French Lessons on the Forty-First Floor

3.5 of 5

Hotel restaurants on high floors usually sell you the view and hope you do not notice the food. Entier, on Level 41 of the Alila Bangsar, does it the other way round. The view is huge, the whole Brickfields and Bangsar sprawl laid out like a model railway, but the kitchen is the reason to ride the lift.

The name is an old French word for whole, and the house takes it seriously: seasonal produce, thoughtful sourcing, a menu built for sharing rather than for posing. Executive Chef Romain, born and raised in France, has run the kitchen since 2022. His instincts come from a family garden where vegetables went from the ground to the pan in an afternoon, and it shows in cooking that trusts a good ingredient to do most of the talking. The French base is classical. The accents are local and Japanese, which in Kuala Lumpur feels less like fusion and more like common sense.

The smart money goes to lunch. There is a weekday set and a weekend set, plus a lunch tasting menu, and the room is bright enough to see what you are eating. Dinner runs every night of the week with an à la carte list and a full tasting menu, and on some nights a burger with French manners. Leave room for dessert.

Order this

The weekday set lunch, The dinner tasting menu, Le Burger Gourmand, on the nights it runs, Whatever the seasonal à la carte says to share

The damage

$$$

Go

Weekday lunch for the set menu and the daylight view; dinner runs daily from 6 p.m.

Find it

Level 41, Alila Bangsar, 58 Jalan Ang Seng, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur

Website

entierfrenchdining.com