Ante Kitchen @ Solaris Dutamas

Ante Kitchen & Bar: Round Two. Earlier entry: Oct. 16, 2012.

Ante's salad of lollo rosso lettuce & deep-fried pork trotter slices transforms fibrous, leafy virtue into crispy-fatty vice. Tossed with roasted peanuts for a salty crunch.

Up The Ante Burger, featuring an herb-laced pork patty swaddled in prime cuts of bacon strips, partnered with a runny-yolked egg, tomatoes, onions & sauteed mushrooms, sandwiched in fluffy raisin buns that seal a succulent deal for deliciousness.

Pork seldom gets more succulent than Ante's signature chop, served with a baked apple, berry cream sauce & mashed potatoes.

Let it pour: if the weather's rainy, customers receive 20 percent discounts off soups like this pumpkin warmer, a steal even at its original cost of barely RM14.

Ante now serves cocktails. Tasty & reasonably potent for RM28 each.

Highly drinkable house wine for RM18 a glass. Cute touch for the empty bottle decorative labels.

Not sure how much longer corkage will be waived, but we hope the fee will remain minimal.

Bonus stop: From Ante, it's only a five-minute walk to Barfly, a watering hole that offers some of Solaris Dutamas' cheapest liquor prices.

Most customers focus on beer at Barfly, but there's still a shortlist of cocktails.

From Mojitos to Apple Martinis, the ladies will likely like how these look and taste.

Ante Kitchen & Bar,

A2-G1-09, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 03-6206-3364

Open daily through late.
Barfly,
D1-G3-06, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.