A compelling cocoon of calm, a secluded slice of serenity: This month, Taman Tun Dr Ismail welcomes a community space that's sandwiched amid terrace homes across the street from a neighbourhood playground, serving cakes & coffee in a leaf-shrouded sanctuary. If you're restless for a great, green escape from the urban jungle, Outcast Coffee won't leave you cold.
Seemingly a forgotten alley transformed into a fairyland pathway, this was once a house like any other. But if you peek now past the trunks & branches that camouflage this address, beyond the vine-ravelled brick facade & the pebbled entrance, a veiled oasis beckons, with surroundings both soothing & seductive, simultaneously sunny & shaded, completely refurbished in a clean break from its past, flourishing with furnishing by local craftspeople Kedai Bikin. Upstairs, Airbnb rental lodgings are in the works, but below, it's a part-time coffee bar that's bracing for a stampede of cafe fanciers as well as a potentially versatile events venue where cultural soirees & artistic powwows might seem inevitable. These walls should soon have stories to tell.
Outcast Coffee is a roaming pop-up with a founder who's mainly made Bangsar his domain over the past two years - specifically, overseeing the coffee in PCLO Cafe, formerly DR.Inc & currently Organica Lifestyle. Here in TTDI, ask Jeremy to offer you an Asian-inflected piece of cake - perhaps the pandan Gula Melaka or the jackfruit Bundt - paired with his coconut latte, made with a La Marzocco espresso machine that's portable enough to be conveniently packed up & taken wherever Outcast Coffee next lays its hat & calls its home (the pop-up's name reflects its founder's feelings of being a touch outside KL's coffee mainstream - though with the callow, capricious cliques that commandeer the scene, there are certainly far worse fates).
Outcast Coffee TTDI
51 Medan Athinahapan 1, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. Tues-Sun, 10am-5pm
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