The kind of bar in which colonial planters would have knocked back G&Ts, this retro watering hole (in business since 1921) oozes nostalgia. The bar is worth visiting even if you don't eat a meal at the adjoining grill room, where little seems to have changed since Somerset Maugham, who stayed in the attached hotel, tucked into its famous sizzling steaks.
Coliseum Cafe
Kuala Lumpur
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