Café La Croisette

Café La Croisette, Dadi Cinema Pavilion KL

Café La Croisette, Dadi Cinema Pavilion KL

Words: Rebecca Cannon
Photos: Rich Callahan

The year is any year from your youth. You’re going out to the movies. You’re excitedly planning what you’re going to eat as much as you’re thinking about the film. This is as good as young life gets. Now at Café La Croisette at Dadi Cinema, you can relive the magic but with a more adult taste palate and more freedom of choice over what to eat. Move aside bland popcorn and artificial soft drinks, a real-food cinema café is in town.

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Café La Croisette
Café La Croisette
Café La Croisette
Café La Croisette
Café La Croisette

Café La Croisette – Dadi Cinema Pavilion KL

Drinks Menu

All the drinks you would expect and some you might not are on offer at Café La Croisette. Our little group sampled the Latte (RM 12.90), Matcha Latte (RM 13.90), Tropical Fruit Milkshake (RM 15.90), and the entire collection of Cold-pressed Juices (RM 12.90). The juices are all their own concoction of different fruit and/or vegetables and named after what the specific minerals and vitamins help your body do, such as Immunity. As well as restoring my health and tasting good, these juices are an excellent choice for a movie theatre café because of their screw-top. You can safely sample them before, during, or after the movie and not worry about spillage in between. The milkshakes are for the kids and kids at heart but are all fruit-based and not all contain ice cream. The tropical fruit milkshake we tried got its creaminess from coconut milk. The coffee beans are a Brazilian mix, roasted locally for a nice dark-roast flavour. The matcha is imported from the Ujitawara Kyoto region, the birthplace of green tea. All are good quality and a welcome alternative to cinema soda.

Dadi Cinema Pavilion KL
Matcha Latte & Latte
Dadi Cinema Pavilion KL
Cold-pressed Juices
Dadi Cinema Pavilion KL
Tropical Fruit Milkshake

Snacks at Café La Croisette

Café La Croisette caters to all people no matter what time of day or what your hunger level is. So if your hunger level is minimal, but you want a little something-something before or to indulge on during the movie, the snack menu has you covered. We started with the Donut Balls (RM 9.90) while we waited for our Wedges (RM 9.90) to be cooked and have raclette cheese melted on top (you can add on a serve of raclette to just about anything you see fit for RM 12.90). The doughnuts are my favourite kind- yeast and rolled in cinnamon sugar. This makes them light and balanced as the quick sugar spike is just from the light dusting of sweet cinnamon and sugar outside. They are individual bitesize and easy to find in their container in a darkened movie theatre. The wedges are great to share with friends or make a meal of them yourself. The wedges are crunchy outside, soft inside, and you can add on a luscious serve of raclette to smother them in thick, tasty, melted cheese – a heavenly savoury treat. Watch out for the signature snack of Café La Croisette, the Chouchous or caramelized peanuts. If you’re lucky, you might even see the staff making them hot in the pan. They’re sold in sealed cone cups that you can keep in your bag until the movie starts. Be warned, though, once you start, you can’t stop! You’ll be amazed and saddened you’ve reached the end of the packet. Addictive.

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Donut Balls
Café La Croisette
Wedges with Raclette
Dadi Cinema Pavilion KL
Chouchous in the Making
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Chouchous
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Cotton Candy Made Ala Minute

Hot Dogs and Sandwiches

If you’re after a meal, Café La Croisette has you covered with plenty of traditional movie theatre food and some French ones as well. We tucked into some Hotdogs – Classic (RM 14.90) and Bleu (RM 17.90) – Melted Raclette Cheese Sandwich by Leon (RM 19.90), Triple Decker Croque Monsieur and Smoked Salmon Croissant Sandwich (RM 18.90). The hotdogs, featuring chicken sausages, were a firm favourite. The Classic was covered with enough ketchup and mustard to keep any traditionalist happy. At the same time, the Bleu was a sophisticated take on the original with strong blue cheese added on top, beef bacon, and cranberry for sweetness. It was a complex pairing of flavours that left us wanting more. If you’re feeling a bit fancier, the smoked salmon croissant sandwich might be more to your taste. As its name suggests, it is a croissant with salmon and tomato slices, onions, and lettuce to make it a sandwich, all lightly toasted. The Triple Decker Croque Monsieur (RM 17.90) is a tasty grilled cheese toastie, using halal turkey ham and Emmental cheese. Its been handily cut into triangles for easy eating and so you can witness the cheese stretch as you pull each piece apart. The melted raclette cheese sandwich is made for real cheese lovers. It does not shy away from using the raclette and skips over the salad part of a sandwich. It has some chicken breast meat added in with mustard so that you can pretend you’ve eaten from more of the food pyramid rather than just cheese. Oh, that melted cheese!

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Bleu Hot Dog
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Classic Hot Dog
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Smoked Salmon Croissant Sand
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Melted Raclette Cheese Sandwich by Leon
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Triple Decker Croque Monsieur

The Cabinet – Café La Croisette

The cabinet out front of Café La Croisette will draw you in like a moth to a flame. There are many cakes, croissants, and bakery goods to choose from. We couldn’t resist trying the Pain au Chocolate (RM 9.90), Raisin Danish (RM 11.90), and two types of muffins; Chocolate and Blueberry (RM 9.90). As you would expect from a French owner-chef, the pastries are flaky, buttery, slightly moist on the inside, and served warm. The correct ratio of chocolate to croissant has been carefully measured to ensure you know you’re eating both simultaneously rather than a lump of chocolate. The muffins are also served warmed and can be bitten straight into, so you end up wearing some on your nose or pulled apart with fingers. The blueberry muffin is a column of blueberry jam in the centre and a few blueberries on top, making it nice and sweet.

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Muffin
Café La Croisette
Pastries

Ice-cream

You haven’t been to the movies unless you’ve had or had to drag yourself past the ice cream. Café La Croisette is no exception with several ice cream desserts on offer. To help those people with cravings but tight wallets in these times, Café La Croisette is offering a scoop of vanilla ice cream for just RM 2, a fantastic deal! While we didn’t sample the sole scoop, the vanilla ice cream is quality. I know so from the Banana Split (RM 22.90) we did try. This banana split is the classic serving of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate ice creams with a large, ripe banana and plenty of whipped cream, just what the kid in me who’s going to the movies wants.

Banana Split
Banana Split

Café La Croisette

Café La Croisette is a welcome addition to and new concept for a night out at the cinema in KL. There’s plenty of seating so that you can calmly enjoy a bite and a drink before or after a movie, or just as easily take the food inside with you. Our Mon loves the trailers, so the giant screens showcasing the latest and upcoming releases just might have been enough entertainment for her (melty scoop of raclette in hand, of course). Although, on a side note, the seats in the Dadi STAR MAX hall are incredibly comfortable and the Dolby Atmos sound system and RGB 4K Laser Projector are fabulous. It’s worth dragging yourself away from the trailers and seeing a full feature inside the cinema.

Reasons to visit Café La Croisette: Make an easy event of your movie experience by having nice food before or during the movie. Watch all the trailers as you chat away with friends over some food or drinks at the seated part of the café. Options more than popcorn and soda. Be sure to try the chouchous and enjoy the freedom of melted a serve of raclette on anything you desire.

Café La Croisette Menu
Café La Croisette Menu

Café La Croisette
Dadi Cinema Pavillion KL Lobby
Level 5, Connection, Pavilion
Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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6 Comments

  1. Oh! It’s a cafe outside, not in the cinema and you can eat while watching a movie or something.

  2. Oh my! I would have a hard time concentrating on the movie. LOL!

  3. Oh what a tempting way to bring people in to enjoy something that makes you salivate rather than just a box of popcorn that “breaks the bank”.

  4. Dinner + movie at the same time would be a good use of time 😀

  5. He he… I am going to make a mess on the cinema floor! It’s hard to concentrate and eat at the same time.

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