Best French Toast in Johor Bahru (JB)

A renowned restaurant with a minimalist decor that is pleasant yet perfect to spend quality time. Everything on the menu is curated to keep you coming over, especially their B&B French toast. Using their homemade Brioche bread, which makes it fluffier and buttery, it’s topped with caramelised banana, candied beef bacon, and vanilla seeded ice cream then finished with a drizzle of maple syrup and dusting of cinnamon powder. Each mouthful packs a punch of creaminess, subtle sweetness and delicately charred aroma that sums up a plate licking good meal. 

This white-washed eatery at Johor Jaya is easily identified in the bustling neighbourhood. The interior is equally beautiful too, and food-wise, the kitchen churns out a range of local delicacies and trove of toasts. Among the best sellers on the menu is their Kaya French toast. Two thick slabs of bread sandwiched with rich kaya is dunked into an egg batter then fried to gilded hue and crowned with a block of melting butter. It’s often chopped into cubes ensure your hands don’t go greasy and the whole dish hits the sweet spot between crunchiness and fluffiness with a subtle creaminess. With assorted roast beans teasing your nostrils, be sure of pairing your bread with a cup of joe. 

When we say Nut, you say Tella-- Nutella! Well, if you love the spread, you're in for a treat because you can truly express your love for it by digging in a reservoir of warm, molten Nutella in your toast here. One prong of your knife and you open up the flood gates, as the molten spread oozes out with ease, coating each cube of toast topped with cold, sweet ice cream which makes its way into your mouth, brilliant. 

Never denying, French toast is made for chocolate to play a part and Lequa Cafe nails this statement. The platter is tarted up with a scoop of ice cream, crunchy and colourful salad and slices of French toasts will rich chocolate filling. Each mouthful makes up a beautiful mess, with the chocolate lava oozing out and blending with the melting vanilla ice cream. Enjoy your meal in a charming and photogenic cafe.

During breakfast hours, this renowned restaurant has no room for an apple to fall, always a brisk business thanks to their comfort range of local delights. It’s usual to spot French toasts gracing up tables of patrons along aromatic Kopi O. Four slices of egg toasted bread is served piping hot with a dollop of kaya by the side, which exceeded our expectation. The kaya isn’t cloyingly sweet and is made fresh in the Kopitiam with eggs, sugar, and santan. Despite a simple outlook, then the bread is absolutely addictive, just like the way mum and grandma usually does. 

This famous eatery needs no introduction among Hong Kong cuisine lovers all over the world and what is Hong Kong food without a drool-inducing platter of French toast. Meticulously coated with egg and fried to crispy perfection, it’s then liberally loaded with butter, each bite brings a party on your palate and it's best consumed when warm. Definitely justifies all those calories that never pops in your mind while scoffing. 

The Toast isn't exactly a great cafe in general, but their french toast is absolutely delicious. Their style is similar to those in Hong Kong, where they buttered up the bread stuffed with peanut butter, and glazed with their choice of condiments. All and all, it's a pretty decent serving of french toast, and certainly will kick off the cravings. 

Season's Cafe is another casual place where you just take an order and enjoy. No fuss, no rush and simply affordable. Similarly, their french toast is made to be extremely simple, where the bread is soaked in eggs and cooked. It is then served with butter; nothing too fancy. So if you're in the mood for some humble beginnings, this might be the place for you.