Best Panna Cottas in KL

While Chequers, an American diner restaurant, may be more widely known serving handmade Waffles using premium local & seasonal ingredients, they also serve a mean panna cotta. Infused with mangoes, their panna cotta melts in the mouth and its delectable taste is paradise on the palate. The texture is just the right balance between soft and firm. On top of that, Chequers’s panna cotta has a unique blend in taste between sweet and sour thanks to the addition of the mangoes. Mango lovers everywhere, this one is for you!

Villa Danieli, Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel's award-winning Italian restaurant, is a free-standing trattoria styled after a rustic country home. Villa Danieli's Strawberry Panna Cotta is firm, smooth and intensely creamy. For those who have a lesser than sweet tooth, a treat for you is this panna cotta isn't too overly sweet as the strawberries and strawberry syrup it is drizzled with are a delightful match with the dessert in balancing out its refined taste between sweet and sour.

Forgoing unnecessary importation, ‘From Farm to Fork’ is their motto. Roost KL strives to utilise wherever possible local sustainable ingredients sourced with care direct from its farms. Their Fresh Jersey Milk Panna Cotta is a dainty-yet-decadent dessert, combining the goodness of locally produced Jersey milk, coconut and passion fruit. At a glance from afar, the panna cotta has a solid outlook, however, don’t be deceived by its appearance at first glance – their panna cotta is in fact extremely soft, smooth and wobbly!

Svago has a stunning interior, and one of the best views of the city skyline from its balcony. For a quiet, lovely and romantic evening with your loved one, this is no doubt the place to be as on top of a perfect ambiance, you'll also be given a live music treatment every night. The menu at Svago represents refined continental cuisine with an Italian twist. As for their desserts, their Mandarin Panna Cotta is prepared just right and its smoothness and perfect symmetry of flavours balancing between sweet and sour from the mandarin will make you call for seconds!

Porto Romano Restaurant, named after an ancient Roman port in present day Albania, started in 2005 in what was then called City Square, in Kuala Lumpur. Porto Romano celebrates the art of Mediterranean cuisine through both its food and ambiance which is designed to embody the Mediterranean love for large joyful feasts with family and friends. The panna cotta served here is exquisite in its creamy smooth texture, drizzled in caramel and garnished with walnuts. 

La Risata, meaning 'the laughter', are two lively restaurants in the suburbs of Ampang and Medan Damansara that have been serving some of the best Italian food in Kuala Lumpur since 1996. Well known for their good variety of authentic Italian dishes ranging from traditional wood-fired oven thin pizzas to pastas, meat and seafood dishes that exude the very essence of Italian dining – rustic, hearty and good. Their desserts are not lacking in their quality, either, and the same can be said for their panna cotta. La Risata’s panna cotta is a smooth and soft cream pudding. Topped with their memorable caramel sauce, it goes down the throat perfectly.  

Squirrelled away a stone throw away from KLCC, Sassorosso (meaning 'Red Stone' in Italian) is housed in a cozy and quaint bungalow similar to one from the 1940’s era. The food here is as authentic and good as they come in terms of a really good Italian meal, ending with their desserts. Sassarosso’s vanilla bean panna cotta has an amazing texture in that it is not too dense, yet not too light – and tastes just right in terms of its sweetness. It derived its refined flavour from the drizzled reduced red wine, which brought forth with it a note of sweetness and the plum which promoted mild acidity alongside fruity sweetness. Simply put, Sassarosso’s all of those combined made for one heavenly creamy panna cotta which your taste buds will thank you dearly for.