Note: Bean Reserve is now closed.
Not far from Jalan Kemuja's row of eateries like Southern Rock Seafood and Fierce Curry House is Bean Reserve. Operated by the same team as Brewmen, the café serves as a coffee spot for folks using co-working space The Co. Of course, that shouldn't stop the café-hopping crowd from hanging out here, because what awaits them is soft-serve ice cream, among other things.
Bean Reserve makes their own cereal milk soft-serve ice cream and in the future will add more flavours such as chocolate and coffee. Unlike other KL varieties of soft serve, the topping here is simple – cornflakes. If you want something a little more complex with a little more coffee, get the soft-serve affogato. For a quick meal, they serve simple sandwiches like smoked salmon, pulled beef, and a turkey ham pineapple variety dubbed the 'Hawaiian'.
While Brewmen is famous for their nitro coffee, Bean Reserve adds one more choice to the nitro variety – Earl Grey tea infused with nitrogen to give it a foamy top, which may easily get mistaken for a pint of beer. Besides that, there's also chai latte (with chai syrup made in-house), a drink that is slowly creeping into the menu of KL’s cafés.
With nitro drinks and soft-serve ice cream, Bean Reserve is a refreshing addition to the local café scene. But if you're here for just coffee sans nitrogen, you can't go wrong with a flat white.