The Straits Penang

Great food and reasonable price for the location. Nice ambiance and food portion is just enough to order another Appetiser😂 Was going to try the Lemak Laksa but was sold out since Lunch time. Will come again to try next week.

Our lunch here was arranged by the event organizer.
Fabulous food, comfortable atmosphere and excellent service staff.

Very delicious food . Ordered beef rendang and asam fish. Drinks also superb . Local flavour with comfortable surrounding 👍

Place was quiet and the staff was friendly. Overall food is quite tasty, the milky fish soup has springy rice noodles which is good.

Good price, good service, good ambiance, moderate food

New restaurant in front of Gurney Paragon Concourse at ground floor, at the base of St Joseph’s Novitiate. Service is a little slow, took 40 mins to get four servings out and they forgot an order of seafood otak-otak (but wasn’t included in the bill so that’s ok). Overall, food is average. Price is decent for location and ambiance is quiet. They plan to have live music at night. Portion size is ok but they could add some fresh vegetables for the price. Not sure if it’s because the food was slow that it came lukewarm. Would go again as a budget option in Gurney Paragon. Three lunch sets and one ala carte meal came up to RM95.70.

We stood there at the entrance waiting to be seated but no one attended to us, because the waiter was having dinner with his girlfriend, occupying one of the tables. He eventually attended to us after prompted by the auntie/chef. Chicken in the chicken rendang was cold though the taste was was, using well balanced spices. The taste of laksa was good, but it lacked ingredients, didnt see any fish at all. Spring rolls were very plain with only turnips. Otak-otak was good. The dessert that came with the 'set' was only barli water! Overall dishes were quite pricey considering the size and and ingredients used. All of us agreed we felt like we were not welcomed.

It was a horrible experience. The noodles were tasteless, similarly to plain water. The prawns were uncooked, the chicken was uncooked, the chicken chop was 'overwhelmed' with salt. It took more than 45 minutes for the food to be served. It was a truly bad experience for the whole family. Not recommended. ☹☹☹

The quality of the food especially the milky fish noodle where the noodle is very soggy. The desert has a very poor quality where it is extremely diluted and not ingredients. Lastly the ginger lemon was too spicy as they put too much ginger inside. Food very pricey.

Food was edible but underwhelming, definitely wont be revisiting. Sad to say but your neighbourhood cafe might taste better…

Wouldn’t recommend this place as it wasn’t tasty, and kinda pricey.

Good food and good service

Terrible food