The brand new Culina KL is nearly 20,000 square feet and fills out every nook, cranny and corner of this sprawling space very nicely. Ensconced in the swanky Shoppes at Four Seasons Place, this marks the first international footprint of a 30-year-old Singaporean institution, the original Culina in Singapore’s Dempsey area. Owned and operated by Singapore’s Como Group (which owns restaurants like the Michelin-starred Candlenut), Culina KL houses an upmarket grocer, bakery, wine shop and bistro that takes up nearly an entire floor.
“We just celebrated our 30th anniversary. In Singapore, Culina is more than a consumer-facing brand, we have had three decades of experience supplying fine foods and wines to fine-dining outlets, restaurants and hotels so we call ourselves the purveyor of fine foods and wines, because we source from all over the world. “So the next milestone is to expand beyond Singapore and the dining scene in Kuala Lumpur is more vibrant than ever, so when we had this opportunity to open here, we reviewed the space and decided to take all of it, because the space is essential for what we intend to do here,” says a Como Group spokesperson.
One of the interesting elements about Culina KL is that it is an all-encompassing experience. The market houses fresh produce like tomatoes from France, octopus from the Bay of Biscay in Spain, Australian lamb and Miyazaki wagyu from Japan as well as European canned seafood and cheeses and condiments from all over the wo.