Ground Hog

This restaurant and bar set along TTDI's busiest stretch is worth a visit, especially if you love yourself a meaty affair. Sporting walls painted in royal blue and cream-coloured cushion seats, here's a modern venue for lunch with your colleagues. Alternatively, make it here for an after-work dinner and bring your own bottles — there's no charge for corkage! If you're here in the day, look to the affordable lunch deals, priced from RM10 for a main and a fizzy drink. The Char Siew & Pork Belly On Rice (RM18) promises comfort — the meaty duo comes doused in lots of flavour-packed 'zhup' to go with rice. For dinner, the focus turns to their Western pork-laced dishes instead. Order the Hog's Chop (RM29) that features a whopping 500g slab of premium chop, pan-roasted with herbs and black pepper. Otherwise, try the Fortune Fettucine (RM19), little ribbons of pasta lusciously coated in a salted egg yolk sauce with bacon bits.
Avg price per person: RM30
Photo by Burppler Erica Jioe

Swing by to Ground Hog (TTDI) if you feels like having a porky day! This restaurant is relatively new in the block, thus I decided to give it a try. Step in and enjoy the cosy, modern half-restaurant half-bar kinda of atmosphere that will spoil you with all sorts of drool-worthy pork dishes :9 The staffs are very friendly and helpful btw!

There’s so much going on in the menu, starting from salad, bread, pasta to pork chop. I decided to give their Hog’s Chop (RM29) a try. Approximately weighing 500 gram of premium slab pork chop pan roasted with herbs and black pepper, placed on top of smooth puréed potato infused with milky + buttery goodness. The dish is perfected with healthy serving of freshly made red cabbage slaw, yumms!! I heard that usually they’ll use apple purée to replace the potato purée, unfortunately today they ran out of the apple purée. However, in my honest opinion, they shouldn’t take out the potato purée completely because it’s really good! Maybe they should serve both potato purée and apple purée to give the combo of both salty, tangy and sweet tastes.

For the drink, I decided to give their “fancy drinks” a try. It’s basically their house collection of non-alcoholic drinks. I ordered the Cranberry Citrus (RM10), the pink coloured drink came in a tall glass topped crushed mint leaves. It’s very refreshing in general but I can’t really taste the cranberry, it’s more of like a glass of orange juice taste in my opinion… The staff told me that they are also famous for Lemon Lime Bitters (RM10), but unfortunately they are running out of Angostura bitters today 😞

Payment: Cash (temporary) & Credit card
Smoking: yes (outside seatings)
Air-conditioning: yes
Parking: Tough a little
Children friendly: Yes
Halal: No
Alcoholic drink: yes, BYOB is allowed
Price: Quite reasonable, portion is quite huge that you may want to order for sharing :)