Renaissance Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru is a fast growing city in the South East of Malaysia and provides a key gateway to Singapore. It is not only home to Legoland for those with families, and countless excellent golf courses for those who wish to enjoy a round, but it is also home to Renaissance Johor Bahru, a luxury 5 star hotel whose attentive customer service and delicious vegan food are not to be missed by any traveller spending time in the area, vegan or not.
The Vegan Food
The signature restaurant at Renaissance Johor Bahru is called ‘BLD’ which stands for ‘Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner’, we had a chance to try out the vegan options at all of these mealtimes and were seriously impressed. A huge range of choice; excellent food knowledge; staff willing to make adaptations; supremely tasty vegan creations; the list of things that make being a vegan here thoroughly enjoyable goes on and on. Breakfast had some great vegan options including traditional rice porridge (congee), fruits and cereals as well as bread with every vegan’s favourite, Marmite.
When it comes to dinner, Cafe BLD is definitely the place to go for some laid back vegan eating with friends. It was informal, there was lots to choose from and the delicious vegan food just kept on arriving on our table. We loved that they adapted some of their amazing Italian food for us including a seriously good vegan pizza and a tasty spinach, tomato and garlic spaghetti. But Renaissance Johor Bahru Hotel has other opportunities to dine well as a vegan too. After vegan canapés and cocktails in the luxurious Club Lounge, we headed down to the hotel’s fine dining Cantonese restaurant, ‘Wan Li’, where we ate a lovely authentic Cantonese vegan meal, here you can read about are vegan meal at Wan Li. We were also treated to a specially prepared vegan lunch by their multi-award winning Chef Khairuzzaman, here you can read more about our awesome vegan food art adventure at Cafe BLD. Our whole experience at Renaissance Johor Bahru Hotel really shows off the fact that following a vegan lifestyle doesn’t have to mean that you are resigned to a life of salad when eating out.
The Vegan Essentials
There were non-feather pillows available in our room and the amenities in our room were from the ‘Tokyo Milk’ range – we’ve contacted them to enquire about animal testing and animal derived ingredients so watch this space. The spa is due to open in 2015 so we weren’t able to see if the products which will be used are vegan.
The Vegan Food Quest Verdict
Check in here stay in the best luxury hotel in Johor Bahru and sleep in a modern comfortable suite, visit the Club Lounge for vegan cocktails and canapés and swim in the lovely outdoor pool. Best of all, eat a huge variety of impressive and delicious vegan food at breakfast, lunch and dinner, enjoy everything from authentic Indian or Cantonese delights to fine dining, vegan ‘food art’ created by one of Malaysia’s top 10 Chefs.
We were guests of Renaissance Johor Bahru but please rest assured that their generosity in hosting us didn’t influence our views
Renaissance Johor Bahru
No 2, Jalan Permas 11
Johor Bahru 81750
Malaysia.
Telephone: +60 7 3813333
Cost From: £70 / $105 per night (May 2015)