Signatures at KLCC: A food court experience

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Location: Signatures Food Court, Suria KLCC. (click on the location link above to see it on a map)
Catagory: Kiosk

This Subway outlet is a bit hard to find. Located inside the Signatures Food Court, it is part of the food court and not a restaurant on it's own. This is unlike most everywhere else. It is on the second floor of Suria KLCC. Suria KLCC is the upscale shopping mall and part of the Kuala Lumpur City Center. The more better known part of KLCC is the Petronas Twin Tower, the tallest twin towers in the world.

It's on the other side of the food court

Since it is within a food court, is has no seating of it's own. Instead it shares with the other outlets in the food court. Not far from it are a McDonald's and a sushi bar. This turns out to be great if you are eating with a party who want to eat something less interesting or even less healthy. The lunch crowd is huge because the food court serves not only the mall but a office workers from the twin towers come down here for lunch, too. Subway itself can be quite busy during lunch. The queue can stretch around the corner. Most people order take away but competition for seats in the food courts can be brutal. If you are shopping or not on a schedule, come after 2pm for a late lunch, This is a good time and the crowds are much thinner.

The saving grace for the food court is it's long and tall windows. It stretches for most of one side of the wall of the food court. The windows provide a nice view overlooking the KLCC park and it's water fountains. Lunch or dinner, the seats here are a winner. Competition for these seats can be less, too. Since the sun also shines brightly through the windows, a lot of local shun the areas near the windows in fear of being tanned. Their loss is our gain.

Is this a view or what?

Subway's service is serviceable. That means it's good but not great. It used to be much worse. The outlet would regularly run out of mayonnaise  when I went there. I get it if they run out of the more 'exotic' sauces but mayonnaise is a commodity. The crew just give a shrug or apologize half-heartily. This is embarrassing because a lot of tourists consider Subway close enough to be comfort food. But things have gotten better. Now whenever I go, they would tell you or put up a small sign saying if they ran out of anything.
If you are shopping or in a good sized party with people who are chained to rice, this is a good place as any. For a more quiet meal or a place to just sit and enjoy a conversation, the Avenue K outlet across the road is a better choice.