KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 -- When Dewakan opened in 2015 at Shah Alam's Kolej Damansara Utama (KDU) university campus, it already stood out.

For the first time, we had a restaurant bringing local ingredients to our table in ways we never before imagined.

The driving force of the restaurant is Darren Teoh, who once lectured molecular gastronomy in KDU and staged in Copenhagen's Noma and Germany's Restaurant Amador.

Throughout the following decade, Dewakan has not wavered from its ingredient perspective.

A shift from Shah Alam to KL in 2020 brought them to the 48th floor of the Naza Tower, where sweeping views of the city's skyline is also integral to the dining experience.

Along the way, they were awarded two stars and a Green Star by the...