Is there a coffee cocktail bar in PJ?

Yes. Dissolved Solids at 43-1 Jalan SS20/11, Damansara Kim, Petaling Jaya, is a coffee cocktail bar and cafe. We pour espresso, kopi-O, and serious coffee cocktails (Kopi Sour, Espresso Martini, Black Honey) alongside our cocktail menu.

Where can I find specialty coffee in Damansara Kim?

Dissolved Solids at 43-1 Jalan SS20/11, Damansara Kim, pours espresso and kopi-O. We open Tuesday to Sunday afternoons (14:00 or 15:00 depending on day) and run until late. Coffee is served both straight and in cocktails.

The Kopi Sour is our signature Malaysian coffee cocktail: whisky, kopi-O (Malaysian black coffee), gula melaka (palm sugar), lemon, foamed. It is essentially the Malaysian whisky sour and is one of the most ordered drinks at Dissolved Solids. Full recipe at https://dissolvedsolids.co/cocktails/kopi-sour/.

Do you make espresso martinis?

Yes. The Espresso Martini at Dissolved Solids is built with vodka, fresh espresso, coffee liqueur, and a touch of sugar, shaken hard and served cold with the classic foamed head. Recipe at https://dissolvedsolids.co/cocktails/espresso-martini/.

What is the difference between a cafe and a coffee cocktail bar?

A cafe primarily serves coffee (with food, sometimes pastries) during daytime. A coffee cocktail bar treats coffee as both a standalone drink and as a cocktail ingredient. Dissolved Solids is the second kind: we serve espresso and kopi straight, but the signature work is on coffee cocktails. We open afternoon to late night, not morning.

Coffee Cocktail Bar & Cafe in PJ · Damansara Kim, Petaling Jaya

If you are searching for a coffee cocktail bar in PJ, a cafe in Damansara Kim, or specialty coffee in Petaling Jaya served alongside serious drinks, this page is for you. Dissolved Solids is the coffee-forward outlet of our two PJ bars. We pour espresso and kopi-O straight, and coffee cocktails are a quiet speciality of the room.

Where we are

Dissolved Solids, Damansara Kim, Petaling Jaya. 43-1 Jalan SS20/11, 47400 PJ. Google Maps · WhatsApp +60 11-4008 7607. Tatler Asia Top 20 Bars 2025/26.

Eight minutes from TTDI, ten from Bandar Utama, fifteen from KL city centre. Easy street parking after 18:00. See the full bar page at /dissolvedsolids/.

What we mean by “coffee cocktail bar and cafe”

We are not a morning cafe. We are not a third-wave specialty pour-over room. What we are is a serious-cocktails operation that takes coffee equally seriously, both as a drink on its own and as a cocktail ingredient. Three concrete things follow from that:

Espresso and kopi-O are pulled to order. Our espresso machine runs throughout the afternoon and evening. Kopi-O is brewed with Malaysian robusta-blend ground coarse and steeped in cloth, the way the older kopitiams do it. Either is served straight, with milk, with condensed milk, hot or iced.

Coffee cocktails are a signature. The Kopi Sour, the Espresso Martini, and the Black Honey coffee mocktail are among the most-ordered drinks at the bar. We use robusta rather than arabica for cocktails because the bitterness and body hold up against ice, citrus, and dilution in a way arabica does not. See our journal piece on why robusta wins behind the bar.

The hours fit afternoon-to-late patterns. We open at 14:00 (Friday and Saturday) or 15:00 (Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday) and run until midnight or 01:00. Good for an afternoon coffee that turns into an evening cocktail, or a coffee meeting that does not need to end at 5pm. Closed Mondays.

Our coffee cocktail menu, the regulars

Kopi Sour. Whisky, kopi-O, gula melaka, lemon, foamed. The Malaysian whisky sour. Built on Malaysian palm sugar and Malaysian-style black coffee, balanced with citrus and a clean spirit base. RM 38.

Espresso Martini. Vodka, fresh-pulled espresso, coffee liqueur, a touch of sugar. Shaken hard, served cold with the classic foam head. We pull espresso fresh per drink, never from a stocked thermos. RM 42.

Black Honey (non-alcoholic). Cold-brew coffee, honey, lemon, and bitters. A coffee mocktail with proper acid and bitterness, built for people who want a serious zero-proof option. RM 22.

Beyond these three, the menu includes a coffee Old Fashioned, a tea-and-coffee infusion drink, and occasional seasonal coffee cocktails we run for a few weeks at a time.

For the “is this a cafe” question

If you are asking because you want to work from a cafe with good coffee in PJ: it depends on the time. Afternoons 14:00 to 18:00 are quiet and Wi-Fi-friendly. After 19:00 the room turns into a cocktail bar in feel; not impossible to work, but not ideal.

If you are asking because you want a place that pours coffee well in Damansara Kim or PJ generally: yes, this is one of those places. Order an espresso, a kopi-O, or a kopi peng to taste it on its own. Or order a Kopi Sour to see what we do with it in cocktail form.

If you are asking because you want a morning cafe with breakfast: we are not that. We open in the afternoon. For morning coffee in Damansara Kim, the older kopitiams along the Damansara Kim shoplots row are still the best of that format.

Why coffee in cocktails

Coffee in cocktails is not new but is often done poorly. A bad coffee cocktail tastes burnt, watery, or sugary. A good one keeps the body and bitterness of the coffee while balancing it with spirit and acid. The structural problem most bars run into is that they use arabica beans (the same beans that work for a flat white) in cocktails, where dilution from ice and citrus exposes how light arabica really is.

We use a robusta-forward blend ground coarse for cold-brew and a different robusta-leaning espresso blend for hot pulls. The full reasoning is in our journal article on robusta for coffee cocktails, but the short version is that robusta carries body that arabica cannot, which is exactly what a cocktail needs.

Malaysian kopi, in a cocktail context

Kopi-O is Malaysian black coffee, brewed strong with roasted-margarine-and-sugar beans the way the older kopitiams have done it for over a hundred years. It is not specialty-coffee in the third-wave sense. It is its own thing. In cocktails, kopi-O brings a slightly caramelised, slightly toasted edge that single-origin arabica does not. Our Kopi Sour leans on this: kopi-O for the coffee component, gula melaka for the sugar, lemon for the acid, whisky for the base.

If you want the full Malaysian coffee vocabulary (kopi, kopi-O, kopi peng, kopi-C, kopi gau), we wrote it up here: Malaysian kopi explained.

Drive times if you are looking for coffee cocktails in PJ

From TTDI: 8 minutes.
From Damansara Utama / Atria: 5 minutes.
From Bandar Utama / 1Utama: 10 to 12 minutes.
From Mont Kiara: 14 to 17 minutes.
From Bangsar: 15 to 18 minutes.
From KLCC / Bukit Bintang: 22 to 28 minutes.

Hours and reservations

Dissolved Solids (the coffee-forward outlet): Tuesday to Thursday 15:00 to 00:00, Friday and Saturday 14:00 to 01:00, Sunday 14:00 to 00:00. Closed Mondays.

For afternoon coffee or a coffee-cocktail evening, walk-ins work fine; the room is usually quiet before 19:00. For Friday and Saturday after 21:00, WhatsApp ahead.

Coffee cocktail bar in PJ.