Marini’s On 57 is the new sky bar and restaurant right next to the magnificent KLCC Petronas Twin Towers. Since F’s birthday was Friday and she requested to celebrate it at somewhere new, we decided to try out this most buzzed new place in town. It was raining heavily, literally pouring cats and dogs, F and I left office early so we managed to reach KLCC before 6pm. Our first impression of the place was somewhat started off at a bad note when the lift that was supposed to take us straight to the Bar and Restaurant was not working and we waited like 15 minutes downstairs at the stuffy alley leading to the lift. Later, the staff gave up on the lift and took us to the office lifts instead which we had to change 2 lifts and walked one floor up from level 56 to the Bar and Restaurant located at level 57. That was actually the most trouble that I had to go through to get to a bar, not forgetting the walk from KLCC through the heavy rain.

When we got to the bar, the hostess and waitresses were clearly not ready for the crowd that came in together after the lift incident, they were so disoriented and unorganized in terms of assigning tables. We got one of the last few tables by the windows after some miscommunications and walking from one end to the other end. We tried to make reservations earlier that week but was told that reservations were full on Friday evening and they will only take walk in customers only depending on table availability. We were happy to get our table right next the KLCC Petronas Twin Tower, despite the heavy rain tried to dampen our spirits. The rest of the girls were late (as usual) so we started ordering their 5pm-9pm happy hours drinks first and some bar nites while waiting for the table. We tried to esquire about the restaurant across the hall as we wanted to have dinner when the rest of the girls came but the waiters in the Bar seemed totally lost and their supervisor had to came and check with us on what exactly that we were asking for. Since the Restaurant was just opened a day earlier on Thursday, we chose not to make a fuzz out of it and thanked the waiter who brought us the menu of the Restaurant….

The place was still empty at 6pm (maybe because of the rain) but quickly filled up within the next hour (you can see from the pictures below). As it was raining, their alfresco area was closed and only reopened after the rain stopped much later into the evening. When the rain finally stopped at 7 something, we had a glimpse of a rainbow running through the KL city skyline. I must say that the view from the Bar was pretty amazing, one can admire the KLCC Petronas Twin Tower up close, and watch the sunset over the other side of KL, also the skyline of KL City with mountains and clouds as backdrop (all the lovely views could be seen below).

Business Hour: 5pm – 3am daily

Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/marinis57

Official Website: http://www.marinis57.com/