Our story
A neighbourhood room
for slow mornings
and long dinners.
Sunday Room opened in 2023 in a pre-war shophouse on Lebuh Chulia. We wanted the place we kept looking for in George Town: good coffee early, a proper lunch, and somewhere to stay on with a bottle of wine when the street goes quiet.
The kitchen cooks bistro food with what Penang does well: seafood off the morning boats, greens from the highlands, bread from a baker two streets away. The menu is short and changes when the market does.
Most of our regulars started as neighbours. Pull up a chair.
A day in the room
06:45 to chairs up
06:45
The bread arrives
Sourdough from the baker two streets away, still warm. The croissants are ours: in the oven at five.
07:00
The kitchen comes in
Stock on, eggs cracked, the market list checked against what actually came in.
07:45
The board gets set
Letter by letter, by whoever opens. One plate, one sweet, one pour. Spelling is not guaranteed.
08:00
Doors
The first flat white goes to the same man every morning. He has never once looked at the menu.
11:00
Lunch
Greens from the highlands, fish off the morning boats, a short menu that changes when the market does.
15:00
The slow hours
Cake, cold brew, laptops closed if we can help it. The light comes in sideways through the shutters.
17:00
Candles, corks
The wine fridge opens, the lights come down, the room gets louder. The full kitchen cooks until an hour before close.
21:00
One more glass
Bar snacks, chocolate mousse, the five-foot way still warm from the day. Someone always asks for one more.
23:00
Chairs up
Eleven on Fridays and Saturdays, ten the rest of the week. Tuesday, we sleep in.
Front of house, since day one
“We know most people’s order before they sit down. The trick is not to say so.”
- Opened on Lebuh Chulia
- 2023
- Seats inside
- 48
- On the five-foot way
- 12
- Day off: Tuesday
- 1
The door’s open from eight.