Changkat Bukit Bintang

Changkat Bukit Bintang: what and where

Changkat Bukit Bintang is the side street running off Jalan Bukit Bintang, perpendicular to Bintang Walk and Jalan Alor. The lane itself measures 412 m on foot, from where the Bintang Walk spine ends to The Rabbit Hole at No. 14 & 16, and the street climbs as it goes. It is mapped as a residential street rather than an arterial road.

Its job is eating and drinking: fine-dining joints line the street, and it is as much a nightlife strip as a dining one. The buildings are pre-war and colonial, refurbished into upmarket restaurants and pubs, though ICOMOS Malaysia, which calls them Art Deco townhouses, argues the renovation stripped out the elements that gave the street its old charm. Come for the conversion, not for intact heritage.

What's on it, in street-number order

Nine of the venues on the lane, in street-number order.

Three of the nine carry no hours: Rockafellers, GoodFellas and Pacific either publish nothing or publish figures that disagree with each other. Pisco Bar, at 29 Jalan Mesui, and Dilrubar KL, at 31 Jalan Berangan, are often listed as Changkat but sit on neighbouring streets.

When to go

Daytime is thin. The Rabbit Hole opens at 9 am daily, El Cerdo from 11 am daily, and Havana at 1 pm from Friday to Sunday. Otherwise the earliest evening opening on the lane is 5 pm, at The Whisky Bar, for the first drink or dinner.

Weekends start earlier and run later: Havana opens at 4 pm Monday to Thursday but 1 pm from Friday, The Rabbit Hole runs to 1 am Sunday to Thursday but 2 am on the weekend, and The Whisky Bar takes last drink orders at 12:30 am on weekdays against 1:45 am at weekends and on public-holiday eves. Havana closes at 3 am every night.

Eat first and work backwards from the kitchens: The Steakhouse's last kitchen order is 11:30 pm, El Cerdo's 10:30 pm daily, and Dining In The Dark's last seating 9:30 pm. Budget on list prices.

How to walk in

Whichever entrance you use, the last stretch is the lane itself, and the lane climbs. Every distance and time below is the OpenStreetMap pedestrian router's own output, read on 9 November 2026.

From Pavilion Kuala Lumpur

Pavilion's main entrance to No. 14 & 16 is 915 m on the pedestrian router, which times it at 731.9 seconds — a little over 12 minutes.

From Bukit Bintang MRT (Kajang line)

The MRT station is the closest: 533.1 m and 426.6 seconds, about 7 minutes. The route matters: out onto Jalan Bukit Bintang (22.3 m), through a short connector (11.1 m), along the Bintang Walk spine (85.1 m), then right and up the lane (412.1 m). Three operators on the street publish the same "7 mins walking distance from monorail or MRT Bukit Bintang", and El Cerdo's version names MRT Entrance A. The Bukit Bintang MRT and Monorail guide covers both stations, their lines and last trains.

From Bukit Bintang Monorail

The Monorail station is 637.3 m and 510 seconds away: about eight and a half minutes, measured from the station centre.

What it costs

The Whisky Bar KL publishes a price list, and it is the best guide to a night on the lane: draught Tiger at RM21 a glass or RM64 a jug, Heineken at RM23 or RM70, cocktails from RM37 to RM55, a Coke at RM13, and bottled water at RM15 small or RM23 big.

Those are list prices, and the list adds 10% service charge plus 6% tax on food and soft drinks or 8% on alcohol, so the bill lands above the menu. Expect RM21–25 for a draught glass and RM37–55 for a cocktail before charges. The figures come from the bar's other-beverages menu file dated November 2025, the one its live site links to today, so read it as the last published list, not today's till.

For which bar to pick, read the Changkat Bukit Bintang nightlife guide; for the murals nearby, the Bukit Bintang street art guide. The Bukit Bintang map places the lane in the district.