Melaka Raya – the go-to place of most of Malacca’s urbanites and regular visitors, is well-known as the ultimate one-stop destination for a variety of dining, entertainment, shopping and accommodation options. The new host of the recently-relocated Eye on Malacca, it is also the residence of Malacca’s two biggest shopping malls – Mahkota Parade and Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall.
Peranakan cuisine is the most popular fare here – as in the whole of Malacca – but there’s also Portugese Eurasian food, Indian, Chinese, Indonesian and more, to suit every palate and budget. Hotels house posh, five-star restaurants while the streets are littered with fast food joints, restaurants, open-air cafés and kopitiams. The new Jetty over the river in front of Holiday Inn has a number of semi-up-market restaurants serving satay celup and Western food.