Oven roasted Chilean sea bass with celeriac, honshimeji and edamame. The fish was good – moist, buttery and well-cooked, with nice crumbs for added crunch. I enjoyed the bitterness of the edamame and mushrooms, but the celeriac left me rather bemused as it tasted very much like it had just…
Foie gras mushroom garden – foie gras, shimeji mushroom, mushroom truffle, green caviar, crostini, sweet potato crisp, and coffee soil. A pleasurable simulation of savoury dining as a wild boar, with the indulgent combination of crispy crunch and truffley mushiness likely to inspire a few satisfied grunts. 3.6/5 2am:dessertbar 21A…
Spaghetti ai Porcini e Gamberi – spaghetti aglio olio with porcini mushrooms, chilli padi and prawns. Sample this blindfolded and you might just mistake this for good old-fashioned Hokkien Mee. The prawns and mushrooms, which could have reinforced the notion that this is ultimately still aglio olio, didn’t help much…
Triple B – freshly baked buttery croissant served with scrambled eggs, assorted sausages, streaky bacon, and sautéed mushrooms with fresh greens. Without a doubt, this is the finest rendition of big breakfast I have had in Singapore. The bacon, which is glazed with honey, had a tinge of bak kwa…
Signature sliced grouper fillet with pine mushroom and black fungus in rice wine broth. The naughtiness of the rice wine struck quickly before sneakily vanishing into the darkness, leaving no traces behind in what is still a rather happy-tasting soup. 3.75/5 Joyden Canton Kitchen 4 Hillview Rise #02-21 Hillv2 Singapore…
French toast salpicon – chicken, spinach and mushroom stuffed in French toast, banana nuggets, mixed berries and strawberry-smoked maple syrup. Only a Bread Wall stands between the distinct savoury and sweet blocs. You could have a traditional savoury meal before dessert, vice versa if that’s how you roll, or bring…
Summer pasta with truffle dressing, crudités, nori, edamame and mushrooms, with added shrimp. With truffle being a buzzy ingredient of late (with some places spamming it both across their menu and on the food itself in manner of fire extinguishment) the usage here was judiciously done. Save for the addition…
The Full Band – grilled bratwurst sausage, crispy bacon, sautéed mushrooms, grilled tomatoes and scrambled eggs on a Belgian waffle. The eggs were 蛋炒饭 (fried rice) eggs trying to masquerade as fancy, fluffy brunch eggs but were improperly costumed. The waffle struggled to leave an impression after my speed dating…