The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Spanish, hearty and gloriously pig-centric, nose-to-tail, occasionally adventurous comfort fare. The must-orders (if any): Carabinero Arroz, Gin Panna Cotta Summary: The chef previously headed the kitchen at UNA at One Rochester. Dehesa is proud of its nose-to-tail concept (choice extract from their website: “robustly flavoured alternative…
Full English Breakfast from Flutes Restaurant – fried hen’s egg, smoked bacon, housemade baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, toasted sourdough. The glistening meat rod played it like a really socialite and Greenwood Avenue-resident Sausage McMuffin patty whilst elsewhere the beans kept things Zumba tight and the salty bacon provided a crisp…
Full English breakfast with “foot-long” sausage from Claude’s – scrambled eggs, stewed beans, hashbrown, bacon, roasted tomatoes, chunky salsa, warm bread and fresh salad with parsley crumble and truffle butter. Not your typical brunch experience, flavour-wise. The girth of the masculinely spicy, Chinese-esque and well-endowed sausage was ideal for easy…
Oktoberfest platter from Old Boys Gallery ($69 nett) – pork knuckle (approximately 1kg!), Australian ribeye steak, three types of sausages (chorizo, lamb, and beef), German potato with crispy bacon, sauerkraut and sauteed vegetables, served with curry mustard, Raita and BBQ dips. The massive pig hand had been successfully cleansed of…
“Ang Moh” Breakfast from Collective Brewers – salad, grilled mushrooms, tomatoes, chicken sausage, bacon, brioche and scrambled eggs. The juicy grilled mushrooms seem to have been partially cross-bred with enoki mushrooms, whilst elsewhere the bacon had a stern crunch, the scrambled eggs had a soft and buttery middle and the…
Thai Big Breakfast from Soi 60 – 2 organic fried eggs, house made pork sausages, spicy ground pork, roasted tomatoes, toast. What makes this delightfully hearty and generously-portioned Thai breakfast different from your garden variety brunch is the minced pork – which soaks lazily with its baconly siblings in the thick…
TBB savoury croissants from Tiong Bahru Bakery – Jumping Fish (smoked salmon with spinach and ricotta), Running Egg (molten ramen egg with bonito and chilli flakes), Rolling Dumpling (pork and chives topped with pickled ginger, black vinegar dressing and chives), and Flying Pig (artisanal onion jam with spicy pork sausage…
Waffle breakfast – waffle with pork sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs & maple syrup. Despite the waffles looking as if they were fairly shagged and limp after a hard day of grading papers, CCA supervision and other teacherly endeavours, the moist and doughy quadrants were surprisingly fragrant and sweet, with a…
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…