6 New Eateries To Visit This Week
A beautiful coffee and sourdough toast cafe or a chicken rice and kopi joint by comedian Mark Lee, anyone?
This pretty 25-seat café in CHIJMES is contained in, literally, a glasshouse, complete with streams of natural light and plenty of plants. It offers a rotating line-up of coffee from specialty coffee roasters, accompanied by open-faced sourdough toast featuring bread from Woodlands Sourdough. There’re both espresso-based and filtered coffee from Singapore-based roasters here, like Common Man Coffee and Cata Coffee. Try the espresso-based Flat White ($4), or the hand-dripped Filter Coffee ($7). Choose from five types of toppings for your sourdough, including Cured Salmon ($8) with herbed cream cheese, radish and dill.
#01-K11 CHIJMES, 30 Victoria St, S187996. Tel: 9793-0234.Open daily. Mon-Fri 7.30am-5pm; Sat-Sun 8.30am-6pm. Last orders at closing. Instagram.com/theglasshousesg
All The Batter
All The Batter already exists as a takeaway dessert kiosk in Anchorpoint mall. But you can now relax at its new 30-seat bakery-cum-café beside Thomson Plaza. However, it is only open on weekends (it operates as a production kitchen on weekdays). The cafe aims to make life all the batter (better, geddit?) by serving healthier desserts featuring the avocado. The hipster super food is known for being a good source of monounsaturated fats, which are good fats that purportedly help improve heart health. Signature offerings include the Avocado Citrus Pie ($4.80) and the Avocado Rhapsody Slice ($6.50; pictured), an avocado chocolate sponge cake with avocado cream cheese frosting.
17 Jasmine Rd, Adelphi Park, S576585. Tel: 8510-6313. Open Sat & Sun 11am-9.30pm. Last orders at 9.30pm. www.allthebatter.com
13 Stages
This self-service eatery is opened by comedian Mark Lee. The 40-seater serves various styles of chicken with rice and 13 types of coffee sourced from the 13 states of Malaysia. Each serving of chicken rice comes with a chicken leg served in a bamboo basket. Options include Samsui, Danggui (a type of Chinese herb) and Curry Chicken (all $8.90 each). The Samsui chicken is topped with minced ginger and spices, and served with chicken-flavoured rice and soup. Sip some Kelantan Kopi, featuring coffee beans roasted with margarine, salt and sugar over wood fire, as is usually done in the Malaysian state.
#01-41 Kallang Wave Mall, 1 Stadium Place, S397628. Tel: 6384-0502. Open daily. 10am-9pm. Last orders at closing. www.facebook.com/13-Stages-100404353942702
Rokukakutei
The one-Michelin-starred Japanese establishment from Osaka has opened its first overseas outpost in Singapore. It specialises in kushikatsu, which are skewers of meat, seafood and vegetables covered with Japanese breadcrumbs and egg and deep-fried in a mix of lard and sunflower oil. Here, it is served omakase-style: the entry-level menu is the Omakase Skewers ($134), with 20 sticks. Highlights include the tender wagyu beef and salmon with pickled chrysanthemum, which has a pleasant floral flavour. Dip them into six house-made sauces, like a fragrant red wine one. On a budget? Kushiage Sampler Plates (from $25.50) with three to eight types of skewers are also available at the elegant eight-seat bar.
#01-04 Odeon Towers, 331 North Bridge Rd, S188720. Tel: 6266-1077. Open daily except Sun, 4pm-11pm. Last orders 10pm (omakase) & 10:30pm (a la carte). www.facebook.com/GinzaRokukakuteiSingapore
Otoko
Otoko started out as a coffeeshop stall at Sultan Plaza. It has opened a second café-style branch at this mall in Hougang. The highlight here: Donburi (Japanese rice bowls), as well as customisable curry rice. There’s Salmon Teriyaki Don ($14.80), featuring pan-fried, teriyaki sauce-glazed salmon and Japanese pearl rice. If you prefer curry rice (from $2.80), there’s a selection of 19 toppings to add onto your spicy plate of carbs, such as the Bacon Tomato ($1.80 for two) and Pork Cutlet ($2.80 each).
#01-20 The Midtown Residences, 1187 Upp Serangoon Rd, S533971. Tel: 9274-6542. Open daily except tue. 11.30am-10pm. Last orders at 9.30pm. www.facebook.com/OTOKO.SAN
Ards
Ards stands for ‘Asia, Roots, Distinct and Singular’, and it serves elegant modern Asian plates featuring ingredients sourced from around the region. It’s set up by two young chefs who met while working at mod European restaurant Pollen. There’s no a la carte menu here. The set lunch ($48) comes with three courses, including a dish called ‘Pig in The Farm’, featuring pan-seared Iberico pork, vegetable ‘soil’, mountain yam and baby cabbage. For dinner, there's a more elaborate 15-course menu called Piquant Illustration ($188). It includes the restaurant’s signature dish, ‘Ear Of The Sea’, featuring 18-hour slow-cooked abalone with house-made noodles marinated in cured kombu, yuzu and mushroom granola.
76 Duxton Rd, S089535. Tel: 8280-2801. Open daily except Sun. Tue-Fri noon-3.00pm; 6pm-11pm. Mon & Sat 6pm-11pm. Last orders 2.30pm, 9pm. www.facebook.com/Restaurantards
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