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July14
Brunch this Month:
CHOPSUEY CAFÉ
Gemmill Lane’s
Luke’s Oyster Bar and Chop House
is opening a second restaurant on Orchard; look for it
on the third floor of The Heeren.
Dutch Colony Coffee Co.
is opening a new outlet
on Frankel Avenue in East Coast.
The Providore
is launching two outlets at
PasarBella @ The Grandstand (200 Turf Club Road)
– a huge café in the glass house space and a smaller
deli and bakery in the marketplace area.
Picotin makes a triumphant return to Bukit Timah,
this time in the form of a
Picotin Express
, the second
in Singapore, located at 60 Fairways Drive.
Most restaurants have one menu for mornings; go for
brunch here, and you’ll get three. The brunch menu is
stacked with familiar faces all dolled up in their Sunday
best – dishes like the sublime
French toast
topped with
Mandarin marmalade and passionfruit-lime butter ($21)
and the
eggs Benedict
on wok-crisped potato
rosti
with
sweet and sour hollandaise sauce ($24). Highlights of the
Asian menu include the tingling
chilli jam prawns
($26)
and the orange-glazed, caramelised grain-fed
short
ribs
, aka rusty nails ($24). The dim sum menu (from $7)
is a bit pricier than Chinatown, but we’ll gladly pay the
price for beautiful morsels of squeaky-clean prawns and
identifiable chicken meat served on a silver platter. Like
its sister restaurant PS Café, ChopSuey’s desserts are
quickly becoming the stuff of legends, and its
upside-
down toffee banana and walnut cake
($16) is just one
reason why this place will remain the darling of Dempsey
for a long time to come. Weekends from 10.30am to
5pm (no reservations during this time period). Block 10
Dempsey Road, #01-23.
chopsueycafe.com
Best bartender in Singapore? Try the best in all of Southeast
Asia! Beating out 25 bartenders from Singapore, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, Peter Chua from 28 Hong
Kong Street was named
SEA Best Bartender of the Year
at the
inaugural Diageo Reserve World Class South East Asia Finals &
Bar Show 2014. Next up? He and his golden shaker will compete
in the Global Finals in July.
CATCH OF THE DAY
The new junior menu at
The Manhattan Fish Market
is
all about presentation. There’s a crab-shaped fish burger
with cranberry coleslaw and cucumbers, and a grilled fish
and mashed potato dinner, the Wacky Dory (shown here),
plus more, for just $7.95 each. Sixteen outlets island-wide.
manhattanfishmarket.com.
BEST
AT THE BAR
REVOLV ING DOORS