Tag: fancy
Comfort is an expansive and profound concept. Supreme comfort denotes disparate notions, emotions, and fascinations. For some, it’s plain nostalgia. And others, it’s unalloyed gratification. At Rosemead, it’s a chef’s earnest love letter to his roots.
“Mise-en-scène” is a term that describes the setting of a scene in a play, film, or art piece. It encompasses every fine detail from the mood and the lighting to space usage. To me, complimenting a restaurant for crafting out perfect mise-en-scène is extremely high praise. And for Claudine Restaurant, its immaculate setting at Dempsey Hill could not be more perfect.
I stopped outside a pair of hefty wooden doors along Tanjong Pagar — rustic, brown, and not all that enticing. I had arrived for my lunch tasting menu at Restaurant Euphoria, recently christened No. 41 on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. Expectations were running high. My heart was swelling with anticipation.
It’s December of 2021, a year marked with a personal mission to seek out the best pasta in Singapore. With a spate of pasta bar openings, there are many overly hyped disappointments hiding amongst them. That’s why I found myself at Braci, an Italian outfit applauded for its modern sensibilities even by contemporaries in Italy itself, with high hopes of finishing my pasta quest on a high. Continue reading “Braci”
The Macallan Experience in Singapore starts with you being introduced to a quaint study within Raffles Hotel, which leads you to believe it’s only affixed with bookshelves, ornaments, and not much else. But moments later, one of the bookshelves magically swung open to usher us into a dining area inside. Continue reading “The Macallan Experience”
After a light-hearted prologue at Flow Bar which saw us sauntering with added spring in our steps, we were ushered to the ground floor for the marque event — the French Omakase ($298++) at 1 Michelin Star Restaurant JAG.
