Daven Wu discovers tempting new taste-testers popping up over Singapore.
Not even the grim spectre of the credit crunch is stopping a bagful of slick new restaurants from opening in Singapore. The latest glamour-puss to hit the island is Hongkong chef Calvin Yeung’s
One on the Bund (
website). In the vast marble and stone-lined gallery of a former ferry terminal with perfect views of the marina and the upcoming Sands casino, Yeung sends out beef tendons sautéed in fragrant onion oil, and fennel scented prawns crowning a thicket of lipstick red dried chillies.
Further down the bay,
Forlino (
website) is an all-family affair headed by the Michelin-starred Osvaldo that overcomes its awkward service with dreamy vitello tonnato on figs, and earthy pork and bean risotto.
Across town,
Supperclub (
website) parlays its famous Dutch DNA of dining on acres of white beds and people watching into a louche evening of cocktails and cleverly wrought pan-Asian dining.
A colonial conservatory has been recreated as a backdrop for
PS Cafe at Palais’s mod-menu of wagyu burger and lemongrass hollandaise sause, and terrific double decker chocolate cake. And at the aptly named
Tippling Club (
website), Aussies Ryan Clift (ex-Melbourne’s Vue de Monde) and Matthew Bax (Der Raum) have combined forces to conjure a fantasy meal that matches molecular gastronomy with Damien Hirst-inspired drinks. Gin in a pill bottle, anyone?