The Tippling Club in Tiong Bahru was listed as one of the top 50 restaurants in Asia and one of the top ten in Singapore, a friend told us when we needed a place for a business meeting. Afterwards we went back for a lunch with family and friends. The price was 46 Singaporean dollars for two courses, 60 for three, plus 21 Singapore dollars or more for a long or short cocktail, and extra for coffee. But that included three appetisers and there teeny sweetmeats per person with the coffee.
It would be hard to describe the food because nothing was recognisable from any other menu I've had elsewhere. I am allergic to shellfish to my first free appetiser was swiftly changed to what looked like a prawn cracker, but it was not shellfish although it was salty.
Then on a different shaped plate is what looks like blackened pepper, but succulent with a thick sauce like a cross between tomato sauce and soy sauce. Delicious.
Along came a tiny flat shaped glass with what appeared to be a thimble ful of tomato juice. The serving person added what seemed to be oil and the result was a very tasty yet refreshing little drink.
My starter course was a kind of fish soup. It looked like a potato soup with lots of cubes of colour and flavours.
The main course was equally odd shaped, odd coloured and a mix of ingredients.
The sweetmeats were behind cute. Cutissimo.
My coffee was served on a metal saucer which I liked so much I asked for the supplier. The brown sugar oblong was placed over the white sugar oblong, so simple yet so visually effective. Lovely presentation.
Service was solicitous. When I stood up a lady stepped forward to escort me all the way to the door of the toilets. The two toilet cubicle doors reached the floor fro maximum privacy. The washbasin was in what looked like a tall vase. At the bottom of the base was inserted a conventional rise and fall plug.
Bar stools with a view of the kitchen were supplied with solid looking backs.
They seem to be open Monday to Friday for lunch, Saturday evening for a la carte dinner only, closed on Sunday. If you are looking a good value midweek lunch, this is the place.
The street is full of restaurants and bars. Duxton Hill for years has been famous for some of the few remaining historic shophouses, two or three storey buildings, with shops and ground level, connected by a covered 'five foot way' named after the width, installed by Raffles when he founded the city's layout and architecture (in the days before air conditioned shopping malls). Not just a delightful restaurant, but a detour into old Singapore.
Tippling Club
38 Tanjong Pagar Road
Singapore 088461
teL +65 6475 2217
enquiries@tipplingclub.com
www.tipplingclub.com
Glossary
Bahru is Malay for new as in Johor Bahru in Malaysia.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
It would be hard to describe the food because nothing was recognisable from any other menu I've had elsewhere. I am allergic to shellfish to my first free appetiser was swiftly changed to what looked like a prawn cracker, but it was not shellfish although it was salty.
Then on a different shaped plate is what looks like blackened pepper, but succulent with a thick sauce like a cross between tomato sauce and soy sauce. Delicious.
Along came a tiny flat shaped glass with what appeared to be a thimble ful of tomato juice. The serving person added what seemed to be oil and the result was a very tasty yet refreshing little drink.
My starter course was a kind of fish soup. It looked like a potato soup with lots of cubes of colour and flavours.
The main course was equally odd shaped, odd coloured and a mix of ingredients.
The sweetmeats were behind cute. Cutissimo.
My coffee was served on a metal saucer which I liked so much I asked for the supplier. The brown sugar oblong was placed over the white sugar oblong, so simple yet so visually effective. Lovely presentation.
Service was solicitous. When I stood up a lady stepped forward to escort me all the way to the door of the toilets. The two toilet cubicle doors reached the floor fro maximum privacy. The washbasin was in what looked like a tall vase. At the bottom of the base was inserted a conventional rise and fall plug.
Bar stools with a view of the kitchen were supplied with solid looking backs.
They seem to be open Monday to Friday for lunch, Saturday evening for a la carte dinner only, closed on Sunday. If you are looking a good value midweek lunch, this is the place.
The street is full of restaurants and bars. Duxton Hill for years has been famous for some of the few remaining historic shophouses, two or three storey buildings, with shops and ground level, connected by a covered 'five foot way' named after the width, installed by Raffles when he founded the city's layout and architecture (in the days before air conditioned shopping malls). Not just a delightful restaurant, but a detour into old Singapore.
Tippling Club
38 Tanjong Pagar Road
Singapore 088461
teL +65 6475 2217
enquiries@tipplingclub.com
www.tipplingclub.com
Glossary
Bahru is Malay for new as in Johor Bahru in Malaysia.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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