White wine by the glass and the new wine menu at the Lounge bar. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
What do you do with an empty space, a tea lounge which has no customers after 6 pm? Convert it into a wine lounge. The Tanglin Club already has a bar in the Tavern restaurant where you can perch on bar stools before a sit down dinner. The wine lounge is a good place to go if you are waiting for a table in the Tavern. Or don't like bar stools.
The Wine Lounge is closed Monday and Tuesday. Open Wednesday to Sunday. The menu shows lots of wines by the glass including the Prosecco which I had. Cold cuts (meat) and cheese platters can be ordered to go with the wine.
My husband and I were able to promote TAWS, The Affordable Wine Section, which meets in the club for a wine dinner once a month. You pay a year's membership (as well as your monthly fee the club if you are a member, and get free leftover drinks at the end of the year party. You can invite guests who have to pay a bit more as they are not paying the wine section member ship fee, which is used to buy the wines for the wine dinners in advance of receiving the payments for those signing up to attend. If you are a member of one of many clubs worlwide which have a reciprocal arrangement with the Tanglin club, you can arrange to attend by getting a letter of introduction emailed, and/or by finding a friend who is a member of the club.
We were members of the club for twenty years and never made any friends. I used to go to the bridge club where you sat in silence playing cards. However, after joining some of the sub-groups and finding people with common interests, we started making friends. It also helps to get on a committee since you are in regular touch with minor queries. The same as in Toastmasters International Clubs.
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