Travel with Angela Lansbury: Bam restaurant

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Michelin Restaurant Bam! in Singapore. More on dishes, desserts and prices.

Interior of Bam restaurant with waiter, bottles and glasses and plants. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

We could have had a three course set lunch at S$48 per person. Instead we chose the tapas. Our guest did not warm to the choices of egg or mushroom soup for starters, nor the alternatives of pork or fish for the main course. Saturday brunch is much the same at a higher price, 88 dollars. Plus Plus.

Chicken wings with sauce. Five pieces. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Photo by Angela Lansbury.

I have used our bill to identify my photos. The bill is presented with items listed alphabetically.

I should have listed the items as we received them.

The banana dessert was definitely a winner. Banana cake with exotic sorbet and caramelised pecans. I loved the sweet crunchy caramelised nuts.

The other dessert, strawberry meringue looked pretty but did not enthral me as much as my banana cake.

The Japanese service was unobtrusive but instant. When I knocked over a glass of water, two waiters were there beside us instantly with paper towels and a mop.

Not like the Italian restaurant staff in England who gasp with excitement on seeing you, wave you to your table, talk loudly and enthuse over the menu, ask how you are and listen to your life story, then confide their own with raised eyebrows and gestures, and wink when you leave. Here, typically Japanese, quietly open the door as you exit and bow low without looking at you.

An alternative set menu is Omakase, chef's choice, starting with an amuse buche, then five courses for 158 dollars. Or seven for 188 dollars.

The main feature of the decor was a large picture of Sean Connery, James Bond, famous for his drink being shaken but not stirred.

Useful Websites

www.bam.sg

https://www.instagram.com/bam.singapore/

My previous post

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2021/12/japanese-michelin-starred-restaurant-bam.html

About the author of this blog

About the Author of this blog, Author Angela Lansbury

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Japanese Michelin starred restaurant Bam! in Singapore. Prices!

Tomato Gazpacho. The best dish, also the best value, at only 6 Sing dollars. (Add 10% service charge and 7% GST to the bill.)

This close up shows the almost invisible ginger, like what we in or from Britain call a jelly (Americans use the brand name Jello).

Another vegetable dish, at the same price, S$6, was spinach.

Door to Bam! restaurant in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The round, red, doorway stickers tell us that the restaurant had the prestigious and internationally understood Michelin mentions, awards?, in 2018, 2019 and right now at the time of our visit, 2021.

The best dish at Bam was my starter, a cold tomato soup with pieces of ginger. It looked great and tasted greater. Highly recommended.

We chose the tapas, the individual plates, not the seat meal.

Our Chinese friend Shan, one of Trevor's former colleagues, lives part of the year in Japan so she is knowledgeable about Japanese food as well as Asian food. Trevor is the wine expert. I just eat. And write. And take great photos.

This picture taken by the waiter is slightly askew. I tried editing it to get the horizontals correct. However, that cuts off my shoulder. So I have left it looking tipped and tipsy. In addition to the smiles all around, I love the yellows and reds.

What can you see in this photo? Unusual cutlery. Knives, forks and spoons and cutlery rests. We were also given chopsticks and chopstick rests.

The neutral colour table top and walls are offset by the cheerful red water tumblers. The red water glass co-ordinates with the red wine, and my red top.

Every dish comes with a dip or sauce, contrasting colour, texture and taste.

My companions ordered shellfish. One of the dishes was Taraba Crab Cake. I am allergic to that so I ate more of the chicken wings, at Shan's kind suggestion.

The composite savoury cakes (a bit like so-called fish cakes) included one of yellow corn, which we mostly eat as corn on the cob. it is listed on the menu as white corn, and the corn kernels are in a thick white sauce in the batter. (Americans call the corn, maize. Off the cob - it looks like squashed yellow peas.) The yellow corn kernels were in a white sauce, inside a fish cake like deep fried batter, a contrast of textures.

BAM! Tapas-Sake Bar

38 Tras Street

Singapore 078977

Tel 62260500

Lunch 12 noon - 2 pm.

Dinner 6.30 pm - 10.30 pm.