Table At 7 - tastes and tales of Western and Eastern Food in One Restaurant

The name of this restaurant comes from its previous location which had the street number seven. The location is the modern, multi-storey hillside building of Sim (Singapore Institute of Management).

Elegant hallway of SIM. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

If you are waiting for others or a taxi you can play the piano. 

In table at seven towards the end of the meal I heard faint recorded country & Western music. I liked that. When I told a friend about the music, she said that her husband liked Country music, although she doesn't, so she wanted to know if Table at 7 was a romantic place for a Valentine's Day lunch or dinner. 

From the entrance on the 4th floor you can take the lift (Americans say elevator) down to the 3rd floor.

Entrance.

The entrance is amusingly decorated. Lots of corks in big glass bottles.

Crab starter with two tiny hot buns.

Lime juice.

The menu is a mixture of Western and Asian. Business partners Karl Dobler, who is Austrian and Asian chef Eugenia Ong are on older versions of their website. In Feb 2023 when we visited we were told that the pair have separated. Karl, who is Austrian, has gone to a German restaurant. The Asian partner, Eugenia Ong, has stayed on and the menu is similar in style to before. 

Mushroom starter.

We had items from the set menu, which changes regularly, and the chocolate dessert from the main a la carte menu.

Chocolate dessert.

Cappuccino.

Chocolates at table at 7. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Chocolates arrive with the bill. A touch I always appreciate.

What did we like the most? 

What did we like the least? The view of another table laid with a lovely white cloth, supposedly for a booking. But it was not used at lunch time. We had a wipe clean table. 

We went home and changed our own plastic cloth on the dining table for a white cloth.

The other diners did not like the loudspeakers out for a band when we had none. I was not bothered, thought it was interesting to know they were equipped for music. 

Catering

Apparently they do a lot of catering. birthdays and anniversaries or business meetings, or colleague reunions. You can have a dinner party for as few as ten, at a price of maybe from around 100 sing dollars a head for several courses. 

They bring their own kitchen equipment (oven) included, and serve the meal for you, and set up at around 10.30 for lunch at noon. You provide your own glasses, or pay extra for hiring glassware from them. While you are paying your bill, you might check on the latest arrangements and available dates.

Useful Websites

Table at Seven

https://tableat7.com/

http://tableat7.com/restaurant/#menu

SIM at Namly Campus

https://www.sim.edu.sg/

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Table at 7 in Singapore - Delightful Decor and Dishes

 

Sticky date pudding with almonds. Photo by Angela Lansbury

Useful Websites

Useful Websites

table at 7

Tel: 6235 6275. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emping

About The Author Angela

Angela Lansbury is a British author who has lived in the USA.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.

Angela Lansbury, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters  speaker training clubs and speaking contest judge.

Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. 

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Table at 7 in Singapore - for An Easter A La Carte Treat Or After Easter Set Meal (Indonesian and European cuisine)

Table at 7 entrance. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Flag of Singapore from Wikipedia.

Styles of Cuisine

Singapore is famous for its food: Singapore specialities as well as food from surrounding regions and countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia are available cheaply at food courts called hawker centres. Collect your food from kiosks and sit at plastic topped tables. However, most restaurants specialise. Yet for a chance to try Indonesian food, with European food for other guests or an alternative to fall back on, Table at 7 is a proper sit down restaurant with table service with a choice of menus, European and Indonesian.

 Prices Options

In Singapore as in London, restaurants offer all inclusive lunch time deals at cheaper than the regular a la carte prices. Often these special deals are not available over the Easter weekend. However, if you are not working or are working from home and can take the family or meet friends afterwards, you might get a better deal on the prices. 

I was looking at a family favourite restaurant and received an email saying their lunch time special was not available over Easter. 

Let's look at their regular menu.

The restaurant is called table at 7. The name is not a reflection of the time of dining but the street number of their previous location.

According to the pictures on Tripadvisor you have a choice of regular tables or bar stools against a wall. I like a table. When I arrived I did not see any bar stools. (Later, I was surprised to find my own review from 2016 on Tripadvisor.)

The Chefs

Chef at Table at 7. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Chef at Table at 7. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The menu is created by a team. You can see their photos on their website. They are business partners. Not married. (He is already married to somebody else, with two offspring.)

The main courses are in two halves. The western half is the inspiration of the European. The oriental (Indonesian) menu is from the Indonesian.

I looked at the menu online in advance. Since I am allergic to shellfish I could see I would have to pass on the starter of scallops, and main dishes containing prawns and shrimps.

Starters & Snacks

The word sop/sup, Indonesian and Malay, is soup

Emping

I had to look up emping - Indonesian fried crackers. The Americans say chips but to the British chips means potato chips and in Britain we would call them crisps. What is in them? Nuts (actually seeds). You can buy them in supermarkets, plain, savoury (with salt) or sweet (sugared).

Drinks.

Prosecco bottle at Table at 7. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Sparkling wine by the tiny bottle. Prosecco. Brand name Piccini. 200 ml bottle.

The corkage for taking your own wine bottle is about 30 Singapore dollars but that is waived if you buy a bottle of their wine.

Cutlery

The cutlery is unusual. The knives and forks have handles which go in different directions, one up, the other down. They don't stack together. Odd but attractive, elegant.

Starters

Kebab

I chose kebab.

Kebab starter at Table at 7 restaurant, Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Large, thick, good.

Starter with truffles at Table at 7 restaurant, in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Main Courses

Nasi Kuning Platter

That means Rice Yellow Platter. The yellow is from turmeric. Filling and tasty. 

 

Desserts

The banana and kaya crumble was gritty but delicious with slices of banana.

The portion sizes were perfect, leaving you feeling full but not over-full.

Banana and kaya crumble dessert at Table at 7 in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury

See mostly rave reviews on Tripadvisor.

41 Namly Avenue. a long walk from an MRT station or bus stop. Down a side road. Huge circular building up a driveway. Huge isolated multi-storey building. Take a taxi.

As we drove towards it passing several streets named Namly we looked up the origin of the name. As we suspected, the name was from a VIP from long ago. He was a surveyor from Sri Lanka. Like many tamils, his name was long, so some streets were given his family name, others his first name. Tamils are an important minority in Singapore and their language is one of the four official languages, the others being English, Chinese and Malay.

The building is on a steep slope. It is a surprise to find that when you enter the restaurant is not up but down a couple of flights of stairs, yet has windows onto the outdoors.

Useful Websites

table at 7

Tel: 6235 6275. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emping

About The Author Angela

Angela Lansbury is a British author who has lived in the USA.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.

Angela Lansbury, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters  speaker training clubs and speaking contest judge.

Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore. 

She  has several blogs and writes daily on at least two of the following:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

To practise your English, come to Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters on learncool.sg, first Wednesday evening of the month, Singapore time, 7-10pm.  Next meeting Wednesday March 7th 2021.

To add a clock to the time and date page and see when the meetings are your time go to this website.

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Glamorous Entertaining In Singapore: top ten from free to a fling

Glamorous Entertaining
If you are looking for somewhere to entertain a visitor to Singapore - or entertain yourself, these would be my Secret Seven suggestions, in alphabetical order:
Secret Seven Hotels and Restaurants - oops, now it's eight - I'll make that ten.

Clarke Quay where you can sit and admire the view.

Clarke Quay - boats, boat trips, flowers, fountains, riverside restaurants.
Gardens By The Bay - a day out. Expensive restaurants - or simple outdoor eating at a hawker centre is expensive but then it's back to the waterfalls and trees and flowers. Plus souvenirs of clothes or pot plants.
IO - Italian in Hillv2 - go for lunch or a take away or catering or just for the desserts
Marina Bay Sands (Very pricey top to the tower restaurants and bars and must book. We stayed in Singapore with a friend for a fortnight and took him there on our last night.  He was so impressed that when his teenage children visited him from overseas he took them there for one night in the bedroom to enjoy the rooftop infinity swimming pool with views over the city.
Night Safari (on site evening buffet can be booked) see the animals having their supper at twilight.

Colourful Clarke Quay.

Walking around Clarke Quay.

Park Royal Hotel - (Limes Restaurant) (Coffee is $7++ - total about $10 just for the coffee.)
Raffles Hotel - history, shops, restaurants at all prices and delis, Singapore Sling in the bar or just walk around, or stay at the expensive hotel
Sheraton Towers Hotel (dine by the indoor waterfall)
Table at 7 restaurant for dinner (Degustation or tasting menu about $88.) Does outside catering for grand affairs such dinners for ministers - not religious ones I presume but the government(s).
Tippling Club restaurant, where neither the plates nor the foods are names, colours or shapes you have seen before.

Park Royal hotel outside.

Even a glass of water at Table at 7 restaurant is served in style in a fine-lipped glass subtly advertising Aquapanna bottled water

TABLE AT 7 RESTAURANT. Fine flavours.

Tippling Restaurant. Unusual food. Quirky surroundings. Expensive gourmet.

(See my previous posts.)
Can't afford it? You can walk through the Sheraton Towers Hotel and the Park Royal Hotel. Just put on your smartest, prettiest clothes so you can pose for photos and look the part. Walk around and  budget $20 for a coffee or cake in elegant surroundings.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker and author.

Table at 7 by Karl and Eugenia, my latest favourite restaurant in Singapore

A party cum cookery machine demonstration held by two good friends was the place where I had the good fortune to meet Karl and Eugenia, who run a restaurant called Table at 7. The restaurant does evening dinners only, no lunches, and it's chief unique selling feature is the Karl , whose family have a farm in Austria, is in charge of the Western menu,whilst his wife/partner/whatever Eugenia offers Indonesian food.

You can see into the kitchen from the restaurant. The server was very obliging and knowledgeable.

We were considering going for the a la carte menu, but after a long period of indecision, I saw that the set menu included coffee or tea plus a chocolate for each person, so I decided that the set meal at $88 (Singaporean) was the best option. 

I had also hesitated to have it because it contained two dishes including shellfish to which I have an allergy. However, Karl was quite happy to change these dishes for me.

Drinks

I started with a mojito cocktail. It contained flecks of ming.

We opted for a bottle or Reisling which turned out to have artwork on the label (like the bottles of the Rothschild family featured on a poster I bought from one of the Rothschild families in England. That's the first bottle we've bought containing an artwork label, so we saved the bottle and took it home.

I loved the delicately thin-rimmed water glasses.  Alas I don't think you can buy them retail. The glasses are provided free to restaurants by the mineral water supplier. 

I also recognised the lidded tea cups which I had learned were provided free to restaurants supplying Dilmah tea. (I found that out when I asked to buy one at the recent Food and wine show at Expo in Singapore (see my previous post on the show).

Events at the restaurants include music nights. Currently, the paintings on the wall feature musical instruments. The artist changes the pictures every couple of years for the restaurant for a small charge, updating the look and experience.

Everything tasted exquisite, flavourful, different from anything you know and different from the previous dish. Even the chocolates were lovely, with a strong chocolate flavour, soft suckable centre and crispy contrasting hard chocolate shell.

Here is Karl.

Getting To Table At 7

A short walk uphill from Clarke Quay MRT railway station; Motorbike parking opposite the restaurant is just outside the toll taken by the ERP (electronic road pricing). The 54 bus routes you to Newton MRT station on the Downtown line.

The restaurant is easy to find, about three or four shops in from the end of the road.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.