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Food Picks: Chef's Tavern in Craig Road offers lunch sets from $28++, happy hour drinks from $9.90
Teishoku-style lunch from Chef's Tavern with a choice of protein, as well as sourdough bread or Japanese rice. PHOTO: CHEF'S TAVERN
Food Picks: Chef's Tavern in Craig Road offers lunch sets from $28++, happy hour drinks from $9.90
SINGAPORE – After a decade of running 'Western omakase' concept Chef's Table in Tras Street, Austrian chef Stephan Zoisl, 43, has started a fresh chapter at the new Chef's Tavern in Craig Road.
While this is a more casual route compared with his previous fine-dining outfit, it does not mean the quality of food and flavour has slipped.
The 96-seat restaurant – with a 16-seat private room that can be split into two eight-seat rooms – offers classic European fare that leans towards Japanese techniques and ingredients and at more approachable prices.
This begins with the teishoku-style lunch starting at $28++, available daily from noon to 2.30pm.
Choose from proteins such as monkfish or pork, as well as a carb of either sourdough bread or Japanese rice. Each set – served on a wooden tray – comes with salad, soup and fruit.
The a la carte menu is straightforward as well, with appetisers such as hamachi sashimi ($19) paired with lightly pickled vegetables and grapes compressed in Kracher Auslese, an Austrian white wine; and anchovy puff pastry ($14), topped with ricotta and large Gordal olives from Spain.
For mains, I enjoy the prawn and lobster ramen ($28), with a robust housemade lobster bisque topped with ajitsuke egg and Argentinean prawns; and maple leaf duck breast ($34), with a medley of caramelised onion cream, crisp shallot crumble infused with juniper, smoky charred leek, pickled pearl onion and chive oil.
A nod to chef Zoisl's Austrian roots, the Vienna-style schnitzel ($28) is beautifully crisp while retaining the juices in the tender pork loin. It is served with a crisp butterhead lettuce salad, cranberry jam, anchovy brown butter and fried capers.
Finish with a light White Peach Mousse ($14) dessert with oolong tea ice cream, a buttery sable cookie and marinated berries; or Pina Colada ($14), a take on the cocktail with frozen coconut parfait, caramelised pineapple with rum, pineapple sorbet, crisp filo pastry and gula melaka sauce.
Drink to this new venture with daily Happy Hour deals from noon to 7pm, with prices from $9.90++ for pints of Japanese beer, whiskey highballs and other house pours.
Where: 0 1-02 Craig Place, 20 Craig Road
MRT: Outram/Tanjong Pagar
Open: Noon to midnight (Mondays to Saturdays); closed on Sundays
Tel: 6224-4188
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Eunice Quek is STFood online editor at The Straits Times. She covers all things trending in the food and beverage scene.
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