I am quite a cheapo when it comes to eating out. My idea of a rockin' night out is dinner at Waraku Japanese Restaurant (about $20 per person). Their paper pot soup (beef, chicken or salmon), cold soba, tempura, sushi, potato mentai (potato with lovely melted cheese) is more than what is required to keep body and soul together. Their food makes me happy: the other day, the melt-in-mouth sushi and delectable udon in soup cheered me up from my grumpiness almost instantly. Yum... Waraku has a Valentine's Day Special for those looking for somewhere to bring their partners to next week.
Waraku is my bread-and-butter high-class eating place (what a contradictory statement!); I'm looking for something different this time round. Pink tutu's birthday is coming up and she has requested a buffet as her birthday present. She loves her Japanese food and so I've looked around and found a Japanese buffet at Hotel Miramar, and one called Hanabi at Bukit Timah Road. Have any of you tried these places? Any good?
Also searching for a pasta place that is more interesting than pasta mania. I hear that Pasta Fresca is not that great anymore, though their branch by the beach at East Coast is in one of the coolest locations around. The atmosphere is almost worth the not-that-great food.
Original Sin, located at Holland Village, serves
Restaurant Ember at Keong Saik Road is a trendy restaurant with "probably the best lamb loin in Singapore". It is one of debdew's favourite places to dine at. It looks sumptuous, but a little pricey at S$60 a person.
So many options, so little money, so few stomachs!
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Eating out
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have tried the one at Miramar... quite good... its ala carte buffet, ie. you order as many times, as many items as you like and they'll keep bringing it for a fixed price...
book ahead early... they are always fully booked...
i also like the fact that they surprise you with complimentary dishes from out of the menu... little dishes and cute containers make the women go all soft and mushy... don't ask me why...
btw... it's not as cheap as you may think... but the hand-roll salmon skin sushi is to-die-for... had four of them in one sitting - slurp!!!
there's another jap place that is quite budgetty... it's called Honjin at 140 Robinson Rd #01-00 Chow House (how appropriate is that??!)... they operate the same manner the Miramar does, ie. order as much as you like for a fixed price... the quality is a little lower, but so is the cost... can't remember but i think it was 30-something bucks per person... again, call ahead... no reservation, no meal... even during normal days...
can't say much about the rest... pasta is great but there's only so much one can consume in one sitting because it's so rich... and i get very jelak after that...
have fun!!
hey, thanks for the recommendation. :) Will let the birthday girl decide.
Good pasta is hard to find..
the restaurant at miramar is good. i went there 2 birthdays ago with my parents cuz my dad loves the place. you'll eat til you drop!
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