Lobby Lounge @ Marriott Hotel Singapore

It was a totally impromptu meet-up. I was having lunch at Ion Orchard and I twitted the food I had. I got a reply from Calvin Timo that he was a few floors below where I was. I had a very full 8 course Chinese New Year lunch thanks to Dell. Calvin had a big lunch too, but we always have space for some desserts. Leongraphy was with Calvin, so he joined us briefly before leaving for his appointment.

The idea of having afternoon tea comes from the ladies of our recent cruise. After the cruise, we saw on Facebook that they have been having lots of tai-tai sessions out. They will be enjoying themselves sipping tea/coffee and nibbling and gossiping away and we could salivating looking at their photos. The guys can't be bothered or rather don't have the luxury of time.

Since it is rare that we even meet up, the 3 guys pretended to be male version of tai tais. We pretended to be  'shao ye', having tea and cakes. Since Royal Copenhagen has closed, we can't go there to play pretend Shao Ye. We went to Marriott's Lobby Lounge instead.




Calvin had Tea with honey.
Hmm when we saw the honey, we thought of someone. Some of you may know who we are thinking of.




I had the The Iced Raspberry Tea. Cool and refreshing.




We shared two pieces of cakes. This was the Chocolate Pop Tart Cake ($5).
It looks interesting right? It is quite good too.




The Rich Chocolate Cake ($6.50) was such a delight. Chocolate fans should try this.
Dark and milk chocolate mousse with hints of alcohol in it. Topped with a chocolate macaron, a piece of chocolate cookie like chocolate  and a piece of flat reddish chocolate.

If ladies meet up, they gossip. With guys, guess what?

There was 3 or 4 cameras, an iPad, 5 mobile phones between us. The 3 guys sitting on the couch were holding their phones, texting, checking facebook, tweeting, checking and replying emails. But wait there's more. They were also instagraming, whatapp-ing and downloading of new apps!


Lobby Lounge
Singapore Marriott Hotel
320 Orchard Road
Singapore 238865

Watami Japanese Casual Restaurant @ The Central

It was one of those days that I was quite stuffed after having afternoon tea and I have a dinner appointment. We have a once a month company wide TGIF (Thank God Is Fridays) tea sessions at 3:30 PM where everyone in the company gets together for some catered nibbling and drinks. I met Momo for dinner with a very full stomach.

Wondering where to have dinner, we narrow the selection to Japanese food. Momo thought of Watami. We have not eaten at Watami for some time. Watami has been gaining popularity and we had to wait a while before getting out seats. (It was expected since it was a Friday night.)

The wait to get in was long, but food was served rather quickly after we ordered. Our dinner, or rather it was mostly Momo's dinner follows:
(I slowly nibbled everything away though I was full!)

Mixed Sashimi Rice

This was the Mixed Sashimi Rice ($13.80) that Momo ordered. The rice was Sakura flower rice. Quite interesting, but Momo asked, how to sakura flower taste like? We don't know. She said the overall dish was good and satisfying (because of the sashimi).

Looking at the prawns now, I feel like having some as I typed this!

Chashu with Negi

The Chashu with Negi  ($7.80) seems a bit small. It was normal only, nothing really to shout about.

Watami Salad

One of our favourite here. The Watami Salad ($8.80)
Our favourite of the night. We polished it clean and stop short of licking the bowl!



The dressing and the salad with lots of fresh salad, cold chicken, smashed tuna was so appetizing.
I am not turning vegetarian, but the salad was so much nicer than the chashu!


Watami Japanese Casual Restaurant @ The Central
6 Eu Tong Sen Street, The Central,
#03-82/83/85/102/108/109
Singapore 059817

Tel: (65) 6323 3398
Fax: (65) 6323 3378
Hours: 11.30am to 11pm

Singapore Restaurant Week 2011

The Singapore Restaurant Week 2011 is here again!



Update: an additional 3000 seats have been added on Saturday, 5 March 2011. The additional seats are available at BLU, Bonta, Capricci, Clifford, My Little Spanish Place, Zento, The Tavern, SOM THAI, Restaurant Ten, The Song of India, Jade, Private Affairs, Brasserie Les Saveurs, Senso, La Villa, Brazil Churrasco, Krish, Magma, Bacchus and LaBrezza.  This brings the total number of seats available at the 82 restaurants to 35,000 seats for SINGAPORE RESTAURANT WEEK in March 2011.



Why is everyone excited about Restaurant Week? That's because you get to experience incredible food at a range of restaurants that will be offering special three-course meals from 21 to 27 March 2011.

At a fixed price of SGD25++* for a three-course set lunch and SGD35++* for a three-course set dinner, it is quite a steal! Seats are limited though. This year, more than 32,000 seats at 81 restaurants are up for grabs, you still need to hurry. People in Singapore are going crazy booking them!

*DiningCity Star Awarded restaurants charge a fixed supplement of S$15 for lunch and S$20 for dinner. Singapore has a similar supplement-system as Europe has for participating Michelin Star restaurants.

You will be excited to know that this year, a superb line-up of quality restaurants has come onboard, including many new participants such as Salt Grill & Sky Bar, KU DÉ TA, Stellar@1-Altitude, Boathouse, Le Saint Julien, Oyster Bar, La Villa, Sabai, Table 66, Gattopardo, Kinki, Ivory Kitchen, Matsu, Wild Rocket, One Rochester, 1 Twenty Six, Jade (Fullerton Hotel), Patara Fine Thai Cuisine, Clifford (Fullerton Bay Hotel), Cassia and The Knolls (Capella Hotel), LaBrezza and Yan Ting (St Regis Hotel).  For a full listing, log on to www.restaurantweek.sg.
 




All bookings can be made online from 23 February 2011 via www.restaurantweek.sg, a dedicated website with unique technology for online and real-time reservations.

Last year, Momo and I booked ourselves a dinner at Boulevard Restobar at Red Dot Traffic Building. We booked a bit late, so we could not get seats at many places we wanted to try. So if you already have in mind a place you wanted to dine at, hurry!

Did I hear some of you say, I don't like dining alone. I have no one to go enjoy the dinner with. Hey, hey, read on!

For the first time, SINGAPORE RESTAURANT WEEK will also play host to ‘Eat, Drink, Love’ – in collaboration with Lunch Actually, a premier dating agency in Asia. This singles event is a great opportunity for eligible food lovers to make new friends in a fun, relaxed environment and at the same time enjoy a quality dining experience. On 23 March 2011, Wed and 24 March 2011, Thurs at Brasserie Wolf (The Pier at Robertson) and Chef D’Table (CHIJMES). Diners will swap seats and get to meet a different person at each course.


American Express is the presenting partner of the second edition of SINGAPORE RESTAURANT WEEK, which is also officially sponsored by BMW, Culina, S.Pellegrino, Acqua Panna, Brown Brothers, Chapoutier, Ruffino, Torres, and Time Out Singapore and held in “Your Singapore”.