The Weekly Grub: 5 Things To Eat & Drink in Singapore This Week

Chase your midweek blues away with a four hands dinner collaboration, as well as new menus and offers at three other eateries. Special bonus for the ladies: end the night with cocktails at this hidden watering hole – with oysters on the house.

Four Hands Dinner at Esquina

Chef Alvar

Feast this midweek as Esquina head chef Carlos Montobbio teams up with visiting chef Àlvar Ayuso of Alvart in Barcelona, Spain in an exciting four hands dinner. The 11-course menu includes highlights from both restaurants, such as Sea Urchin, Codium Seaweed and Baby Radish from Alvart and Smoked Mackerel, “Escalivada” and Corn Tuile from Esquina. Enjoy the meal for $128++ per person, or pair with a specially selected wine menu for $188++ per person.

Esquina is located at 16 Jiak Chuan Road, Singapore 089267. The four hands dinner is available on 16 and 17 August 2017 at two timings (6.30pm and 8.30pm). To reserve, call +65 6222 1616 or email [email protected].

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Crackerjack‘s Grab and Go Breakfast

All breakfast offerings

Pressed for time? Swing by Crackerjack for their new Grab and Go Breakfast before work. Available on weekdays only, pick from these three options – the Housemade Bagel ($4) with cream cheese ($1) or housemade kimchi cream cheese ($1.50), Bircher Muesli ($9; organic dutch milk, oats, quinoa, chia seeds, dried fruit, coconut flakes and strawberries), and Kale & Chicken Chimichurri Wrap ($9; shredded chicken, kale, onions, garlic, lemon juice, purple cabbage and housemade flour tortilla). Don’t forget your daily cuppa – a cup of CJ Bona Fide Blend Batch Brew coffee comes at $2.

Crackerjack is located at 43 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore 088464, p. +65 8121 1462. The Grab and Go Breakfast is available Mon-Fri 9am – 11am.

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New Weekend Brunch Menu at Club Street Social

You can never get enough of weekend brunch in Singapore – and restaurant-bar Club Street Social has just refreshed the menu for theirs. From 11am to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays, breakfast favourites such as Smashed Avocado Toast ($18) are available together with hearty lunch mains like a full Sunday roast ($28) – trimmings included. Wash them all down with wine at $11 per glass or fresh brunch cocktails.

Club Street Social is located at 5 Gemmill Lane, Singapore 069261, p. +65 6225 5043. The weekend brunch menu is available Sat-Sun 11am – 4pm.

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SPRMRKT Kitchen and Bar Heritage Menu

‘Hokkien Mee’

National Day may be over, but the locally-inspired offerings with a traditional touch are still available at homegrown restaurant-cum-grocer SPRMRKT. Partnering up with artisanal coffee roaster Tiong Hoe Specialty Coffee, SPRMKT Kitchen and Bar’s Heritage menu features local food with a twist, such as a pasta-based ‘Hokkien Mee‘ ($32++, handmade tagliatelle, pork belly, squid, sakura ebi, pork crackling, chives and fried shallots) and Roti & Kopi (18++), a take on kaya toast (gula-melaka-‘palm sugar’-filled brioche with housemade kaya and pandan ice cream, served with Tiong Hoe’s Ethiopia heirloom blend).

SPRMRKT Kitchen & Bar is located at 41 Robertson Quay,#02-01 STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore 238236, p. +65 9736 4170. The menu is available from 1 to 31 August 2017 either as a la carte or a 3-course lunch set menu at $52++ (supplement another main at an additional $12++). Opens Tue-Thu 11.30am – 3pm, 6pm – 10pm; Fri 11.30am – 3pm, 6pm – 12am; Sat 10.30am – 4.30pm, 6pm – 12am; and Sun 10.30am – 4.30pm.

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Shuck All Night in The Other Room

Ladies, craving oysters to go with some choice drinks? Get your oyster fix on the house at The Other Room – every purchase of champagne by the glass or bubbly cocktail comes with a complimentary oyster everyday from 6pm to 9pm, except on Thursdays where hours are extended to 3am. And if one isn’t enough to satisfy you, ring up more drinks to the tab – or get a platter of oysters when you order a bottle of champagne.

The Other Room is located at 320 Orchard Road, Singapore Marriott Hotel, Tang Plaza, Singapore 238865 (behind a black curtain and doorbell), p. +65 6100 7778. Opens Mon-Thu 6pm – 3am and Fri-Sun 6pm – 4am. 

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Cover image: Esquina
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When not downing frappes during her writing spiels, Megan can be found catching up on her favourite franchises or cajoling friends and family out for yet another Japanese dinner. An insane need to stay connected means you can reach her anytime – except on alternate weekends, when she’s found next to a TV screen, watching F1 cars go ‘round in circles.