EDIT: Tburu has closed down.

Calvin Yeung has more than a dozen of award-winning restaurants over Asia, and has opened Tburu on the 5th floor of Orchard Gateway@Emerald. The space is a dream: tall ceilings, and full glass panels to allow natural sunlight to enter, with jazz in the background.

Truffle kanpachi carpaacio ($22)

Tburu flies in whole fishes (not fillets) from Japan. Set lunches range from $18++ to $43++, and omakase at $100++ or $130++.

Tempura salad ($14-$16)

Hokkaido scallop chawanmushi $12

What was fantastic that day was the grilled items from bincho-tan, top quality Japanese charcoal. Both the iberico pork jaw from Spain ($18) and A4 Japanese wagyu from Gunma Japan ($22) were aromatic with smoke, although the wagyu was slightly over-cooked.

Scallop-foie gras maki ($32)

But the sushi could be improved. The problem lay in the rice: not hot, moist, vinegary, and fluffy enough. The aburi salmon was the best out of the lot, burnt beautifully to exude the taste of its fats.

5 Assorted aburi sushi ($38)

Tburu is a perfect restaurant to bring your date. You have to take the lift to the 5th floor, which leads to an exclusive entrance–no other restaurants or shops here–and you enter a whole new different world of zen, calm, and peace.

Tburu Singapore

218 Orchard Road, OrchardGateway@Emerald #05-01, Singapore 238851
T: +65 6221 0004
11.30am-2.30pm, 5.30pm-10.30pm, Closed Sun
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Decor/Ambience: 9/10
Service: NA (tasting)
Value: 7/10
Food: 5.75/10
Rating: 3.625/5

Written by A. Nathanael Ho.

This is an invited tasting.