⭐️ Belimbing Restaurant (📍2nd floor, 269 Beach Road) takes it name from our indigenous fruit (better known as star fruit), setting the tone for its reimagination of what new gen Singapore food is on the world’s stage.
🧧Set lunch starts from $58 and dinner $88.
👨🍳The restaurant is led by Magic Square and Naked Finn alum, Marcus Leow.
🍱The food here is mostly excellent, bursting with bold flavours, though the fried mee sua felt like an avant garde, deconstructed art project I couldn’t quite get. Points for creativity, though! Here are some of the delicious highlights:
🐟Aged Kanpachi (cold appetitiser): Umami explosion. Aged on the bone for five days. This sits on a cold curry made from high tech coconut milk, extracted daily using a machine custom-built by a former Formula 1 engineer. I could eat this for days.
🐠Pomfret (main): The fish changes depending on what’s fresh. Usually I won’t order fish at a restaurant ‘coz it’s easily cooked at home but this one has great flavours. The fish itself is so sweet. It comes with a Wok-Fried Nasi Ulam, a thrice-cooked rice.
🥩Grilled short ribs (main): Short ribs is brushed with beef garam (which is super concentrated beef juice). It’s good but I thought it’s the Wagyu rib finger satay, brushed with buah keluak, that is really tasty and interesting.
🍰Corn Salat (dessert): Superb. Every part of corn made this. Even the tea is corn leaves. You take a bite of the kueh salat and drink a sip of tea, and the flavours evolve, flitting and ethereal.
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