RedDot BrewHouse @ Dempsey

Located at Block 25A Dempsey Road, one can easily find this place. Within walking distance from the bus stop too.

menu

outdoor seats

What to order at a brewhouse? Beer, of course. Had a jug of lime wheat (@$26++) and some finger food.

nice coaster

frosted glass

cold beer, cheers!

Lime wheat beer, has a distinctive lime taste. Not too strong of a wheat-y aftertaste.

where's our food? Hungry...

bruschetta (@$12++)

tasty bread

The bruschetta came plated with greens that has been drizzled with balsamic vinegar. The leaves were somewhat dry, but otherwise tasty with the vinegar. First bite of the baguette, you'll get the crunch. Then, the jaw gets a workout chewing through the rest of the bread.

deep fried baby squid coated in salted egg yolk (@$11++)

closer view of baby squid

Kind of regretted the baby squid order. If you're thinking of nice salted egg yolk kind of taste, it was none of that. It tasted just like normal deep fried baby squids. The salted egg yolk coating was so thin and mild that it's quite unnoticeable.

When the night draws on, it gets pretty dark...

follow the balloon to RedDot

Skyve Elementary Bistro & Bar @ 10 Windstedt Road (Part III)

Had a bottle of Riesling from Misha's Vineyard called "Limelight" (Central Otago, New Zealand). Vintage, should be 2010.

Misha's Vineyard "Limelight" Riesling (NZ)

nice colour

The wine has an attractive light yellow colour, and is categorized as medium-dry. Fruity, refreshing and mildly sweet. Easy on the palate.

yummy

Ordered truffle fries to snack along with the wine. The fries were better this time round, and not as oily as first visit.

truffle fries (aka "Busy Rooting")

salted, crispy and hot

Bronte @ Greenwood Avenue

Located at 8 Greenwood Avenue, along the stretch of many other restaurants. Walked in on a Friday evening sans reservation at about 8+pm, and it had looked as though we couldn't get a table but alas, the friendly staff managed to find us one. Kudos to them.

we were here

My friend had a desire for risotto and Bronte has it. In fact, its menu has only one risotto dish, which is the risotto of the day. Ahhh.. a surprise risotto? And, the risotto for that night was "Mushroom Risotto with Truffle". Did our server mentioned truffle or truffle oil? Either way, we're having it.

While waiting for our mains to arrive, complimentary bread was served.

warm bread

for our dipping pleasure

Warm soft bread, with a nice crust. Good to line the hungry tum tums.

soft

The risotto's arrival was preceeded by the nice truffle accented smell.

mushroom risotto with truffle (oil)

closer view of risotto

The texture of the rice was quite likeable. Not undercooked and not too soft. Also liked that it was served piping hot. Was happy with the chopped greens (was it asparagus?) that provided a nice crunch and sweetness to the rice. Nicely fragrant and just about the right amount of starchiness.

yummy

Feeling carnivorous (as always), we also opted for a meat dish. The braised beef cheeks. Served with mash, spinach, mushrooms and red wine jus.

braised beef cheeks

can't wait to sink our teeth into this one

The braised beef cheeks was a good sized meat, served ontop a bed of spinach and mash, with mushrooms. Mash was nicely creamy, and the spinach was soft and tasty but albeit a little bitter sometimes. But the star, undeniably, was the fork tender beef. My friend commented that the sauce for the beef cheeks was a tad too salty though.
 

gorgeous meat

The prices for mains are between twenty-ish towards the higher range of thirty-ish to forty-ish (especially for meats like beef).

Enjoyable food with good portions.

Joli Creer (Autumn Hokkaido Fair) @ Takashimaya

Puddings. Had wanted to get the one that was advertised in the Takashimaya flyer, but it was very small and pricey. So got these from Joli Creer instead. Each bottle was about 70gms in weight and costs $6 each.

puddings from Joli Creer

green tea flavour

looks abit like tofu

soft and nice

The green tea flavour was rather intense. The deeper the spoon goes, the dryer and more intense the green tea flavour was.

drying up

The tiramisu one was interesting.

tiramisu, with plastic spoon

coffee jelly

wobbly soft, almost mousse-like

The tiramisu pudding basically has a coffee jelly ontop and the usual soft pudding for its body. All the way down of the bottle towards the bottom, there's a thin layer of cake.

cake in the pudding

My bro had the rea-chizu (real cheese?) bottle, so didn't have any pictures of that one.

Ryugetsu Sanpouroku 柳月三方六 (Autumn Hokkaido Fair) @ Takashimaya

This baumkuchen can be found near the cashier (same location as Ishiya chocolate) at the Autumn Hokkaido Fair in Takashimaya.

Am still not quite sure what possessed me to buy this. Hahaa!

sanpouroku (@$14 per box) wrapped

same design as the wrapping paper

unboxed

This could make a good gift, as it was wrapped ever so nicely. Sampled all three flavours; original, chocolate and maple, and personally felt that maple has a more interesting taste.

resting on its own plastic tray

many many layers

Liked that the cake has already been pre-sliced. Just needed to take it out of its plastic wrapping and simply enjoy.

single slice

The outer most layer was coated with chocolate that was thankfully, not too sweet. The inner cake layers were nicely soft and not too dry. The cake has a nice mapley fragrance.

yummy

There was a 10% discount for Sanpouroku when payment is made via Takashimaya credit card. Here's a link to Ryugetsu website, if you're interested.

cute