Pikku Thai

Comme prévu - Au Jardin

Food

Service

Atmosphere

Getting set to travel through Singapore from London, we thought it a long way to go to get disappointing food and carried out a simply phone poll of our friends and family whom have travelled through here in recent years. Having confidence in some of the recommendations and questioning others the story soon came to light that Au Jardin at the Singapore Botanical Gardens was a destination guaranteeing to deliver the goods.

A short stroll from the main gates of the Gardens to the restaurant gives you the opportunity to soak up just how green everything is in Singapore. Plants growing at an alarming rate with the most amazing colours and shapes.

The staff greeted us and escorted us upstairs to a small enclosed veranda nook overlooking the gardens before offering us a carefully selected and clinically perfect menu.

Food was exceptionally well prepared and of a superior quality with offerings such as Oven-baked threadfin filet with roasted pumpkin and capers or the roasted bresse chicken, foie gras, thigh meat stuffed with chestnut and butternut ravioli. 

Everything about the place was perfect, but is much like everything in Singapore where all the boxes are ticked but no one dares take a risk to do something daring and “striking”. The experience doesn’t stain the memory as it would if you were to go to somewhere which did something so remarkably different that you can always recall the experience.

That said, the dessert will remain with me forever. A gluten-free chestnut soufflé that was so light in collapsed into the most amazing flavoursome dust as soon as you brushed your spoon against it. This really was impressive. Would it be rude to order another?  I don’t think so!