Spruce

say with me...SPRUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg im so glad i've finally finally finally tried out this place! :D it's really quite awesome from the ambience to the food and everything (: i'm so coming back for brunch someday.

this must have been the most beautiful picture i took that day. doesn't the purple plate look gorgeous? (: alas, only one of the plates was like this, but no matter, the presentation is only part of it right! the food more than made up for it (: this was the duck leg confit ($32) topped with roasted vegetable chutney, potato puree and some interesting papaya salad. the meat of the duck was succulent and soft and although the skin was fried, it didn't taste unhealthily oily which was good!

the signature spruce burger ($17) was mountainous, i wonder how Yi managed to eat it! haha. this was nothing special in my opinion, the burger bread and beef patty were pretty normal? but...BUT the potato wedges were really quite awesome! even mummy who is not a fan of these deep-fried stuff said they were really good! chunky and generously-sized, each piece was tastefully seasoned and really yummy.

another awesome dish was the beef short ribs ($29) with fried egg, spinach and horseradish gremolata. i just tried a tiny chunk of that slab of beef and i was SOLD! it was juicy, melt-in-your mouth delicious, with the fats oozing out and the taste just explodes in your mouth in heavenly goodness. mmmmmmmm! :D

i didn't try the whole roasted snapper ($27) with herb salad and lemon jam, but my first reaction when i saw it was: it looks scary! haha. this is not something i would have ordered for myself, simply because it had a hell lot of bones :/ eww. but i suppose the taste was fine.

the dish i ordered turned out to be a miss, unfortunately :( i was really quite excited about my tagliatelle with kurobuta pork bolognese ($22) but it turned out to be rather disappointing. i liked the chunks of meat in it, quite a generous amount, which was good. but the noodles were really odd! >.< i have no idea how they cooked it, but the noodles were sort of hard, and REALLY clumpy. like chunks of them just stuck together, until i ended up eating it with a spoon rather than a fork O.O weird. oh well. :(

they also have a wide variety of drinks there, and we got the dom mojito ($17). quite nice! tasted pretty strong, but what i like about mojito is its refreshing taste! (:

and finally. the reason for me gushing over Spruce, despite my disappointing main course, was because of their double chocolate crunch cake with sea salt caramel filling ($12/slice). OMGOSH. this has to be one of the most epic chocolate cakes i have ever eaten. for one, it is a humongous slice, so don't be put off by the price. secondly, it tastes awesome. like really, mind-blowingly chocolate-y, orgasmic-ly awesome. the whole slice is simply EXPLODING WITH CHOCOLATE. dense layers of cake interlaced with sinfully rich caramel, peppered with crunchy little bits of things inside (no idea what they are) and drizzled with chocolate sauce. the chocolate is the dark chocolate kind, slightly sweet, slightly bitter, and oh-so-absolutely-wonderful. there are no words to describe it. try it for yourself! im not sure whether it's always there though, because i think the desserts change pretty frequently.

Spruce

320 Tanglin Road

Phoenix Park

Tel.: +65 6836 5528

Lunch: Mon-Fri 10.30am-2.30pm

Dinner: Mon-Sun 5.30pm-10.30pm

Brunch: Sat & Sun 8.30am-2.30pm