Lunch Deal @Vintry, Clarke Quay

A relative introduced us to this good, value for money lunch deal.  No coupon, no voucher and no pre-purchase required, just walk in to the restaurant on a weekday during lunch hour.

Vintry offer this nice 5 course set lunch at only $15 nett.

5 Course Set Lunch

We had the whole restaurant to ourselves as we arrived early. The ambience of the restaurant was nice. The restaurant is vintage style decorated with wine bottles, decanters, glasses and filled with bottles and bottles of wine.

Nice Ambience

They have a large collection of wine offered - cabinets of bottled wine near the dining area and a wine cellar at the restaurant.  Besides a variety of bottled wine for sale, they also offer a large variety of wine by glasses, ranging from around $3 for 250ml.  The wines offered by glasses are well preserved in their state of the art wine vacuum pump and dispenser in a chiller.

Restaurant

Now we come to the food. Fresh mixed Salad. Vegetables to fulfil our daily fibre requirement.  Not sure what is the dressing, it was quite strong but was ok.

Fresh Mixed Salad

Soup of the day was Potato soup.  The texture of the soup was quite smooth and creamy.  You can also taste the potato in the soup. Quite nice.

Potato Soup
Rating: 4/5

We followed the recommendation to try the Tangy Baked Dory Fish in Lemon Caper Cream. It was definitely a right choice - tender dory fish with creamy sauce.  The cream was not too rich, with hint of lemon and mild sourness from the capers. The potato wedges were crispy as well. Yummy!

Dory Fish
Rating: 4.25/5

We can't resist ordering a dish which is named after the restaurant - Vintry Caramelized Roast Pork Rice.  Even though white rice doesn't seems to fit in to into this western restaurant, this caramelized roast pork house specialty was good.  Nicely caramelized pork belly with a mix of fatty and lean meat.

Caramelized Roast Pork
Rating: 4.25/5

Ice cream had never been able to impress me unless its those premium fine ice cream.  But the coconut ice cream with gula melaka was quite special and satisfying.

Coconut with Gula Melaka
& Vanilla with Chocolate Sauce

The coffee offered was illy.  Illy coffee seems to be a famous brand reputed for quality coffee produced in Trieste, Italy. According to my lunch partner, the coffee was aromatic and quite rich.

Vintry 
Blk 3A River Valley Road
#01-01 Clarke Quay
Singapore
Tel: +65 6338 2808
http://www.vintry.com.sg/

Opening Hours
Sun–Thu: 12pm–3pm, 6pm–11.30pm
Fri–Sat: 12pm–2am

Glasses

Buffet Town @Raffles City

Only realised that Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar at Raffles City was changed to Buffet Town when we were there for a gathering.

Buffet Town and Japanese Food Bazaar were kind of similar - a variety of themed stations offering different cuisines. The main difference is the payment mode, instead of having a passport and get it stamped whenever you placed an order, Buffet Town is all inclusive, just take or order whatever you fancy for a fixed price.

Fresh seafood station is among the first that we will explore. There were white clams, scallops, chilled prawns, mussels and crayfish. The crayfish was a bit disappointing, the prawn was quite nice and you can taste the freshness with just some lemon.

Seafood Station

Japanese Sushi and Sashimi - Buffet Town was generous for their sashimi as well. To keep them fresh, the sashimi was not on display, you can request Salmon or Tuna sashimi from the chef at the sashimi station. There were also assorted sushi rolls and appetizers at the same station.

Fresh Salmon Sashimi
Rating: 4/5

Italian Pasta and Pizza - Their pasta was quite nice. Pick and choose your ingredients - mushroom, onions, green and black olives and decide on a sauce - Aglio Olio, cream or tomato-base.  They also have forrest mushroom, hawaiian and seafood pizzas cut into small pieces, allowing you to savour variety without getting too full.

Teppanyaki and Tobatayaki Kiosk.  The usual teppanyaki where the chef will prepare to your choice of vegetables, mushroom and meat.  They will provide a number tag if the queue gets long.
There is also beef and pork satay, grilled pineapple. The marinate of the satay was nice too, just that some portion was a bit tough.  Well, since its buffet, you can add as much pineapple puree to your satay sauce :).

Pork Satay
Rating: 3.75/5

The gilled chicken wings and shishamo were good as well.  The white fungus chicken was good that I had 2 portions.

(clockwise)White fungus chicken soup, grilled Shishamo
Beef stew, Pasta, Sausage

Local Delights were available as well.  Our famous chicken rice, laksa and also prawn crackers.  A range of beverages were available - homemade soya bean milk, soft drinks, teh and kopi as what you will find in coffee shop.

Local Delights

The dessert spread was not very interesting, but they do have a few dessert worth trying  - waffles with ice cream and silky beancurd.

Dessert

Buffet Town - $24.80++ for lunch buffet from Monday to Friday.
Setting was ok, just that the tables were too close to one another, you might need to maneuver to your seat.
Being a themed kiosk concept where not all food are on display as normal buffet, you will need to look out for those small little signs at the counter else you will missed out the goodies hidden behind the counters.

Buffet Town

Buffet Town
Raffles City, #B1-44E
252 North Bridge Road
Tel: (+65) 6837 3793

Operating Hour:
  11.30am to 3pm daily
  6pm to 10.30pm daily

http://www.buffettown.com.sg/