Riviera

First fine dining experience, the restaurant located in city area, I enjoyed beautiful scenery of MBS, Merlion and river side while having sumptuous meal. Restaurant atmosphere is good, service is good and the waiter is very friendly. Food is superb. It’s an awesome dining experience.

We had a lovely night being served by Matthew! We ordered the ala carte and all were a hit! Each dish has its only surprised elements and flavour which are not overwhelming in taste! See my pictures here! Matthew gave us a surprise as well for our anniversary! Not to forget the spectacular view! Will come back again!

The food is not good at all.
And the view can't make up for that.

They serve margarine instead of butter. The bread is soggy. The flavors and seasonings of the dishes are strange and unbalanced. Some of it tastes more like Chinese food than Mediterranean.

The service is slow. It took them 1 hour to serve 2 entrees.

Overall, not recommended unless you just want to get a cup of coffee and enjoy the bay view.

This restaurant has a great view for a special occasion and the the service was pretty good. -1 on service for rushing out food order while we were still looking at the wine list. They told us to start with food, which was odd. And, there was no course menu left at the table, which was unusual for a fine dining tasting menu.

Unfortunately, we just didn’t like the food. At all. We love Mediterranean food, especially French, and this food just had really odd flavors and combinations to us.

Here’s what we didn’t like:
-the tomato salad was out of season and very heavy on black pepper.
-they poured an awful and very spicy sauce over the lobster pastilla. It was called “lobster bisque” but had the color and flavor of chili sauce. The inside of the pastilla was a very wet shredded vegetable. Sad because I love the original Moroccan pastilla.
-the fried artichoke with the wagyu tasted strongly of brine (from a tin).
-the roll with the cheese plate had an odd, fishy, taste. Might have been seaweed, but we just didn’t like it.
-the grapefruit and raspberry dessert was so, so tart it made your mouth pucker and had nothing rich to balance it.

I’d expect fresh, seasonal, produce and a strong understanding of how to balance flavors from a fine dining restaurant. This place is pretty, but mostly trades on the view.

Everything was perfect, good service, good food. Will definitely go again. Thank you for all of your hard work to make our night most beautiful.

Impressive views and interestingly decorated desserts.
I was glad to have a meal last year and just realised I haven’t rated it!

Was recc to try the buffet lunch which is a new thing the restaurant started recently. Nice decor, professional and attentive staff and also a nice view near the Merlion! Staff will recc u to enjoy the buffet in sequence of the menu, though I was quite tempted to dive right straight for the roast meat live station. For starters, you will be served a shellfish consommé, a plate of oysters and some cured salmon. Consommé was refreshing and the oysters are nicely shucked and fresh! Cured salmon was also thickly sliced. Up next you get a mutha huge tray of ham, duck rillete, foie gras pie and assorted cheeses. At this point i feel abit illogical. With just the 3 of us obviously there’s no way we can finish this and still stomach the mains and desserts. Personally i don’t like to see wastage but really no choice this time but had to pass a large remainder portion of it. The cheeses weren’t really my thing and the ham and the rillete are just fairly decent. Maybe i don’t how to appreciate ba. Next is the roast meat live station i was waiting for. Btw you can order any of the previous dishes that u had at any point of time. There was australian ribeye, bbq spare ribs, lamb shanks, chicken pastilla, charsiew and also mushroom risotto. Generally everything at the live station was gd. Even the risotto which is easy to f up was really well made. But my fav was prob the charsiew. I have no idea how they get such a mutated large chunk of mutha tender charsiew from. Most charsiew i see is usually a thin long piece of loin meat. Need to get a hold of their charsiew supplier sia lol. At this point of time, we thought we enjoyed the highlight alr but hell no…the dessert station was the darkest horse ever! Super nice caramel macrons and the bestest choc tart ever! If u bake u will know how troublesome it is to make macrons. Choc tart is the star of the show man. Indescribable but i think there’s a layer of biscotti spread in between the tart and the base biscuit that gives it a special crunch to it. Walan eh, if i know the desserts were this gd i would skipped the tray of ham and cheeses. Oh well, will def return with a diff strategy the next time lol. Overall a really nice experience worthy of breaking my ketosis. $133 nett per pax; abit pricey for lunch but really quality stuff, nice ambience and excellent view!