Marche has been around in Singapore for as long as I've been here. The original was a franchise and they made really, really good food. Then the franchise didn't get renewed and the original owners took the name back. So these people opened another restaurant with the same concept and the same cooks under a different name. After a little while they closed too and left. Could've been the possible lawsuit that the original owners started.
The Marche concept is something akin to buying various food in a market. They hand you a charge card. Every time you want to purchase a dish, you put the charge on the card, payment is made at the end of your meal. My all time favourite is the Mushroom Soup, the Rosti and their Caesar salad.
Now that the original owners have decided to set up store here in Singapore, the dishes are almost the same as before. But I have to admit that when we first dined there, we wrote a really long complaint. They were just setting up and everything that reflected a first time restaurant owner showed, the lack of trained service staff and the bland food. Anyways, they improved and we went back. Their mushroom soup is almost the same as it has always been (read 'old' version) but the Caesar salad and rosti is different. They don't fry the rosti till it's crispy anymore and the salad has no distinct taste, too much garlic.
New dishes have been added like the amazingly expensive Rib-eye steak which doesn't come with any decoration or sides. It's just a slab of meat for S$20. And Paella, which doesn't even come close to the same thing in Spain or the way my hubs cooks it. But this hasn't stopped everyone from eating there, sometimes the queue is just amazing!
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