Food Blog : Clifford @ The Fullerton Bay Hotel

Recently opened, this five-star hotel, The Fullerton Bay, houses only 100 rooms (read exclusive), an AMAZING poolside bar (and when they say poolside, the bar surrounds the pool), one other indoor bar and this restaurant. The hubs and I couldn't decide what to have for our anniversary dinner and decided on this. Can't say that we're sorely disappointed, there were some nice bits to the meal.

Before I go into the food bits, let me start on the service crew. 80% of them can't take a simple order. 100% of the 80% are unable to recommend from the menu. Doesn't this just set the mood. But the both of us were too into the fact that we're hungry and needed to be fed straightaway to get up and leave. Besides, there were only 2 other tables... not much of a scene, huh?

With Western fusion food on the menu, it wasn't difficult to decide what to eat. The hubs had the lamb and I the beef. We had a bowl of mushroom soup each and shared a platter of lobster and scallops carpaccio. A free flow of two different kinds of bread had me going. I took the white one which was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside and the hubs had the multigrain one. With the butter came a shredded duck dip. It tasted almost like tuna, but had a little ducky-ness to it. Apparently this restaurant is famous for this duck dip and it's offered free flowing with the bread. Warm white bread, heaps of butter, slab of duck dip. Yummy combination!

Right! The entree. Scallops were from Hokkaido, raw and thinly sliced. I'm not one who's into raw food but this one just melted in my mouth. The lobster was done al dente and it tasted like lobster, nothing extra special. The soup was interesting. It definitely didn't come out of a can... very creamy and slightly bitter from the different mushrooms used to make it. The 'ravioli' that was in the soup was a total let down. The skin tasted like won-ton and I wasn't sure what the filling was. The hubs liked the soup, go figure.

The lamb main was alright. It was a lot of meat. The mini samosas were average too. We didn't even notice the bed of ratatouille till after the dishes were taken away from us.

My beef was supposed to be a wagyu one. These days, I can't tell the difference. It was alright. Nothing to rave about. The fries were coated in something before being deep-fried, making it crispy and the metal pot was a little warm to the touch.


For dessert, I had the creme brulee which wasn't yummy (caramelised sugar at the top needed a hammer to break), but the mini madeleines that came on the side were. The hubs had some espresso with rum and lemon peel. At the end, the espresso was on the house... only because they forgot to charge us for it. So much for five-star service.

I'd probably go back just to eat bread with butter and duck dip... maybe they'll change their main menu with the season.