Graze

i went to graze a couple of weeks back when my uncle and aunt were in sg. they're from indo, and they came over for the weekend for some medical checkup cum vacation. they're foodies too, so brian and i ended up chatting with them about all the good food places to eat. in addition to hedge funds.

but anyway, my uncle told me that jakarta has a ton of nice restaurants nowadays that cater to the fine dining crowd. and later when he was back in indo he sent me 2 jakarta's best restaurant books. and they look really good. they wanted to go to graze cause they've been here before and my aunt really likes the place. during the weekend, they also went to saint pierre (wine & dine 2 stars) and iggy's (3 stars). they said saint pierre wasn't worth the price but iggy's was indeed really good. iggy's is in the world's top 100 restaurants but apparently it really lives up to its reputation.

crispy hand-rolled pork hork - 9/10

so brian and i met them there, at about 8 on a saturday night. it was full, but not excessively crowded. i highly recommened that if you go anywhere on a friday or saturday night, be sure to make reservations just in case. anyway, once you reach the place at rochester park, you take a flight of stairs down and you're greeted by a big screen, which has movies projected onto it. (check out picture below). the little couple booths on that day faced the projector, so it was really private and romantic if you're with your s/o. we got the indoor table and were presented with the menu. i read up on the place before i came so i immediately knew that i wanted to order the pork hork. it was supposed to be really good.

uncle ordered 2 more starters for us to share and a large salad, which we couldn't finish. i can't remember what the starters were, but i remember both of them to be really good. i also remembered that brian ordered the lamb, which was he finished in record time. additionally, my pork hork was excellent. the crispy hand-rolled pork hork is cooked with spiced plum, cucumber, marinated bean shoot salad, and a redcurrant chilli caramel sauce. the outside is crispy, and you can taste the very moist and very soft pork flesh on the inside. very delicious. i would definitely recommend you to get this if you come here. my uncle's t-bone steak came out a little undercooked though, and he sent it back to get it re-done.


overall, i think that the restaurant, the food, and the ambience was very good. one thing to note though. i've heard some bad things about graze from awhile back. some people say that the food here isn't up to standard and that the service is bad, but on that day i experiences none of this so maybe management has taken care of it. try it and let me know.

http://www.graze.sg/menu_alacarte.pdf

by the way i got the above photos off the web because i didn't manage to take any

4 Rochester Park
Rochester Park
Tel: 6775 9000