Open for Business!!!!

Hello, I am very excited and happy to announce that Spruce is officially open for business. It has been an amazing experience with ups and downs along the way but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I want to first give acknowledgement to my great staff who have embraced the meaning of hospitality and given 110% every step of the way. We most definitely could not have done it without them.



Spruce, aims to be a neighborhood restaurant that serves genuine food and drink with our trademark hospitality. We currently serve breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week from 8am-1030pm. During the midday, we encourage people to stop in and sample our scones and pastries with a pot of tea or coffee or to simply indulge in our signature chocolate chip cookies and decadent double chocolate fudge brownies.



Our coffee and tea has won rave reviews thus far and is backed up by a super rich and thick Hot Chocolate as well as a beautifully fragrant Masala Tea that is filled with aromatic spices and warm steamed milk. But my favorite beverage has to be the mint lemonade with fresh squeezed lemons, mint leaf and homemade sugar syrup.



Brunch offers a great array of breakfast favorites mixed in with some more traditional offerings such as our Cesar salad with crispy poached egg, our signature burger and a beautiful Ahi Tuna Tartar with our house made ciabatta bread.



Overall, I am very happy with the progress for the first week. I thank all of you who have supported me over the years for your valuable feedback, it is much appreciated. Here are the details for the restaurant and I hope that your experience here proves to be a great one.



Spruce

restaurant bar bakery

320 Tanglin Road, Phoenix Park

t: 68365528

email: reservations@spruce.com.sg

Cocktails and Creations

Wow, first, let me thank all of you who wrote in with kind words of encouragement, it really means a lot. We are so close at the restaurant and will be putting on the final touches in the next few days. We have already booked our first private event at the restaurant, so things will start with a bang. 

Ok, on to cocktails. I have been thinking about our cocktail program for a long time and honestly was a little lost up until today. What spawned the sudden creativity was delivery from a supplier who brought us our Sodas for the restaurant. A couple of months back we did a tasting of Tiro Sodas from Australia and immediately fell in love. With great flavors of elderflower, grapefruit, blood orange and passionfruit it all clicked. Why don't I use those flavor bases as the beginnings of great ingredient driven cocktails. So here is what I came up with: 

Blood Orange Negroni (Campari, Gin, Blood Orange Soda and Sweet Vermouth)

Ginger and Elderflower Fizz (Ginger Syrup, Elderflower Soda, Mint Leaves, Calamansi Lime, Gin)

Back Porch Passion Fruit Lemonade (Passion Fruit Soda, Cranberry, Lemon Juice, Vodka, Fresh Ginger)

Basil and Grapefruit Summer Punch (Gin, Cointreau, Basil Leaves, Lime Juice, Grapefruit Juice)

They each use a different Soda and will be the anchors on our house cocktail list. I can't wait to get into the bar and start developing the recipes for these libations! Of course these are just ideas, we will have to see what reality brings when I start mixing, but I can already taste these refreshing cocktails and know they will be a great thirst quencher on hot days in the Singapore Sun. Cheers!