Birthday Brunch

It was Mr Greedy Glutton’s birthday so a group of us headed to the Ritz Carlton’s Greenhouse restaurant to try out their Champagne Sunday Brunch.

What is immediately attractive about this brunch over others is that it runs for longer – 11:30am until 3:00pm, instead of the usual 12:00 to 3:00, closely followed by their champagne selection – a choice of Vintage Moët or Rosé Moët. Not only this, but they also have a cocktail bar included in the free flow, with Mojitos and Caipirinhas muddled up to order. Throw in a bright and airy atmosphere, live music, fantastic spread of food and exceptionally friendly and helpful staff and we quickly saw we were on to a winner.

As always, I kicked off with a few oysters to whet the appetite:



Unfortunately most other people also decided the oysters were a good start-off point, and downside of the Greenhouse is that most of their stations provide food to order (oysters are opened, sashimi and roast beef are sliced, pancakes are tossed, and chocolate puddings are baked – all to order), Whilst on one hand this is obviously a positive aspect as the food is fresh, it meant there was a long queue wherever you went – perhaps that’s why they allow you the extra half hour.



Moving on, my next stop was the Barbecued Lobster station –freshly cooked and with a self-serve helping of thermidor sauce, making it probably the best I’ve had at any brunch in Singapore.

A momentary willingness to at least attempt to be slightly healthy led me to the Salad station, where I piled on the Caeser salad, asparagus spears and salmon:

Before moving on to the Sushi/Sashimi station where I loaded up myself up:

This lead nicely onto the Meat station, where I was served some beautifully cooked roast beef, a fantastic lamb cutlet with mint sauce, crispy pork belly, and some Chinese-style spare ribs.

Then it was time to move on to the Dessert station, where I just couldn’t decide between the strawberry and crème anglaise stuffed pancake with a choice of ice cream… or the molten chocolate cake with choice of ice cream… so yep, you guessed it – I took both…

This only left room for a selection from the fantastic Cheese station,

before we sat back and enjoyed a few final mojitos before closing time… (fantastic mojitos by the way, with your own brown sugar swizzle stick to stir into so you can adjust sweetness to taste).

Well, what can I say? A fantastic spread indeed and lot of fun was had by all… in fact we’re already planning our return visit…

The Greenhouse, Ritz Carlton, Millenia Singapore - http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Singapore/Dining/Greenhouse/Default.htm