Eating with the Garden Slug

We went to try out The Garden Slug on a Friday evening. It's an eclectic little restaurant that comes off very laid back. Their unique list of appetizers, mains, desserts and even a small cider selection, has a substantial vegetarian slant. Their motto is an interesting "Eat Drink Don't Think". Cute! We received some surprisingly professional service from the young staffers there.

I went with the strange choice of a Sloppy Portobello Veggie Burger - it was a vegetarian choice. When the plate was laid down in front of me, I was aghast cos the only sides to my burger were huge raw celery and carrot sticks! I confess, I didn't expect vegetable sticks for sides, expecting some fries to come along if at all (it wasn't specified in the menu). However, with some encouragement from Mky, I dipped the veggie stick into the thousand island sauce and found that I actually didn't mind it at all. Quite refreshing really. It also helped that Mky's dish came with 2 other sauces.

The burger itself was composed of a large portobello mushroom and a "curry patty" (basically potato spiced with curry powder) sitting on romaine lettuce and a slice of tomato. For some reason I was instantly reminded of Cedele's excellent Chicken Chermoula Burger. Must be the curry. Well, being as how the Chicken Chermoula is one of my favourites, the Sloppy Portobello was immediately judged on a higher scale. I thought it was delicious, I just didn't think the burger bun was anything to shout home about - it just served its purpose I guess.

Mky had heard that the fried calamari rings at the Garden Slug was heavenly, but we didn't think we could finish an entire serving of it between us, so she went with the Battered Seafood Sandwich, which came with the aforementioned calamari rings, some potato wedges and more veggie sticks. The calamari rings were quite perfectly done - crispy batter covering the still soft and juicy squid ring. The potato wedges were as standard as potato wedges could be. The platter came with 2 sauces though, Ranch and Honey Mustard! All the better to dip those healthy veggie sticks into!

Her Seafood Sandwich was almost like a less sinful version of traditional Fish & Chips - with the battered hake fish in question served between toasted multi-grain bread with romaine lettuce and tomato. She liked her order well enough (well it was mostly friend stuff, who does not like fry-ups? =P )

Overall, the Garden Slug has some interesting offerings on their menu that we would like next and gets our "We'll be back!" vote!


The Garden Slug
55 Lorong L Telok Kurau, #01-59/61
Bright Centre,
Singapore 42550
6346 0504
justask@thegardenslug.com