17 June, 2010
The Loud, and aggressive, House@Dempsey attacks the market(dempsey hill) with a strong dining concept; striking menu in equally brash language. Food Rawrism, not Raw Foodism; no cream(butterfat and gelatin), no mayonnaise(yolk and emulsifiers), but whole foods.
Branching into sub-brand Skinny Pizza (Suntec, Raffles city, Wheelock Place), one wonders at the kind of cuisine served the bottom of this quaint treehouse. Eastern; western, no, on the dot. Middle; whatever we've got here. Golden goat cheese; unadulterated fat in soups and breads, basil and lemon; whole, straight from the garden, triple berry, not jam tucked in breads; anti-oxidants, fads of Singapore, extra virgin olive oil(even barbeque chicken knew of the knack). So it focuses on freshness and wholesomeness. Like the Italians?
Probably. Just that you will also sight chilli, curry, and coconut rice, amongst the dappled rainforest sunshine; its location is a tourist spot for the locals. Whilst suburban, its the middle quality, not western; not asian, but the buzz of the local cicadas in the depths of dempsey hill a price ticket for city travellers, novelty-seeking youngsters and blue-collared workers. Therefore probably or not(italian); sights and sounds are already incorporated as part of Barrack's menu.
(Green)House, located in the woods(of singapore), covering everything from your head, toe, to stomach. Confused? House@Dempsey is the corporation; housing a Barracks Cafe, serving you for the stomach's component.
Be it your first, or multiple visit, do make one here for the country's foliages!
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The ancient pizza way- cheese is a dash of mozzarella; tomatoes tomatoes, sauce squid ink sauce. (We assume that there wasn't an industry to process cheese or curdle tomatoes at that time of the House, leaving squid ink the only sauce to meddle around with.) (Pizza; in its ancient version, bore some significance before being addressed as an invention.)
Readymades! Distinct in their forms still, there is no mire of toppings or flopping of baked layers to create an incoherent taste or look. This is more like a seafood roast- calamari, squid and shrimp cajun; plentiful ingredients with simple preparation, atop the sides a parsley garden salad. And the crust?
The brassy menu, which made me fell in love with Barracks. (Other than the food).
Going off on the dining experience is Jack And The Beanstalk! The proportions of the table and ceiling are blown off, so that diners can have a sense of disproportionation sitting at the table under a huge table. However everything else is relative in size so you know you have not entered a giant's House.
SQUID INK (SQUID INK CRUST) (SGD 23.00)
And the multiple visits could have been this. Not carbohydrate mains, not pizza; not 'dough', squid ink 'crust', lest people not know that it is black(squid ink). Stiff, airy, crisp; it is more like the dry peaks of a meringue, dyed in black, its unevenness prevails, like that of a bumpy surface of a wall. Why don't we have rooms painted in black? This is how your wall will look like in black.
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The ancient pizza way- cheese is a dash of mozzarella; tomatoes tomatoes, sauce squid ink sauce. (We assume that there wasn't an industry to process cheese or curdle tomatoes at that time of the House, leaving squid ink the only sauce to meddle around with.) (Pizza; in its ancient version, bore some significance before being addressed as an invention.)
Readymades! Distinct in their forms still, there is no mire of toppings or flopping of baked layers to create an incoherent taste or look. This is more like a seafood roast- calamari, squid and shrimp cajun; plentiful ingredients with simple preparation, atop the sides a parsley garden salad. And the crust?
Skinny pizzas the best invention of the pizza yet- assimilating with the silverware, it becomes a seafood roast!(with paper plates for your barbeque party). It is simply too unearthly to be taken with seafood, (roasts do not need carbohydrates; Crust do not have vegetation growing on it).
P.S. At that time of the House; with the dyeing of the carbohydrates black aside, it was also noticed that squid ink was used as the 'sauce' over the seafood, and 'pizza'. The Barracks!!{not italian ancestors now}; on pizza sauce and barbeque sauce! It was so black that we wish ketchup and barbeque dips wasn't invented!!
