The gin-focused cocktail bar in Chinatown has a dining room on the second floor for carnivores with an appetite for fine meats
Copper knows the way to our food-and cocktail-loving hearts, with Negroni on tap (!), to-die-for gin concoctions, excellent bar bites, and a swanky interior that looks like a setting of a steampunk novel. But it’s not just a hip, noteworthy drinkery anymore: the six-month old establishment has opened its intimate 20-seat restaurant on the second floor, and meat is (almost) on every plate.
The menu consists of a five-course and eight-course prix fixe at $128 and $178 respectively. Lean, you might think, but the ace dishes are fit for the carnivorous royalties of, say, Game of Thrones. If you can stomach it (we’re sure you can when you have a taste of Copper’s culinary piazza), go for the eight-course Discovery menu, which includes a wholesome beef consommé we wished was bottomless, venison tartare, a flavour-packed duck ravioli, the too-good-to-be-true pigeon a la francaise, a perfectly-cooked kagoshima wagyu, an intriguing but delicious gorgonzola savoury cheesecake and the dangerously addictive strawberry samosa. You also get to choose a side dish – we recommend the Brussels sprouts for some veggie, or the Zinfadel Spaghetti for some carbs. An orange sherbet with saffron gin, a lime sherbet with lavender gin, and a very tasty glass of Nino Franco Grave di Stecca Brut are also part of the package
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Everything we had (from the Discovery menu) is just as they sound on the menu – which is to say each creation accomplished a marvelous balance, and there is not one component of a dish that overwhelms or takes centrestage. The pigeon a la francaise, for example, has a smokey loveliness from roasted wood pigeon and bacon, while the crunchy sweet peas and turnips add a delicate sweetness to refresh the palate at every bite. So are the stellar gin-heavy drinks, which are excellently crafted to showcase every ingredient, and we didn’t mind having a couple more glasses on a Friday.
Copper, 10 Jiak Chuan Road, Singapore 089264, p. 6222 5565. Mon-Wed 6pm-12am, Thu-Sat 6pm-3am. Closed Sun.