Pizza and a View
As I mentioned in the previous entry, this blog so far has basically been a food review in Singapore. On Wednesday, we had yet another good meal at the New Asia Bar.
Before getting to dinner, my sister and I spent some time taking in Singapore culture at the Asian Civilisation Museum. Anji had been wanting to check it out so we planned on meeting up there after her classes were over and before dinner. I thought two hours would be more than enough to learn about Asian culture in a Singapore museum, but as it turned out the museum was filled with lots of interesting information and exhibits. We ended up running out of time and I had to hurry through the India and south Asia exhibits, which was a shame.
Anji and I headed over to the Swissotel and went up top to the 70th floor to New Asia Bar. She and Nima had already been up there once for dinner, and both highly recommended the pizza so that's what we were there for. Oh, and the view of Singapore was quite nice as well.
Athough there was a sign indicating that shorts and sandals are not allowed (and neither of the girls gave me a heads up about that!) the bar was pretty relaxed and casual, especially for being among ritzy restaurants in a 5-star hotel. There were plenty of tourists up there, and it was still early, so nobody gave me beef about the shorts.
Once Nima joined us, we got a decent seat right by the window and ordered a couple pizzas. The waitress did botch our order as we originally asked for a veggie and margherita pizza but she forgot to put the veggie order in, but after the margherita came out it was so good we just asked for another one of those. Also, from 3-9 they have a solid 50% off happy hour, so we got
a fruity martini and a frozen margarita-type drink. The drinks were okay, nothing to write home about, but the pizza was fantastic. Nice thin crust and a little bite to the pizza seasonings. The price was right too, at $14SGD per pizza, two pizzas were more than enough to feed 3 hungry Americans craving pizza. Considering the location and view, the New Asia Bar is a great value and a top recommendation of mine.
New Asia Bar - Swissotel in Raffles Plaza
Before getting to dinner, my sister and I spent some time taking in Singapore culture at the Asian Civilisation Museum. Anji had been wanting to check it out so we planned on meeting up there after her classes were over and before dinner. I thought two hours would be more than enough to learn about Asian culture in a Singapore museum, but as it turned out the museum was filled with lots of interesting information and exhibits. We ended up running out of time and I had to hurry through the India and south Asia exhibits, which was a shame.
Anji and I headed over to the Swissotel and went up top to the 70th floor to New Asia Bar. She and Nima had already been up there once for dinner, and both highly recommended the pizza so that's what we were there for. Oh, and the view of Singapore was quite nice as well.Athough there was a sign indicating that shorts and sandals are not allowed (and neither of the girls gave me a heads up about that!) the bar was pretty relaxed and casual, especially for being among ritzy restaurants in a 5-star hotel. There were plenty of tourists up there, and it was still early, so nobody gave me beef about the shorts.
Once Nima joined us, we got a decent seat right by the window and ordered a couple pizzas. The waitress did botch our order as we originally asked for a veggie and margherita pizza but she forgot to put the veggie order in, but after the margherita came out it was so good we just asked for another one of those. Also, from 3-9 they have a solid 50% off happy hour, so we got
a fruity martini and a frozen margarita-type drink. The drinks were okay, nothing to write home about, but the pizza was fantastic. Nice thin crust and a little bite to the pizza seasonings. The price was right too, at $14SGD per pizza, two pizzas were more than enough to feed 3 hungry Americans craving pizza. Considering the location and view, the New Asia Bar is a great value and a top recommendation of mine.New Asia Bar - Swissotel in Raffles Plaza
posted by SM at
3/02/2006 02:52:00 AM
1 Comments:
So basically you were the oddball in the New Asia Bar being twice the height of the other asian customers but with pants half the length of theirs...nice :)
Love,
Ami
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