Bringing new options to the Table

NEW RESTAURANT

Table By Rang Mahal

Naumi Hotel

41 Seah Street

Tel: 6403 6005

Open daily for lunch and dinner: 12pm to 2.30pm; 6.30pm to 10.30pm. Western menu also available, including breakfast

BY and large, hotel all-day-dining restaurants have never really inspired confidence. Like room service, there seems to be a universal code followed by hospitality groups worldwide that scrambled eggs in a breakfast buffet have to look like curdled custard and the in-room pasta has to achieve that exact texture between mushy and inedible before it can be delivered to your door lukewarm. Apart from jetlag and a breakfast voucher, dining in-house is hardly something one looks forward to.

But when a hotel is willing to look outside the box - make that outside its own kitchen - as the newly refurbished Naumi Hotel has done, things get a little more interesting. For one thing, the boutique hotel on Seah Street is tapping the pedigree of Indian restaurant stalwart Rang Mahal to literally spice things up in its all-purpose lobby eatery that also functions as the hotel bar, lounge and b…