Let Ryan Clift shine

NEW LOCATION

Tippling Club

38 Tanjong Pagar Road

Tel: 6475-2217

Open for lunch (starting later this week) Mon to Fri: 12pm to 3pm. Dinner from Mon to Sat: 6pm till late.

Online reservations at www.tipplingclub.com

WHEN it comes to avant garde cooking - note the likes of Adria, Blumenthal, Redzepi, Aduriz and, in the Singapore concept, perhaps Andre Chiang - the niggling question always is: how much of it is about making food that tastes good and how much is it about mucking with the diner's mind?

As it is, current trends already point to a general fatigue with trends - hence a return to the basics, sustainability, calling a fish a fish (not espuma of thermomixed cod gel)... you know wh…