Starchitect Kengo Kuma’s first public project in Singapore is new Japanese restaurant Suzuki. Is it as good as it looks?
Chef Yuichiro Suzuki serves up sushi and kaiseki in the Mondrian hotel restaurant
NEW RESTAURANT
Suzuki #01-09 Mondrian Hotel Singapore 089813 Tel: 9755 7899 Open for lunch and dinner Tues to Sun: 12 pm to 2:30 pm; 6:30 pm to 11 pm.
WE’VE seen many a block of hinoki in Singapore – that sweetly-scented hunk of cypress wood that tells you no pennies were saved in the making of the sushi restaurant it sits in. But it’s really rare to see a collection of Japanese indigenous materials gathered in one place – hinoki, bamboo, ancient stone – looking like they got lost on the way to a building supplies convention, or a prefectural antenna shop.
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