Abuzz over burgers

NEW RESTAURANT

Wildfire Kitchen + Bar

26 Evans Road

Tel: 6734-2080

Open daily 11am to 11pm

IMAGINE, if you will, a not-too-distant dystopian future where restaurants are no longer places where you are waited on hand and foot: where menus are brought to you; every bite you take is anxiously observed for signs of displeasure; every dish is explained to you at the table and; tap water is still free. Instead, robots will take your order; drones will fly out of the kitchen to serve your food; and you will have to pour your own water from a common jug and still pay for it.

As human serving staff rapidly become an endangered species in Singapore, the reality is that we may have to rethink the way we eat. Whether it's a cool new concept or a harbinger of things to come, Michel Lu's new venture in the leafy Bukit Timah enclave of Evans Road will either make you shud…