Alpine cuisine hits a high
Chef Lorenz-Maria Griesser stakes out new gastronomic terrain at ZOTT's, writes JAIME EE
NEW RESTAURANT
ZOTT'S
97 Amoy Street
Tel: 6223 0913
Open for lunch and dinner Mon to Fri: 11am to 2.30pm; 6pm to 11.30pm
Dinner only on Sat: 6pm to 11.30pm. Closed on Sun
SO here's what I think Alpine cuisine is. Cheese fondue. Served by a milkmaid named Heidi who spent the morning squeezing the udders of family cows Ursula and Matilda, before sitting down to a hearty meal of boiled meat and potatoes, stone-hard bread with rendered bacon fat, strudel for dessert, washed down with apple cider and grog.
No, I don't know what alpine cuisine is.
ZOTT'S, on the other hand, is eager to enlighten you at its over-the-top, stylised temple to European mountain cooking in Amoy Street. Except that what strikes you first isn't the food, but how the owners have managed to squeeze a fin…
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