Arossa tries too hard to please
Two new Japanese restaurants offer their own take on Western cuisine. JAIME EE susses them out
NEW RESTAURANT
Arossa Grill & Wine Bar
#02-01 Scotts Square
5 Scotts Road
Tel: 6636-2951
Open daily for lunch and dinner: 11.30am to 3pm; 6pm to 10.30pm
WHEN you talk about natural attrition in the F&B industry, it usually means this: a restaurant dies and another one takes its place. Simple. It doesn't fake its own death, change its name and reappear in the same spot looking exactly as it did before. Imagine if Arossa Grill were a person - it would not do well in a witness protection programme.
So if you get a sense of deja vu at Arossa, don't worry. You're not in The Matrix. You're still in La Luna Rossa - the Japanese-Italian eatery which was among Scotts Square's first tenants when it opened a year or so ago. The faux rustic interiors remain, and so do the original owners. So why the song and dance about being a new resta…
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