Fine dining with a Japanese-French edge

NEW RESTAURANT

Lewin Terrace

21 Lewin Terrace

Tel: 6333 9905

Open for lunch and dinner.

Mon to Sun: 12pm to 2.30pm; 6.30pm to 11pm

THROW a stone in Singapore and you're likely to hit a new cafe. Throw another stone and you're likely to hit an old person with nowhere to have a proper sitdown meal with real tablecloths and napkins.

Before the latter becomes extinct - the restaurant, not the old person - the newly established Lewin Terrace is a valiant attempt to revive an era when going out to dinner was an occasion and not a "what do you want to eat" daily banality.

It may be an uphill climb for Lewin Terrace, and we don't just mean the stairs that lead up to this lovely black-and-white colonial bungalow that once housed the residence of Singapore's Central Fire Station's British chief. Its opening comes in the wake of the closure of Au Jardin in Botanic Gardens, and it also takes over the premises from former tenant, Flutes at the Fort, which has since relocated to the National Museum. With most fine-dining eateries downgrading to bistro and cafe level, can something like Lewin T…