Dessert for dinner? Ami lets you eat cake and more

Pastry chef Makoto Arami serves up an omakase of sweet and savoury that gives new meaning to lunch and dinner

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Jaime Ee

Published Thu, Mar 14, 2024 · 11:00 PM

The Zen-like Japanese tea house setting of Ami. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Diners can look out to this garden of statues. PHOTO: JAIME EE/BT
The intimate counter setting where pastry chef Makoto Arami serves omakase for just eight diners. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Chewy and fragrant hazelnut financiers kick off the meal. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Flaky seaweed pastry and sourdough bread are a course in itself. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Crisp parmesan tarts topped with sweet-sour Japanese tomatoes. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Toasted brioche is topped with creamy uni. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Crisp cookies are layered with coffee and chocolate cream. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Ami's signature choux puff is filled with creamy egg salad and caviar. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE
Strawberries and milk ice cream are a refreshing finish. PHOTO: AMI PATISSERIE

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Ami Patisserie 27 Scotts Road Singapore 228222 Tel: 8907 6146 Open for lunch and dinner: 12 pm to 3 pm; 7 pm to 9 pm

AMI Patisserie is a cake shop that upends dining conventions as we know them. One – that you can’t have dessert for dinner. Two – you can’t open a restaurant between an abandoned mansion and a cemetery, and expect the living to go willingly. Ami does both. And surprisingly, it works.

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