enbu 炎舞, suntec city.
knew that eat at seven was finally open, so since i was in the area, i headed over to check out their lunch offerings. at the moment only four of the restaurants are open. i was craving chirashi (what's new) so i was looking for seafood offerings. peeked at maguro donya miura misaki kou (gosh that's a mouthful) situated at the entrance looked tempting after i looked at the menu and spoke to the manager- i initially thought that they only did tuna stuff, and i'm not exactly a tuna person. but i wanted to check out the rest of the places before i decided, so i wandered inside to enbu. it's a charcoal grill place, but i saw that they had a lunch menu with kaisendon, so i was sold immediately.i got the kaisendon with yuzu spicy sauce ($18) which came with a miso soup.
it certainly came prettily presented, but the taste of the bowl didn't quite measure up. i liked the yuzu spicy sauce well enough, but the sashimi cubes were just not fresh nor generous enough. did not get any salmon roe though there were some in the menu picture. i left most of the rice (which was underwhelming as well). the miso soup also came with lumps of miso paste (saw them making the soup while i was at the counter, and they probably didn't stir it thoroughly). i should've known better than to order kaisendon at a charcoal grill place- what was i thinking?! in retrospect, probably should have picked the tori warayaki that most people ordered. i was seated at the counter so i saw them grilling the slab of chicken over a straw fire right in front of me.
don't think i'll be coming back, except perhaps to try the tori warayaki, which goes for $15. their lunch offerings are competent and well priced- no gst nor service. too bad their food doesn't measure up.
enbu 炎舞
#03-307 suntec city
