Relish

I just wanted to express a heartfelt thanks to the staff at Wild Rocket. My family and I eat there quite often - favourites are the Spam Fries, Relish Burger and their deconstructed cheesecake from the past was wowzers. But this review is about the service more than anything - they literally went the extra mile for me. I had a lunch meeting there, and after we were back at the office about 30 minutes later, I realised I had left my wallet at the restaurant. When I called the restaurant, they said that they had found my wallet. I was grateful and said I'd pick it up, but get this - he said it was already on the way to my house, his colleague rode to my house (about 15 minutes ride) on a bicycle!!! I couldn't be more thankful, it wasn't necessary - I'm so sorry I was so flustered I didnt get the name of the gentleman who rode it over - but I am very very grateful.

Had a chill Friday evening with my ex colleague at this place we found at the eleventh hour as we fussed over an easier location for the both of us. We were probably not expecting much, so we got pleasantly surprised with the food quality. The beef shepherd’s pie he had is well-seasoned with some fragrant herbs that sets it apart from any shepherd’s pie I’ve ever had. Definitely something I’ll be back for. My crab linguine, topped with an extra order of sunny side-up, comes with generous servings of crab (albeit not in chunks but shreds). A comfortable place for catch-up, not too crowded that you need to shout over each other, and not too deserted that you need to whisper your secrets.

Having brunch here is a quite nice experience. The burger, all day breakfast and coffees are all nice even in the busiest time. Although we just have 1 hour dining time, eventually the time is good enough.

After a leisurely visit to Botanic Gardens, we had our meal at Relish in Cluny Court. As it was mid-afternoon, it was not crowded and there were many available tables. A nice change from an otherwise busy restaurant during Covid times. Our order of burgers was good and served with crisp greens and chunky chips. With four other occupied tables, we enjoyed our meal in quiet surroundings.

I can't say I expected much from a Burger joint in botanic garden because at this point I just feel allergic to expensive burgers, but this really changed the game for me. The burger (we got the bacon cheese and mushroom cheese) is a bar style burger. Thick, juicy, nice crust on the outside, buns toasted, cheese melted, and the caramelized onions are significantly better than most of the other caramelized onions I've had in the past *Side note: for whatever reason, gourmet burger joints typically can't resist the urge to turn caramelized onions into some weird sweet-sour paste with no resemblance to the initial ingredient and I've honestly always hated it when they did that* So yeah I'm really passionate about caramelized onions that taste like onion. Would recommend the bacon burger 13/10. The sourdough-mushroom soup combo looks unassuming, but really just blew me out of the water. this sourdough slice is the perfect thickness, perfectly buttered, perfectly toasted. The soup is rich, thick, creamy and everything you can ask of a mushroom soup. All the basics are checked, and the flavor pushes it from "good" to "excellent" The only thing I won't recommend is the onion ring side. Underwhelming at best, and the coating is so tough it separates to form a separate ring from the onion. I'd assume they didn't bother removing the inner membrane of the onion before battering and frying. A thick dough-type batter also doesn't work in this application. Onion rings isn't a dish that needs innovation, a simple tempura batter would've been perfect. A tempura coat would even lend itself to better dipping sauce retention. The one redeeming point is the curry dipping sauce, but I don't order onion rings for the sauce. This dish in this restaurant confuses me, because up to this point I assumed that they understand getting the basics down is far more important than doing something fancy and weird. That's what they did for their soup and burgers. Supermarket onion rings taste better than this. If not for the onion rings, I'd give this place a 9/10 and just bump it to 5 stars. If they improve on this, I'd really love it