Sunday's brunch ($59.95)!
Sunday phase-2 sit-down brunch — $59.95 restaurant spread. Mid-tier weekend treat at the sweet-spot pricing.
Sunday brunch with BB at a sit-down restaurant — $59.95 for the spread. Mid-tier weekend treat at the right pricing point.
We ordered (Sunday brunch spread):
- Two mains
- A shared side
- Two drinks
- A small dessert
Total: $59.95 for the spread.
The $59.95 brunch sits at the sweet spot of sit-down restaurant pricing — substantial enough to feel like a proper weekend treat, restrained enough not to require special-occasion justification. Roughly $30 per person for sit-down brunch is fair-value zone in 2020 Singapore.
Mains were the focus. Both were classic brunch plates — a protein, eggs, a carb base — plated cleanly and executed with attention. One probably leaned the savoury-heavy direction (steak-and-eggs format), the other leaned the lighter side (eggs benedict or smoked salmon plate).
Shared side was a small portion of vegetables or salad — the greens-and-fresh component against the protein-egg-carb heaviness of the mains.
Drinks were the standard specialty cafe options. A specialty coffee for me, a fresh juice or smoothie for BB.
Small dessert closed the meal — a single shared plate, something chocolate-leaning or fruit-leaning depending on what we’d been eyeing on the dessert menu.
$59.95 for two on a Sunday sit-down brunch is the kind of pricing that we’d settled into as the sustainable post-circuit-breaker rate. Higher than the $19-26 budget tier; lower than the $80+ elevated tier.
The pacing of the weekly brunches had its rhythm. Saturday at the hawker centre, Sunday at a sit-down restaurant. Hawker spread + restaurant spread covered both ends of the city’s food spectrum across one weekend. Phase 2 reopening had given us back both options.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable Sunday brunch — would repeat.
