You have 19 Sundays left in 2014 to partake of the best brunch ever. The Manhattan Weekend Cocktail Brunch at The Regent is unparalleled for its food and drink, and price, considering.
Think of it as theatre. The long bar, propped up by 300 over whiskies and bourbons and ryes from bespoke distilleries across the USA, is the stage. Its bartenders the creative directors and performers, and stars of the show – the cocktails.
Sunday Spritz, Old Cuban (yes I know you’d prefer a young one), La Bonne Vie, Ward Eight, Market-Fresh Bellini, and Bartender’s Breakfast – featuring tea-infused Aylesbury Duck Vodka plus five mixes.
Also cascading are the punch and bloody mary (make mine a bloody awful, hold the vodka), and wines and beers. With champagne, a supplementary S$45. The magic chant? Free-flow!
If you’re a tippling man, it’s paradise found. If you’re a greedy guts, this is gourmet heaven.
I can’t begin to list the journey, which starts with breakfast (dollar pancakes, egg and bacon, not as you picture), then the hot plates (bbq pulled pork slider, smoked foie gras, NY strip), and the food stations: salads, cold cuts, oysters (goes down a dream), seafood (bye bye calories hello cholesterol), bagels & homemade smears.
The desserts live up to that much-bandied phrase I swore never to employ: To Die For. Oreo cream cheese cookie, Snickers bar in miniature, a desserty burger, cereal cookie with an injection of milk, chocolate & bacon lollipop.
And check out the two caves. One for bloody mary, the other for cheeses. Lined with oak kegs and bottles of herbs and spices and condiments.
The Regent Hotel’s Manhattan is a grand hotel bar redolent of New York City, where craft bartending meets artisanal spirits.
Chef is Nicholas Trosien, who combines technique with top ingredients, and head bartender is Ricky Paiva.
Book now, for a big bite of New York, every Sunday, S$150++ includes free-flow drinks except champagne, add S$45. It’s an adults only affair. You’ll drink to that?
