Tzatziki is the cold, white, garlicky yoghurt-and-cucumber sauce most people meet on the side of a Greek souvlaki. It is also on our dinner menu, next to a piece of charcoal-grilled lamb, and it gets asked about more than you…
Walk out of our door at 29 Hamilton Road in any direction and you are walking past shophouses. Jalan Besar is, in the words of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, “largely lined with two-storey shophouses”, and most people walk past them…
Burrata is on the Small Plates section of our Hamilton Road menu, printed as BURRATA DI PUGLIA — ashtray tomatoes, daikon salsa, basil oil. It is one of the few things on that card with no Japanese or Levantine name,…
Our Hamilton Road menu prints two words on the lamb tartare that most people read straight past. Under Small Plates the line is: KIBBEH NAYYEH — margra lamb tartare, shio kombu, wheat, wasabi ponzu vinaigrette, crispy things, salted cambodian black…
The last line on Li’l Habibi’s menu, under Sweet Endings, reads: Seasonal Fruit Tart, 14 — sumac pastry cream, fruit. Sumac is the one word on that line most people have to look up. It is a spice most Singaporeans…
Two words on our menus do more work than their size suggests: mentaiko XO. They sit on the cassava and taramasalata at Hamilton Road and on the mentaiko taramasalata at Li’l Habibi, and we have explained the mentaiko half twice…
Harissa turns up on three of our dishes across two addresses, and in two colours. On Hamilton Road the Lebanese charcoal chicken comes with a green harissa. On Haji Lane, at Li’l Habibi, the red harissa goes on the Şiş…
A bottomless brunch in Singapore is sold on one number, and the number is almost never what you pay. Between the headline price and the bill sit a drinks tier, a service charge, GST, a hard stop on the clock…
Every few years someone calls Jalan Besar “the new Tiong Bahru”. We cook on Hamilton Road, a few minutes off Jalan Besar, so we have a stake in the answer and we will declare it up front. But the comparison…
Since October 2025 our kitchen has been at 29 Hamilton Road, a short street of shophouses off Jalan Besar that most people only find because they are looking for us. We moved here for the room — the full story…