[News] New Restaurant - The Summerhouse (Singapore)

After launching Monti with a bang, the 1-Group soft opens its multi-concept F&B destination, The Summerhouse, at Seletar today. Housed in a 45,000 square feet, 80-year-old, double-storied conservation bungalow built in the 1930s, The Summerhouse was once home to the Royal Air Force’s Tech Wing Commander and is one of several establishments located in The Oval @ SAP. Comprising a 76-seat café on the ground floor and a 50-seat dining room with an adjoining 40-seat balcony bar on the upper deck, the property also encompasses an edible garden curated by Edible Garden City where the kitchen sources 100% of its herb garnishes. At The Summerhouse, the ethos is farm-to-table and to make this far-reaching goal a possibility in urban Singapore, the restaurant connects with a farming collective of growers and producers in both the island and Malaysia. The newly installed chef de cuisine, Florian Ridder, a native of Germany, cut his teeth at one Michelin-starred Piment and three Michelin-starred La Belle Epoque before he arrived in Singapore as the former sous chef of the one Michelin-starred Alma by Juan Almador. For The Summerhouse’s dining room on level two, Ridder has assembled a “nature-inspired, farm-to-table” menu of simple but elegantly composed dishes like panzanella (Italian bread) eggplant ‘caviar’ served in a broth prepped with local tomatoes and the pumpkin and sunflower seeds-studded buckwheat porridge with Parmesan crisps and fresh herbs from the garden. The Summerhouse currently opens for dinner only and it will serve both an a la carte menu and a Collective Farming set menu (S$90++ for about 10 courses).

3 Park Lane; +65-8608 3340; www.thesummerhouse.sg