Inside this cosy restaurant, which seats just 24 (although a lounge-bar upstairs that seats 26 will open in 2021), the tag team of Chef Glen Tay and Chef Alex Phan has resulted in a delicious and unpretentious menu, made of familiar items we all know and love. What makes this special is that these two, who grew up just blocks away from each other — both stayed in Hougang, with Tay at Avenue 8 and Phan at Avenue 7 — have taken the familiar and given it just enough of a twist to keep it fresh and exciting.
Promising new restaurant Avenue 87 shows that geographical borders do not stop the pursuit of good food, nor would it get in the way of a lifelong creative partnership of two true foodies
You may have walked right past the unassuming doors of Avenue 87, a brand new restaurant along Amoy Street, without thinking much about it. Yet, you would be sorely mistaken, for behind the nondescript doors is an incredibly worthy effort by two young Singaporean chefs, whose creative partnership has resulted in the most exciting new restaurant I’ve encountered in quite a while.
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