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Singapore traders lunching again 'good news' for Michelin-starred chef

Bloomberg Published on Wed, Mar 01, 2017 / 8:13 AM GMT+8

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SINGAPORE (March 1): Singapore’s stock traders lost their lunch break weeks after Osvaldo Forlino opened a restaurant in the heart of the city’s business district in 2011. As Forlino readies a new cafe, he’s looking forward to welcoming the dealers, who may once again get a midday pause.

“This is good news,” Forlino, a Michelin-starred chef, said in his No Menu restaurant, a five-minute walk from the office of Singapore Exchange Ltd. “Traders will feel the buzz, we have lots of business people talking business during lunch here, or they can go to No Menu bar which we’ll open just behind.”

Forlino isn’t the only one excited by the prospect of about 3,400 traders with more time to eat away from their desks. Next door at Cheek by Jowl, which opened in February 2016, Denise Khan Tan is thinking of ways to reach out to the trading community.