CHLOE Magazine Spring 2015 Volume 5 Issue 3 | Page 74

Bar-Roque Grill, Singapore Bar-Roque Grill is set to ignite Singapore’s premium casual dining scene with its heady mix of hedonism and conviviality. Offering a modern rotisserie and bar that celebrates the pleasures of the table, the sweetness of living as shared with one’s lovers, friends and family. ‘Love on the Plate’ the restaurant’s motto, eloquently sings of the inspiration behind the restaurant: the dazzling Baroque period of 17th century Europe. The Baroque a time of flamboyant genius in art, music and architecture. Baroque cuisine was marveled for its inventiveness, spurred by the discovery of new ingredients and the popularity of lavish, theatrical banquets among the nobility and upper class. Its décor reinterprets the social exuberance of the Baroque era in a contemporary idiom, with sophisticated wallpaper and fine leather contrasted with naturally textured stone and wood, iron and brick. Like the décor, the restaurant’s food expresses a grand appetite for life. It is refined yet hearty, innovative, and bursts forth from the passionate classic-contemporary soul of Chef Stephane Istel, a man fiercely loyal to his origins, yet seeking and adventurous in spirit. Chef Stephane says the restaurant will celebrate good food and “the pleasures of being together”. As he declares in his infectiously life-affirming manner, “That’s what cooking and eating is to me: a welcome!” Bar-Roque Grill is located in the up and coming hipster zone of Tanjong Pagar. www.bar-roque.com.sg