According to the restaurant's site "db Bistro Moderne is a contemporary French-American restaurant where traditional French cuisine meets the flavours of the American market. db Bistro Moderne is Chef Daniel Boulud's renowned re-interpretation of the Parisian classic. The seasonal menu highlights the quality of fine ingredients served in a relaxed setting.".
Service: 14/20
Waiters were nice, competent and informal as you want in these circumstances. However, they should have paid more attention to their costumers needs.
Restaurant ambience and décor: 13/20
The restaurant looks a modern NY style bistro, cool, relaxed...but in the middle of a shopping mall with no daylights and loud noise.
Food: 17/20
This is no fine dining restaurant, let alone a new-tech modern one. It focus on certain dishes and how to cook them to perfection. We had the "Frenchie Burger" (Beef patty topped with confit pork belly, caramelized onions, Morbier cheese, arugula, cornichons, served on a black pepper bun) and the "Original db Burger" (Sirloin burger filled with braised short ribs and foie gras served on a parmesan bun) (near burger in the picture). The first one is a light balanced burger served with french fries. Perfectly executed with the excellent sweet combination of the onions and freshness of the vegetables.
The latter is a four-layer-meat-masterpiece (meat - foie gras - pieces of perfectly cooked ribs of the bone - meat). It is the empire state building of the burgers, huge and impossible to eat it with your own bare hands without causing a disaster (I say this in the most honest positive way possible). The burger - cooked medium rare as requested - was the best I ever had. The high quality meat was pink and juicy, the foie gras brought an exquisite taste and the tender (slow cooked?) ribs a complex and strong flavour to the combination (all these with the freshness of tomato and lettuce).
As referred to in db Bistro Moderne's website "among his many achievements, Chef Boulud, of Café Boulud and Daniel fame, is credited with elevating the simple burger into an art form"...I could not agree more.
Wine list: N/A
We have not looked at the wine list.
Genre: American-French Bistro
Price: €35-€50 / person
Michelin: N/A
Date of visit: Autumn 2011
Overall: 15.5
Pros: great burgers
Cons: limited menu, noise and lack of daylight, attention of the staff, price
db Bistro Moderne
B1-48, Galleria Leve,
The Shoppes at the Marina Bay Sands
Tel: +65 6688 8525
http://www.marinabaysands.com/Singapore-Restaurants/Fine-Dining/DB-Bistro-Moderne
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