The last satisfying meal of 2009. New Year's eve. Accompanied by my good friends, in a super cool restaurant along Dempsey Road named Barracks... We were served very good quality food and given very attentive service. What a way to welcome 2010...
I've been to Camp (Camp, House & Barracks seem to belong to one) with the drinking boys the last time round, we had finger food and a bottle of wine. The environment is set very close to the nature, with the huge trees surrounding you in the background. This place used to be a former camp, which is why it's named Camp according to the boys. The prices are all very reasonable.
The only thing about this place is the location, you really need a car to get to this place.
My friend had made a booking at Barracks. At about 2pm, I got an sms... asking if I had anything on that evening. I had the intial plan to join my sister and her friends at East Coast's Timbre Mobile for countdown but I somehow figured I could actually combine the two! It worked! A sumptuous dinner with friends at Barracks plus a sinful treat at Dempsey's Ben & Jerry and followed by countdown drinks at Timbre Mobile. This Timbre Mobile is a really nice concept where they will move to different places bringing along their portable tables, chairs and toilets! They have a really rustic feel and is indeed very unusual... At 12am, everyone shot their party poppers in the air, crazily waving. We then quickly made our way to the beach where we watched the farway ships and vessels shooting navigation lights. It was beautiful, magical... Not to mention, lots of people were on the beach toying with their sparklers. It was a day to celebrate!
Getting back to the food. The food were awesome, except the price for the salad seemed unjustified for its quantity. We had the pear with walnut (can't remember the exact name), the pear was fresh and sliced very thinly... love the involvement of the walnuts. Barracks' specialty, I suppose, is their skinny pizza (with arugula leaves). I read somewhere they got this inspiration from "tissue prata", and so they decided to make pizza with super thin crust (you can't call them crust anymore!). The pizza on the left is named H&C, topped with very fresh slices of cheese, generous serving of hams and is kids' friendly! The one on the centre is chosen by me, it's Macadamia Roasted Pumpkin, I guess the name says it all. The combination is deadly, at first look, it looked alright. After my first piece of H&C, I almost thought that was going to be the best pizza (so fresh). But I was proved wrong immediately, Macadamia Roasted Pumpkin just tasted like honey that literally melted in my mouth when I had my first bite. Love at its first bite! I almost forgot to mention those arugula leaves were my best companion, they go with anything! We also ordered a 1-metre slightly spicy sausage for 4 to share, and a bottle of apple cider (yum yum, love this drink!). I could give up alcohol forever just for this drink - just for you to know how good it is (well, for me!).
p.s: We also visited House, which seemed quite happening... They were having an Olympics theme party that night, unfortunately we weren't prepared for it. We got a free shot of vodka neat! I'm so seriously not a fan of vodka :X
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