The Pump Room (River Valley)

The Pump Room, one of the popular microbrewery is offering a Sunday Brunch. The main bar and bistro is at the Riverside Point and they opened the second one at Great World City.

The Pump Room offers a Sunday Brunch which caught my attention

The Sunday brunch is priced at $28++ with free flow of soft drinks and $38++ with 2 pints of microbrewery beers. Help yourself to the various antipasti,bread soup , salads, cheese and more on the buffet table. Choose a main freshly made to order and a choice of weekly 2 desserts.

The 2 desserts being offered are The Lemon Cake and Plum Ice-cream.
There were several choices for mains and I had the Beer Battered Dory fillet served with Tartar sauce.

Apparently they only offered 3 types of tapas and I tried all 3. IMHO, they were not bad and in fact, I enjoy little Tapas like this.

The Quail Egg: The yolk is scopped off and being replaced by mayonnaise and some caviar… crunchy!

Salmon Roll: Smoked salmon wrapped with little spears of asparagus. The smoked salmon was a little salty.

Mushroom Tartlet: I adore thse little tartlets filled with cheese(not custard) and mushroom. The tart shell was crunchy .

Beer Battered Pacific Dory Fillet with Tartar sauce

I had the beer battered F&C as mains and the staff kindly asked me whether I would like to change the mesclun salad leaves to spinach/ refried beans as the mesclun salad is being offered in the buffet. I was gald to hear that but it was kinda weird to serve spinach with F& C?When the F& C was being served to me, I tried a little of the spinach and it was wayyyyyyy tooo salty! Second and third try, confirmed the extreme saltiness.

The beer battered fish fillets were crispy and I can taste the mild flavour of beer in it. Though the dory itself is rather bland on it’s own, it was acceptable when I dipped in the Tartar sauce.

I left the spinach leaves untouched and they kindly replaced a new serving of spinach leaves to me. The second serving of spinach leaves was ok but this time, toooo oily..!

Fruits with chocolate sauce

I helped myself with the fruit available- Strawberries, honeydow, rock melon and dragonfruit to dip with the chocolate fondue. The chocolate fondue may look somehow impressive but it was a major disappointment.

The chocolate was way too diluted and it was like sugar overdose. The mashmellows doesn’t even coat well with the chocolate sauce.(the colour of the chocolate sauce is very pale)

A scoop of plum ice-cream served on a flaky pastry tartlet. I think the ice-cream was from Wall’s?

Some hits & misses here. I like the ambience, very simple and comfortable. The service is quite efficient and friendly too. I guess this is the place meant more for having beer but I was glad I made a wise choice to choose the beer-battered fish fillet as the crispy fish fillets has a mild flavour of beer.