The Place Not a restaurant per se, Magic Square at Portsdown Road feels more like a private home dining space in a colonial style setting. Planned to be a one year pop up, the concept of Magic Square is to give young Singaporean chefs a platform to run their own restaurant. With a different menu each month by three main head chefs Marcus, Abel and Desmond, take turns to curate a completely different menu, giving diners more reasons to return. The three main chefs, all under 30, also boasts an impressive resume of previous culinary experiences in the likes of Michelin-starred Odette, Whitegrass and Blackwattle. The owners of Magic Square are behind Naked Finn at Gillman Barracks. The space here feels like a page off from the Ikea catalogue, a fact the restaurant manager professed, with a long communal 18-seater taking centrestage. The team is very lean, with the chefs and the restaurant manager, essentially a four men team running the whole show from kitchen preparations to service and explanation of the dishes. The Food Priced at S$78 per person for dinner, the 9-course affair has only two seatings for dinner, with a pretty tight service time of two hours. My experience [...]
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