Tempura x Tapas — Tempura-based tapas bar with over 60 bottles of sake

Do you understand what’s not so generally seen in Japanese tapas? Tempura! It would make excellent sense so as to add these fried snacks in. And what do you wash it down with? Sake, and many it! That’s exactly what Yamakita: Tempura x Tapas units out to do.

Officially opened on 1 Nov 2022 at The Quayside alongside 60 Robertson Quay, Yamakita: Tempura x Tapas incorporates tempura dishes in tapas and affords over 60 bottles of completely different sake! Apart from having a sake bar, it even has its very personal tempura bar!

If you’re right here for the tempura, you may go for its 5 completely different Tempura Courses. One of them is the Hoku Course (S$130++).

This choice comprises 5 seafood tempura in addition to 5 vegetable tempura dishes. All units embody an appetizer, salad, kakiage (tempura patty of various greens on udon) and the Dessert of the Day.

Not a fan of tempura? Fret not, as there are teppanyaki choices resembling Yamakita Japanese Pizza (S$14++), Garlic Oyster (S$24++) and Wagyu Akami Bite-Sized Steak (S$48++). There are additionally rice and noodles choices just like the Kakiage Don (S$18++) and Kakiage Udon (S$18++).  

This is without doubt one of the uncommon instances that the drink menu is definitely longer than its meals counterpart. Before you get overwhelmed by the 60 bottles of various sake, Yamakita: Tempura x Tapas has a Sake Try-on Set (S$25++) which is three sake cups of your selecting from their intensive listing of sake by the glass. 

This consists of Tenbu Junmai Ginjo, Tanaka Roku Jyugo Junmai and Hakkaisan Futsushu. Full bottles of sake are bought too, starting from S$69++ to S$480++. The sakes are categorised by the kind of flavour it brings resembling Fruity Type and Matured Type. Your Japanese tapas expertise simply obtained a bit extra fascinating.

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