Located in the heart of Tanjong Pagar, this newly opened Spanish izakaya marries the coziness of an izakaya with the vibrancy of a tapas bar where you would find dishes taking on a creative interplay between Spanish and Japanese culinary traditions.
The concept is created by Spanish chefs Jordi Jou and Carolina Garcia Santamaria, who shares that they wanted to “create something casual and welcoming, yet bold and serious about flavour”.
Garcia Santamaria is the head chef of Tapas 24 Singapore while Jou was the head chef at Gaig Restaurant in Barcelona under Michelin-starred chef Carles Gaig. Jou adds: “It’s not about fusion. It’s about building a new kind of cuisine rooted in tradition, expressed through contrast and executed with precision.”
The cozy restaurant with an open kitchen offers inventive small plates such as Argentinian prawn tartare on crispy sushi rice, oden daikon in Spanish cocido broth, roasted stuffed chicken wings with piquillo peppers and aioli sauce, and cured miso Hokkaido scallops with yuzu sauce.
There are also hearty, shareable donabe (土鍋) dishes featuring Iberico pork, duck breast and seafood.
