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Anti:dote High Tea Singapore Review

March 11, 2018

We wrote about high tea tradition in our recent post. Now, we took part in that tradition and enjoyed this noble afternoon time-out with our friend. I must admit this high tea is great for the soul and for the social life. Drinking delicious tea and enjoying a little snack with someone you like is perfect. Antidote high tea was one of nicest we have had, but is it also the tastiest?

Contents

  • Ambient
  • Appetizer
  • Antidote High Tea Review
  • Sweets
  • Conclusion
  • Antidote High Tea Review Card
  • Price and Location
Fairmont Singapore lobby
The beautiful creation designed by Petra Dickova lights up the Fairmont’s lobby. All of 800 crystal glass balls making the chandelier are hand-blown.

There is no shame in taking time to pal around like they did in the past and not just quick chit-chat while checking the phone. For the occasion we choose the Fairmont’s Anti:dote restaurant, where they present the petit bites in the elegant drawer box.

antidote dining room
The dimmed dining room with pleasant ambient lighting exposes the nice details.
Fairmont Singapore chandelier
Chandelier at the Fairmont Singapore is mesmerizing.

Ambient

The restaurant itself is nicely decorated and the staff is extremely nice, which is to expect from the place like this. The dining room is a bit dark, so photography is more dark moody I guess. However, drinking afternoon tea here is a pleasant event, because of all the details and dimmed lighting.

Ornament wall
Ornament wall – shelf here at Fairmont, Singapore. An elegant and clean way to separate a place and still let some light in.

The tea selection is great and we were happy to share individual choices. Ian chose Sweet Innocence, which is a combination of green and black tea with fresh mélange of Japanese flower blossoms and ripe tropical mango. The taste was amazing and the sweetness of mango didn’t override the other tastes as can happen with mango teas.

Light
Romantic lighting at Fairmont Antidote.

His selection was stronger compared to my Pink Flamingo Tea. Pink Flamingo Tea is actually TWG tea – the finest luxury tea brand in the world. It’s a green tea with crimson hibiscus blossoms, which are to blame for rose color and tarty but fruity overtones. Our friend was drinking Holiday in Paris, which is a mix of rare Yin Zhen and sweet vanilla. Nard and wildflowers decorate this cup with their crisp, floral flavor and leave an exciting, perfumed aftertaste.

antidote tea cup
Teacup at antidote high tea.
Antidote afternoon tea set
How marvelous is to have a drawer instead of a sandwich stand? Here at Antidote Fairmont high tea they serve afternoon tea like this.

Appetizer

For an appetizer, we got to choose from two egg and truffle inspired starters. The truffle with organic egg, cauliflower, and crispy foie gras had the clean flavors along the perfectly cooked egg. Truffles were nicely composed and didn’t overwhelm the egg yolk and foie gras. On the other side, the second appetizer was truffles with slow-cooked egg and chives.

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Antidote high tea appetizer – truffles with slow cooked egg and chives

That was a combination of warm egg yolk and cold cream. It was a great contrast, only the truffles were too weak. They could be more generous with them, but with poor harvesting season, we better get used to this movement… This dish had a grounding presentation on the rocks with disappointment in the shape of a plastic eggshell.

antidote high tea appetizer
The truffle with organic egg, cauliflower, and crispy foie gras. A nice starter with a perfectly cooked egg and a bit mellow truffle taste.

Antidote High Tea Review

After foreplay, our afternoon tea set came. The set is uniquely decorated in this big box with drawers and on top of it, a mirror with dessert stands. In the first drawer, there were traditional scones, plain and with blackberry. We had some fun with crumbling scones, it remains a mystery to us how to eat them politely. Very tasty companions to scones were the raspberry jam, Devonshire clotted cream, and their homemade lemon curd, which was very refreshing.

Antidote high tea set
Afternoon tea set at Antidote was made to impress and it sure did.

There were five types of sandwiches in the middle drawer. The first one was with smoked salmon and lemon cream cheese, salmon ikura roe and rye bread. This two bites sandwich was very delicious with a great selection of ingredients. Afterward, we had the duck rillette with mustard and chestnut snow. The duck wasn’t distinctive enough in this little canape.

smoked salmon appetizer ideas
Antidote afternoon tea: A smoked salmon and lemon cream cheese, salmon ikura roe and rye bread were great bites. Here are also home-made pork sausages in a puff pastry.

However, it was an overall good idea. The third goodie was braised abalone (sea snail) with leek and potato in a home-made tart. The tart was crunchy, while the filling was moist with the abalone cooked perfectly. There was also a vegetarian version of canapes – heirloom tomato in pesto brioche.

bite size savories
Savories – sea snail tart and the duck rillette with mustard and chestnut snow

Pretty decent brioche, only the taste wasn’t so fresh. They were a bit moisty and not crunchy enough. The last sandwich was home-made pork sausage in a puff pastry. This one was a little dry and didn’t really impress us.

pesto brioche
Vegetarian pesto brioche could be fresher. Anyway, the filling was delicious, fresh and nicely seasoned.

Sweets

And at the end our favorite – dulcet! Some were pretty good, others were disappointing. However, we must admit it – all were looking damn good. Sweet potato coconut cone wasn’t special. A bit to dry and coconut wasn’t delectable at all. Also, berries macaron wasn’t really what we expected. The dough was O.K. but the filling was a bit dull and too dry.

Sweet potato coconut mini cone
Sweet potato coconut cone was more for the eyes than for the tasting buds.

Next in line were all tasty goodies. Blueberry with brandy cheesecake was a divine bite. Caramel tanzanite couverture was simply delicious. All of us liked the salty caramel.

mini blueberry cheesecake
Antidote high tea: Blueberry with brandy cheesecake was a divine bite

The next dulcet was white Zephyr cocoa with green tea jelly on sable Breton. A very good dessert, not too sweet with a perfect balance between the rich taste of milk and cocoa butter and green tea. However, the Breton was great for texture and crunch effect! The next praline was with sesame on sable. Ian liked them, while I wasn’t convinced.

beautiful dessert
Picture perfect sweets – the Rose crème and Zephyr cocoa with green tea jelly.

However, they weren’t bad at all, but there was a lack of intense flavor. The next sweet bite was exactly for my taste – Rose crème with grapefruit marmalade and velvet soil. Those were a nice show for the eyes and the mouth. The grand cru bonbon was the last one with good cacao finish and melting chocolate.

Salty caramel
Antidote high tea sweet bite: Candied orange peel spruced up the sweet and salty contrast of this salty caramel cube.

Conclusion

Our tummies were full and we kept the content of the last drawer for later. That were takeaway matcha and butter cookies to remind us of the lovely time at Anti:dote. After all, this beautiful set was a joy with more or less tasty bites, but all enjoyable. The truth is that the presentation has the wow factor and the taste gets less attention.

Fairmont Singapore detail
Here at Antidote, Fairmont they have nice details.

Although if you look at the bigger picture there are always compromises in the game. After all, Antidote high tea is a part of the high-end restaurant and we expected more palatable nibbles.

goodbye cookies antidote
We got nice looking goodbye cookies at Antidote high tea. However, the taste wasn’t that good, but it is a nice gesture though.

Antidote High Tea Review Card

  • 9/10
    ATMOSPHERE – 9/10
  • 9.6/10
    SERVICE – 9.6/10
  • 10/10
    TEA SELECTION – 10/10
  • 10/10
    PRESENTATION – 10/10
  • 8.6/10
    BITES – 8.6/10
  • 7.2/10
    VALUE – 7.2/10
9/10

Price and Location

Antidote afternoon tea is one of the most expensive here in Singapore. Afternoon tea will cost you about 42,5 USD per person. If you decide to try it, here is a link of location. Oouu, and don’t forget on smart casual dress code.


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A culinary enthusiast who is prone to writing. She loves discovering new flavors, spiced with cultural differences. The fear of the unknown does not stop her exploring and learning new things.

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