Spruce (Phoenix Park)

The high tea set for 2 is priced at $56++ and it includes 2 non-alcoholic drinks as well. In each high tea set, there will be 2 pieces of the following 10 items:
-Mushroom Croquette
-Rockmelon with Parma Ham
-Crab Cake with Garlic Aioli
-Smoked Salmon Pinwheel with Cream Cheese
-Mini Cranberry Scones
-Pandan Panna Cotta with Rose Sago
-Mini Cheesecake
-Matcha Swiss Roll
-Passionfruit Popsicle
-Berries and Cream Puff
For the drinks, we opted for the Iced Lychee Tea and Iced White Grape Tea.

All in all, i preferred the savouries to the sweets for this high tea set! I also like that the scone was a mini one (usually scone is my most hated item in all high tea sets lol). The sweets items were too sweet to my liking though.

As we had 3 ppl, in addition to the high tea set, we ordered two ala carte food items as well:
-Spruce Prawn Pasta ($22++): This was SUPER DUPER yummy! Orecchiette pasta (it translates to little ears because it resembles that shape) tossed in zucchini, spinach and garlic cream sauce! The sea prawns were super fresh and crunchy!

-Egg Florentine ($22++): Homemade puffy pizzas with Parma Ham, Spinach, Garlic, Quail Eggs, Tomatoes and Chilli Flakes. We got this pizza because another one that we wanted was not available. I am not a fan of parma ham, so I didnt quite enjoy this.

We visited the outlet at Phoenix Park! Love the greenery nature ambience here. If you want to get indoor aircon seats at the Phoenix Park Outlet, I recommend you to make a reservation! Also, do note that the high tea is only available on weekdays 230-530pm.

My first dine in meal after 10th Aug reopening. This is the Spruce at Tanglin. When we arrived, we found that we were the only table. This 5 persons per table if vaccinated is not working. Surely you have someone in your group not vaccinated or too young to be vaccinated. So to compromise, you guys either Da Bao or eat at hawker centers.

Anyway I have only ever rated at the other Spruce at Upper Bukit Timah. This one has a more homely ambience. We ordered pasta, risotto, foie gras, some appetisers to share, plus dessert.

Food is okay, not fantastic but you’ll be pleased to know that happy hours start at lunch time! Yes! So we talked and drank and talked and drank until 3.30pm and left the place. Very happy.

Should be back when they update their menu.

Loving the ambience of the cafe with a touch of nature. The food standard is not bad and portion is huge! Will come back for other mains when there is a chance.

It was good but not good enough to keep people coming back... nor to keep restaurant open🤪

This is one of those dishes that I've filed under my "once is enough" category.
The poached eggs were decent but the crab patty (there's only one!) was smaller than I thought it would be and had a rather strong flavour. It was only counteracted with the Hollandaise sauce and everything else (poached egg, bacon, arugula and ciabatta) mixed together in a bite.
Do note I had asked for the sauce to be served separately which explains the presentation you see in my pic.

Lamb shank braised in beer, with paprika mashed potatoes and carrots