As a fine-dining outfit, Restaurant Jag has traditionally offered only a curated, tasting-menu experience, but the team understands not everyone can commit to a full tasting menu.
If you’re willing to take the hit to your wallet, the signature grand experience goes for S$298 — though there is also a more affordable, truncated lunch tasting menu and light dinner tasting menu at S$175.
Since late 2024, however, Restaurant Jag has offered an a la carte menu (that requires at least one main to be ordered), so you can pick and choose from its hits.
Even if you’re going for the full experience, Restaurant Jag still pampers customers with a complimentary bread course and amuse bouche.
The bread, in particular, was very enjoyable — served with two types of bread, and two types of butter.
Interestingly, while its French in scope, one of the bread is jazzed up with bak kut teh seasoning, giving it a comforting dose of pepper and garlic fragrance.
We love it with the salted butter!
As for the dishes you can find on the a la carte menu, Restaurant Jag is very focused on seasonality and its offerings vary.
Currently, for the autumn season, our favourite appetiser is the pan-seared foie gras and pink guava (S$48).
The foie gras is gratuitously rich and buttery, as good foie gras should be, and is enchantingly balanced with the vivacious tang of the braised pink guava and pink guava sorbet.
Since it’s a French restaurant, conventional wisdom says that ordering the Sanchoku wagyu beef tartare (from S$48) is a must — but Restaurant Jag puts an interesting twist on this French staple.
The luscious chunks of tender, slightly fatty wagyu beef are mixed with oyster sauce and sesame seeds and are imbued with this familiarly Asian fragrance and umami.
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