The Place Rustic and industrial, Sideways restaurant reminds me of Brooklyn, New York. By the same team behind The Hangar in Arab Street, Sideways is located at the junction in the middle of Jalan Besar and Little India, not exactly the most conventional location to open a restaurant. With a rusty sliding open which opens sideways, the name of the restaurant is also inspired by their notion of doing things a little different/sideways from other restaurants. The first thing which attracted me are the concrete dining tables with some great rays of natural light protruding through the small gaps of the side windows in the 100 years odd shophouse building. The rustic ambience is very inviting for me. The Food With a weekend brunch menu from 10am daily till late afternoon, dinner is the main focus of the hugely Mediterranean inspired restaurant. We also understand from one of the partners that they are in the midst of working on a lunch menu possibly in future, and also a shift in focus on the restaurant’s theme from Mediterranean to focus on a food menu with wood-fired selections. The huge wood fire oven in the kitchen is pretty much where most of [...]
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