SMÖÖbar (Prinsep)

This bar along Prinsep Street opens till 3 am – perfect for midnight supper runs if you're hanging out late around Dhoby Ghaut! Take Burppler Ade Tan's lead and order up the crispy and generously coated Salted Egg Popcorn Chicken ($12), alongside the sinfully delicious Mentaiko Fries ($10).
Photo by Burppler Ade Tan

Yum yum yum! 😋😋 Listed in descending order of derived enjoyment, the salted egg popcorn chicken was so so good?? Crispy bite-sized chicken chunks that were generously coated with salted egg, and can I just say their salted egg is so legit it comes with the leaf and the flavour is just so on point 🤤🤤 Mentaiko Fries was also a sinful beauty, with thin cut fries doused in mentaiko sauce, one plate simply wasn’t enough! Spam fries and truffle fries (or more like fries with chili sauce) were alright and decent to fight off those midnight hunger pangs. Get $5 off if you order through eatsy with a minimum spend of $50 (suggest you order double mentaiko instead of double truffle), and also 1-for-1 drinks with entertainer or 1-for-1 main dish with Burpple! 😋😋

During a Saturday dinner time, I went to Smoobar and told them that I was going to use the Burpple Beyond app. Their staff mentioned that I could use it on their mains and we proceeded to sit at the outdoor seats although we requested for indoors, as they mentioned that the indoor seats are meant for table for 4 (we only had 2 people).

After we sat down, they immediately ask us to redeem from the app, although we have yet to order our food. I then proceeded to redeem immediately as requested, but they took my phone into the shop as they wanted to register the code and mentioned that it will be quick. I was uncomfortable having my phone taken away from me as there are private and personal information stored in it.

When they return with my phone, they informed me that pancakes and waffles was unavailable, and that I could only order the pizzas and pastas. The only thing I wanted to eat was pancakes and waffles but now I had to settle for pizza and pastas. Why did they only mention this when the deal was redeemed? With little choice since I had already redeemed the deal, I had to settle with the little variety of pizzas and pastas they had.

When I was ready to order, they told me that I had to order through another app called Eatsy, and there will be no service charge. To confirm, I asked them ‘oh, so if I order through Eatsy there will be no service charge? But if I order through you, there will be service charge?’ They then told me that if I order through Eatsy, there will be the service charge of 10%, but if I order through them, there will be DOUBLE service charge.

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In the end, they didn’t charge me double service charge although I did order through them and told them that I was using burpple.
PS: The bakwa carbonara has no bakwa. It is just ham carbonara. Ham and bakwa are 2 different things.
PSS: Had they told me that waffles and pancakes were not available, I would not have sat down.
PSSS: The food and service is actually passable, just that things should not unfold in this manner.

You have been warn. Ask the right questions before you redeem.

Mains were rly meh presentation was kinda anyhow n it’s p expensive for the quality of the food :’) Mentaiko fries/salted egg popcorn chicken were alright although not served hot, some service staff were friendly while others could have been friendlier.

Bakwa gave a very familar CNY vibes 😂 It actually matches western flavours which we were pretty surprised at. As it was pretty strong in flavour (salty), i guess it would match better with their wide range of alcoholic drinks! Will be back to try other mains as well as their Yakult Soju Tower 😌
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My brother and I at Smoobar at 8:10pm and ordered 2 pizzas (Smoked Duck Ham, Popcorn Chicken), intending to use the Burpple Beyond.

The waitress told us that we needed to download the eatsy app to see the menu, which was frankly ridiculous. But she eventually gave us the paper menu. After spending some time ordering, we waited for our pizzas for more than half an hour.

Eventually the pizzas came but the cheese and ham failed to stick on the crust.

There were no plates and serviettes provided.

It was a most unpleasant dining experience.