Meat n' Chill, 6th Avenue

Mixed feelings about Meat n' Chill (#01-04 6th Avenue Centre, 805 Bukit Timah Rd, tel : +65 8812 4455). These guys are a local steak and ribs joint and appeared to know what they were doing. They don't make the best ribs in town - in fact, their slogan said 'meanest ribs'. 😂 But they seem to have hiccups with the operations on the day we visited. Strange that since they've been around for a while.

Anyway, their garlic bread sucks. We asked for extra garlic butter but these didn't even have enough for decent ones. Twice the amount of garlic butter they put on these wouldn't even have made good garlic bread so yeah, this sucked and I wouldn't waste money on them again.

I wanted to try some of their unusual glazes for their ribs. This was Journey to the Yeast - with Guinness, Marmite and molasses. Sounded fun. Not getting much yeastiness from Guinness and I'm guessing that the sweetness were from molasses. But it wasn't particularly molasses-y either. No idea how a strong flavour like Marmite could simply not show up in a three main ingredient glaze.

The meat was tender. Not glistening with juices and slip off the bone kind of tender but still tender. It didn't taste bad. It just tasted ordinary considering the description of the ingredients. Coleslaw had chopped pickles and raisins and I liked it. Cornbread was not bad but the flavour and quantity of that smudge of sauce seemed half assed.

For some reasons, our order of the lamb ribs didn't go through. Curse these newfangled and poorly implemented digital menus. The wait staff in charge realized something didn't go right and came over to get our orders and then got us the wrong lamb rib. She was apologetic (and appeared very busy) and we didn't want to further complicate the issue. We ended up with the original barbecue instead of the orange mint.

I didn't dislike this in spite of the fact that some parts of it were dry. Left to cook for too long kind of dry. Maybe it's also "I'm not sure this is lamb jerky or lamb biscuit" kind of dry. Yes, it got that far. Some parts which I had initially mistaken for bone were actually dried bits of lamb that was more biscuit than jerky. Kinda nice tasting because of the lamb flavour but that wasn't the point. Did not expect the ribs to be accompanied with yoghurt.

A disconnect happened between the making of their apple blueberry cobbler and it being served. The waitress brought over the stewed apples and blueberry - sans the crumble and ice cream. She really didn't have a fucking clue what the cobbler was supposed to be like. Sigh....

Thankfully, the other waitress in charge saw and corrected it. This tasted pretty good with the blueberry and spice infused apples which had a soft crunch. And with the crumble and ice cream that is.