Meet 4 Meat and char kuey teow at East Coast Road

Chanced upon Meet 4 Meat at Brunners Coffeeshop (228 East Coast Road). While I've heard of their mention before, we weren't specifically looking for them today. This was happenstance. Story's that the chef used to be from Wooloomooloo Steakhouse and he's put the skills to use in this stall bringing to the table options that one normally doesn't find in local coffeeshop western food.

Like smoked sea bass for starters. Pun intended. This was a trio of flavours with regular smoked fish, black pepper and dill. The meat from the smoked fish was like dry thick sliced ham...with the texture and flavour of smoke and fish. Not bad tasting but it wouldn't be something I'll be looking forward to come back to. The smoked fish was served with some chilli chive oil on the side which tasted mostly of olive oil. And some pickled vegetables they called veggie achar. Not a fan of those.

What kicked ass were their lamb cutlets. 4 ribs and double cut with their claim of a secret marinade cannot be not found anywhere else in the world. Technically not a difficult thing to achieve but let's not go there. I tasted the burnt sweetness of caramelized balsamic vinegar and that was one of the flavour that made this awesome. 

That and those thick succulent slices of medium doneness laced with flavourful fat. 

Here's their Beef Wellington with foie gras. There's a bit of empty chatter online gushing about this Beef Wellington. Even claims of restaurant standards by some, though I struggle to reconcile that claim. The crust here was eggy, not even buttery like how it was for the one we had at Wooloomooloo; which by the way also benefitted from a Madeira sauce. 

The lack of butteriness and some sweet acid kinda made the flavour profile different. It wasn't bad tasting by any stretch. Just not impressive. I think I've had another non-restaurant rendition that might have been more nicely done. I liked the chickpea salad on the side though.

This char kuey teow was not from Meet 4 Meat. It's from a stall called Katong Jago a couple of units away in the same coffeeshop. Greasy and not bad tasting. Lup cheong was close to getting stale though.