Common Man Night Shift, Stanley Street

This space used to be Drunken Farmer. 

Those guys haven't disappeared but have merged with Common Man Coffee Roaster into Common Man Night Shift (11-12 Stanley Street, tel : +65 6877 4855)?

There ya go, bean juice by day and grape juice by night. We came at grape juice hour.

Had a grilled vegetable salad. Let's see, there's courgette, romaine, avocado, boiled egg, Roma tomato, parmesan crisp, orange miso sauce and anchovy cream. The dressing didn't come through as I had imagined because I tasted something that did not remind me of orange or miso or anchovy. It was just...a dressing.

Since the tomato and the avocado are fruits, the only vegetable that was grilled in this grilled vegetable salad was the courgette. But I guess they were right. It was a 'grilled vegetable salad'. It's singular. If you did not notice dill in the picture, that's because there was so little of it that I didn't even understand if they were even meant to be decorative.

Duck & foe gras pie was delicious. Not a fan of their orange miso sauce on the side which again, didn't taste like orange or miso. The burnt apple puree was good though. I initially thought it was made of raisins or dates.

The minced duck had just the slightest gaminess and was mixed with chunks of melty buttery foie underneath the crispy puff pastry. I'm going to repeat that it was delicious. This plated pastry was richness that could be cut with the bite in the arugula and acid from the pickled fennel along with the burnt apple puree.

There was supposed to be black truffle in there. Couldn't taste it and it didn't even matter.

Pizza's called sweet dreams of stracciatella. Sounded intriguing like its toppings. As the menu describes - mortadella, mozzarella, stracciatella, pistachio paste, toasted pistachio, honey and parmesan.

More stracciatella than those blobs would have been nice and for that matter, why even bother listing the mozzarella? Mortadella's very thinly sliced. Too little of it to actually do anything but serve as a salt component to the pie. I was confused by the sweetness initially but realized later that there was honey. Obviously, it wasn't recognizeable as honey.