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Burgers, the all-time favourite American food, have a bad name for being overly-greasy with soggy vegetables. To add to this junk is a tray of overly salted deep fried and oily fries.

However, a couple of gourmet burger haunts are redefining this American junk food.

Wilin Low, chef and owner of Wild Rocket restaurant at Mount Emily, has opened a burger joint, Relish, at Cluny Court for quite a long while now. My first time (I’m ashamed to say that!) there was about two weeks ago with a good friend.

This gourmet burger joint filled the space of the second floor of a revamped shop house along Bukit Timah Road. The joint was mostly white and bright with high ceilings and minimalist furniture. One side of the wall had a hue of orange and yellow graffiti which added a fun touch to the place.

If you are at Relish, you can only be there for their burgers so we didn’t get sidetracked. They had quite a number of options of burgers including the locally influenced Ramlee burger (A popular street snack made popular by the passam malams) and the safe wild rocket burger (Beef patty with argula). For some reasons, I went against my instincts to order the seafood patty burger instead of the tofu burger.

Each burger came served with large side of very decent fries made from potatoes instead of the frozen packed ones. The seafood patty contained a hearty portion of fresh prawns, crabmeat, fish and squid which was great. The lemon mayo dressing came as a little too rich for me which made the burger too filling, too fast. The tofu burger, on the other hand, looked really good with grilled portobello mushrooms, eggplant salsa and chargrilled tofu patties topped with cheese.

The fries were good if you love potatoes. Wish I could get some vinegar to eat with it. That would totally bring me back to Fremantle in Perth where I feasted on fish and chips with vinegar!

This is a great casual place for friends if you guys are not too far off in the area. With a round of gourmet beers, you and your friends are set for the afternoon.

As for myself, I would definitely go for the tofu burger the next time round if I ever do crave for some unhealthy junk!

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Relish
501 Bukit Timah Road

#02-01 Cluny Court

Tel: 6763 1547
http://www.wildrocket.com.sg/relish.htm

My seafood patty burger

the portobello mushroom and tofu burger

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