Tim's Restaurant & Cafe

New Year's Eve, bunch of us long time friends got together and asked the "forever" question – "where to eat?" One of us recalled this place called Tim's Restaurant and Cafe, served Nepalese food along side western food like fish and chips. Never been there before, so why not?

Us lot can't exactly be fussed to get all fancy, so this was actually a pretty nice place for a casual dinner (even though it's NYE, who cares). Tucked in a corner of Toa Payoh, under those 4-storey HDBs (I later realised that they have been featured on HDB Taitais) the restaurant looks like your regular coffeeshop. Small, a little cramped, and oh so casual i bet that you can saunter in wearing your pjs and no one will bat an eyelid.

Anyways, its the food that matters. We had to wait about 10 mins for a table of 5+1, which was alright. We shared a Calamari and got a kid's meal (fish and chips) for the kiddo, came with a scoop of ice cream and oj.

I couldn't resist the lobster with pan seared dory, father of the kid got the Rack of Lamb, mother of the kid knew that the kid wouldn't finish her food so refrained from ordering, friend#1 took the NYE's special - mushroom soup, 2 scallops in their shells (appetizers), lobster with pan grilled seabass (main), bread & butter pudding and coffee or tea, and friend #2 got the grilled salmon with cajun sauce.

The total came up to about SGD75 with no GST and no service charge. Granted, ended up none of us ate anything remotely Nepalese, but hey, all the more reason to go back to try the chicken and sausage grill, samosas, pakoras..oh, and the momo.

- E