Means meat-eater. Which is also a name for a restaurant located in a hip Dempsey area in Singapore. Guess what they specialise in at the restaurant.
Yeap, meat. Juicy barbequed meats in skewers, cut up and served to you by servers who thankfully know how to handle big knives. All you need to do is nod and they will happily fill your plate with slices and chunks. And if at any point you feel sick from chewing succulent animal protein, there is a self-serve salad bar with a nice selection to clean your palate for a second round of meat if you are game (hunger-inducing pun unintended).
No doubt a meat-lovers haven. And if you think that there can only be so many types of bbq meat, you cannot be more wrong. We counted at least ten different types before we are too stuffed to bother anymore. Ham, beef, chicken thighs, bacon-wrapped chicken breast, fish, sausage. Drooling even as I type.
The ambience in Carnivore Dempsey was good. Nice, quiet and cooling on a Thursday night, much thanks to a rainy day. The restaurant is spacious and mostly because to allow room for the servers to go around with their skewers of meat. The servers are attentive and friendly. Not fine-dining snobbish, but hawker friendly in a sincere way.
While we enjoyed ourselves in this protein overload experience, the price can be a huge put off. At slightly over $70 nett per pax, its really pricey for average diners. But if you haven't tried Churrasco Brazilian style, don't miss Carnivore and its 1-for-1 special deal.
4 out of 5.
