Nightspots are offering late-night supper with a variety of choices on the menu for those who want more than porridge.
Clubbers whose stomachs are growling after a heavy workout on the dance floor are enjoying a new alternative to hotel restaurants when they want to wine, dine and recline.
When it comes to catering to hungry bar-crawlers with upmarket tastes, nightspots and cafes are offering more zing for supper these days.
They are filling the gap left by hotel restaurants that no longer serve treats 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
For example, Goodwood Park Hotel's Coffee Lounge – known for its Taiwan porridge – is now closed before midnight, while Chatterbox at Meritus Mandarin Hotel is open 24 hours only on Fridays, Saturdays and the eve of public holidays.
Late-night diners like the more relaxed atmosphere at watering holes targeting them, plus the fact that such places have more variety on the menu, dishing up anything from pork knuckles to roast duck pizza to wok-fried pork rib with bitter gourd.
They include Boomarang, a two-month-old eatery at The Quayside, which is open for supper till 1am on weekdays and 3am on weekends. It serves modern Australian fare such as barbecued game.
The month-old Timbre @ Old School at Mount Sophia is open till 1am on weekends and it offers pizzas topped with roast duck, garlic prawns and tandoori chicken.
Mr Danny Loong, 36, who runs Timbre @ Old School, tells Life!: "We introduced the supper menu here based on the good response at our other outlets at The Arts House and The Substation. On Fridays, the bars get busy after 11pm as people come in for food and drinks.
"Each outlet can sell up to 50 pizzas priced from $17 and $20."
Nightspot operators say that on average, overall food sales make up 20 to 25 per cent of monthly revenue.
Mr Bernard Lim, 39, executive vice-president of LifeBrandz, which runs the 24-hour Balcony Bar at The Heeren Shops, adds: "The late-night crowd usually come in groups of four to five from 1am to 2am, which is the busiest period for the bar.
"The hot items include Chilean seabass and beef tenderloin steak with over 40 orders on a weekend."
On a Friday night, Balcony Bar draws over 100 partygoers and tourists from nearby hotels between midnight and 4am.
At Brauhaus Restaurant and Pub in United Square, hungry clubbers tuck into its huge pork knuckles and German sausages, while others descend on the "uncle" haunt of Georges Mad Bar & Cafe in East Coast Road for its basic but good beer-battered fish and chips.
At 3 Monkeys Cafe in Orchard Towers, revellers winding down with a drink and a bite can ask the chef to cook something even if it is not on the menu.
Its owner Gwen Khoo, 48, says: "We don't like to turn down customers' requests. If we have the ingredients, we will prepare the dish." That includes whipping up the occasional fried belacan beehoon for late-night diners craving some comfort food.
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:15 pm by 
Subject: Supper Club 
for dinner from 6 to 10.30pm
