Restaurant Review: The Garden Slug

The Garden Slug
55 Lorong L Telok Kurau 
Singapore 425500
+65 6346 0504

The Garden Slug is a very laid-back eatery near the East Coast. Let me start off with the positives: the place is indeed very laid back and situated in a quiet neighborhood. The staff is extremely friendly and patient, even if you take 10 minutes extra to decide what you want to eat. I'm trying to think of more positives, but really there aren't that many, especially when it comes to the food they serve at the Garden Slug.

The menu at the Garden Slug is by no means exhaustive, which can be a good sign, making you think that they focus on a few, good quality food items, unfortunately here we were disappointed. We had Salmon Cakes, which were rather tasteless, with few bits of salmon, the "bed of lettuce" were 3 big leaves and the accompanying cherry tomatoes were unripe and thus also not tasty. Next we had the Ultimate Bangers and Mash, where the chicken and pork sausages were again very average and of the two chipolata sausages (which did look homemade), only one was spicy/flavorful, whereas the other was bland as well. The Tiramisu for desert was moist, but could have used both more coffee and more rum.

We were quite disappointed and I think it is unlikely that we will go back to the Garden Slug. Total damage was ok (around $50 for the food), yet the meal was quite unsatisfying. I'll give it the staff bonus and thus rate it

3/5 Stars