2 Stadium Walk
Singapore 397691
+65 6345 4466
If you're looking for a nice restaurant in a decent, quiet setting, Indian restaurant Vansh might be right for you. Vansh is part of the Rang Mahal group of restaurants and located right next to the river near Singapore Stadium and has both indoor and outdoor seating.
I have been told indoors is very nice due to the nice interior, where you can take your meal reclining on cushions on the floor. However, we chose to eat outdoors, at one of the tables close to the river. While this might have been a good idea in theory, there were three main issues that took away from the nice experience: 1) the tables are uncomfortably low, so if you're a relatively tall person like me, you'll probably be unable to stow your legs under the table, being forced to sit with your legs spread on either side of your chair; 2) we arrived relatively late and were the last people sitting outside, this might have been nice if it wasn't late enough for the waiters from the Jumbo restaurant next to us to start clamoring about with their dish carts and cleaning the dishes about 10 feet away, not very romantic/relaxing and 3) there was a constant flow of people walking by on either side of our table to get to the river. Not sure what they were doing there, but most were lugging plastic bags, so they might have celebrated something. Either way, I recommend you be seated inside.
The food itself was quite decent, with some items standing out. For starters and free of charge, we were offered Papadum sticks with 3 sauces: mint, chili and yoghurt. Let me just say that the yoghurt sauce was perfect and that I could have eaten it by the spoonful (which I did), so much so that I finished mine too early and had to dip in across the table. The chili sauce had a good kick and was quite hot, only the mint sauce did lack a bit, in my view.
For the main course we had grilled lamb chops, which were of the same quality as the ones I've had at Rang Mahal in Suntec, and somewhat overdone for my taste, though by no means bad.
As a second dish we ordered Seafood Biryani, accompanied by plain naan and black Daal. The Biryani was good, but the seafood could have been more plentiful, whereas the Daal was good, as expected. Can't go wrong with Daal, can you?
The desert menu was not overly exciting so we skipped that. The staff could have been more attentive at times, as in between we were waiting to have our glasses refilled and we had to wait to ask for the bill, but again this might be due to the fact that we were there relatively late. Vansh is not cheap, and for the money I might better quality in both food and service, but I'll still give it 4 stars, to be confirmed next time, when we come earlier and sit indoors.
4/5 Stars
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