6 Upper East Coast Road
Singapore 455200
+65 6442 3897
Werner's Oven is located close to East Coast Park and ideal for a meal and stroll/activities along the coast afterwards. The restaurant has a bakery attached to it, which is great if you have a faible for German bread, buns and rolls. Werner's cuisine is mainly German, but on the menu are also some items that you'd not find in a "traditional" German restaurant.
We went to Werner's on a Saturday afternoon and the place was literally empty. The interior looks German, but everything appears a bit worn, and could do with a renovation. After ordering our starter + 2 mains (the deserts did not look like anything special), we went over to the bakery to do some shopping. Prices are competitive and for S$20 you can get a whole loaf of oven-baked bread, as well as a few buns and rolls. I must say it was cheaper than I expected. On the downside, trying the bake-wares at home later, I was disappointed by the fact that they must have at least been a day old. If you're into bread like most Europeans are, nothing beats the taste of warm/ freshly baked bread or buns. The bun's from Werner's, however, we dry and crumbly. This might be excused by the fact that the bakery is small and low demand might not merit baking every day, still for the buyer this does not make a difference.
After returning from the Bakery after what was were 10 minutes tops, I was astonished to find that our food was already ready. We had ordered a Baked Camembert with Cranberries for a starter and Leberkaes with roasted potatoes as well as Cordon Bleu with dumplings and mushroom gravy.
Unfortunately, any and all of our food was lukewarm, leading me to believe that they pre-prepare most of it and then just warm it up or put it in the microwave. In any event it would have been neigh impossible to prepare all of it within the short time we spent in the bakery.
The Camembert was okay, but nothing special, the same goes for the Leberkaes, and the Cordon Bleu. All these you could buy in a German supermarket and prepare them at home in the frying pan or oven and you'd have the same result. The dumplings were a big disappointment and the sauce was also ready-made. The only positive surprise were the roast potatoes, but then again one cannot do much wrong cooking roast potatoes.
All in all an ok lunch, though not cheap at c. S$70 with soft drinks.
3/5 Stars
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