Square One

Frommer's Review

You don't come to Square One to eat, you come to spend an evening paying homage to good food. Dining here is like having a front-row ticket to a fancy cooking show. The cooks behind the glass partitions look confident and are constantly in motion, grilling seafood, changing charcoal, or wrapping fish in giant pandanus leaves. It's a mouthwatering show. The menu is divided into traditional Vietnamese starters and mains and Westsern dishes. The spring rolls, pork, bean sprouts, and mint wrapped in fresh rice paper then wrapped in a cabbage leaf and tied together with a strip of pandanus leaf, are light and crunchy and incredibly fresh. Vietnamese dishes are meant to be shared, so expect large portions for main courses. My red grouper -- grilled to perfection and served with a chili sauce that was zesty but not spicy -- was more than enough for two people. Early evening chill lounge music segues into a funkier upbeat tempo after 9pm. Get a table facing one of the five open kitchens -- it's better than people watching.

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