We tried Supperclub at Odeon Towers on one of its first few days post launch. The owners have attempted to bring the concept of a dinner/lounge/drinks place on white beds to Singapore. Needless to say, there are hardly any seats, just a long row of beds on two levels and a cavarnous space (formerly ModLiving) in between.

The place dresses up for style but lacks a lot of substance. The idea is you have a "surprise dinner" there which costs about S$100+ per person consisting of a five course meal based on whatever the chef wants to serve. The food was mediocre at best with starters consisting of chopped raw tuna salad, then a second course of some kind of soup in a beer glass, and then lamb skewers as a main with some cous cous. The food was so mediocre that we had to go have bak kut teh afterwards to help our taste buds come back.

The big catch here is that they only serve diners altogether irrespective of what time you came. So for those who came early, they had to wait until about 9 something for the first course. Being impatient, and having to wait one hour as a result for my first course, we were needless to say on our nerves already when we got the tuna. And all the time they have waitresses coming by for drinks orders.

Then during the second or third course they had a new age singer come in to do a set that was so off tune (or maybe it was supposed to be like that and I can't appreciate it) or perhaps too new age, that we were looking forward to finishing our meal quickly. That combined with the drag queen walking around was a bit too much for our tastes, but there are people into this kind of thing.

Overall its too expensive for what you get. The long drawn out dinner, the singing and the gaudy colours make it too artificial an evening. But it sure made that Bak Kut Teh experience that followed taste and feel absolutely fantastic.