Thoroughly enjoyed my lunch experience at Ember recently.

My friend and I had the $38++ 3-course set lunch and ordered the following:

Starters:
- Tofu (can't recall the exact name of the dish. But it's similar to the "Feicui Tofu" you can find in Cantonese restaurants, except that the tofu here is not coated with a layer of spinach and instead of oyster sauce, it's truffle oil and sauce and instead of conpoy and shimeji mushrooms, it's just shimeiji mushrooms). Nevertheless, a great-tasting appetizer.

- Citrus salad - a mix of ruccola or arugula with orange, grapefruit and feta cheese and orange vinagrette dressing. Didn't particularly enjoy the dressing, found it a bit flat.

Mains:
- Chilean Sea Bass with yuzu butter sauce and mushroom ragout. The fish is good but didn't particularly dig the slightly "jelak" yuzu butter sauce.

- Miso cod. Oh so incredibly good! When the dish came, our appetite was already piqued by the wafting buttery smell of the dish. The dish also looks deceptively simple, but once you pop the morsels of fish into your mouth - yum! The sweetness of the miso and cod engulfs your palate. Enjoyed it even better than the above house special of the Chilean sea bass. To be honest, this is the first time we've tried miso cod (I know, I know, it's almost as ubiquitous as the molten chocolate cake by now!). Usually preferred to try other dishes as miso on fish doesn't seem particularly interesting to me. But guess I'm proven wrong by Ember's offering. Now I can't wait to re-acquaint myself with the other versions out there!

Dessert:
- Chilled Mango soup with pomelo and grapefruit (basically similar to the "Yang Zi Gan Lu" dessert you can order at dim sum restaurants). Pretty good though.

- Banana tart and Lavender ice cream. Yummers! An ideal way to end a great meal. Needs about 20mins to prepare though, so best to order it together with your main course at the start.

And we round up the meal with complimentary coffee and tea. The coffee was served in a generous cup and came with a lil' madeleine like cake.

The restaurant is cosy and modern and the service, polite and efficient. The restaurant is rather small though with limited seating,and judging from the packed crowd on a Friday lunch, reservations are probably a must! The set lunch menu options are plenty and I'll definitely be back to try out the other dishes!