We ended up having dinner at this place because the other restaurants were either fully booked or they only have the festive menus which cost a bomb. It was xmas eve.

Service staff were all smiles and ardent. The menu comes in the form of newspaper and personally i find it quite a challenge to go through it. We ordered the chicken salad, pasta, grilled chicken, nachos & finally the decadence cake.

I had the grilled chicken & chose wedges to go with it. Nothing to shout abt but i enjoyed the meal nevertheless. The decadence cake is indeed yummy and satisfy my sweet tooth... but I din quite like the blueberry jam among the layers which I thought clash with the chocolate taste instead. The nachos is a nice side dish to have while you catch up with your friends. Portions are quite big so small eaters are advised to share. The jukebox can be quite a pain as it plays loud music non-stop and those sitting nearer to it might find it difficult to have a conversation, let alone enjoy a romantic dinner.

Perhaps it was the company, perhaps it was the mood for xmas but it was a pleasant evening.

A decade had passed since I last dined at SSD. Nevertheless, I was craving for a macaroni 'n cheese that wasn't from the freezer or Kenny Rogers, and this place sprang to mind.

The place still feels bright, airy and old-fashioned, with the green marble tabletops and the (free) jukebox. Strangely enough, it loads the CDs you select but doesn't play the songs stated.

As it was 'fish day' of the week, I decided not to add sausages or chicken to my macaroni 'n cheese (about $3 on top of the standard $10.90++). I decided to try the barley and mushroom soup ($6.90) as well.

The soup was quite a delight. The dish was filled to the brim with it (enough for the waitress to make baby steps). It's a clear broth that had barley pearls, slices of mushroom and bits of carrot. It was savoury, with hardly any sweetness of carrots, but it was wholesome and flavoured dominantly by the mushrooms. You can opt to have a dinner roll with it (but I didn't)

The macaroni 'n cheese was next (and last). The pasta was firm, and smothered with the sauce-like cheese that was slightly spiced and not Kraft-like (as far I can remember what processed cheese tastes and looks like). It wasn't too heavy in spite of the large serving but those not used to dairy stuff might not agree.

Service was good - the waitresses presented me with the day's newspapers for my perusal while I waited for my food, and they enquired now-and-then to ask if everything was alright. I'd love to return to try the meat dishes, and was happy to discover the barley soup.

After reading the reviews on their chocolate decadence, i decided to try it out. The price is quite stiff...$12.70 after GST and SVC charge for take away.

Service is friendly and prompt... they attend to me immediately when i entered the deli and took out my order attentively.

The cake is really huge. It consists of many layers, decorated with b/berries and r/berries and served along with r/berry sauce. The fudge is quite thick so serving with r/berry sauce is ideal.

I really enjoy this cake and i managed to finish such a big slice of cake alone. I really hope they could introduce more cake or desserts to their menu.

K, this is a one-off recommendation for one item on the menu.

I'm not a big fan of Seah Street Deli - salads close to $20??? What the... - but no choice business lunch ended up being there.

Sooo in-between sneering at the over-priced menu, I decided to go with the Tuna Melt. I'm a big tuna fan (Jap, canned, whatever except the dolphin kind)so I'd say I have sooome standards lah.

AND I was pretty impressed with what they served up. The standard brown bread that was smothered with tuna melt (you could hardly even see the sides of the slice) and boy was it flavourful.

I was smacking my lips and eating it slowly to prolong the pleasure. Yuuummmmy!!!

AND get this, there was so much tuna melt left after the brown slice was gone that I started dipping me fries in it.

So so goood.

I'm salivating as I'm signing off....*slurp*


P.S. - The place was too too noisy so lunch ambience is basically sucky...and service was the usual Singapore sub-par. There were at least two tables that were super pissed with the delayed service...one table of four had two parties almost finishing their food when the other two got served. NOT COOL! My business associate didn't enjoy his lunch - club sandwich and chocolate milkshake which was basically, no big shakes. Sooo...be focussed. Suffer everything for the shiok shiok tuna melt. As the lil kid in the Macs ad said 'tomorrow going you know'. Woohoo!!!

*more slurp*

Seah Street Deli has an American air around it, it is after all a restaurant serving your good old American food. Don’t let the name Seah Street fool you, the place is call Seah Street deli because the restaurant is located in Raffles Hotel, which is just beside Seah Street.

Step into Seah Street Deli, and you will be transported back in time to 1950s New York. The restaurant does imitates the look of a Big Apple Deli quite well, the lightning, the decors and the furnitures all oosh a certain classical American touch.

Located at the colonial Raffles Hotel, Seah Street Deli is just a 5 minutes walk away from Raffles City. Certainly an accessible place for a meal if you are in the area and do not want to be in the crowd.

Nowadays where else can you find a jukebox? Talk about nostalgic, they certainly roll back the good old time.

Wild Pacific Dory Fillet ($18.50)
Served with natural organic vegetables, baby potatos, and lemon wine sauce. The wild pacific dory fillet comes up to be quite ordinary actually. The dory is fresh, but not much of a surprise there, and at $18.50, its a tad expensive. Serving size is definitely huge, well it should be, we are talking about American food after all.

Grilled Salmon Steak ($18.95)
Salmon marinated with mix herbs, grilled zucchini, garlic mashed potatoes and dill cream sauce. The Grilled salmon steak taste to us slightly under-flavored, it will be better if the flavor can be stronger.

The garlic mashed potatoes are plentiful, and really, you can’t finish them off unless you really got a big appetite.

Southern Style Chicken ($17.50)
Deep fried chicken, served with fries. The portion is gigantic, but really thats it. The chicken is deep fried, done in your American style, fries are decent. But at $17.50, the Southern Style chicken is a suspect for rip-off

Seah Street Burger ($14.95)
Seah Street Deli’s very own freshly ground all beef patty with lettuce, tomatoes, and onions served on a toasted sesame bun. If you think the Seah Street Burger is big, think again. You haven’t seen the bigger burger.

Their Texas Burger a 12 ounce sized beef patty. Granted i heard quite good things about the Texas burger, but the stomach didn’t have room for it, so i ordered Seah Street burger instead.

Seah Street Burger is not too bad, the beef patty is nicely mashed, put together with the lettuce, tomatoes, and onions inside the sesame bun, you will be wondering how do you start eating the whopping burger.

Having eaten burgers in restaurants like Relish and Seah Street, not at your fastfood joints, i came to realise the only feasible way to consume them will be to cut by bites, otherwise you can always choose the alternative, take a big mouthful!

Chocolate Decadence cake ($11.95)
The all time favourite chocolate decadence cake at $11.95 do seems a bit steep. But the serving size of the cake more than make up for it. The cake is ginormous (gigantic & enormous)! Seriously, i have never seen places cutting such a big size of cake.

The chocolate decadence cake is made up of 7 layers, and each layer is sweeter than the other. Even though i have a sweet tooth, i find the cake to be too sweet. But its good to indulge in such decadence once in while. After having our main courses, the four of us actually struggle to finish the cake. A must-try if you visit Seah Street Deli.

Total bill is $95.76 for 4 mains and 1 desserts. But Citibank is offering a 15% discount for Seah Street Deli, so our bill after the discount is $81.90. Prices are slightly steep here considering the fact that the food is not bad, but not to the point excellent. At around the same price, there might be some other places which can be better.

Portions are definitely huge, this is where we made a mistake. I think for 4 person, just order 3 main course to share will be more than suffice. The chocolate decadence cake is a must try for desserts. If prices can be cheaper, then i say Seah Street is a nice and cheerful place to dine out, until then, maybe once is enough.

You are always welcome to visit ladyironchef for a full-up on this trip. Whatever written herein are my genuine feelings expressed in words. Food, my dear, is what they call an adventure!

" Roll back the good old times! "