{"id":1143,"date":"2015-06-04T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2019-02-03T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T09:25:50","slug":"meat-smith-not-quite-smokin-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/04\/meat-smith-not-quite-smokin-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Smith – Not Quite Smokin’ Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The frustrating thing about Meat Smith, in my view, is that it can be really good but at this stage the taste is a bit lacking in some dishes. If this can be tweaked, then I expect there will be even more reason to return. Nonetheless, if you work in the area and are looking for a decent lunch or after work drinks, this is not a bad place to go.<\/p>\n

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Angus Beef Rib<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The star item on the menu should be the Black Angus beef rib, which is apparently slow cooked\u00a0for 14 hours. Unfortunately, while the meat is tender, the marinade seems to be missing something. The meat was surprisingly a bit bland. We also had the half chicken, which was nicely cooked\u00a0and I would say the taste wasn’t bad. Unfortunately, we didn’t get around to trying the beef brisket, which I must come back for.<\/p>\n

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House rub chicken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Very addictive Chicharonnes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My favourite item ended up being the chicharonnes (deep fried pork skin) – fantastic with drinks. It was a big portion for SGD5, not bad. The other starter – kimchi hushpuppies – was decent but a bit small. But then again, I’m used to seeing bigger, denser hushpuppies. The sides that we had – a som tum slaw and mustard potato salad were okay.<\/p>\n

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Hush Puppies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for dessert, there was just one choice which is likely to upset dessert fiends. However, the one item – The cobbler of the day – \u00a0which was apple served optionally with a smoked vanilla ice cream, was good.<\/p>\n

Our meal cost SGD111 in total, of which the beef rib was SGD48. We shared the food among three of us. Meat Smith has lunch specials – for example, a beef brisket sandwich with a cider or beer priced at\u00a0SGD25.<\/p>\n

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Apple Cobbler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overall, I think there’s promise in Meat Smith. I am planning to come to try it again – the sandwiches (particularly the\u00a0Nashville fried chicken) looked good. Also they had an nduja mac & cheese that I missed seeing on the board of their specials for the day. I will also give the beef rib another chance – just to see if it was maybe just an off day.<\/p>\n

Meat Smith is located on Telok Ayer St. (no. 167-169), closer to\u00a0the junction with\u00a0McCallum St.<\/p>\n

See more on Meat Smith:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Meatsmith_SG\/423699527780790<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The frustrating thing about Meat Smith, in my view, is that it can be really good but at this stage the taste is a bit lacking in some dishes. If this can be tweaked, then I expect there will be even more reason to return. Nonetheless, if you work in the area and are looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,115,22],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asiapac","category-singapore","category-singapore-food","tag-singapore","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}