Equinox Restaurant at Swissotel the Stamford

If you are afraid of heights, then this is not an experience for you. If you love to have the cityscape infront of you as you eat, then you have to try having a meal at Equinox Restaurant, Swissotel The Stamford. You can choose to have lunch or dinner. Currently, they have a lunch buffet special, so keep a look out for their special promotions for a good deal. Also, depends on what's your preference. I personally think the night view is definitely a lot more interesting than the daylight view. So plan carefully, especially if it's for a special occasion.

Some things that you have to take note if you are dining at Equinox.These are some of our take-aways after having dinner at the restaurant over the weekend. Firstly, if you want to sit by the window, the restaurant has a window seat policy. There are two shifts for dinner that you can choose from, either from 6.30pm to 8.30pm or 8.30pm to 11.30pm. You have to call ahead to make reservations so if you're going for lunch, check with them if they have a similar policy.

This window seat policy is a good way for them to make money cuz you get more people by having two shifts. We went for the 6.30pm slot. Also prepare your credit card as you have to give them your credit card details. If you don't turn up, they will charge $40 per pax. And if you're running late, they will hold your table for 15 minutes so do watch the time.

We had a nice table and the view was fantastic. I think the 6.30pm slot is a good one cuz you really see the change in landscape. Each minute I look out, the landscape looks different. So out came my camera and yes, I took pictures. Kinda hard with the glass window and I had reflections in my pictures. And as it got darker, all the pictures turned out blurry. But these are some that I had of the skyscrapers for your viewing pleasure.

Above: View from my seat at 6.47pm.

Above: And this is the last (clear) shot at 7.25pm.

The view is really amazing from that height. As for the food...where do I start. We were served with some bread with butter and olive oil. And pretty cool how they served the basket of bread (see below).

For starters, I had their Bisque of Lobster and Mud Crab soup and found it so so. It looked presentable but taste wise..it was pretty average.

Was pretty dark inside when we started on our dinner. We both ordered their Beef Tenderloin (see below) which was their signature dish. For what we were paying, we really expected something heavenly. Found the meat chewy (gums actually hurt after I was done eating the meat). Was very tiring that dish I must say. Huge disappointment. Had to down alot of water when eating dinner. Oh yes, we had still water (no tap water served of course) and we had three bottles throughout the night and each bottle costs us $10. So savour your Evian please *laughs*

How could we miss dessert ya? I did think about having Cedele's carrot cake but getting all dressed up and since we started already had the main at Equinox, thought we could end with something nice. So we picked the Sweet Temptation (below) that was meant for two. Should have listened to my instincts and gone for the carrot cake at Cedele's. Dessert was no big deal and that was really our last shot to go ooohhh and ahhh over the food but we didn't :o(

What I would suggest to you would be this. Plan your evening carefully. If you're willing to fork out $400 for dinner for two, then please go ahead and have dinner (starter, main meals and dessert with drinks in between) at the Equinox Restaurant. Otherwise, have dinner elsewhere, then head to City Space which is at Level 70 at the same hotel. You get the great view of Singapore cityscape minus the huge hole in your pocket. They have a good singer there and you can just enjoy the drinks as you watch the cityscape.

Post and pictures by Zilla.