Starker Bistro Review: Romantic Bistro In A Park To Bring Your Date To For Christmas

The only difference is, while everyone else was wishing for the big bearded man to drop them a Tamagotchi or Gameboy, all I wanted was a copious amount of food. Starker Bistro - Romantic Bistro In A Park To Celebrate Christmas At Food at Starker Bistro A girl doesn’t need Santa when she’s got Santa’s Platter ($180++ with five litres of Starker Beer) that consists of crispy calamari, grilled sausages, shoe-string truffle fries and a whole roasted chicken.

If you’re heading down with just bae alone, get a half platter that comes with half a roasted chicken, grilled sausages and two litres of Starker Beer for $80++. Drizzle some lemon juice to keep it light on the palate or dip ‘em in tartar sauce for a good punch of savour. The best way to savour them is to dip them in my favourite sauce of all time – mustard.

Tangy and sharp on the palate, this is perfect with Starker’s Charcoal Beer. Not forgetting the star of the dish, the grilled chicken was slightly charred on the skin to give it that smoky savour and the meat itself was incredibly succulent. Catch ‘em all with Ocean Galore ($93.80++ for two to three people) that consists of a whole Sri Lankan crab, tiger prawns, clams, and squid sauteed in homemade parmesan garlic butter.

For the freshness and quantity of the seafood in this pot, it’s no doubt a bang for your buck. I loved how the sauce was fragrant and thick without pushing the natural taste of the seafood to the backseat. It’s time to meet the beast of the night: Traditional Pork Knuckle ($38.80++) sprinkled with fried onions.

I didn’t think a sauce was needed for this flavourful pork knuckle but the Starker beer sauce really complemented it. Even though I already stuffed myself with truffle fries, this basket of crispy Sweet Potato Fries ($9.80++) was too addictive to resist.

If you love beer as much as me, Starker will be your second home as they serve German-style beer FRESH from traditional wooden barrels with guaranteed freshness of 7-day shelf life. Plus, Starker offers to change your beer mug to keep the beer cold as, take it from someone who drinks beer regularly, it makes a world of a difference to the taste when the beer turns warm.

Ambience at Starker Bistro With laidback charm from a setting made of brick walls, wooden tables and a bar, this is somewhere you can not only bring your date to, but your family or squad as well. The eager beavers who are planning for New Year’s already can consider going there as they’ve got a band that’ll countdown with you on the 31st.

The verdict What makes the food and beer at Starker stand out is the quality of the components used and the chefs’ finesse. It’s rare to find a bistro bar with freshly prepared dishes, a chill ambience and at a convenient location, so this is one of the places I’d bookmark in my mind for gatherings with the fambam.

And no matter what, remember to stuff yourself with good food and ice cold beer this Christmas because you deserve a good treat for making it through 2016 – cheers m8.