The MeatHouse by 18Chefs – A New Halal-To-Be Steak Joint at Century Square

How do you like your steak? Medium rare or well done? I am sure a piece of steak with beautiful flavour, texture and great marbling will make your day. We dropped by Century Square last week to check out the newly-opened The MeatHouse by 18 Chefs.

Put together by Chef Benny Se Teo and the team from Eighteen Chefs, the restaurant serves good quality steak at affordable prices. As with all newly-opened restaurants, there are obviously some teething issues such as long waiting time, forgetting of orders, and running out of ingredients. But the operations team was polite and tried their best to accommodate to everyone’s requests. The effort put in was definitely commendable.

Because we needed to wait for our steaks to be grilled (good food is worth the wait right?), we started off with a bowl of Truffle Fries. The crispy fries are tossed with grated Parmesan cheese salt, thin slices of truffle, and drizzled with truffle oil. It’s good to see truffle shavings in their fries. More truffle oil, please!

The Josper oven-grilled striploin steak ($14) is served with aglio olio. While it is a good meal for those who need both proteins and carbs, the pasta was a tad too salty that day. Again, I think they are still struggling with getting the consistency right because our friend’s pasta was under-seasoned.

Every restaurant has their hits and misses. Their steak is excellent though. Each piece of meat is first sous vide and then grilled over a Josper oven with natural hardwood lump charcoal. I had the 250g Australian Tajima Wagyu Flank Steak ($38) and it is cooked to perfection — just as what we requested. Medium rare steak is a good choice as it is still a little soft, slightly springy and has a pink centre. The steak is served with a hot bun and some greens.

Marbling is the key to incredible flavour and tenderness. The slab of meat was tender and juicy, so we enjoyed the unadulterated flavour by adding nothing other than a little salt and pepper. However, if you prefer to pair it with sauces, you can choose from mushroom sauce, black pepper sauce and garlic sauce.

Other options available at The MeatHouse include the Premium Ribeye Steak ($36), which features a 300g corn-fed certified black Angus from USA, and Carpetbag Steak ($48) which sees corn-fed certified black Angus filet mignon from USA, stuffed with oysters. What a unique combination!

You can also order a Premium Tomahawk ($12 per 100g, each piece is between 1.2 to 1.6kg) for sharing. Imagine having grass-fed Australian premium black Angus beef in a “heartland” mall at an extremely affordable price. A 600g Porterhouse Steak ($60) is good for two to share, as well, because the New Zealand Free range Grass Fed beef contains good-sized portions of two of the most prized muscles in a steer, each located on either side of the centre bone.

We wanted to have the Wild Caught Tiger Prawn Burger ($16) but sadly, they ran out of buns on our day of visit. So we picked Meat and Mash ($18) which turned out to be an excellent choice. Each tender lamb cube is nicely grilled, and possessed a smoky aroma. And, it wasn’t gamey at all! It was full of flavour, very moist, and went well with the homemade mashed potatoes.

The MeatHouse aims to be a Halal steak joint where east-siders can visit. But in order to achieve Halal certification, the restaurant needs to be in operation for at least 3 months. Hence, no Halal logo was displayed, until the restaurant gets a confirmation from MUIS. So please be patient with them.

Do not go to The MeatHouse expecting to be treated as you would be in a fine dining restaurant. But go for their good quality and reasonably-priced fare. I will be back again when things have been ironed out. I hope I’ll have better luck with the burgers next time!

MissTamChiak.com made an anonymous visit and paid its own meal at the stall featured here.

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