Stewhaus @Cactus Road

As its name goes, one could roughly figure out that its specialty is in.. STEWS! Comfort food in every sense of the word as stews are wicked concoctions of root vegetables and red meat cooked slowly over low heat in a thick liquid to culminate in that soft and tender flesh coupled with the sweetness of the root vegetables..

After visiting a church today with nana and freddie, we decided to pop by a bak kut teh place at cactus road but it was closed and we stumbled into stewhaus by chance and thought.. why not?

And why not indeed.. This place is certainly one that has set the bar for how stews should be done..

The Menu features largely European fare like German pork knuckles..bratwurst.. Steak and so on..They do have a strong list of stews... and it comes with a free carbo- pairing.. like pasta, bread, and rice.Freddie & MeNana..Freddie ordered the braised lamb shank and it came in a pot! Boiling.. no less.. filled to the brim with chunks of shank meat and leeks, carrots and onions swimming around a sweet tomato-based sauce.. He chose garlic bread as his carb choice as he's afraid that rice would spoil his daily calorie count..=p

Nana's dish. Not a stew person, she plumped for the pacific dory fish fillet and this was no featherweight either.. This fish was firm and fresh, coupled with the salsa.. wow this marriage really worked well!

My dish!! Gosh I've been dreaming or fantasizing this for months! I finally got to lay my hands.. or rather.. sink my teeth into the OXTAIL ! Same script as the lamb shank, the supporting cast was largely the same as the one in the lamb shank.. they had carrots, onions but for oxtail, celery was used as well..

The flesh was so tender but was still attached to the bone.. And taking it off was easy-peasy.. I had it with a pasta.. which was plainly cooked with garlic,parsley and white wine.. but man it was so good i ate it on its own and forgot to take a picture of it!

There was alot of oil though.. and i had to request for an empty bowl to remove the oil.. (Dont roll your eyes) for whoever that's reading. =pFor desserts, we had Stewed apples in white wine with rum and raisin ice cream.. Nothing to much to shout about though.. just some sweet stuff to end off the whole course.
Nana, Freddie and myself concluded that this place is worth the visit and the stew was priced at about 20bucks. for stew and meat lovers, it really is worth it in terms of the portion and quality.
Though location-wise, its not the best of places for a date due to its inaccessibility. The ambience was rather laidback and good for chilling. Besides, they do have happy hour for erdinger beers!

Alrights, enough with food for this weekend! Its back to work at NTU/NIE.. Oh did i mention that in NTU halls, its always 2 hours behind Singapore time.. Go figure...