Business lunch in Orchard

You've arrived at work promptly at 9am, yawned through a meeting, gulped down coffee and cleared your e-mail.

Now the all-important question: Where to have lunch?

For a more divine experience, head to The White Rabbit at 39C Harding Road in the Dempsey area. Young, trendy professionals flock to the church-turned-restaurant for its famous Mac and Cheese and the set lunch, at $30 for two courses.

If you work in the Orchard Road area and are sick of the usual fare, try the new Cova Pasticceria-Confetteria at Paragon. You will probably be surrounded by tai-tais leisurely lunching, but the food – upmarket Italian, with a deft hand at meat – is too good to pass up. A two-course set is priced at $32 and a three-course at $38; both come with dessert.

Off the beaten path, Dozo at Valley Point Shopping Centre offers a six-course “modern Japanesque” degustation lunch for $38.80, in a private dining environment, complete with plush chairs. The seafood bisque and oven-baked hamachi kama (yellowtail cheek) are recommended.

This article was first published in The Business Times, August 25

For more information on the recommended restaurants, see the reviews below.

The White Rabbit

Cova Pasticceria-Confetteria

Dozo