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“Covid-19 was activity to annihilate us, and it actual about did,” shares Chua Ee Chien, buyer of cocktail bar Jekyll and Hyde.
During the ‘circuit breaker’ back dining out was not accustomed and back best bodies were alive from home, the bar was abundantly bedridden by its Tras Street address. Hardly anyone was in the Central Business District, which meant beneath barter for Jekyll and Hyde.
But it was the bootless rental negotiations with the freeholder that ultimately affected Ee Chien to chaw the ammo and abutting boutique back the control concluded on June 14.
The cease didn’t mark the end for Jekyll and Hyde; instead, the aggregation started attractive for a new home – a chase which led them to a shophouse forth Neil Road.
The plan was to assignment with the antecedent owner, a café alleged Cheeky: Ee Chien and his aggregation absorb the second-floor amplitude and handle the drinks, while Cheeky continues confined up its card of burgers and fries. But both teams eventually came to the acceding to let the bar take over the amplitude fully. Appear September, Jekyll and Hyde will transform the two-storey breadth into an all-day dining abstraction – a restaurant on the aboriginal floor, and a speakeasy bar on the second. “It’s a added activating space,” he says. “Because you about accept two concepts at the aforementioned time.”
The claiming now is to actualize a aliment card that complements the cocktail alternative – a botheration that the aggregation hasn't tackled in the past. “At [the old] Jekyll and Hyde, we were bedridden with a baby kitchen,” he says. “So it makes it actual adamantine for us to anticipate above drink-making. How do we accessible in the daytime? How do we get bodies to eat and drink? It has consistently been an affair for us.”
Now, with a bigger space, and a bigger kitchen, the aggregation has allowance for bigger affairs and atypical ideas. To brace with its cocktail selection, which reimagines accustomed staples into boozy concoctions, they absitively to centre the aliment offerings about animated bell-ringer classics. “It’s about creating a accomplished new experience,” shares Ee Chien. For instance, to brace with the ambrosial ikura-topped chilli backtalk nachos, Ee Chien recommends the candied PB & J, a amusement of the archetypal sandwich that’s fabricated with peanut butter-washed bourbon and strawberry-infused Campari. There’s additionally a bowl of orh luak fabricated with afresh shucked oysters in the works. “It’s actuality able to accompaniment a card that ability assume all-embracing at first, with affair and bounded cuisine.”
Ee Chien is best aflame for the amplitude to appear into its own. By mid-September, renovations will be completed and the abode will transform into an 80-seater (with safe distancing) eatery; a new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde.
“It concluded up extenuative us,” says Ee Chien, on the furnishings of the ‘circuit breaker’. “And gave us the befalling to be bigger and bigger than we anytime anticipation we could be.”
