The restaurant was empty when we stepped in. I would not have connected it to a bakery if not for SuperModel. Werner's Oven actually started out baking and selling german bread before turning to a German food restaurant. Food was lovely and the service was amiable. We down 2 Weissbier 500ml @ $12.50 each with our dinner.
SuperModel highly recommended the seafood salad makes up of prawns, smoke salmon, raw tuna slices. Really yummy!! This is really nice, so nice that you can even have this as a main course all by yourself if you are a light eater. Really Shiok!!
Desserts were usual, nothing much to rave about. But the night was fill with laughters, talks, feelings,... the late night is worthwhile... yeah... thanks for staying together till 1am.
Had intended to revisit Belezet for their yummy sausages and aromatic coffee...but alas they had shifted and Moi was damn disappointed. * SULK *
Adjoined to Magma instead of din din... Was a little concern when I saw 2 local chefs at the counter instead of the 2 German chefs... Moi ain't discriminating local chefs but of course it's natural mentality that german chefs should know how to cook german food better. But the 2 local chefs did well, their pork knuckle was still as mouth watering. Even weight conscious Twinny likes it. Kekekeke!
Had wanted the same desserts I had previously but I forgotten the name and had wanted one of the waiter to recommend... Unfortunately he mumbled so much so that I couldn't really get what his recommendations were and so we settled for below instead... Well, the pancake with jam tasted just as nice with a soft skin wrapped with jam.
Had earlier planned to have dinner with ABC family at East Coast but it was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. A little disappointed since I was looking forward to it but it was understandable. So ABC, you still owe me one!! Moi, be waiting. ^_-)
Actually Moi has been feeling unwell since Chinese New Year and so my left ear was practically blocked and I got to turn my head to the right whenever I need to speak to someone. It was really damn blocked. *Sulk*
Anywhere so when someone called me, I decided to go meet him for dinner since I still own him ONE. To be honest, I dun quite like VivoCity as it's quite a maze for moi. I always feel really directionless in finding my way in there. Anywhere were walking around and didn't know what to eat still i came across a sign board showing "PORK KNUCKLE" outside a German Restaurant located on the first floor. *Slurp* =P' Ooooooo...missed my pork knuckle!!! The restaurant was nearly full even before 7pm so we decided to give it a try. All the tables were taken so we were allocated to sit at the counter. It was not really comfortable as the chairs were too high and the table was too big. Anywhere the restaurant ambience was lovely with a nice seaview.
I could sense my dinner-mate's discomfort as he was fidgeting in his seat. So when a guest foot his bill, my dinner-mate quickly signalled to the manager our intention to swap seats. But the coordination was a little poor as the guest's wife decided to go to the ladies and so we couldn't swap till later. And our dishes came and a little confusion erupted....
Dinner-mate : Can u serve later?
Waiter : Ah?
Dinner-mate : Because we are waiting for our seats.
Waiter : ?? Seats ? *this waiter most probably didn't know what he was trying to say*
Me : It's ours. Just put the dishes down. *with a ear blocked I couldn't really decipher what's going on*
Dinner-mate : No, no. Our seats aren't ready. Please hold on a minute.
Me : Ha?? What?? These are our orders. Please put them down. *in loud voice due to ear block*
Waiter : *confused*
Dinner-mate : *confused*
Well, you can't blame me, my ear was blocked!!! SORRY!! kekekeke! A little embarrassed when I found out the full picture much later. The pork knuckle was, unfortunately, a disppointment. It was uncomparable to the one I had at Magma but the sausage Platter was not too bad.
As it was still early, we proceeded to coffee for more chat. I decided to try Corduroy Cafe which was highly recommended by a friend.
It was my treat so I was asking....
Me : What order?
Dinner-mate : Ha?? *bewildered*
Me : What order? *Louder*
Dinner-mate : Want Hotel? *Eyes opening big*
Me : you. *ears blocked, cant hear well*
Dinner-mate : Me?? What are you saying? *look embarrassed*
Me : What's your order? O-R-D-E-R!! *Irritated*
Hahahahaha! Sorry pal, my ear was blocked so i couldnt hear you very well and couldn't articulate very clearly. I didn't catch the joke till later. It's so embarrassing. I had a cafe au lait while he had a cafe latte. I heard the dessert was good but then it took 20 minutes or more to prepare so decided to give it a miss this time.
Posting on food again!! Hahahahaha! Yes! Remember, I am living to eat and not eat to live. ;-P This place was highly recommended by a friend who wanted to bring us all to try authentic German sausage and pork knuckle. Coincidentally, this place was also recommended just last week on Channel U's Makan King.
Well, the idea of eating pork knuckle did seem rather sinful with rocketing cholestrol and oil BUT my friend assured that it's not going to be so. SO we ordered.... their pork knuckle in Bavarian Style. This place serves pork knuckle in two ways - Bavarian or Berlin style - meaning either grilled or boiled. Drooooooling. The taste is simply irresistable. The meat is moist and tender and the skin is so crispy and chewy. The chef managed to grill it very gently to remove all the excess fat and oil. Yummy yummy!! b(^o^)d *Thumbs up*
Other than their very special signature dish, we also ordered a bowl of salad of iceberg lettuce, two pumpkin soup, a beef tartare (raw grounded beef with egg, eaten by my friends), a cheese sausage, a chicken sausage with Kale, a majest herring served with mashed potato, a plate of baked potatoes in skin, a pizza-like dish known as flammkuchen topped with sour cream, ham and onion. The flammkuchen is different from the normal pizza for its use of creme fraiche or fromage blanc instead of a tomato paste. I specially like flammkuchen (German style pizza) as the crust is so very thin and crispy.
They also served very unique desserts. We ordered two : a toasted cheese dessert in cranberry sauce, chocolate mousses and a Gebackene Apfelscheiben mit Zimthonig which is baked apple slices in puff pastry with honey and powdered cinnamon. The toasted cheese did not taste anything like cheese at all.... it was neither sweet nor too cheesy. It was really nice... The baked apple slices were served pipping hot and emitted a nice fragrance. 
The whole restaurant has only two chefs. Today, unfortunately one was on leave and only one chef was preparing all the dishes. It was amazing to watch him from our table serving so many patrons single-handedly and yet still able to dish out nice, pipping hot dishes. *jaws dropped*
This place is definitely worth a trip. There were 5 of us and discounting our drinking fees containing German beer, Monkpils and German red wine; the total only came up to S$150.00. Amazing price for such delicaces where all the ingredients were air-flown from Germany and the 2 German chefs took so much pride to prepare each dish attentively. The setting is also very cosy and simple. Other than food and wine, the adjoining room beside the restaurant also sells German food stuffs, pickles etc. I believe Magma will be a good hangout for the German Expatriates staying in Singapore. Moi will definitely be going back again for the food!! (^_-)v
Magma German Wine Bistro & Restaurant
2-4 Bukit Pasoh Road,
Singapore 089816
Tel: 6221 0634
