Popular stall Shaker Lakers to reopen as cafe in March 2023, after announcing closure in 2022
We ended last year with the poignant news that popular Western food stall Shaker Lakers will close on Feb 25, 2023.
Opened on Aug 9, 2019, at Yishun Park Hawker Centre, the hawker stall took some time to re-evaluate its business during the last few months of 2022.
It eventually decided to cease operations due to a myriad of considerations, with rising supply costs being the main deciding factor.
Fortunately, that’s not the last we’d see of it. It already has plans brewing, even before its Yishun operations cease, and it’d be back bigger and better.
HungryGoWhere has learnt that Shaker Lakers will take up a new space at the Airbus Asia Training Centre in Seletar sometime in mid-March, and it will be upgraded into a full-fledged cafe known as SL@Airways. Although it’s housed within the training centre, the cafe will be open to the general public.
For the uninitiated, the concept is headed by Irish chef Michael Quinn and Singaporean Gillian Pua and is beloved for its range of unique creations that fuse Eastern and Western flavours.
The duo met while working at the iconic Swiss farm-to-table restaurant Marche Singapore, and decided to team up to open a hawker stall with Quinn at the helm as head chef.
Details about the new space are still being kept under wraps, but we can’t wait to see what its first foray into the cafe space would look like.
Co-owner Pua told HungryGoWhere that the menu would remain the same, and be lard-free and pork-free. It will also introduce new plant-based dishes as well as offerings that satisfy TCM-inspired and health-conscious diets.
We’re hoping it’ll keep some of its juicy burgers, such as the hefty Lakers Italian beef burger (beef patty, fresh mozzarella, capsicum, salami, truffle mayo, rocket and tomato, S$13.90).
Other comforting classics include the affordable carbonara (S$7.50) and beef bolognese (S$7.50) for the pasta aficionados.
SL@Airways
Address: Airbus Asia Training Centre, full address to be announced
Nearest MRT station: Yio Chu Kang
Operating hours: To be announced
Address: Airbus Asia Training Centre, full address to be announced
Nearest MRT station: Yio Chu Kang
Operating hours: To be announced
Evan Mua
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Evan started off writing about food on Instagram, before joining outlets such as Buro and Confirm Good to pursue his passion. His best work usually comes after his first whisky shot in the morning.
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