Maybe it’ll surprise you that pastry chef Jasmin Chew studied graphic design and loves snowboarding. But then, it’s this sense of adventure and exactitude that’s perhaps the reasons why she makes quite possibly some of the best looking – and tasting – desserts in any restaurant in Singapore. (Yup, that’s fire you see there on the Peach Alaska).

Chocolate Snow Garden is a landscape of chocolate soil, mixed nuts, violette custard, micro herbs,
Bergamot snow and a quenelle of Madagascar Vanilla ice-cream. Like a totally edible garden of soil, twigs et al.

Pastry chef Jasmin started her career in Shangri-La Hotel, but has ended up at Stellar by way of Melbourne, sunrise Academy and Senso. (Seen here is the Valrhona Macae Chocolate Ganache.)

The Dessert Art Experience involves an elaborate arrangement of sometimes 3-5 types of desserts, presented like a constellation. It’s prepared at your table like a painting.

And so back to the mains. Stellar is known for its modern cuisine, with imagintive dishes made with the best seasonal produce.

Chef Chris Millar has created a Constellations Summer Gastronomic menu where you pick from a starry line-up of dishes (starts at $120++ for 6 dishes). It includes meaty portions like this Fine Swine (pictured) – a combo of suckling pig, Iberico pluma and Kurobuta pork belly.

Stellar deconstructs the dining experience by encouraging tasting and sharing. Each section of the vast menu includes tasting portions, so diners can mix and match food items according to their preferences. The constellations tasting menu is only for dinner, but some of its selection is available for lunch as well. (Wood Fired Cauliflower Tahini with mint).

While other diners get either a fixed degustation or a a la carte menu but want to try more than one main course, Stellar at 1-Altitude’s Gastronomic Menu has up to 19 items. (Scallop Carbonara).

Book Stellar here. 1 Raffles Place, tel: 6438-0410