Lunch @ Assumption Pathway School

Came home at 10pm today after an almost 3 hour governors' meeting at St Gabriel's :S

I'm dreading having to write the minutes, but all in all, i enjoyed attending the meeting as the topics discussed were very interesting and the governors are all very accomplished, eloquent and humorous people :D

The scrumptious dinner served and some wine appeased me a little as well.. We even had wine and birthday cake to celebrate one of the governor's birthday! I always say i love free stuff, not to mention free meals~ stayed for abt 2 hours after the meeting ended listening to the governors chatting and caught a ride home with the chairman of Monfort schools no less, lol.. I think i gained a lot of general knowledge tonight, whee..

My souvenir from today's meeting held at Boys' Town (testing my new phone's camera *big broad grin* but more on that later)

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Anyways, after getting to know about this foundation, i realised that kids who are not academically inclined in Sg are rather pitiful as they have no where to go, unlike at home in Malaysia where they can opt to go to a vocational school. The foundation is trying to help such kids by setting up a vocational school (one of only a limited few in Sg) to equip such kids with skills that will help them to find jobs later on in life.

I had a chance to try out the products of their culinary classes one afternoon when we had our company lunch at The ART aka The Assumption Restaurant for Training. Its something like the little restaurant at TAR College where they train the students studying hospitality but in this case, the trainees are all in their early teens!

The set lunch menu, the choices are limited but maybe they might improve the menu in future

Yummy bread with butter before the main course :)

mushroom soup with croutons which was so warm and creamy that brought so much comfort to my tummy on the rainy afternoon that we were there :)

Cheese Quesadillas, one of the mains

My Seafood Marinara Pasta, loved the big juicy prawns and squid~

Dessert that i didnt really like, maybe cos im not a big fan of the red bean filling. We were supposed to have brownies but we were there late and it was out of stock T.T

The food was quite good, better than what I had expected and proceeds from the restaurant go to improving the school itself. Its only S$12 per person and its for a worthy cause, so hopefully more people will trek all the way up the hill at St Gabriel's to try it out.

The view from the patio is quite nice if you sit outside, green fields just below the hill :) However, please do not expect impeccable service since you will be served by young students after all. I think they were all rather nervous, I even saw one girl walk into the glass door while on her way to set a table =.=

Nevertheless, please give these kids a chance, I hope in time society will find that everyone has their own place in this world and its not the end of the world if you cannot get good grades in school~

Address: 30 Cashew Road, Singapore 679697
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Contact: (+65) 6892 6187 or (+65) 6879 3900 at least 2 days before your reservation