Start with a pun and you’re already halfway there, so things bode well when Singapore restaurant MexOut announces on a window that their folks are “The Mex’perts”. I’m smiling before I’ve even sat down, and there’s plenty more inside to keep the grin alive.

Located on The Far East Square in the Central Business District, the owners of MexOut have gone for “fast casual” dining taking inspiration from Chipotle – for non-Americans it’s like a Mexican Subway, where you pick your outer casing and fillings at the counter and then sit down to chow down. You’ll be sitting in an urban industrial setting in Singapore, with lots of bare concrete brightened up by a nice logo and some educational drawing, dark characterful wood furniture topped off with big fat metal pendant lights above. If you like it more au naturel, there’s a space outside to enjoy, but you’ll find us at the bar in the back. A beer for $7 in Singapore isn’t an opportunity we’d let slip past us…