For a seafood restaurant, it’s paramount that your shellfish, crustaceans, and fish all be as fresh as possible – a fresh catch, if you will. So when newly opened seafood restaurant Poisson announced a brief collab with a fish-free fish brand, we might’ve been just the slightest bit flabbergasted… but intrigued, nonetheless.
So this is when the Good Catch comes in.
It’s a vegan, plant-based brand that gives you the best of seafood, without really having any seafood in it at all. While we’re avid fans of vegan and vegetarian restaurants in Singapore, for us, our plant-based diets typically fall between the lines of falafel sandwiches and acai bowls. But we gave the Good Catch a chance, and we were glad that we did.
Plant-based food usually leaves us in the lurch – the texture and taste is typically a letdown. That wasn’t at all the case with the Good Catch since their entire range uses a six-legume blend, featuring: non-GMO peas, chickpeas, lentils, soy, fava beans, and navy beans.
The Good Catch has just launched in Singapore towards the end of 2021, and the brand is already available in restaurants like Grand Hyatt’s Mezza9 and 10 Scotts, as well as Café Iguana. Poisson has also added a Good Catch Toff to their menu, a tuna pesto trofiette pasta dish featuring the Good Catch's tuna flakes, roasted tomatoes, and burratina. You can also buy them directly from the official distributor, Classic Fine Foods. In our little red dot, they’ve got four key vegan products: Thai fish cakes, New England crab cakes, tuna flakes, and fish burgers. While it sounds like a mishmash of food, there’s a whole lot to cook up in a home kitchen with everything from tuna melts to aioli-drizzled crab cakes.
If you want to check out Poisson’s normal seafood menu, one of our other writers went down and he was raving about it – they’ve supposedly got “hearty mains to please even the most discerning of seafood lovers”.
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