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What’s smokin’? Decker Barbecue, that’s what. The homegrown barbecue joint has opened its second outlet at the former Old Bukit Timah Fire Station, turning the heritage site into a 120-seat smokehouse serving up slow-smoked meats and plenty of fire-powered feasting.
The Old Bukit Timah Fire Station has been a familiar landmark in the west since it opened in 1956, serving as a working fire station until 2005. The site was then home to Spruce for years before the restaurant closed in 2020, and has since been given a new lease of life as a lifestyle destination, with co-living space Coliwoo and The Sundowner Nature Experience Centre among its newer tenants. Now, with Decker bringing its smokehouse to the site, the old fire station has the anchor tenant it needed.
The homegrown brand first fired up its Robertson Quay outpost in 2015 and was acquired by PS.Gourmet Group – the folks behind PS.Cafe – in 2025. Now, its new 4,000 sq ft flagship is going considerably bigger on the smoke front. The star attraction is a 14-foot, three-tonne offset smoker shipped over from Texas, where Decker cooks its meats low and slow for up to 12 hours. It’s also the only smokehouse in Southeast Asia to operate an A.N. Bewley smoker, a piece of kit associated with the traditional Central Texas barbecue method.
And while the smoking techniques may be straight out of Texas, the menu has clearly been Singapore-fied. The expanded lineup brings Asian flavours into the mix, with everything from mala-tossed smoked mushrooms and rendang brisket to kailan standing in for collard greens. There’s even a DIY sauce bar stocked with more than 10 ingredients, including chilli padi, sesame paste, black vinegar and kecap manis, so you can customise your barbecue to your heart’s content.
Dinner is built around Decker’s choose-your-own platter system, with more than 10 smoked meats and a similarly generous roster of sides to mix and match. There’s Wagyu beef brisket, pork belly burnt ends, spare ribs, chicken thigh and sausages. Platters start at $40 for one and go all the way up to $288 for six. To balance it out, there's also a vegetarian sharing platter loaded with coal-roasted vegetables, smoked mushrooms and charred pineapple.
For something more dramatic, the Dino Rib can be added to any platter for $60. Or go all in on the Firehouse Dino Meat Pizza Pie ($88, from Fridays to Sundays), a 14-inch pizza topped with an entire Dino Rib, charred pineapple, turmeric pickles and piccalilli.
Weekend brunch runs from 8am to 4pm with Southern-meets-Asian plates, including shrimp & grits ($26) with prawns, soft-cooked egg and crispy youtiao, while weekday lunch from 11am to 3pm serves up sandwiches, salads and rice bowls, including the rendang brisket rice bowl ($20) with smoked brisket, rendang sauce and dirty basmati rice.
The outlet also has its own beer system designed to keep draught pours between 1 and 2°C, with local brewery Rye & Pint supplying the core lineup, while Tiger and Guinness are also on tap, alongside around 30 bottled beers.
For those who usually associate Bukit Timah with hiking boots rather than barbecue platters, Decker gives you another reason to head west. It’s an easy post-Bukit Timah Hill stop for a cold beer and a smoky feast, or a weekend destination in its own right if you’re after a leisurely brunch. With its fire-station setting, oversized smoker and menu that goes beyond the usual meat-and-two-sides formula, this is one barbecue joint that's worth the trip west even if you've never made it to Robertson Quay.
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