Jenna Ba. Pics/Sneha Kharabe

It's not often that we spot a woman behind a bar in the city. So, our faces split into a wide grin as we watched in-house bar consultant Jenna Ba, who has worked at several London five-stars, deftly carving blocks from home-made ice slabs at the island bar in House Of Nomad. The new gastro bar, which opened last weekend, replaces the four-year-old Italian specialty restaurant, Maritime by San Lorenzo. Stripped of its earlier navy-and-vanilla avatar, the spacious venue warmed up to us with its wood-panelled interiors, gleaming under light bulbs and comfortable high chairs.