Handcrafted Tart with Mandy-Go Sorbet (mandarin orange and mango) from Geometry. The mandarin orange and mango flavours were so passionately enmeshed in their amorous physicality that you can’t tell when either element starts and ends. Elsewhere, the soft, buttery tart possessed a crumbling, cake-like personality, yielding to your knife like…
Watermelon Lychee sorbet and Strawberry Pocky ice cream with Belgian Waffle from Geometry, located near IKEA Alexandra. The watermelon and lychee flavours are so passionately enmeshed in their amorous physicality that you can’t tell when either element starts and ends while the milky, Meiji-esque strawberry Pocky flavour is true to…
French Toast from Red Baron – brioche, gula melaka, bananas and coconut ice cream, with a sprinkling of desiccated coconut. While the coconut elements did their jobs admirably and the brioche had a nice and remarkably eggy middle, the edges of the toast made me suspect that the brioche may…
Diners who stay back after lunch at Portico on Saturdays are welcome to take part in ‘Saturdays at Portico’, a weekly feature whereby various fun and unusual activities such as a conducted tour of Portico’s very own herb garden, margarita making and food plating demo sessions are held…absolutely free of…
Madagascan vanilla ice cream with Guinness draught and Créme de Mure from The Naked Finn. The vanilla ice cream sinks and melts with greater haste than Road Runner from the Looney Tunes, so you essentially get a very boozy, fizzy alcoholic milkshake. 3.8/5 The Naked Finn 39 Malan Road Gillman Barracks…
Diver-caught Yesso scallop ceviche from The Naked Finn – cured in freshly-squeezed lemon juice, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil. Essentially ethereally wispy hotate sashimi with a touch of citric sass, and all will be gone before you realise it. 4/5 The Naked Finn 39 Malan Road Gillman Barracks Singapore…
Wild-caught lingcod fillet from The Naked Finn – grilled and oven-baked, finished with sea salt and extra virgin olive oil. Neither a ling nor a cod, but while the meatier external layers of fish taste slightly manlier and tougher than you’d expect cod to, the heart of the fillet is…
Panseared Pulau Ubin sea bass, roasted new potato, garden herbed beurre blanc sauce. The wondrous sauce makes the entire dish – it was an unbelievably tasty creation, like a zesty combination of skim-milk mayonnaise and Pure Yoga oil, with oodles of vitality. Everything tasted a bajillion times better with the…
Tart Au Citron with Onion Ice Cream. The onion ice cream proved to be a friendly paper tiger – on its own, it starts off slightly pungent but quickly peters out into an inoffensive buttery ice cream, which you can mix with the lemon curd for an interesting slightly savoury-tasting…