Full English breakfast with “foot-long” sausage from Claude’s – scrambled eggs, stewed beans, hashbrown, bacon, roasted tomatoes, chunky salsa, warm bread and fresh salad with parsley crumble and truffle butter. Not your typical brunch experience, flavour-wise. The girth of the masculinely spicy, Chinese-esque and well-endowed sausage was ideal for easy…
Grilled Spanish octopus with Jerusalem artichoke, burnt onion and oyster leaf from Esquina. The octopus had a sensual and deeply roasty quality which extended to its very core, and its suction cups will disengage recklessly inside your mouth, offering more artillery for your crunching pleasure. Elsewhere, the burnt onion will…
Saffron paella with pan-fried red snapper, chorizo and snow peas from Esquina. The sweet paella was slickly oiled with a delectably sticky crunch, being a perfect foil for the chaste innocence of the well-cooked snapper, whilst elsewhere the chewy, juicy chorizo had intense pig dictatorship intentions. 4/5 Esquina 16 Jiak…
Portobello Fries from East 8 – crispy truffle portobello mushroom fries with roasted garlic aioli. Marvellously scrumptious – the truffle component kept things as gentle as a hawker centre ceiling fan, whilst the delectably salty and plump mushroom fries’ unshakeably high levels of water retention was to our benefit. 4.1/5…
Seabass with lobster bisque, curry cauliflower puree, dehydrated cauliflower and horse radish pea puree from Dibs. The wonderfully well-cooked seabass had a lightly salted skin, and while the sour pea mush may possibly cause veggie-fearing young children to produce a similar looking substance, the Chinese curry vegetable-esque cauliflower puree was…
Alla Marinara from Pasta Fresca – prawns, squid and mussels sautéed in white wine and garlic and with added chilli padi. The springy pasta extends a warm, hearty welcome with its unbridled seafood generosity, and the requested spiciness is capable of being pleasurably relentless in its back end viciousness. 4/5…
Roasted Pears from Pollen – Chamomile, ginger, granola, yogurt. The warm titular pears were resiliently crunchy and very juicy and moist, adaptively bearing the distinctive spiciness of the ginger cake which, by the way, would cling onto your tongue like an overzealous yet adorable koala. Elsewhere, the yogurt was like…
Strawberry from Pollen Singapore – white peach, basil, bergamot. Rather precocious and precious a creation. The sugary and salty crumble had the rather mystical ability of soaking up the flavour essences of its surroundings, with the dry crumbs somehow harnessing the spirit of the classily restrained basil and the refreshingly…
Nori squid with sriracha lemon foam and yuzu mayo from Dibs Restaurant Singapore. The outrageously addictive sriracha lemon foam – a droplet of the Pringles BBQ powder-esque elixir delivers a coquettish jab to the tongue – was as aggressive in its entrapment tactics as primary six girls are with their…