Mini Spanish Breakfast – egg, mushroom purée, chorizo and potato espuma. Essentially how an egg would taste if it were the product of a hen’s tawdry liaison with a very charming pizza with a handlebar moustache. 3.7/5 Esquina 16 Jiak Chuan Road Singapore 089267
Oven roasted Chilean sea bass with celeriac, honshimeji and edamame. The fish was good – moist, buttery and well-cooked, with nice crumbs for added crunch. I enjoyed the bitterness of the edamame and mushrooms, but the celeriac left me rather bemused as it tasted very much like it had just…
A Pan of Sunshine – sunny side up eggs, rocket leaves and savoury pesto drizzle, with added duck confit. Liked the escaped-prisoner runniness of the yolk and the salty personality of the pesto, but the duck confit shavings left me greedy for more – I definitely want more duck and…
Toasted brioche with chopped liver. Essentially murdered chicken meets whipped cream (with egg, in manner of salt rub to wound). You wonder how many poor cluckers were required to produce this much liver goodness. 3.75/5 [Tasting courtesy of Sacha & Sons.] Sacha & Sons 333A Orchard Road #03-02 Mandarin Gallery…
Cheesecake. Light and not too cheesy, but remarkably tastes like yogurt meets Yakult, solidified. 3.5/5 [Tasting courtesy of Sacha & Sons.] Sacha & Sons 333A Orchard Road #03-02 Mandarin Gallery Singapore 238897
Prawn aglio olio – spaghetti and prawns cooked al dente with onions, clove garlic, chilli and white wine. Although being as visually appealing as a slice of Gardenia bread, the Chinese-esque aglio olio packs a secret taste punch with its fragrance and strong Hokkien Mee-esque flavour. The spicy chilli oil…
Foie gras mushroom garden – foie gras, shimeji mushroom, mushroom truffle, green caviar, crostini, sweet potato crisp, and coffee soil. A pleasurable simulation of savoury dining as a wild boar, with the indulgent combination of crispy crunch and truffley mushiness likely to inspire a few satisfied grunts. 3.6/5 2am:dessertbar 21A…
Mille feuille sushi – layered sushi with salmon, tamago and tuna, topped with salmon roe. Sushi enters mid-life crisis and takes an impulsive trip to France, not knowing what to do with her life, and then she stops outside a pastry shop and goes hmmm. The first sushi item I…
Red bean and sweet potato patbingsu, with mochi and green tea ice cream. Essentially ice kachang who carbo-loads and gyms listening to G-Dragon or T-Koala or whichever androgynous cutie pie Korean boy is “in” these days. The mashed sweet potato (which colour is randomly purple or yellow depending on how…