Seafood aglio olio – seasonal seafood, ikura and ponzu. Methinks the chef doth salteth too much, but the smoky sexiness of the seafood does some major redemption. 3.5/5 Gastrosmiths 103 Beach Road Tan Quee Lan Street Singapore 189704
Chilled crab meat angel hair – truffle angel hair topped with jumbo crab meat, infused with chorizo oil, and finished off with salmon roe. Luxuriously truffley, although one might prefer for a starter something which needs less Gatsby facial blotting. 4/5 Horizon Bistronomy 3 Punggol Point Road #02-04 The Punggol…
Prawn aglio olio – tiger prawns, spaghetti, chilli, parsley, and EVOO. The spaghetti tasted like it had a good pat-down after its swim in the EVOO pool, so it wasn’t annoyingly greasy as some aglio olio can get, and the prawns were happily phat. On a side note, I asked…
Tiger prawn wonton capellini with lobster oil, chorizo iberico, and fried tiger prawn wontons. Essentially Chinese five spice (五香) bee hoon as interpreted by a Mediterranean chef who married a Singaporean heartland girl. 3.75/5 Pidgin 7 Dempsey Road #01-04 Singapore 249671
Summer pasta with truffle dressing, crudités, nori, edamame and mushrooms, with added shrimp. With truffle being a buzzy ingredient of late (with some places spamming it both across their menu and on the food itself in manner of fire extinguishment) the usage here was judiciously done. Save for the addition…