Portico Favourites high tea menu at Portico Prime. Terrific value for money for the quality and quantity on display. The chilled truffle-scented angel hair pasta with avruga caviar and kawa ebi shrimps barges into your sensory pleasure memory orbs with the rapacious ruthlessness of a disgruntled Bukit Gombak-residing Ah Ma…
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…
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…
Grilled octopus, olives and lime, and toasted ciabatta. Visualised the grilled octopus as being a massive suction-cupped tentacle laying on a plate which would dart around playfully as I guide it into my mouth, so I was very surprised to find said tentacle all unceremoniously chopped up. A spoonful tastes…
Deconstructed black forest, 70% Valrhona dark chocolate mousse, edible hazelnut soil, cherry coulis and caramel ice cream. Like a playful dessert chef’s literal and visual reimagination of black forest. The leaves, flowers and fruits visually recreate the forest setting, the coldness of the bowl is not unlike the freeze of…