Tira Miss U from KINS Restaurant – mascarpone cheese cream mix with coffee dipped finger sponge and Kahlua liquor. Very, very wet, and the difference in coffee they use – here it’s Nanyang coffee – is instantly noticeable. 3.8/5 KINS Restaurant 2 Jalan Klapa Singapore 199314
Apple Tortilla Tower from KINS Restaurant – deep fried tortilla skin towered with cinnamon apple and crumble, served with mixed fruits and vanilla ice cream. Essentially your usual apple crumble dessert, only deconstructed and reconstructed. The tortilla was like a cross between curry puff and Chinese baked pastry, and elsewhere…
Seafood aglio olio from Kins Restaurant – tiger prawns, sea scallop, fresh squid, Japanese konbu and spaghetti with crustacean oil. Immediately one of my favourite aglio olios around, without a smidgen of chilli flake or padi in sight – the sophisticatedly aromatic crustacean oil carries the pasta formidably. (I wonder…
Amaretto cacao mousse with blackcurrant granita and fresh berries from Roots Kitchen & Bar. Essentially a thick sweet chocolate mousse in mid-embrace with a squirmingly-sour Ribena glacier, with the resulting combination of extreme taste profiles being a clash of Titanic proportions. 3/5 Roots Kitchen & Bar 30 Dickson Road Singapore…
Nagono pork rack served with braised cabbage and grape compote from Roots Kitchen & Bar. While the huge raisins were juicily rummy, the pig in question was probably formerly in a morbidly obese company in BMT and routinely given extras for defiantly playing punk and dodging exercise regimes, being so…
Gamberetto (prawn, mussel, chorizo, tomato sauce, squid ink linguine) from Roots Kitchen & Bar. Rather serviceable and perfunctory. Apart from being as memorable as a secretary’s story told in the elevator about how her mother prefers Hockhua antelope’s horn to other vendors in the Toa Payoh area, the seafood was…
Egg and truffle mousseline topped with caviar from Roots Kitchen & Bar. A shot of initial truffly saltiness, followed by a most egg-white heavy whipped cream experience. 3.9/5 Roots Kitchen & Bar 30 Dickson Road Singapore 209512
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