Roasted cod and soba noodle salad from Populus – roasted cod loin, soba noodles, marinated mushrooms, lightly pickled vegetables, broad beans, lime and sesame dressing. Whilst the saltily-skinned cod may have gone a tad overboard in its vain efforts to achieve a Kim Kardashian-esque bronze, the soba noodles were intriguingly…
Grilled curry chicken with romaine lettuce, quinoa, button mushroom, onsen egg and Japanese sesame dressing from the newly-opened The Green Bucket at CT Hub 2 in Lavender. Its appealing below-$10 price tag should give daily slices and rice barters a good run for their money – whilst the curry chicken…
Stamina Bowl from the newly-opened Workspace Espresso – tamarind chilli sea bass, goji brown rice, miso chilli eggplant, broccoli cauliflower, wakame wood-ear salad, sprouts, seeds. The chilli elements likely suffered burnout from their high-power, glamorously busy CBD existences, while elsewhere the sea bass ate clean and the wakame wood-ear salad…
Wakame & romaine salad from Open Door Policy – hamachi sashimi, tomatoes, onion & miso dressing. The hamachi slices were moist, supple and delectably oiled, with a thickness so bitable and substantial that you can club your friends’ faces with these marvellous and literally yellow tails, and elsewhere the wakame…
Panzanella di Aragosta from In ITALY – Canadian lobster with Tuscan bread and tomato salad. Essentially like a zombified Frankenstein lobster salad – it’s cold, it’s wet, it’s clammy, the vegetables squirt cold veggie juice upon bite – but in a surprisingly pleasing way. 3.8/5 <strong>In ITALY</strong> 38 Craig Road Singapore…
Singapore chicken rice salad from Epicurious – poached chicken breast, herbs, cucumber, mesclun greens, crisped rice, chilli vinaigrette. Essentially cold white chicken (白斬雞) made lightly spicy, ever so slightly sweet and intriguingly addictive by the refreshing chilli vinaigrette…but outside the window, ginger patiently knocks. 4/5 This was a hosted meal,…
Roast duck and pear from CreatureS – Chinese roast duck and Chinese pear tossed in butterhead lettuce in plum sauce dressing, served with keropok. The keropok inclusion felt rather queer, like drawing little stubby legs on a portrait of an anaconda, but the salad and dressing was refreshingly pleasant and…
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…