Signature veal chop parmigiana with classic red sauce and melting mozzarella from Angeleno. The tender and well-salted baby cow, which was literally smoking hot inside out, may have been the secret offspring of a loving pig and a sultry chicken from a steamy barnyard tryst one thunderous night, whilst elsewhere…
Full English breakfast with “foot-long” sausage from Claude’s – scrambled eggs, stewed beans, hashbrown, bacon, roasted tomatoes, chunky salsa, warm bread and fresh salad with parsley crumble and truffle butter. Not your typical brunch experience, flavour-wise. The girth of the masculinely spicy, Chinese-esque and well-endowed sausage was ideal for easy…
Linguine allo Scoglio from Rise & Grind Coffee Co. – classic seafood pasta tossed in spicy tomato sauce. The spicy sauce provided a slight tingle without ever straying too far from the sidewalk, whilst elsewhere the flaky cheese bits were nasally efficient but ultimately paper tigers. 3.4/5 Rise & Grind…
Seafood Cioppino from Two Tall Trees – mussels, fish, squid, prawns & special herbs in a tomato broth. Comforting, humble fare, with the tomato broth possessing the gentle touch of a nurturing grey-bunned granny with chopsticks in her hair and wearing grey motif overalls. 3.5/5 Two Tall Trees 14B Kensington…
Hot smoked salmon, potatoes and concasse of tomatoes from the tearoom savouries menu at Mad About Sucre. The warm salmon slab masterfully redefines your IKEA-stemmed understanding of how smoked salmon should taste and feel, while elsewhere the hand-mashed potatoes surrender yieldingly in buttery earnestness. 3.9/5 (It would be remiss of…
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…
Dumplings Italiano from Takumen. Essentially a baby dumpling pizza, with the internal mozzarella cheese having the chewy bounciness of a sausage. 3.6/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Takumen. Takumen 66 Circular Road Singapore 049420
Zuppa di Mare – seafood soup concocted with prawn, clam, mussel and squid in spicy tomato sauce, white wine and basil leaves. Thick, rich and comforting. The soup tasted like a ménage a trois between canned sardine gravy, chilli and tomato, so steamy and explicit that the clams were left…
Blossom waffle with passionfruit and “U Can’t Guess This!” flavoured ice cream. The passionfruit assaults explosively with tingling spikes of sour, with seed shrapnel for additional impact – loved it. I won’t spoil the secret behind “U Can’t Guess This!” (hint: it’s a fruit), but this particular ice cream as…