Rojak?

Well this place got a 8 on hungrygowhere.com but for Moi it will rank much lower in terms of quality and price. The food was not too bad but for that price, Moi will expect a better quality service and food. The chef tries too hard to be unique (Japanese and french fusion) that he is losing the idea what basis food requires. Well, let's said, they could be better.

In clockwise starting Top left corner : (1) bread with cream and caviar (2) Japanese tofu with plum sauce (4) Sushi with miso soup (5) lobster soup (6) soba dish topped with grated dry mullet roe (bottarga) (7) Some kind of fish brain (8) Duck (9) fried grains (rice) (10) Pumpkin soup

The ten course meal comes up to $138+++ per pax. I think it's some kind of promotion. Moi didn't manage to take down the names of the dishes so can't recall the dishes well.

Shibaken French Cuisine
1 Nanson Road
#02-02A The Gallery Hotel
Tel: 6836 1613

Opening hours
Tue - Sun, 6.30pm - 11pm
Closed on Sat

Equinox

Went celebrating Bread Marmas birthday just last night at the top of the World. * wink * Food was wonderful but I would say there are LOTS of ROOMS for improvement on service. Actually we did not experience any "bad" service last night but then the waitress and waiter are really not very well-trained. They are definitely not attentive and they are more concern with themselves than the customers and their food. Well, for a general family restaurant where you pay $$ for meals, i believe such service will more than suffix. But for someone forking out $$$ per pax for dinner... i definitely think they need to work so much harder.

One thing for sure, it's was VERY DIFFICULT to get their attention especially the WAITRESS, they are so BUSY talking among themselves. Before making reservations, I did make a special request for dessert to be serve with a candle but the waiter came at the wrong timing when Bread Marmas went away and the even forgot to lit the candle. That's how attentive they were.

Well, the plus point for Equinox would be to enjoy the panoramic view of the Singapore city and river. The view was lovely... For windows seating, it's from 6:30pm - 9:00pm. We came at 6:30pm and left around 9pm. Bread Marmas enjoyed herself tremendously and I was really glad she enjoyed. Hugz...Happy Birthday Sweetie.

I thought the table setting was really nice, especially the napkin holder. =)

Started out with Champagne to cheer Bread Marmas before we proceed for dinner...

Champagne


Minced crab meat with asparagus sauce

Appetizer was great!! It was a good portion and very palatable.

Mushroom soup


Foie gras with cheesecake

For the mains, we had...

Cod fish

The fish was really nice... very soft and tender.

Beef Tenderloin

Chocolate cake with mint ice-cream

I HATE MINT flavour so "gave" my ice-cream away!! kekekee!

Pinot Noir 2006

Equinox the Restaurant,
Swissotel the Stamford
Level 69
Tel: 6837 3322

Opening hours
Mon-Sat: 12pm-230pm, 630pm-11pm
Sun: 11am-230pm, 7pm-11pm

Graze

So there was many negative reviews about the "fine dinning" at One Rochester Park and though Moi made numerous attempts to dine there, it was somehow met with a few hiccups. BUT finally, Moi managed to go down for dinner at Graze... the only restaurant that I had heard of better reviews. Twinny, this one definitely better than the one you went previously. :P

Well, the ambience was lovely and super romantic, SO guys, you know where to bring to hong char poh. kekekeke! Was teasing the date I was with how he would behave if he has been here on a first date...

Me : So would you take the valet parking at $8.00 or make her walk up the hill for $2.40 parking?

Him : of course, Valet parking lah!!

Me (to self) : TMD!! Then you made me walk up har!!?? >_<

Him : Er... then I see if she will suggest to park the public carpark and walk up the hill for me.. then sure win lor!

Me (to self) : This man hor!! * Faint *

Anywhere, dinner was on him. So thank you very much!!

A perfect setting for a cosy private function less the mosquitoes and the crawling spiders. And before dinner, Moi jumped out of my seat because of a crawling spider.... and the silly date asked...

Him : How you know it's a spider?

Me (to self) : alamak! Uncle, I know how to count the legs right?

Me : After I brushed it off, it got dangled on a web string and crawled back lah!!

AND next time, dun you dare to bring magazines and read hor!! Dinner time is for Moi to talk and for you to listen. Kekekeke! Forgive you this time. =P

And so based on recommendations from the waiter, we had....

Entree : Tiger Prawns 3 way $19.00

3 little prawns cooked in 3 different ways : tempura, chilled and pan tossed, topped with coconut coriander sorbet and cucumber oil. The combination of the ice cold coconut sorbet with the tempura prawn was really shiok. Graze won us over with just the first dish. Hahahahaha! Was deciding between the raviolio and tortellini and finally we had the latter because he doesn't like vegetable. It's hard to find a restaurant that does good ravioli or tortellini so I was really impressed by Graze's tortellini. It was really yummy with the verjuice and salmon roe butter sauce.

Steamed lobster tortellini $32.00

Moi's dinner date found the pork hock really nice though utterly sinful. The meat was tender and crispy outside but Moi found the sauce too strong and herbal for my liking. The Pork hock was served with spiced plum, cucumber, marinated bean shoot salad, and a redcurrant chilli caramel

Crispy hand-rolled pork hock $31.00

But the one that took my heart away was Graze's dessert. This was so divine. The pudding crust was warm and crisp like a bread. The melted chocolate inside was jelat and thick. It was really shiokoros!! A combination of cold, warm and hot; and soft and hard. Really delicious.

Dessert : GRAZE "Black and White" pudding plate $18.00

GRAZE "Black and White" pudding plate, a soft centred white and dark chocolate pudding with white and dark chocolate ice cream.

Graze
4 Rochester Park
Tel : 6775 9000
Website : http://www.gaze.sg

Opening hours
Sun, 930am - 3pm, 630pm - Midnight
Tues - Sat, 6:30pm - Midnight
Close on Mon

Bice Bistro Revisited

Revisited Bice Bistro with Mr A and Mr S. Thanks Mr A always for lovely pressie... love my horse-shoe charmer... muackz!!

Mr A is an Wine Expert, in case, you haven't discover it... I am amazed by his knowledge on wine especially red wine... from the country of the wine to knowing which year is a good harvest for which wine. The safest year he taught me though was 1986, nearly all the red wine are good. So if there is an important dinner that requires a good bottle of wine and you don't know which year and type to choose, just take any in the year 1986.

Ornellaia 2002 + Barolo 2001

We had the above to go with our dinner. Both are italian wine. Ornellaia is a deeper and more intense wine, while Barolo is a sweeter full-bodied fruity type. Years 2000 and 2001 are good years for Barolo. Both are wonderful selections... ^_-) *cheers*

In clockwise starting Top left corner : (1) Melon with Parma ham (2) Mozzarella cheese with tomato (3) foie gras (4) Australia lamb (5) Duck Confit (6) Pork (7) Margherita pizza (8) Pizza

Mimolette

Went din din with SuperModel today who brought me to this well-hidden and really pretty little place far hidden in a super super uru place. In fact, you really wonder why would anyone set up a restaurant in the middle of such a uru uru place. As the two of us drove through the meandering path with tall grasses at the side of road, we were both speculating if someone will suddenly jumped out of the bushes and try to rob or rape us. Okie... we are over-imaginative. BUT that's HOW deserted, dark and uru the place is.

Our drive landed us this little white house that seems to be like some part of Europe. The ambience was really wonderful and enchanting. Really great place for guys to bring girls to melt their hearts lah. ^_-) Thanks SuperModel for the recommendations. We shared an appetizer, foie gras and a dessert - Bread Pudding. For the mains, Moi had the duck confit while SuperModel had Grey Prawns. The appetizer and dessert were lovely. Moi especially love the dessert. The bread pudding was hot and soft, mixed with the cold vanilla, the taste was so delish.

The mains tasted just average though. They were served warm and not hot... so both of us suspected that our dishes might had been "idling" for a while before served. The waiter and waitress were polite and eager to refill drinks BUT for a fine dinning place, the service was well below standards. Moi had been to other fine dinning restaurants and each and every servers should be well-trained enough to know all customers' orders well and all the food on the menu very very well. For a start, I was given a breakfast menu instead of a dinner menu. Then whenever we had a query on the menu, the Manager will have to come to us cause the rest of the staff just didn't seem to know it very well. We got to repeat our request for butter twice and the amusing part was only one of the waiter seems to know who is eating what. He had it all written on a BIG A4 size paper and was carrying it with him with a throng of waiters holding plates and plates of food and just "stuck" there waiting for that waiter to give direction. I was really too "amused" by this. *shrug shoulders* For our table, the waiter asked politely who is having the prawn and who is having the duck before serving. Well, my verdict is that the servers are VERY POORLY TRAINED.

The place though very beautiful and cosy, was a sound-trapper and so it was rather noisy to hold a decent conversation. It might be a better idea to come here for breakfast instead. And it's definitely ONLY accessible by car. Too easy to get lost if taking taxi. And not accessible by public transport.

Well, I will definitely still love to come back.. service is tolerable, food is quite ok. I think for pricing it's still consider mid-range for fine dinning food. I enjoyed. Special thanks to SuperModel. ^_-) Ya... counting down to our next date. kekeke!

Mimolette
55 Fairways Drive
Tel : 6467 7748
Website http://www.mimolette.com.sg/

Opening hours
Closed on Mon.
Tue-Fri, 11am - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm
Weekend, 10am - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm

Domvs, The Italian Restaurant

Bread Parpas and Marmas celebrated our birthdays at this super posh Italian restaurant at Sheraton Towers. Heehee! Yiiiiiippppppppyy!! The restaurant serves a slightly different italian fare from the pasta and pizza types that is more commonly available. DOMVS serves typical Sicilian fare - a lighter and more tangy italian taste.

The ambience was really nice and extremely quiet and service was great. Hahahaha! Bread Parpas didn't pay all the money for nothing har. We had the following to go with the fruity Gaja Toscana Promis Ca'Marcada (red wine). It's a pity that Twinny doesn't drink. ^_-)

Starters - Semolina bread toasted with tomatoes and cheese


Appetizers - Variations S$30.00

The variations are made from the ingredients from the sea from crab, prawns, scallop etc. We are advised to taste the food from our right to the left. Interesting hor!! The meat was simply cooked, bringing out the freshness and sweetness of the nature taste. Twinny's dearie had the cold cuts which are thinly sliced cold precooked meat with cheese.

Appetizers - Cold cuts S$22.00


Appetizers - Maccu S$26.00

Twinny had the Maccu which is a creamy garbanzo bean soup with crocche (fried potato dumplings made with cheese, parsley and eggs). That's was really yummy too though a little filling.

For main courses, we had...

Angel-hair pasta S$24.00

Angel-hair pasta (capellini) is, as the name suggests, the very finest shreds of pasta. The portion was rather small so very well-suitable for ladies. The pasta reminds Moi of our chinese Bee hoon. Kekekeke! Twinny had the kurobuta which melts in the mouth. UUUuuuuuuuuuuuummm!! While I had the Lamb rack which I enjoyed very much. The lamb was very well cooked without the mutton smell. The meat was simply prepared and seasoned with salt and pepper only. Good choice!!! Heehee!

Pork - Kurobuta S$38.00


Lamb Rack S$42.00


Beef S$44.00

Dessert was sinful but luscious. Hahahaha! Every single one looked so nice that we had a hard time trying to decide which one... kekekeke!

Dessert - Pancake S$14.00


Dessert - Chocolate cake S$16.00

Buon appetito!

Domvs, The Italian Restaurant
9 Scotts Road
Sheraton Towers
Tel : 6839 5622
Website : http://www.sheratonsingapore.com/

Opening hours
Mon - Sat, 6:30 - 10:30pm

水和说不出的秘密

Met up with Supermodel late tonight for Moi's belated birthday treat. The Sweetie had it at Bice Bistro... As it was a late din din, Moi decided to go Yoga to firm up my abs and shed a few calories before putting on more calories. How contradicting. =P

Was surprised to receive EMERGENCY SMS-es after my Yoga session from Astro...who was lost going to din din place... He was a last minute "slot-in"....hahahaha! Guess the Dude misses us har. *wink wink* Poor Astro was stranded for a good 10 minutes before the rescue "Moi" arrived. Well...better late then no come, right?? The Poor Dude looked so lost waiting at the fountain for Moi... no wonder he gave me such a big beary hug when he saw me. kekekeke! K.. lah!! Mummy, here.

Didn't meet up with Astro for a good 1 month so there was much catching up... especially about his new job and his settle-in....

Supermodel was going to be late for an hour so we decided to order drinks and some light entrees while waiting for her...

Waiter : What drink would you like, Sir?

Astro : Water

Me : Yup..same. Water, please.

Waiter : Still or Sparkle?

Astro : ? ? ?

Me (to self) : Water not free meh???

So we orderd the $8 per bottle sparkle water....

When Supermodel came by an hour later, after we finished our entrees and 1 bottle of water....

Waiter : What drink would you like, Madam?

Supermodel : Plain water.

Astro : GOT PLAIN WATER!!!???

Me : GOT FREE WATER!!!???

Hahahaha! So Moi made the blunder to order that super expensive water. hahahahaha!

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Halfway through dinner, Supermodel whispered to me....

Supermodel : Psst...had he told you the secret?

Me : What secret?

Supermodel : Then you better tell him your "secret"?

Me : Har?? What "secret"? My "secret"?

Supermodel : That "Secret"!!!

So admist our whisperings and body language exchanges... the "Secret" is out... and so I told Astro....

Then what about Astro's secret..??

Well since it's a secret, it shall remain a secret....

说不出的秘密
就让它永远秘密
随小雨流走消失....



Source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6dO6hCunTA

Bice Bistro

Read about Bice Bistro which comes from the famous Milan-based Italian fine-dining restaurant chain Bice and wanted to go try it out. Bice Bistros is supposed to be a more casual chain in compare to the more exquisite fine-dinning Bice. So Moi went with full enthusiasm to their Singapore branch, which opened only last month and is the first of the batch in Asia.

The decor at Bice Bistro is rather Euro-clubby style with leather and woody furniture and chandelier and so it does feel a little bit "cold" to step into such an atmosphere. Well, maybe I had expected a little bit too much of Bice Bistro so was disappointed when the server informed us that the menu here is more limited than that of the full-fledged restaurant. The food served is also very typical of what can be found in dozens of Italian restaurants around town and taste not as unique. With that price, I rather go Spizzico.

In clockwise starting Top left corner : (1) Salmon (2) Melon with parma ham (3) Seafood calarami (4) Dory (5) Pork stew (6) Seafood spaghetti (7) Rissotti (8) Dessert : Tiramisu (9) Dessert : Lime Sherbert (10) Dessert : Panna Cotta

Bice Bistro
Block 3C, The Cannery, River Valley Road
#01-02 Clarke Quay
Tel: 6305 6768

Note : This restaurant is closed.