Desiree Koh:
Our first Singapore Restaurant Week reservation found us at Forlino, award-winning restaurant that says it has the "finest Italian dining" in Singapore. Let's see... we started with this amuse-bouche of salmon sashimi with cauliflower mousse. I liked the
Desiree Koh:
...when I smeared it on this pan-baked foccacia. Let's face it - the reason why I loved this is because it basically tasted like a gigantic piece of pizza crust.
Desiree Koh:
Crab salad with sweetpea sprouts and cantaloupe: Decent salad to start, although I didn't quite like the sweet smears of dressing. I liked the creativity of the crab salad, but being still on my hearty Emilia Romagna (gastronomic heart of Italy) kick, oh
Desiree Koh:
The secondi platter was wagyu beef cheek braised with marsala wine and herb washed potatoes. Well, seriously, how boring is this - every damned Italian restaurant in Singapore makes this dish. It was passable at best - the other choice of halibut filet wi
Desiree Koh:
The molten lava chocolate cake (mine had no flow, like a stuck drainage system) with banana gelato (good) and rum sauce (could not taste) could have been better. Overall, I felt that if you were going to participate in Restaurant Week, you could have done
Desiree Koh:
This was my favorite course of the evening - homemade spaghetti with black cod, baby artichokes and mint. I couldn't taste much of the cod, but the spaghetti was perfectly cooked and the stock tasty. I could have eaten it all night.