OSO

In my quest for better Italian food in Singapore. The wife and I have decided to explore another restaurant that is somewhat away from where we normally hang out. Located in Tanjong Pagar road, right next to FairField Methodist Church, is a deceptively sexy Italian restaurant. If you take a peek from the outside, it looks like a small eatery but as you enter the restaurant and turn a corner, its a hidden adjacent room filled with tables and I have to keep repeating this throughout the review, good service.

OSO is a sexy Italian restaurant. If you have been following this blog, we stumbled by this restaurant several weeks back before we reached Le Papillion. The wife and I wanted to head out for somewhere quaint and pretty and OSO was the choice. Its a pretty small restaurant but not as big as Garibaldis. The servers are all extremely pleasant and polite. Very helpful and was willing to put up with my nonsense, and that says quite a bit. We were going to meet our friends "Louis Vuitton," and his girlfriend "Pearly Whites," who were again fashionably 30 minutes late. Please do make your reservations. It'll do you good. So we were on time and hungry and we wanted to order everything first but wanted them to hold the orders for us to wait until our friends arrived. The servers more than happily agreed to our suggestion and we ordered the following:

Soup of the day - shreded crab meat soup in tomato base.
Foir Gras Brushcetta with almond and marsala wine sauce.
Penne pasta in tomato bisque and orange zest
roasted pork loin with honey served with braised capsicum and cinnamon
Hot dark chocolate tart crostata
Mascapone Cheese cake

The latecomers ordered:
The Soup of the day - after seeing me and the missus drink the soup silly
Homemade Ravioli filled with beef in cream, cheese and mushroom sauce
Rigatoni with braised rabbit, thyme black olives, Taggiasche
Sicilian Cannoli filled with ricotta cheese mouse and mixed candied fruits

First of all, I have to say that I love their cutlery and plates. Very pretty plates and utensils. What I didn't do that I should have done was actually to bring a camera because words can't do justice to how pretty the dishes were. Chef Diego Chiarini makes all the dishes looks like art. The decoration for each dish was immaculate and a sight.

I loved the soup, my wife didn't really like it but it was actually one of the best tomato based crab meat soup I have drank in a long time. It was smooth and refine. The foie gras bruschetta wreaked of decadence and beauty. Instead of the typical diced tomatoes, it was foie gras! The almond and Marsala wine sauce made the plate more appetizing and sweet. There was a mix of smokiness and nuttiness that made the bruschetta a great experience.

My wife wasn't too impressed with her pasta. But I was surprised she ordered what she did because it is unusual to have orange zest in pasta, but tasting it, there was a good compliment with the tomato bisque. My dish on the other hand was fantastic. The roasted pork was pink, sweet and succulent. The capsicum and cinnamon complimented the pork to a tee. I clearly had the best dish on the table!

My friends ordered the rabbit pasta ended up returning the pasta because she felt like it tasted like tuna, and the servers took it back without complain and asked her what she didn't like about it. She ordered the shrimp salad later. Louis Vuitton's Ravioli was excellent as well.

The reaction to the desserts were mixed. Again, I ordered the best thing. The chocolate tart. The milk ice cream that came along with the tart made it an excellent dish. And I don't drink milk! My wife's mascapone cheese cake was good too. I like it because it was a light cheese cake and the mascapone cream carried the cake.

Right before the end of our meal, the Maitre'd Stephene Colleoni came by and asked my friend and joked with us for a couple of seconds about the rabbit pasta. It was funny, but you could tell, at least from my perspective that they bothered about what the customer thought. That is good service!

The bill turned out to be about $150 per couple. Just about what I thought it was. I liked the restaurant. Its quite obvious. My wife thought it was one of the best she ever had in Singapore. So that says quite a bit.

Go to the website and see for yourself what they have. The current menu on their website is not updated but they have nearly everything that is in the current menu. I would definitely recommend this Italian restaurant!