Saturday 2 November 2013

Otto Ristorante


Situated in a quiet corner of the Red Dot Traffic Building, this Italian restaurant gets the thumbs up for its friendly waiters and good quality food. 

It was a Monday afternoon. You know, those afternoons when you have a really bad bout of Monday blues? I suggested having dinner to chase those blues away. My eating buddy suggested indulging in some good food as a happy pill. We married the two ideas and ta da, we found ourselves dining at Otto on a Monday night.   We ordered two main set meals;  the Degustation Menu and the Gourmet Menu

Degustation Menu
$88++

Wagyu beef “Carpaccio” with parmesan cheese and mushroom salad

 Livorno style “Seafood soup” in light tomato broth 

Homemade squid ink Tagliolini with Dungeness crab and rosemary

Atlantic cod “Tagliata” with “Taggia” black olives crust and sundried tomato pesto 

Coffee pannacotta served with white chocolate and grappa Nonino sauce

Gourmet Menu
$128++

Tuna Carpaccio with tuna sauce on vine tomato jelly and arugula

European seabass fillet with sun dried tomato pesto

Crispy suckling pig lacquered with “black locust” tree honey and aged balsamic vinegar

Warm chocolate cake with Haitian vanilla ice cream 

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+ Pan roasted “Foie Gras” with shallot and port veloute and Sardinian bread
+ Homemade Dutch Veal Ravioli with sage and truffle emulsion

It was a worth while trip to Otto seeing that the Chef did an awesome job in terms of the food quality. The food was tasty and you could tell that this restaurants uses high quality ingredients. For its pricing, perhaps the set menus would be good for those yearly celebrations like anniversaries or birthdays. 

Otto Restaurant
28 Maxwell Road
Mon - Sat
Tel: 62276819