There’s Mario Batali’s Osteria Mozza, which shut its doorways in Marina Bay Sands in 2018, after which there’s American movie star chef Nancy Silverton’s resuscitation of the Cal-Italian restaurant at Hilton Singapore.
At first look, it looks like this rebirth is a step away from Osteria’s previous Batali-led days. Shedding the MBS locale’s extreme darkish wooden interiors, the brand new restaurant now options lighter and extra homely surrounds impressed by a Tuscan farmhouse – gabion stone partitions, rustic decor, and vegetation framing floor-to-ceiling home windows and lining an ethereal out of doors area that overlooks the Orchard Highway belt. Maybe, it’s a signifier of a model new chapter, one shifting on from Batali’s sexual misconduct scandal which shook the culinary world in 2017.
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The Silverton iteration locations an unwavering emphasis on making use of easy cooking to the freshest seasonal produce. Take the Nancy’s Caesar. It’s a deconstructed model of the basic Caesar salad, however an unpretentious one, no much less. Boiled eggs, leek and anchovies are fastidiously rearranged on slices of crostini, accompanied by crisp Romaine lettuce – an easy-to-eat dish with broad enchantment.
Beneath Silverton, the menu at the moment focuses on the restaurant’s handmade pastas. However what about Osteria’s famed wood-fired pizzas? All in good time, we had been instructed. Apparently, the pies might be a part of the lunch menu, which can be launched within the subsequent couple of months. And with Silverton on the helm, some tweaks are to be anticipated: Cooked with California almond wooden over excessive warmth in a customized wooden stone oven, the pizzas are mentioned to function a crisp and fantastic base and an enhanced sourdough flavour – a marked departure from what most of us might bear in mind from MBS.
Supply: Her World
