It was also T-H-E one that was the hardest to get too. We had to get through a maze of passageways, lifts and stairs before we finally found it. But nothing can take your breathe away more than the view that welcomes you the minute you step into the main dinning room. The gorgeous night skyline and beautiful and splattered with a ray of lights from the neighbouring office towers, the esplanade and our latest skyline addition - the F
lyer.
My favourite piece of the night - home-made
Foccacia with the cute knuckles-shaped kneads in the dough drizzled with olive oil and generous sea salt. The bread wasn't the fluffy types you get but was a dense dough heavily infused with the fragrance of the heated olive oil and tastily flavoured with the occasion salt crunch.
Since our waiter could tell from the long wait of us perusing our menus without any final decisions, he suggested we opt for tasting portions of most of the house appetizers.
First up and also a favourite for me was the Eggplant & Mozzarella Cake with Tomato, Chili and Chocolate Sauce. Totally something I will never try except for that one time wild dessert of chocolate eggplant I tried at another Italian restaurant. I'm not adventurous with eggplants, but this was easy on the palette and the mozzarella wasn't too empowering.
Then we had a serving each of the “
Culatello” Ham with Homemade Spicy Fruit Preserve. Generous with the fat, the ham dissolved in your mouth after releasing it's last breath of smoky saltiness, a well pairing with the fruits and sugary preserve.
I didn't really like the Amuse
Broche, so was glad it came really bite-size. And scallop, was a little lacking in lustre without much juices to give it that nice fresh crunch.
Sadly, the highlights of dinner kind of ended with the appetizers. The mains took awhile to show and
unfortunately the thing about greed, and hence, for
Folino's, is that it takes just a few
minutes to bear it's evil head. We started to feel full and I think all of us didn't really enjoy what we to come from there.
The much
anticipated “
Piemonte” Veal Ravioli with Truffle sorely disappointed. The
juices was just sufficient, but I beg to differ on the truffle. The ravioli was cooked to perfection, but it just lacked the kick to boast the taste to divine, or something I would return for, for that matter.
The lamb chops were a mistake on hind sight. They were a little on the heavy side by this time of the night and a little lacking in flavour although the meat was cooked to a superb medium rare.
And the Gnocchi with Homemade Pork Sausage sounded yummy on paper, but failed to impress on tableware.
Dinner was a tad overpriced and I honestly think one end's up paying for the view regardless. Service was passable but I suppose bread and eggplants couldn't warrant enough for seconds anytime soon.
Forlino
One Fullerton
#02-06
Tel: 6877 6995
www.forlino.com
