Concetto X Createaf Waffles
Finally met up with Jia Hui and Kai Ling after for many months. I think my last seen with them was back to Chinese New Year. Nowadays, everyone was so busy with their life that we hardly find a right date for a dinner. At last, we managed to squeeze in some time for a little catch up of our life.
Our dinner was at Concetto. It wasn't a plan to dine in at this fine dining restaurant, just a random stopped by. Concetto by Saveur is located at Level 1 of The Cathay where the old Billy Bombers used to be. What a change after that as it was pretty quiet at Billy Bombers and rather crowded at Concetto instead.
They are known for their competitive pricing strategy, where they offer very good Italian food without burning a huge hole in your pockets.
As of other saveur outlets, the design is simplistic and modern with an open concept kitchen probably not the best thing for quick fine dining experience.
Menu is divided into many section. Earth: Appetisers. The land would be for their main dishes containing all the Pork and Beef. The sea which categorise Fish and Seafood and lastly their light for desserts.
Though choices were limited, we were torn ordering between the Creamy Pork / Bolognese / Duck Tortellini / Funghi Risotto / Prawn Aglio! In the end though, we three ordered:
Creamy Pork also known as Carbonara ($10.90)
a roasted pork belly with spaghetti sprinkled with bacon bits and a poached egg. The portion is alittle too small but suitable for ladies who have small appetite. Guys with big appetite should totally avoid ordering this. Anyway, the poached egg was beautifully cooked.
Duck Tortellini ($12.90)
Ravioli are pastas with ingredients wrapped inside. Minced duck meat was used. the duck was somewhat savoury but the whole dish is really salty in the end which was not really pleasure to eat.
What sat before us was a beautifully poached egg, new potatoes and parmesan emulsion (the white foam) that drew out an immediate “WOW” from all of us at the table.
Basically we shared two plates of the main because this fine dining doesn't really WOW us as much as the over-whelmed of original saveur but to the price for a fine dining restaurant, I don't mind coming back for their desserts and also their good service.
They have pretty good white walls and lighting for cam-whore/ selfie and photo-taking.
Concetto is open daily from 12noon to 9.30pm. It is located at The Cathay, 2 Handy Road, #01-11/12, Singapore 229233. For RESERVATIONS, call 6735 1141 or email enquiry@saveur.sg
Next up, for our desserts, we conquered createaf waffles located at Cathay too. This was our initial plan but Jia Hui was afraid that waffles won't make us full and its funny to have waffles for dinner.
Whenever I walk past this CAFE - Createaf Waffles I feel so tempted to try the waffles! Finally, I had the chance to visit this cafe with the girls to try those mouthwatering waffles with delicious toppings.
To get the best of whole worlds (waffles and tea), they offer a waffles set which comes with a sweet/savoury waffle with a drink of your choice and it only costs $12.50!
As we were half full, we decided to order their half waffle instead of the whole so that we can order more items for photo purposes. I had my chicken ham and sausage waffle under their savoury menu. ($6.90). The waffle texture is like moist sponge with a crispy exterior. Each bite was pillowy.
Jiahui had her sinfully chocolate which was coated with bitter-sweet chocolate sauce and cocoa-crunch. She topped it up with a scoop of macademia nuts ice-cream. Sweet savoury stated in the menu.
Kling ordered the plain waffle with maple syrup and also topped up with cookies and cream ice cream. The maple has a taste of sour-ness, not really sure if it came from the waffles batter or the maple itself. Can never go wrong with cookies and cream because it covered well with the sour-ness.
I was hoping to see more creative variety of waffles, you know, something like Strictly Pancakes kind. But considering they are only opened for less than a year, so I guess they are still working on the Menu. Service was fast though. Our waffles were served after 10 minutes of waiting and the presentation looked good though.
Createaf Waffles
Address: 2 Handy Road, #01-02 The Cathay
Opening hours: Sun – Thurs 12 to 10pm; Fri & Sat 12 to 12am
Selfless selfie at the end of the day because being girls, taking photos is our hobby. Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you have ever had, years have gone by and you are mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.
But no matter what., im still glad that after all these years, we are still close as ever and definitely cherish this friendship for this golden friendship is so hard to get (:
Till then.
