Singapore Eats: Cicheti, Kandahar Street
Yesterday, I finally had the time to celebrate my best friend's birthday and she chose to have Italian food. The thing is, I seldom eat Italian food in Singapore (not even pasta from the pasta chain, Pastamania) because if you eat at the real Italian restaurant in Singapore, you have to be prepared to dig deep into your wallet. Yup, they are definitely not kind to your wallet. But what's the point of celebrating birthday if you do not even want to respect the birthday girl's decision. After burppling (re: googling Italian food choices in Burpple), we have decided to go for Cicheti at Kandahar Street.
Cicheti is located at one of the shop houses along Kandahar Street, just two shops away from Dong Po Colonial Cafe. We actually made reservation pretty last minute (like two days before) but since we only need table for 2 and we figured we will not take long to eat, we agree to Cicheti's condition of releasing the table by 8PM. In a glance, there weren't seem to be many customers around 6PM-ish.
Which worked well for us, because our food will be made immediately upon ordering since we did not have to compete with other guests. Based on Burpple's reviews, Cicheti serves pretty good pasta and pizza so we decided to go for one pasta and one pizza each. Since I have chosen the pasta, the birthday girl had to choose for the pizza. It's fair play after all. Hahaha.
The birthday girl chose Pescatore which is a kind of seafood pizza which have oregano, garlic, grey prawns, scallops, squid and basil for the toppings. As you can see, it is a tomato-based pasta. While the size seems to be nice enough for 2, we could not finish the whole pizza since we also had to eat the pasta while allocating space for dessert. Taste wise, the pizza was pretty good and it has thin base which I like. I hope the texture can be more crunchy but the toppings are good enough despite I usually am not really a fan of seafood pizza.
The pasta of my choice has come and it looks so yummy just from the outlook of it. I love the braised lamb ragu especially when it is served with grated cheese on top of it. Parpadelle is actually not really my first choice of pasta because it kinda reminds me of hor fun somehow but apparently it goes well with the braised lamb ragu. Quite heavy pasta for sure but aglio olio kind of pasta is not really my kind of pasta anyway so yup, I like this.
I initially wanted to get a candle to put on top of the lava cake but the birthday girl refused my idea as it would have attracted attention from the other tables. In any case, it will probably make the cake melt further since we turned out spending a lot of time taking wefie with the dessert. The 72% Venezuelan cocoa lava cake taste just nice not too sweet and yet, not too bitter. And obviously it goes well when paired with vanilla ice cream. Yummyyyy~~~
Cicheti is located at:
52 Kandahar Street
Singapore
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 12 - 2.30PM
Saturday 6 - 10.30PM
Closed on Sunday