Valentino

B originally wanted to bring me to a restaurant at Upper Bukit Timah Rd, but we simply couldn't find it! In the end, we ended up at Valentino's Restaurant somewhere along Railway Road. We didn't make any reservations, but thankfully, we were there early so we managed to get seats. :) I guess I took a little longer than usual to eventually get here.. I mean this place was opened since 2005...so it took me about 3 years to come here.. oops... :p

The place was quaint, reminded me of Elio's in Tokyo. Decor was simple and minimal, nothing fancy, just imagine yourself stepping into a family restuarant in Italy.

Forgive the poor picture quality, these were all taken using my phone camera, wasn't expected a dinner outing so we were not decked in our finest! :p

First up, was the freshly flown cherry tomatoes drizzled with balsamic vinegar and mint leaves. The other appetiser we had was the Burutta cheese, it was a really huge cheese served simply with olive oil and greens on the side. The cheese tasted like mozzarella cheese. Combine the tomatoes and the cheese and you have Caprese Salad...ta-dah!

For the mains, we shared the Lobster Pasta with tomato and cream sauce. The other main we shared was the beef steak with proscuitto mushrooms drizzled with truffle oil. Though we were feeling abit stuffed but when the dessert tray rolled out, we really couldn't resist! So we again shared the vanilla sponge cake with white chocolate shavings.. decadent!

After the dinner, I bugged B to go to do a foot massage along with me.. afterall, he was my foot reflex buddy. After much persuassion, he finally caved in and went along with me :)