After watching Merchants of Bollywood, Bell and I went for dinner at Raffles City. There were a couple of new restaurants in the basement. I was most interested in The Hand Burger but Bell wasn’t keen on eating burgers. So we went back to an old favourite – Aerin’s.
The menu had changed a bit, some dishes were gone and there were some new dishes. Both of us ate pasta because we felt that the best dish at Aerin’s was the pasta.
I ate Aerin’s signature dish – Aerin’s Tagliatelle which contained a generous amount of smoked salmon, salmon roe and mushrooms. The sauce was thick, sticky and creamy. I enjoyed it and cleaned up my plate. I think the amount is just right as I was feeling a bit tired of the creamy sauce by the end of the meal.
Bell had a black pepper beef pasta. Besides sliced beef, the dish also contained capsicums, onions and garlic. The black pepper made the whole dish very fragrant.
We went to the Cedele All-day dining outlet for dessert. Bell ordered the chocolate truffle cake which is supposedly quite famous as it won several awards. The cake is rich and chocolaty. It seemed almost entirely made up of chocolate and cream and very little (if there is any) cake.
I ordered the real chocolate pancakes which is probably my favourite dish at Cedele. The two pancakes had a generously sprinkling of couverture chocolate. The pancakes came with some strawberries and blueberries and scoop of vanilla mascarpone cheese. The soft, sweet, creamy cheese goes well with chocolate pancakes. Bell and I had a pancake each and we almost fought over the cheese.
Aerin’s
252 North Bridge Road
#B1-11/12 Raffles City Shopping Centre
Tel: 63372231
Cedele All-day Dining
#03-28A Raffles City Shopping Centre
Tel: 63378017
