Restaurant Week, 2012 edition: The Tasting Room

 

I've long heard about The Tasting Room, not for the food, but more of their wine pairing. They have over 50 unique & interesting selections by the glass from their extensive wine list, which seeks to provide new levels of experience to everyone, from the novice to the connoisseur. So, when the opportunity came, I reserved a table @ the place for my 1st wine pairing experience. 

Took the new camera out for the journey! Haha, that goes to show how backdated this post is :P We took a lil walk across the bridge while Leecher was keen to test out the pus pus, the new nickname of our camera.

 

The familiar sights on the bridge. It still tickles me whenever I see people with their giant tripod and zoom-until-can-see-the-pores-on-your-face cameras on the bridge, waiting to catch the perfect view during NDP.  

 

As the sky turned darker, the lights came on and the landscape changed into a different mood.

 

I loved how the pictures turned out!

 

Making our way to The Tasting Room, reached there just in time for dinner. 

 

We were given a table just outside their private room, which you can request for when dining in a large group.

 

Needless to say, we had the Restaurant Week Dinner menu with wine pairing at $69++/pax. 

 

The place was filled up with diners, all for restaurant week.  

 

 Can't wait to start! 

 

For soup, you get to choose b/w Truffle Wild Mushroom Puree Soup or Curried Cauliflower Soup. We both went with Truffle Wild Mushroom Soup, paired with Yalumba Eden Valley Viognier 2009, with pure aromas of apricot nectar, lifted honeysuckle and orange oil perfume. 

 

The richness of the truffles permeated my nose as soon as it reached the table.
 

Testing the wine, it was slightly acidic for my taste buds, but Leecher enjoyed it.

We had Squid Ink Linguine with fresh calamari for the 2nd course. Not appealing to the senses at first glance for it looked like a gooey mess. 

This was paired with Ata Rangi Summer Rose 2010, which is a type of cheery-ish wine with hints of floral and herb. It left a drying tang on the finish despite it tasting slightly sweet.

 

With the dearest Leecher, while we waited for our main courses.

Leecher had Wagyu Beef Cheek slow braised in red wine & paired with Chateau Lavison Bordeaux Blend 2008. Bordeaux is arguably the most famous wine region in the world & I'll definitely love to pay a visit one day! A Bordeaux blend, is any combination of those grape varieties typically used to make red wines in Bordeaux. Red Bordeaux Blends are known for their powerful structure and deep flavours.

 

I went for 48 Degree Confit of Dill Infused Salmon & this was paired with Trinity Hill Hawkes Bay Pinot Noir 2010. This wine came from New Zealand, where grapes were hand-harvested from 3 different vineyards.

 We got to choose b/w Apple Fran or Tiramisu for desserts, so we ordered both to share. 

 

To end the night on a sweet note, we had Beni di Batasiolo Moscato Spumante. I love all types of moscato & will usually stock up a couple of bottles for own consumption at home :)

 

A pic with the hubby before leaving the restaurant :)   

While walking back to get the car, we came across the light show @ MBS. 

 It reminded me of the Symphony of Lights show in Hong Kong, where it involves more than 40 buildings on both sides of the harbour. Nevertheless, the one that we had was good enough.   

The Tasting Room

6 Raffles Boulevard

Marina Square #01-08

Singapore 039594

Tel: 6338 1829