il Lido - The Grandest of All Celebrations

il Lido is the latest and most exclusive italian restaurant opened not too long ago in Sentosa Golf Club. It is the most stylish restaurant in Singapore these days. The interior's gorgeous and furnished by the famous designer, Philippe Starck. Just all the right elements to make a gal feel like a princess on her birthday. Thanks Jacque!

Jacque and I made it this day really special by taking a week to decide what to wear Indeed, we were dressed to the nine. I was dressed in a antique bustier dress with cool japanese print (bought from Potion when they 1st opened their doors in Paragon) and Jacque was in a pretty flirty black dress. Of course, our male companion, Frederic was stylishly fashioned in a funky Industrie shirt with embroidery details.

For starters, we decided to share 2 portions of the Anti-pasti and a portion each of the 24 months aged Parma ham from the degustation menu. The anti-pasti was so-so only probably because the order was slightly messed up and the waiter had to combine the 2 plates into 1 at our table, resulting in quite a mess. Every item was decent except the really bad Parmesan cheese, so hard ... so salty ... so boring ...

For mains, we each ordered a pasta dish. Overall, the taste is good, unfortuately all 3 plates had been sitting too long under the plate warmer. Therefore, was tart, hard and sticky. Well, serve us right for taking 40 minutes on the starter. Just wondering what would happen if Europeans were having dinner there...

Most interesting that nite was the number of birthday cakes served up, 3 of us counted, probably 10 altogether including mine. I must say that their birthday cake was yummy (bear in mind, i am not a dessert person), bittersweet in taste and just the right textual. :-) Also, Jacque ordered the warm chocolate cake, amazing!! il Lido must be the best italian restaurant around when it comes to chocolate desserts. Mind you, Jacque and i tried many a warm chocolate cake, nothing comes quite close to this one.

In short, il Lido is magical when it comes to the ambience as it makes every occasion extraordinary. As for food, we haven't given up as yet as we felt that it does have lotsa potential so we made a reservation for lunch here for the coming friday.


'Voila! Cest La Vie, mon cheri !'