Eating Well in Singapore Photo Gallery

Eating well does not necessarily have to cost an arm and a leg. Lunches can offer relative value for money. Lerouy offers a "petit" menu for only $46 that consists of a small number of courses. Hungry folks can choose another menu with more items. The small introductory courses came relatively quickly, one by one in rapid succession. The display is quite interesting, especially the soup that came in a test tube. The bread came with different types of butter. The main course is a delicious guinea fowl. Dessert and petit fours will fill you up nicely. Il Cielo on the top floor of the Hilton Hotel ofers a cozy dining room and a lovely pool deck right outside with views of Orchard Road. The Italian food has a zest of Japanese flair, and they try hard to add some class to the presentation just like a Michelin restaurant. Gaig is a Spanish restaurant in a restored shophouse on Stanley Street, with the suckling pig paella being one of its trademark dishes. The soup was also wonderful, with sour, smoked, and even sweet tastes to it thanks to a small ball of ice-cream in the middle. Moving away from the Michelin crowd, Dumpling Darlings turned a traditional food into a fancy experience with some fusion twists. Try the platter of 15 for $20, which is a tasting menu of 5 flavours - original, veggie, momo, fried pierogi, and smoked duck. You don't necessarily have to stay at the Marina Bay Sands to enjoy the rooftop pool. You can dine up there, next to the pool, although you won't be able to jump into it. Spago offers a reasonably-priced set lunch menu, but on the day of my visit, they only had seats for a-la-carte. While the signature tuna tartar cones were interesting, I wasn't expecting a restaurant charging at that price level to offer disposable chopsticks. Preludio offers an artistic menu of innovative dishes. The lunch executive set costs $58, although I made a switch to a premium Alaska king crab dish titled "deadliest catch". Before the second course, staff presented the white eggplant from a Paris market as well as the special olive oil from Spain. The burrata parmigiana consists of parmesan cheese, white eggplant, and an olive oil soupy base that you can dip bread into as well. I chose the halibut main course, which was very bouncy and tasty. Dessert came in the form of a white chocolate cube with passionfruit filling inside. To think outside the box, you use your spoon to break it open.