Valentino’s

C says:

We had a slightly subdued trip to Valentino’s on Friday, because A was having a very bad headache. Still, the absolutely amazing starter special went quite a ways towards reviving him – he felt almost normal again after having it.


The starter was a twisted mozzarella, where the cheese was twirled to almost resemble a croissant. It was served with cherry tomatoes, and whilst not included, the server recommended some parma ham to accompany it so we ordered some on the side.

This was insanely good. Each separate ingredient was already quite stellar – the cheese was creamy and subtly flavoured (not watery and tasteless like some low-quality mozzarellas), the cherry tomatoes were ripe, sweet and so intensely flavoured that they just had to have been vine-ripened, and the parma ham was paper-thin and well-cured. But together, it was such a riot of complementing flavours that we were pretty much speechless.

What also rendered me speechless was the table of chi chi tai tais next door. Two of them ordered the mozzarella starters, and each of them left almost half of the cheese behind! Argh! Do you not appreciate good produce, people?!

Needless to say, we’re definitely going to order this if it’s ever on the specials list again.

A says:

They weren’t chi chi tai tais lah. Just desperate housewives. And to be far, the portions are big for a single person (not for atetoomuch).

Anyway, as always, food and service were both great. I had a headache when we got there, and one bite of the starter mostly cured it.

I wouldn’t recommend that you go there just so it’ll be easier for us to get a reservation and find parking.

Ristorante da Valentino
11 Jalan Bingka (off Rifle Range Road)
Tel: 6462-0555
Tuesday to Sunday: 12 pm to 2.30 pm, 6 pm to 10.30 pm