On a random evening, the friends wouldn't mind a drink, and wondered what we were up to for dinner. So we said, "Come over!" Time for us to have them over rather than us barging into their home all the time to steal their wine. Heh. However, they still generously brought an easy bottle of Petrolo 2018 Val d'Arno di Sopra Torrione to share.
Ordered a few items from Ristorante Luka's Cross Street Exchange menu. They arrived neatly packed. A lovely oxtail ragu rigatoni (a Cross Street Exchange exclusive), and the 200g skirt steak was nicely grilled medium. I was tickled by their label of 'sotong', which was sautéed squid and garlic, spicy tomato sauce and squid ink cream. It's still one of the best grilled sotong out there done this way. The man was thrilled because he could finally have two pizzas without a ton of leftovers. There were a margherita with anchovies, and a salsiccia pepperoni.
For a lark, the friends added on a sambal stingray and salted egg yolk prawns from Modern Grill in Newton Hawker Center. These were seemingly totally incoherent with Luka's food, but they did go fine the way Singaporean potluck always do. A mish-mash of dishes made for a happy table. I hadn't had sambal stingray for a while! It was pretty decent. The spices went brilliant with champagne. It was the last bottle of champagne we had, and it ought to be finished before July ended.
Ristorante Luka's Tanjong Pagar outlet offers a slightly different menu. It has been maybe four years since they opened, but I still like their pastas trotted out right on their earliest menu. The shirasu aglio e olio is gorgeous, and I so love their uni aglio e olio spaghetti with bottarga, garlic, chilli and yuzu, and this is only available at the Tanjong Pagar outlet, even for delivery. So I kinda had that two nights later. Hahahah. Had a craving lah!
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