We managed to get to Acqua e Farina at Keong Saik Road for the last order. Of course we sat outdoors. They thoughtfully tiled the flooring at the corridor, as well as installed ceiling fans. It was a hot hot night at 32°C, but not completely unbearable with the fans providing some moving air.
I've stopped by its restaurant at The Rail Mail ages. It's a family restaurant that I would return if it were more convenient to me. The restaurant survived the fickle F&B industry for 20 years and just opened up an outlet at Keong Saik Road. I really hope they find a balance between manpower and rental and operational costs. We have many similar Italian restaurants in Singapore. If it's just pizza and pasta, one can find them anywhere.
There's free corkage for bottles, but the per glass charges are imposed; fair enough. They have a decent enough wine list, so I'm not particular bothered about bringing wine unless it's something special for a gathering. I didn't intend to have a full bottle of wine. Opted for an easy carafe of wine tonight.
This is by no means fine dining, but starters are priced between S$20 for a portion of soup and S$33 for a portion of braised onions with green asparagus and panfried air-cured guanciale. Pastas aren't going below S$36 a portion. The man took the tagliatelle al cacao con gamberetti e nduja. I never understand this pasta — the sweet hints come out stronger than the spicy or savoury. I wanted a simple spaghetti al gambero. It was done aglio e olio with king prawns. It was good, but I should have asked for it to be spicier. Hurhurhur.
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