15 May, 2010
Serving the roots of singapore's elegant skyline Raffles City; Sapore Italiano has no window, making it stand out from the rest of the chill-out bars on a saturday night.
Decked out in red lips, the pout emphasizes the spirit of the bar, Sapore meaning taste, or flavour. Together with its colour combination, a common pick for black; being a non-colour, is red, the colour on the extreme lengh of wavelength discernible by the eye, for Sapore Italiano.
Italian food, Italian music, flat-screen TVs with Italian programmes, the colours lead you onto an Italian experience: Italy that should have houses in black and red furniture. In this house, one also cannot forgo the House speciality, authentic Italian pizzas that are black and red.
Nera Con Calamari (SGD 22.00)
Black pastas, I've had them before. Carbohydrate whites drenched in black squid ink; sinking the teeth into long noodles before releasing ducts that are black with a marshmallow-white centre, or carbohydrates black in a transparent sauce; because carbohydrate whites have been dyed with squid ink in the milling process. Both black as midnight depending on which step of the cooking process you are talking about.
But this? Its black pizza alright, because the pizza's black; the sauce red. From what I know, it is the squid's ink doing again. Maybe because its Italian, I am beginning to love Italian cuisine. Look, the yellow's missing. (It's missing in the house too.) Why do we need cheeses on pizza? Because it is created by the Italians?(Pizzas, in the first place with cheeses in the menu/recipe?) Probably not. We think twice on foods, just like who thought of adding sauces onto subs, and why garlic bread when we can eat whole garlics like these on the pizza; no corned dices to impede us and our garlic.
Onto the paradisaic again, this pizza has wonderfully fresh calamari on a bed of squid ink crust(it has just squirted. I wonder if the DNA's the same). Fresh and sweet like whites of a boiled egg the calamari; and tender and moist like freshly slaughtered the dough of the pizza. With a decent amount of tomato sauce; allowing the squid's ink to resurface now and then, its bullseye(d)! Chomping down (from all 8 slices) a total worth of 50 points within minutes.
Coppa Della Casa (SGD 20.00)
Everybody, this is the first blue food I log in! Even if the fruits were white, I would still log in as rainbow because blue is the colour usually left out among the 7. Where is the indigo; it has got to be the fat blueberries. Water-retention succulence, I envy Sapore Italiano just above Jasons Market Place; (I'd go there to pick from its fresh
deli everyday).
Beautifully hand-crafted, (I don't think machines were invented for cutting fruits); the fruits anchor on a pink and white gelato. Gelato is Italian's version of ice-cream, non-fat milk used and sucrose added instead of sugar. There is also green guava, white pear and pineapple inside! The gelato made them chill like ice pops.P.S. Italians did invent the pizza, but pizzas with tomatoes and olive oil. Try on a sauce-less sub today!
