Back at Skinny Pizza @ Wheelock Place

Met up with my friends to go to Openrice office to redeem our gifts.  I took part in their Hungry Games contest and for the month of September, I redeemed a coffee-bean card which is valued at $28.  Cheryl from Openrice also gave us some freebies such as the Smiley fan, tissue pack and pen from Openrice.

After that, we joined the rest at Skinny Pizza at Wheelock Place.  This was my second visit to Skinny Pizza and this time, I got to try out more items as there were 7 of us, so we ordered more dishes.

There was a "3 sides for $18" promotion and thus, we ordered different side dishes to share.  The sides were served in mess tins without handles.

Harissa Prawns won thumbs up from everybody.

Truffle Fries was cripsy and nice too but need to finish it fast before it turned greasy.

Sweet Potato Nibblets, which came in big chucks, were nice but very filling of course!

Brie Cheese (Right) was tasty too.

My friends also ordered another set of 3 sides of 1/4 sausage (Chicken, Beef and Pork).

I ordered the Mixed Berry Tark drink ($7) which tasted a bit like Ribena.

My friends had the Portobello Soup ($7) which was very thick with mushroom bits.  I find this better than the Sweet Corn with Crab Soup ($7) that I had.

One of our friends had the Squid Ink Pop ($15).  Basically, all the ingredients used were the same as squid ink pizza but you got to "burst" the ball and dropped the ingredients inside.

Of course, this is a must-order pizza at Skinny Pizza - Squid Ink Pizza! ($26)

Chicken Satay Pizza ($22) which was topped with thick satay sauce.  The slice of pizza that I took, happened to have only the satay sauce without much meat, thus, a bit unsatisfying for me.  Maybe the pizza would be better if they can be more generous with the chicken meat chunks?  

Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars... Looking up the dome structure at Wheelock Place from inside the building.....  Beautiful!

After dinner, we strolled along Orchard Road and chanced upon 2 "ghosts"!  Haha..... and even took a group photo with them.  But the "ghosts" looked rather friendly, don't you think so?  

The "Twins"

They were actually doing a publicity stunt for the Halloween event at Scape:

Where:

SCAPE Warehouse (Level 2)

When:

18 – 31 Oct 2013

Time:

6pm – 11pm

6pm – 12mn (31 Oct 2013)

Ticket Prices:

Normal – $20

Students and Early Bird – $17

Where To Buy Tickets:

Tickets can be purchase at the venue and online.

For further information and to buy event tickets, visit Museum of Horrors website.

Trailer

We also spotted a floating "ghost" above the flea market area at Scape, it looked really eerie at night.

I did attend a few Halloween events in the past for the fun of it.  You may read up my past Halloween events' experience here:  

Halloween at Night Safari (2010)

Halloween at Singapore Flyer (2012)

Do you celebrate Halloween?  :P

Skinny Pizza Wheelock
601 Orchard Road
#03-04
Wheelock Place
Singapore 238880

Great Pizzas and Affordable Dining at MBS - Pizzeria Mozza

My colleague suggested going to Pizzeria Mozza for dinner after our trip to the ArtScience Museum. Initially, the rest of us were quite skeptical as we thought he was joking, to dine at a celebrity chef restaurant at Marina Bay Sands. However, it was for real. We then thought, since it was our pay day, why not gave it a try? :P

The restaurant was very crowded but luckily, there was no queue forming yet. The environment was quite dim but very vibrant. Compared to the high class sister restaurant next door, Osteria Mozza, this restaurant is more casual. We felt very relaxed and comfortable in there. Their table mats were very interesting, all having different designs, some with quizzes, for you to ponder before your meal is served. Many of the words in the menu were in Italian, and we couldn't quite understand. We asked the staff to translate and explain to us the names. They were very willing to help us and always served us with a smile. At first, we were attracted by an item in the menu, ie fried pig's ear and we actually ordered that. unfortunately, the item was not available.

Complimentary crackers were served to us in a brown paper bag before our dishes were served. Nice gesture!

Since this restaurant's specialty is their pizzas, we definitely had to order that! They have so many different pizzas and the price ranges from $24 to $37. We were seriously spoit for choices. There were 5 of us and the staff told us to get 3 pizzas first, should be enough. We ordered fried potatoes with rosemary and chickpeas, and also mussels for our sides. The potatoes tasted really good but the mussels were quite small. We loved the sauce that came with it though.

Funghi Misti, Fontina, Taleggio, Thyme ($30)

Generous fillings of a variety of mushrooms with herbs. Lovely!

Bacon, salami, fennel sausage, pancetta, tomato & mozzarella Pizza. Definitely a hot favourite for carnivores! A galore of meat! ($37)

Pizza alla benno: Speck, pineapple, jalapeño, mozzarella & tomato, really nice as well. ($35)

All the pizzas tasted so superb! I would definitely come again with other friends or family members to try out the other types of pizza here! Moreover, it was affordable. Each of us paid only $32 for the great meal.

Bliss House Theme Restaurant @ The Central, Clarke Quay

Bliss House Theme Restaurant is a new restaurant at The Central, Clarke Quay.  I chanced upon Zoe Raymond's blog about this place and thought it was quite an interesting place just like the Fullhouse theme restaurant at Hotel Rendezvous.  My group of gal friends loved the concept of Fullhouse when they were there and thus, I asked them whether they would like to celebrate our March birthday celebration here.  The birthday gal agreed and thus, we proceed with the reservation.  (Actually, no reservation is required.)   

This is the exterior of the restaurant.  It is located next to a nail salon and if you didn't take a closer look, you might thought is part of the salon and not even realize that this is a restaurant.  

This is the narrow entrance to the restaurant.  We were filled with anticipation as we saw this beautiful entrance.

As we walked into the restaurant, we saw this carriage with decorated floral all over.  I believe many couples would love to take a few photo shots in this carriage.

The "Living Room".  Some masquerade masks were provided here and we used them for our photoshoot after our meal.

 A special "bridal room' here.

The dining area was quite nice, with pure white furnishing.  The place looked clean and bright.  Initially, we thought we would have a great time here but......

 First, we were really surprised that their menu looked quite shabby.  They were not even laminated and some were quite torn and with stains.  There was no photo of the food in the menu and the fonts were quite difficult to read.

Secondly, service was unacceptably slow.  Other than our group of 10 adults and a few kids, there were only about 3 other pairs of customers in the whole restaurant.  However, it took them almost 20 minutes just to serve us our ice water!

 My friend who doesn't drink alcohol, requested for her margarita to be served without alcohol.  She took a few sips immediately when her drink was being served to her.  However, after quite a while, the waitress came back with another cup of margarita and told my friend that the one she was having, actually contained alcohol!  

The appetizers and side dishes were served after quite a long wait.

Baked Mushrooms ($10).

 I ordered wild mushroom soup ($8).  The bread was very hard and I had to ask my friend to help me break it into smaller pieces.  

Calamari ($14) which was meant for only 2 persons to share.

 This portobello mushroom cost $16.

Scallop with prawn & caviar ($24).  To be fair, this dish was good, with big fresh prawns placed with the juicy scallops.

After almost 45 minutes, our mains were still not being served yet.  We ordered our food at around 1pm and near 2pm, the kids were very hungry and so were the adults.  When we told the staff to serve the kids their carbonara first, she told us that it might disrupt the flow in the preparation of the dishes and the adults might have to wait even longer for our mains to arrive!!  With so few customers, they already couldn't cope.  I wonder whether they plan for the restaurant to be 100% full?

All of us were starving.  Since we had bought a birthday cake from Swissbake, we decided to sing the birthday song to the 2 birthday gals first so that we could eat the cake first!  :( :( :(

Hazelnut Crunch

Happy Birthday to Cheryl and Theresa!

 Carbonara for the kids to be shared first.

Short Ribs ($34)

Kurobuta Pork ($32)

Red Snapper ($32)

My friend who ordered the dish said it was nice but the portion was quite small and thus, not filling.

 Cheryl and I ordered the Seafood Spaghetti with tomato sauce ($26).

 Seafood Spaghetti with cream sauce ($26).

 Capellini Prawns ($24) 

The meal cost a whooping $628.50, which averaged to $57 per pax!  We all felt that most of the dishes were overpriced and with the slow and inattentive service, this meal definitely not worth this price.  

After dinner......

Happy Kid!

 

We took a group photo before we left.

The story doesn't end here.  One of our friends, went to Bliss House's facebook page the next day to post some feedback to them and found out that Bliss House is currently having this 1-for-1 Cocktail promotion for Ladies from Friday to Sunday, 12pm - 11pm. (Valid till 31 Mar 13).  However, none of the staff informed us of this promotion and in the end, we got to pay so much for the drinks.  Seriously disappointed.  :(

Blisshouse @ The Central
6 Eu Tong Seng Street
#03-21A The Central
Singapore 059817
Tel: 6225 5532
Mon - Sun: 12:00 pm - 10:30 pm