Pasta & Risotto

On a rainy day like this, nothing spells comfort like a steamy cup of hot matcha latte.

Slippery smooth linguine, a creamy base, earthy mushrooms, cheese shavings, and a soft runny egg to top it all off! This dish is delightful every time and I'm glad it's still available despite a few menu revamps!

That's a rather pretty and interesting presentation for a squid ink dish don't you think? And more importantly, it tastes just as good! I only wish the portion had been bigger! 😋

For me, the make-or-break factor of a pasta dish is often its sauce, and tomato based ones are the most difficult to get right in my opinion. Thick with puréed tomatoes and more sweet than sour, I'm glad that this one here is more than satisfactory!

This was unexpectedly good! In fact I find this the most successful rendition of any pasta dish infused with local elements, such as chilli crab pasta, that I've come across so far. The laksa sauce was like a concentrated version of the usual laksa gravy, very rich and aromatic with hints of hae bee. So tasty I could probably still devour the entire plate even if it's just the sauce and noodles alone! 😋

The angel hair pasta, spot on in texture and firmness, was laced in chorizo oil, and though I wasn't quite used to its taste at first, the flavor soon grew on me and I found myself enjoying it in no time. For a reasonable price of about $12, they were rather generous with 3 huge chunks of sweet-tasting crab meat. If there's only one starter you're ordering from the menu, make it this!

For me, Kilo is the kind of place where food is quite expensive but yet so delicious it's pretty much worth every single cent. The one dish I must order EVERY single time I visit, be it at the kallang or orchard outlet, is this Cream of Ebiko Pasta. The smoky chargrilled aroma that wafts from the grilled prawns is simply irresistible and entices my tastebuds even before I start to tuck in. These prawns are so fresh and sweet it had me wondering if they were alive right before the cooking. As you can see, the chef is also very generous with the amount of smelt roe topping, which adds great texture and savouriness to the sweeter cream sauce. Overall, this is one lip-smacking pasta that you should not miss!

Second time having this and it's same same but different. This time, the crispy fried mushrooms are missing in action and that's such a shame cos they added so much crunch to the mushy risotto. There were 2 new additions though: flavorful chunks of crabmeat and mashed capsicum, which I was initially quite skeptical about but turned out to complement the sweetness of the dashi stock really well. I hope they were just coincidentally out of fried mushrooms that day, cos together with those this would be my ultimate comfort food!

I must have gotten my expectations too high after reading so many positive reviews on this dish. While it is undeniably decent, it's not exactly something I would come back for again.

Could probably do with a teeny wee bit more salt, but I enjoyed this anyway. It was bursting with the earthy taste of mushrooms and I liked how the pasta was cooked slightly past al dente.

The filling may be a little bland, but all is well when u eat them together with the savoury shaved ham and perfectly sauteed mushrooms. The earthy mushrooms are SO tasty I wish I could order an extra side of it!

Love the fact that most, if not all, of the pasta served at Bottura are made fresh in house. Never mind that my tastebuds couldn't really differentiate between the egg n squid ink flavors (the cream sauce masked them too much), these flat, thin, meepok-resembling ribbons of pasta were slippery-smooth and surprisingly quite springy to bite, in a good way.