Gastromania Feast @ Far East Square: Mont Calzone

This post is part of the Gastromania Feast @ Far East Square organised by Omy.Sg that quite a few bloggers and I indulged in a food marathon on 9 July 2011.

You can read more about Gastromania Feast @ Far East Square at http://blog.omy.sg/let-the-feast-begin  Visit the site too if you want to win youself a $50 voucher.

Gastromania Feast @ Far East Square Stop 5: 
Mont Calzone



It's pit stop 5 and I am already so full and tired.
Must be getting old!



The shop front. Two diners were wondering why are there paparazzi invading the shop!
They actually asked and our 'nanny' for the day answered them. LOL




There was quite a few pizzas and pastas that was prepared for us.

We sat at a very long table and most of us were tired to move around, so we all had the pizzas or pastas that was in front of us.




I was sitting near the Black Truffle Pizza, so I had a slice of it. It was quite all right.

I have always preferred thin crust pizzas, and this was thin crust.
I personally would prefer more black truffles on the pizza!




I tried a small slice of the 'Rustica' pizza as well.
Not bad.

I took photos of the other pizzas and pasta that I did not try. If you are interested in photo gazing, click on to my Flickr site.



Looks like they have a promotion here. ;-)


Mont Calzone
38 Pekin Street
#01-01 Far East Square
Singapore 048768

Tel: 6557 2304
Web: http://www.montcalzone.com.sg/

Gastromania Feast @ Far East Square: Stop 1, Stop 2, Stop 3, Stop 4, Stop 5, Stop 6, Stop 7, Stop 8

Pizzeria Mozza @ The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands

I am a bit slow these few weeks because I am busy with house renovation and marriage preparation. This meal was eaten in mid February. :-)

To celebrate Momo's dearest parent's wedding anniversary, we made a special trip to Pizzeria Mozza for a very special meal. Yup, the pizza place by Mario Batali.

Since Momo could not get a booking for the 'actual day', so we went on a Sunday night.



It was pizza night! A very delicious pizza night too!
Here's the story....




Make a guess, what's in the brown paper bag?

Also served with the brown paper bag was an envelope that contained our cutlery and serviette. How interesting!




The complimentary bites before dinner. They were bread sticks in the shape Arnott's pizza shapes. Just much much bigger and tastier too!




It had herbs, cheese and salt crystals. They were quite addictive!

Birra Moretti

On the drinks list, the beer listed are mostly from Brewerks.
The only beer from Italy would be this. Birra Moretti. $15.

Nancy's Chopped Salad

We read that we should try Nancy's Chopped Salad ($19), so we ordered it to share.
(Nancy Silverton is one of the co-owner of Pizzeria Mozza and an acclaimed baker)

Don't you like the colour of the salad? We loved it. The taste was unique too, it's an oregano based dressing. If you want the recipe, I realise it's published on the LA Times website here. I am going to make it one of these days at home!

Wings Diavola

We saw on the menu, Wings Diavola (Devil Wings) $18 and was tempted. It's 3 chicken wings, so it's probably very expensive chicken wings! They were very well marinated and salty. If you like food a little salty like us, you will love it.

Lasagne al forno

On the menu was a Piatto del giorno (dish of the day). The dish for domenica (Sunday) was Lasagne al forno. ($28) It's suppose to be their signature dish too!

Oh, look at the lasagne. What as different from the usual lasagne is that the pasta pieces were green! I think it's spinach pasta.  Again, a little more salty for Singapore tongues, but very incredibly tasty nonetheless.

I remember I used to eat lasagne every week because it was the weekly menu at my 'halls' in Melbourne. They were good, but it was meant to fill hungry growing students.

The version here was 'light', you can eat it and won't get 'jelak'!  Can you imagine the taste of the bolognese sauce between the pasta sheet from the photo above? *evil smirk*

Prosciutto Pizza

We ordered two pizzas to share and here's the Proscuitto di Parma, rucola, tomato and mozzarella ($29)

Look at the pizza. Very unique! Thick blistered crust on the side of the pizza, and the middle,  thin crusts. It's like having chewy sides and crispy middle. Unique, it's a bit like when we were kids and we made pizzas at home, they were not uniformed! But these are experts, and the way they make it, it taste good!

Taste wise, nice! proscuitto and rockets I think is a nice combi.

Fennel Sausage Pizza

The second pizza we had: Fennel sausage, panna, red onion and scallions ($27)

It looks 'grassy' doesn't it? But the scallions or what we in Singapore call "Spring Onions", tasted rather nice on it. If you are not a spring onions person, don't order it, it's not your type of food. For those who love the slight pungent smell of it, go for it!

When you order the pizzas, the service staff tells you that it might take up to 45 mins for the pizzas to be ready. So when you visit, quickly settle on your pizza orders first.

Why are the pizzas here so special? I read that they use a special strain of yeast from California and they import their flour from US too.

Gelato Pie

For desserts, we had the Banana Gelato Pie: Hot fudge and candied hazelnuts. $16. We were told this is one of the very popular desserts by the service staff. Banana gelato, it's quite fragrance, but also a hint of essence (or shall I say a little fake) kind of smell instead of real bananas. Not very sure what they used, but it was yummy!

I am suddenly missing the Italian gelatos I had in Rome! I was downing 2 gelatos a day for 3 days there!

Crostata

Our service staff said this is one of their new desserts. Every now and then, they will add something to the menu. The server said this happens to be one of her new favourites. Dried Fig Crostata, Vanilla Panna Cotta and Saba $16

It's a fig crostata (Italian baked dessert tart). Sticky sticky fig paste on fragrant tart. See the dots in the vanilla panna cotta, nice dots from real vanilla pods! It had a nice hint of real vanilla fragrance. That dark liquid is Saba (artisan balsamic vinegar). Try it! A note though, it's too rich for 1 person to finish it. My view is that it is best to share with 3 or 4 persons.

Total bill for our meal with the usual 17% taxes ($29.56) was $196.56


Pizzeria Mozza
The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands
#B1-42-46
10 Bayfront Avenue
Singapore 018956

Tel: +65 6688 8522 (direct line to Pizzeria Mozza)

Pizza de France

We have a committee in my department who organizes almost monthly makan sessions for the entire department. Purpose is for everyone to gather together for lunch, as we found that its tough for everyone in the department to sit together and mingle over meals. The department has 3 teams, and each team have different timelines to meet throughout the day (even over lunch times!) hence the difficulty to come together for lunch.

This time, the committee decided to order in pizza (nope, not from the one that has three 5s in the takaway number). The committee was also doing a movie screening!! Something quite different for lunch ;-)

Here's the web site of the pizza.



We ordered the "688 combo" that came with 3 large pizza, 10 pcs of Honey mid wing, 10 pcs of Spring roll, 10 pcs Shrimp rolls, wedges and 2 bottle of coke.

One of the pizzas was Sunshine Fantasy. We thought we would see the slices of boiled egg on top! But doesnt look like it



There was also BBQ Chicken. Not too salthy like some of the others. This was good!



The last was the usual Hawaniian Classic, which could taste the sweetness of the pineapples.



The finger food was something that everyone grab it first, We all asked, pizzas and spring rolls was not exactly a combination that we would mix. Hahaha.

Check out the web site: http://www.pizzadefrance.com/index.html if you want to try the other pizza flavours. 1 colleague had lots of praises for them.

Spizza @ Balmoral Plaza

Last Saturday, it was our catch up / makan session / birthday celebration with our classmates / course mates / uni mates from Melbourne night again. It's incredible that we make it a point to meet up and we have been doing this over 2 years now!

From facebook, we found other Melbourne friends that we lost contact, and invited them in as well. This time we initially had around 20 over adults who could actually make it, but due to last minute emergencies (eg, 1 family had to quarantine themselves because their child had HFMD, one had to 'nurse' her husband who was sick, etc...)

But we still had 12 adults and 6 children showing up. We had a list of venues that we wanted to go, but we end up at Spizza at Balmoral Plaza because of majority vote? haha...

The only photo I took of the menu. I thought it was so interesting that they have the pizza covered from A to Z!



We ordered a few starters to share, this is one of them. The calamari rings.



The kids had pasta etc, but most of us ordered the pizza to share.
We are quite the gluttony type, so must have ordered around 6 or so pizza to share around.

As the table was quite long, here are some photos that is within the reach of my hands. LOL. I can't remember the names of them. But they were all quite delicious.



They are all the thin crust pizza.



And quite generous with the toppings.



They were quite juicy as well.



They are also baked in a big 'wood' oven. This was taken as we were leaving.



The night was good. Meeting up and chatting and catching up with a family that we had not met for the longest time.

Prices are on the higher side. Someone was saying, if only it was 'la prochetta' in Melbourne's pricing. LOL. Our total bill was $313. But there's a 10% if you use a HSBC card.


Spizza
271 Bukit Timah Road
01-09 Balmoral Plaza
Singapore 259708