Where to Go for Valentine's Day

by Kerlyn Tan @ 09 Feb 2018

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Celebrate the season of love with that special one and impress him/her not only with your thoughtful gift and flowers but also with stellar food. There’s no dining by the candlelight in today’s modern world but rather an elaborate menu worth of mains, dessert and/or wine awaits you because food becomes a symbol of love when words are inadequate! Here are some of our picks with each restaurant’s curated menu!
 
Antoinette Sugar daddy Chef Pang has created two special Valentine’s Day offerings along with a beary special dessert called “Be My Teddy”.
 
His first special menu, Le Menu Valentine’s Day, is available only on 14 February 2018 and you would get to pick between Chef Pang’s delicious Duck Rillete or 3 Cheese Tortellini served in delicious seafood bisque. The romantic meal is then continue with omelette served with red wine Wagyu beef ragout, chicken roulade served with port wine sauce and completed with the beautiful La Rose cake.   
 
Chef Pang’s second special menu is Le Spécialité Valentine’s Day includes “Sweet & Sour”, a local inspired main dish, “I’m Yours….”, an Antoinette exclusive tea concoction, and “Be My Teddy”, a dark chocolate and raspberry mousse cake with a layer of crunchy hazelnut almond feuilletine enhanced with premium, juicy raspberries. Le Spécialité Valentine’s Day will be served from now till the end of February 2018 and you could take your date to Antoinette if you are unavailable next week!
 
Location : 30 Penhas Rd, Singapore 208188 or #02-33/34 Mandarin Gallery, Singapore 238897
 
Blue Lotus Mediterranean Kitchen + Bar
  Feeling a tad indulgent? Blue Lotus Mediterranean Kitchen + Bar offers you and your date a choice between dining in a cosy and intimate meal in the restaurant and having al-fresco dining under a moonlit sky. At $128 per couple, inclusive of two complimentary glasses of Prosecco, Blue Lotus Mediterranean Kitchen + Bar’s features Mediterranean delicacies such as a mezze platter, prawn bisque and choice of spice-rubbed sea-bass or char-grilled Angus oyster blade. Rounding off the experience on a sweet note is the dessert of 70% Dark Chocolate Pot de Crème.
 
Location : 991B Alexandra Rd, Singapore 119970
 
TWG Tea
  Available from 12th to 15th February 2018 and at a pocket-friendly SGD50, TWG Tea starts the indulgent affair with a sparkling white wine cocktail infused with Follow Me Tea, a blend of the finest harvest green ta that yields alluring floral notes, pineapple and wild strawberry. Next up is the pan-seared Boston lobster and Hokkaido scallops served with a sea urchin emulsion, sprinkled with Gyokuro Samurai tea leaves and accompanied by squid ink emperor rice, wasabi glazed leeks and pickled beetroot. The evening is then finished with a strawberry dome infused with Mon Amour Tea, served with a strawberry coulis and a scoop of raspberry sorbet accompanied by a warm pot of Mon Amour Tea or a glass of Follow Me Iced Tea.
 
Sweeten the date with a gift of TWG Tea’s Valentine’s Day macarons, available at $12 for six pieces, that features a delicate union of crispy almond biscuit enveloping a luscious white chocolate and strawberry ganache infused with Follow Me Tea.
 
Location : 2 Orchard Turn, #02-21 ION Orchard, Singapore 238801 or The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, B2-65/68A, Singapore 018972
 
ME@OUE

Up the Valentine’s Day dining experience this year by taking your date to ME@OUE for a five course or eight course meal in a cosy intimate booth coupled with the spectacularly mesmerising view of the Marina Bay cityscape. Revel in a gastronomic delight worth of King Foods such as foie gras, oysters, lobsters, exclusive cuts of kumamoto beef and have your meal paired with the restaurant’s exclusive selection of wines and sake.
 
Seatings are available in 2 sessions – 6pm and 8:30pm and prices begin at SGD128 so book your seats before they are gone! Don’t forget to ask for the booth seats!
 
Location : 50 Collyer Quay, OUE Bayfront, Singapore 049321

Dining On Cloud 9


Where can you find great food and a space exclusively for two in the clouds this Valentine’s Day? In a cable car of course!
 
You will be served with a Wine-poached Sea Scallop with Balsamico and Glazed Baby Abalone and Veloute of Cauliflower & Foie Gras with Sautéed Wild Forest Mushrooms as starters. Pick between the Slow-roasted US Angus Beef Fillet Mignon and Pan Seared Halibut with Razor Clams as your main and indulge in a Manjari Chocolate Hibiscus Cream with Raspberry Sponge & Coulis for dessert that is accompanied by either coffee or tea.
 
Go extravagant or go home is the way to go this Valentine’s Day with Dining On Cloud9! Book your private space to celebrate at https://www.onefabergroup.com/dining-on-cloud-9/
 
Location : Mount Faber Cable Car Station, Faber Peak Singapore
 
Instead of just having dinner with your date for on 14 February, why not use a day of your leave to spend time together by having both lunch AND dinner?
 
FOO’D By David Oldani
  For just SGD68 for a four course lunch, you will enjoy Cold Angel Hair with truffle, oyster and caviar as an appetizer and you will pick between the Beef Short Ribs with lardo, seasonal vegetables and salmon roe or Cod Fish with cauliflower, asparagus and caviar for your main. The memory of the romantic lunch date is then sealed with a Faux Mandarin Orange dessert.
 
The dinner affair begins from SGD168 onwards for a six or eight course meal. Enjoy a cocktail and additional dishes on the menu that includes the luxuriant Purple Potato Foie Gras, Lobster Bisque and Rose Lychee Cheesecake.
 
Location : #01-01, 11 Empress Place, Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, Singapore 179558
 
Lewin Terrace
  Exclusively available on 14 February 2018, Japanese-French cuisine restaurant Lewin Terrace is set to tantalize palates and kindle the flames of romance.
 
Start with a glass of bubble- a Moet Chandon Imperial Rosé for her and a Moet Chandon Imperial Brut for him, followed by an amuse bouche and a Sea Urchin Mousse with Angel Prawn. A Scallop soup ensues before the menu continues on with a Steamed Kinme Fish Moussse accompanied with fennel sauce. The finishing touch is a secret dessert titled “Valentine’s Chocolate” inspired by a Roman tale that celebrates love.
 
Chope for your seats here!
 
Location: 21 Lewin Terrace, Singapore (179290)
 
Porta
  It does not matter at Porta whether you are dining in for lunch or dinner because the price remains the same at SGD68; you will be treated to a glass of Prosecco Love Potion, followed by appetisers and starters to arouse the palates. Expect oysters with granny smith apples and Avruga cavia; followed by luscious Vichyssoise of potato and leeks scented with white truffle oil. Add a touch of decadence to the meal with Hokkaido Scallops accompanied with butternut pumpkin, bacon, and quinoa. Be spoiled with a choice of hearty mains – Barramundi with fennel, capers and tomato confit or Angus Rib Eye with pommes mousseline and red wine sauce. Complete the meal with Strawberry & Cream – a dainty sweet dessert of strawberry compote, sablé, and chantilly cream, petit fours and a choice of coffee or tea.
 
Location: 1 Unity Street, Level 1, Park Hotel Clarke Quay, Singapore 237983