Pasta Brava

Dinner is with Dear Dear and Chris over at Pasta Brava....










and because its Christmas eve, they prepared crackers for the customers!










as it was Christmas, Pasta Brava offered set menus. You get a glass of prosecco, choice of an appetiser, a pasta, a main and a dessert!

for the starter, we chose the duck liver, the scallop and prawns and a avocado with lobster and crab meat terrine...

duck liver...



the duck liver is pretty good! its like foie gras, a very good portion (i.e. not too small) with a nice drizzle of sauce. the sauce has a little truffle in in.

scallop and prawns in seafood sauce...




texture and freshness of the seafood was good. taste was decent.

avocado with crab meat and lobster...




a nice item although it didnt leave much of an impression.

for the choice of pasta, dear dear and i both chose the lobster ravioli...





which turned out to be a little disappointing....



the lobster was minced so the nice texture of the lobster cannot be tasted. the sauce was also not impressive.

the pork ragout taglioini which Chris had no choice but to order turned out to be really good!





it is very nicely flavoured with the tomato based sauce. really good.

and for mains, we had a two steaks and a veal chop...








the sauce for the steak was a little disappointing. it was a little on the sour side and the steak was not impressive.

the veal chop turned out to be much better...





for dessert, there was a choice of strawberry tiramisu, some blue berry thingy and chocolate profiteroles. Sadly, the profiteroles were out but the restaurant was nice enough to replace it with panna cotta for us when we didnt want another tiramisu or the blue berry thingy.

strawberry tiramisu...




decent but i won't shout over it. i much prefer da paolo's tiramisu!

panna cotta...




pretty good! nicest among the original 3 desserts we had.

and the blue berry duno what thingy (i cant remember)...





this was really not for us. its sour and just taste weird to us. we feedback to the server and we were pleasantly delighted when they replaced it with a warm chocolate lava cake for us....





and it was YUMMY!!!



the best dessert tonight!!  so they made us really happy!