Trattoria Il Porcellino (Closed)

Now that Il Lido has gone pork-free & Chiaroscuro is plain gone, here's where can we go hog-wild with Italian cuisine in the city center. Not the typical bruschetta: one topped with pork lard & walnuts, the other with minced pork & emmental cheese. A fabulously flavorful introduction to Trattoria Il Porcellino, a pork-filled, vastly superior offshoot of Jalan P. Ramlee's pork-free Trattoria Cucina Italia. Tomino cheese wrapped in speck bacon. Soft, oven-baked cheese with smoky, salt-cured bacon

Now that Il Lido has gone pork-free & Chiaroscuro is plain gone, here's where can we go hog-wild with Italian cuisine in the city center. Porchetta ham, described as "the product of a pig that's gutted, deboned, arranged in layers of meat, fat & skin, then rolled, spitted & roasted over wood." Sounds tediously elaborate, but the result tastes more satisfying than supermarket ham. Crisp-skin suckling pig ribs stuffed with cheese & ham. A bane for girth control; too fatty & greasy for our liking,

Trattoria Il Porcellino: Round Two. Save space for dessert, particularly this tasty troika of mascarpone, nutella & strawberries. Smooth & sensuously sweet. Yogurt ice cream with more strawberries. Creamier than froyo! definitely more sinful too (but probably more satisfying) Even the prosecco comes bearing strawberries. Yum!Nearly everything here turned out to be comfort food in the end!This place seems to keep expanding its menu, so there might be other interesting items to try later on =)

Trattoria Il Porcellino: Round Two. Pork-stuffed tortellini with ham & cream. Rustic comfort food, like something that one might find in a mountain village of Emilia-Romagna. Strozzapreti with wild boar ragout. The al dente doughiness of the hand-rolled, fat-tubed pasta was well complemented by its tangy, coarsely meaty coating. Risotto with speck bacon & porcini mushrooms. Enjoyable for its warm earthiness.

Trattoria Il Porcellino: Round Two. Cheese buffs, head here to sample fun varieties that other restaurants rarely serve. This "burrata" is a mild-tasting mix of mozzarella & fresh cream, boasting a buttery lusciousness to pamper the palate. Ask for it to be dished out at room temperature. Four types of semi-hard Pecorino ewe's milk cheese, produced in Tuscany. Their delicately savory flavor, bonded with a nutty edge, would bring a nice boost to salads. Trattoria Il Porcellino's porcine offerings