Bistecca Tuscan Steakhouse (25 Mohamed Sultan Road, tel : +65 67356739) was one of those places we told ourselves we'll go to someday - for quite a long time. It finally happened today. As the name of the restaurant implies, they're a Tuscan styled steak restaurant. As with all Italian restaurants that serve bistecca in this country, none of the meat is from the Chianina/Maremmana cattle. The cooking method remains how bistecca is traditionally done but Bistecca uses a Wagyu-Holstein cross breed instead.
Service here was pretty good.
Service here was pretty good.
We started with some Pacific oysters. I'm not an expert with oysters but these were pretty good tasting.
And then roasted octopus tentacles with preserved lemons. Love it. The meat had a very distinguished char aroma. It reminded me of the ones at Valentino's but these here weren't as big. Then again, they were also not as expensive.
On hindsight, this tagliatelle with rabbit ragout, pancetta and porcini was a little small to share amongst three. We liked it. At least I did. The texture of the noodles were great and the sauces, deliciously savoury.
This was the costata, bone in rib eye with MBS 6+. Not bad, but the marbling and flavour from the meat wasn't what we were expecting. The fat was not evenly distributed. It was just a large ribeye. To be clear, it wasn't a bad piece of meat by any stretch; it was tasty, but didn't blow away anyone.
Some lentils with house guanciale.
I think you know what are these.
I may not have sounded very excited over all these, but the food on the whole was actually enjoyable. Didn't manage to get any pictures of the desserts but the one with rhubarb was good. Actually so was the panna cotta. I spied their single portion steaks coming out of the kitchen on the way to the back of the restaurant. Don't mind trying them the next time.
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