Never heard of The Vermilion House (#02-03/04 Marina Square, 6 Raffles Boulevard, tel : +65 8768 5368) until recently but apparently, they've been around for a couple of years. Folks here were friendly and enthusiastically shared that their ingredients are imported from Italy. Pretty sure not all of them are but that's not important.
We ordered their deep fried burrata. Panko crusted in a marinara sauce
Tasted pretty much like how it looked or how burrata normally is - creamy and milky. Plus fried breaded crust.
That's lemon pesto risotto with nicely seared prawns. Flavour was a mixture of pesto and seafood in the rice but I couldn't detect any lemon. I tried.
Then their signature rigatoni with what they described as aged brandy cream. Don't know if it was the brandy or the cream that was aged. Was looking forward to that brandy cream and was disappointed that the flavour barely registered. So much for ageing. This ended up being carbonara-ish. The salty pancetta was masking what little faint flavour there was in the sauce.
The lamb chops looked good and had a nice amount of fat. For some strange reasons, there was little flavour from the lamb. Tasted like beef tenderloin. Even the fat had very little flavour. How the...? 🤔 Pity because we liked everything about it except for the missing lamb flavour.
Food was not bad as a whole. Flavours were just off the mark based on expectations that were trying to reconcile with what was described.
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