Italian Fine Dining Options

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Italian Fine Dining Options
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• Contrary to popular belief, Italian cuisine is a
  very varied regional specialty. Although
  generally associated with pasta and pizza, there
  are actually tremendous regional differences
  between the north and the south of the Italian
  peninsula as ingredients and dishes vary by
  region.

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• In addition, these cuisines have developed
  through centuries of social and political
  changes. Still, the attraction of Italian
  delicacies is its simplicity but abundance of
  taste achieved from the fine quality of
  ingredients.

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• A typical ingredients of any Italian meal are
  tomatoes, cheese and meat sauces. In most
  Singapore Italian restaurants, the best sellers
  are still the standard Italian viands. There is
  the carbonara, the Roman pasta dish with bacon,
  the pasta con pomodoro, the most basic and
  simplest cooked pasta sauce.

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• For desserts, panna cota a dessert made with
  gelatine, cream and milk, is still a standard
  favourite second only to the tiramisu, a treat
  layered around and smeared with a creamy
  mascarpone mixture. Although these meals are
  served in almost any Italian cuisine restaurant
  in Singapore, more luxurious fine dining options
  have more sophisticated variants.

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• For Italian fine dining options, it is best to go
  over the variety of meals in the menu. First,
  there are the antipasti, the Italian appetizers.
  Most fine Italian fine dining menus in Singapore
  offer a wide variety of cured meats and
  cheeses, bruschetta, a kind of American toasted
  bread but with tomatoes and other toppings,
  pickled or fried vegetables and olives. In
  Singapore Italian restaurants, there is always
  antipasto della casa, the house special, which
  are often best-sellers from seasonal and regional
  specialities.

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• In any Italian fine dining menu there are also
  the primi, or first dishes, which expectedly
  include pasta, risotto, creamy rice or soup.
  Secondi on the other hand is your meat, fish or
  vegetable main dish the more popular choices of
  which include pollo chicken, bistecca steak,
  manzo beef, agnello lamb, arrosto roast, gamb
  shrimp, salamone salmon, frutti de mare mixed
  shellfish, and frittata omelette.

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• These main courses are often prepared baked (al
  forno), fried (fritto) or grilled (alla griglia).
  To better enjoy your secondi, there are
  contorni side dishes often grilled or sautéed
  vegetables, green salad and potatoes. Recently
  the mushroom risotto, a plateful of buttery
  risotto with the goodness of mushrooms, is also
  becoming a widely sought after Italian side dish.

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• Any meal is incomplete without the dessert.
  Italian cuisines in Singapore usually offer a
  choice among dolci menu which are usually gelato,
  cakes and pies, tiramisu, cannoli, ricotta
  stuffed in a crispy shell, panna cotta cooked
  cream, and cheese plate. To culminate your meal,
  there are the digestivi and caffe.

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• Digestivi is a set of strong liquor which helps
  digestion after a heavy meal. Among the popular
  digestivi are grapes (grappa), blueberries
  (mirto) and lemons (limoncello). Italian caffè
  menu are usually a choice among espresso shot,
  (normale), espresso with drop of milk (macchiato)
  or long coffee (lungo). In most Italian fine
  dining restaurants in Singapore, there are also
  the bevande, the wine list. Many restaurants
  offer white, red and sparkling varieties by the
  bottle or glass for a truly can complete Italian
  fine dining experience.