[[Dinner at Garibaldi's]]

My parents and I headed to the much-talked about Italian restaurant at Purvis Street, Garibaldi for dinner. It was a good decision because I really did enjoy dinner. Of course, I enjoyed my parents company and the fact that I can talk to my dad about food. =)

The restaurant is kinda hidden amongst the other eating places along Purvis Street. I really love their minimumlist concept while retaining the comfy and cozy setting of a dining area. The restaurant is rather small as well. About 40-45 diners in a setting?

My mum and I ordered the gourmet menu because it's our first time dining there and we were totally spoilt for choice. My dad ordered the soup of the day- porcini mushroom broth, and lamb which is done in three different styles.

Here’s the list of items on the gourmet dinner menu:

Crabs salad cake on top of avocado paste with a fruity mix on top
Pan-roasted goose liver with red onion, and apricot
Homemade angel hair pasta with Lobster and tomato sauce
Medium done beef tenderloin with a cake of potatoes and porcini mushrooms
Molten lava cake with hazelnut ice cream and shortbread biscuit
Cappuccino


My favourites were the crabsalad cake and goose liver and the beef tenderloin. The crabsalad cake was really light and refreshing and also it’s paired up with my favourite avocado. I know that many of you don’t really like avocado coz of its creamy or “nua nua” texture but the flavour actually goes very well with many food- especially seafood- like prawns, lobster, crabs.

The pan roasted goose liver was really delightful. Soft like melting butter on the inside and crispy like good peking duck skin. Foie gras is definitely one of my favourite sinful food. Grins.

The angel hair pasta was teamed with tomato sauce cooked with lobster. This was not bad too. The lobster was fresh and thankfully, this isn't a cream dish so it didn’t make us very full. And also, I really appreciate freshly made pasta so it is definitely a plus eating it at Garibaldi's.

My mum thought that the beef tenderloin was too rare. But I felt that it was just right, even though it was cooked less than a medium. The beef was really so fresh, sweet and juicy that you cannot eat it otherwise. Really. =) and porcini mushrooms, I just love them. They are definitely one of its kind in the mushroom family. It's rich and strongly flavoured enough to be paired up with dishes like the beef tenderloin. It also taste absolutely great with their mushroom-y aroma in risottos.

For the dessert, I felt that the portion was simply too big. I was really too full to eat already. So I got my dad to help me finish it. The Molten lava cake is one of the best that I've tasted. Rich, warm chocolate flowing from the center. The cake is also not too dry. My only grouse is that the hazelnut ice-cream, though really tasty and rich in its nutty flavour, is too rich to be eaten with the lava cake. And also, the shortbread..I don't know why they served the shortbread coz it's really too heavy to be eaten together with the cake and ice cream.

That aside, I really enjoyed my dinner at Garibaldi's. Will definitely head back sometime soon.