Da Paolo Pizza Bar

Whoa...that was actually mildly (and unexpectedly) disappointing. Given the outstanding experience we'd had at Da Paolo last time, we figured that their pizza joint down the street (44 Jalan Merah Saga #01-46, 6479-6059) would be leaps and bounds better than most other pizza joints around here. Instead, it was not much better than places like Spizza, if at all. While the type of mushrooms and such on my prosciutto e funghi pizza were a fun surprise, the tomato sauce was a bit too overbearing, and the cheese a bit boring. The crust was thin, but not thin enough, and even soggy in some places. Even the little bowl of olives that we got to start with here too sour for my taste. Strange.

Well, OK, actually the pizza was far better than average and in no ways bad. And the service was still top-notch (not to mention super-fast). But I guess we just had such high hopes that we were a bit let down in the end. At least the salads were decently good, but that may not be enough to bring us running back back here, especially for the prices that were paid. (It was interesting to note them offering a breakfast menu on weekends though; maybe that would be worth checking out one of these days.)