Brooklyn's Lucali Has Opened in Singapore (sorta)

Lucali is a renowned pizza place from New York City, and they've opened up a spot in Singapore (66 Kampong Bugis Level M, 8284-1325). Well, sort of. Obviously the restaurant itself is not open yet, so they are only doing delivery. And the delivery menu does not feature the pizza and calzone that they are famous for, but instead a variety of salads, pasta, and dessert that they don't serve in their original Brooklyn outlet. See, this is technically "Lucali BYGB" instead, with the trailing acronym representing the local partners. They didn't want to serve their pizza via takeaway/delivery (understandable considering my unrelated experience yesterday), but they are doing other items. Keep in mind that their local partners were involved with Mozza, Momofuku, and Adrift, and they know what they are doing.

The food survived the transit well, and I was happy with it all. Most notably, they are not shy about salt and pepper here, making for very punchy food, including not just that lasagna and Caesar salad above, but also their meatloaf. Interestingly, my favorite thing tonight was the quality of the salad croutons. That might sound weird, but those big torn-off chunks of bread were not just delightfully salty, but more importantly, you could taste the sourdough coming through. Also of note: see that tea light in the photo? Not only did they include that in the delivery, but also a card with a Spotify code so that you can listen to their playlist while at home. I'm very excited to head to the dining room to try the pizza one day; apparently having booked delivery this time will help us with reservations when that finally happens.