Osteria Art will send you on a vacation

Italy’s restaurant Osteria Art is showing that it means business, in all senses of the term. With all the hype surrounding the bustling art scene this year, you may have mistaken Osteria Art for another gallery, but you’re far off. In actual fact, Osteria Art is a one-of-a-kind restaurant that will tease and tantalise every inch of your mouth with its sterling culinary arts. This is the perfect restaurant to splurge on your loved ones after a massive lottery win by playing on http://www.playusalotteries.com/

The “Art” in Osteria Art gets its name from restaurateur Beppe De Vito’s latest venture. It refers to Pellegrino Artusi, whose tome of home-cooked recipes, La Scienza in Cucina e l’arte di mangier bene was instrumental in uniting the country’s fine cuisine. “Osteria” basically tells visitors that it’s a simple Italian restaurant, with not-so-simple, oh-so indulgent fine dining. You can learn more about Osteria Art here: http://www.osteriaart.com.

The restaurant boasts swanky red leather seats and sumptuously dark wood furnishings, everything working together exquisitely to increase appetite and the mood to dine. They say that red increases appetite and is generally a great colour for culinary businesses. It is however, more in line with an upscale New York bar than mama’s kitchen. There is careful thought and consideration everywhere you look.

This is precisely what De Vito wants. A classy, centrally located place for the suits to talk shop. De Vito, however isn’t put off the slightest by the high cost of real estate in the CBD. De Vito says, “There is a market gap for business dinner spots (in the CBD) but not many want to take that risk because investments in creating a space like this are too high.”

Seeing that Osteria Art’s dining interior belies its down-to-earth culinary style, the veteran with twenty years of F&B experience has chosen to focus solely on the cuisine that he knows best. De Vito is aggressively expanding from his Sentosa base. In the month of April, he decided to launch Il Lido in Bali. Another project under his sleeves, called Aura, will open at the National Gallery in Singapore in October of this year. To learn more about The National Gallery in Singapore, you can visit this site: http://bit.ly/1H4huxl . De Vito is truly one busy foodie.

The unique flair of this restaurant comes in with the dishes. While at Osteria Art they might not necessarily be out of place or uncommon on a dining table at home, they are most definitely executed with more precise finesse here. Take an example like the snack of cheesy bombolinis, where molten parmesan is cocooned in a soft, chewy crust. It is then gently sprinkled with freshly grated parmesan. These savoury puffs are most definitely a dream to eat. Sometimes the simplest things are the best. To De Vito, simplicity is of the utmost importance, with immense emphasis on fresh ingredients and the crispness of expert preparation.

And then you get the papardelle with pork cheek and red wine. You already had us at pork cheek. This hand-crafted pasta offers good bites and there are generous shreds of juicy meat. The addition of cured pork belly from De Vito’s other restaurant, &Sons, makes this knockout pasta stand out many cuts above the rest. Diced and fried to perfection, the crispy bits offer terrific textures and smokiness to round off the rich flavours. It’s basically like taking a long exotic holiday in your mouth.

This spectacular dedication to detail also carries over to the desserts. An olive oil cake with lemon sherbet owes its nutty flavours to the cold-pressed olive oil made from fruit from De Vito’s plantation in his hometown of Bari, in the Puglia region.

If visitors have come on a celebratory occasion, the Osteria Art also features a stellar wine list with noteworthy vintages to toast, like the 1970 Brunello Di Montelcino Riserva, or the 1947 Chateau Leoville Las Cases.

The bottom line is, if you’re ever in Singapore and craving some delicious culinary art ringing the bells of home-sweet-home, then be sure to pop in to Osteria Art. We could all use a little vacation, even if it lasts an hour or two.