Desire

This is Desire at The Scarlet Hotel. It is one third of the 3 options you have for dining & chilling at the Scarlet Hotel in Erskine Rd. The other 2 are Bold & Breeze. This restaurant bears precious memories of a wonderful birthday spent with the him this year. Not only are their service standards impeccable, the food was fawesome too.

Interestingly, their menus come in the form of black & red leather-bound books: red for the lady, black for the men. When I flipped the 1st page, I saw a toned torso of an unknown male. Anyone wanna venture any guesses on what theme the restaurant has? C'mon, it's blatantly obvious. Too bad for the men though, their menus aint the same. Each dish on the menu is simply named, but all have a description describing them as aphrodisiacs of sorts..food that will DEFINITELY tantalise our taste buds in other words. Soon I found myself ordering their house specialities: Cream of Escargot, Tenderloin of Beef & Lamb Rack.

The Cream of Escargot ($12) was rich & creamy with generous morsels of escargot. The taste of the escargot wasn't overpowering so no worries there. Personally, I felt that it was a little to rich for my liking..but then again, I'm just being fussy.

This here is their Tenderloin of Beef ($38). Although the portion looked small at first..he realised later on that it did it's job well filling his tummy. The beef was well-done and it's taste was sealed off with a unique blend of a somewhat tangy-sweet-savoury light sauce.

This Lamb Rack ($38) my friends, is to-die-for. It won me over with the first bite. Now bear in mind that char doesn't like lamb. But I gamely decided to order it because it was highly recommended by the nice Filipino waitress who attended to us. The lamb was accompanied by lentils on the side & a serving of mushrooms. It was fmazing, do try it. They're a worthy rival of the Hyatt's Mezzanine.

//All prices are subjected to +++

The I-wanna-know[s]:

Food - 8.5/10
Price - $$$ to $$$$ (depends on what you order)
Service - 9/10
Ambience - 9/10
Accessibility - 6.5/10

Legend:
[$]-cheap like peanuts
[$$]-average Jane
[$$$]-you might wanna tke tht card out..
[$$$$]-extremely exorbitant

Tel: +65 6511 3333
Address: 33 Erskine Road, Singapore 069333

Dress code: smart casual
Getting there: Take 145 from St. Andrew's Cathedral at City Hall & alight at Maxwell hawker centre. The Scarlet Hotel is up the hill next to it.