Casserole @ Dine on 3
Casserole is 1 of 3 restaurants housed together on the third floor of Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort. While the other 2 restaurants serve Cantonese noodles and congee, as well as an international buffet spread, Casserole serves European and Asian stews. The concept's a little novel, I know, but somehow the menu spanning the gamut of Indian curries, Morrocan hotpots and European stews makes sense. Every single culture has at least a classic stew recipe. Stews are simply one-pot meals that are a combination of a basic stock, a meat, and several types of vegetables, resulting in a variety of flavours depending on the ingredients and cultural influences.
We happened to be in Sentosa attending a Beeps' baby boy's 1st birthday party, and decided to have dinner afterwards at Casserole. I've heard good things about this place and been wanting to try it out. The reviews were right. The food here is amazingly good, very wholesome, and with large portions to boot. The food facilitates communal dining, and each casserole can easily fill up 2 large eaters. In addition, every casserole is served with a carb (Asian stews are served with rice, European ones with mashed potatoes and Morrocan hotpots with cous cous) and a garden salad (because we always need our greens). We severely overestimated ourselves, and ended up not finishing 2 of our mashed potatoes, half the mushroom dish and most of the salad.
We started off with a Baked Seabass ($28) served atop buttered green peas, onions and saffron potatoes. The moist, perfectly salted, fish was kept light and breezy with a drizzle of lemon and some Italian herbs, while the potatoes were simply seasoned with bright sunny saffron. But, I felt the best part of the dish was the peas, they were so soft and buttery, with a sweet accent from the caramelised onions.
A highly recommended dish, the Beef Bourguignon ($26) was lived up to its much hyped recommendation. Chunks of beef were slow-cooked in a vegetable-sweetened stock with garlic, pearl onions, baby carrots, celery and white button mushrooms. This was a lot lighter than you'd expect of a beef stew, the broth was clear and delicate, but with the full flavours of the beef stock. But the piece de resistence has gotta be the beef, so flavoursome and incredibly fork-tender that even toothless peeps can enjoy it.
We also loved the Saute de Champignons Sauvages ($18) an assortment of shitake, enoki, porcini and white button mushrooms simmered with white wine and butter resulting in a luscious velvety gravy with earthy tones.
While we liked the combination of the Garden Salad, with baby spinach, olives, artichokes, cherry tomatoes and rocket leaves, we weren't fans of the mint dressing. We'd have preferred something a little more savoury, like a Japanese-inspired sesame dressing or olive oil.
While the Mashed Potatoes with chives were fairly ordinary, we used this to wipe up the rest of the delicious beef stew gravy.
Casserole @ Dine on 3
101 Siloso Road
Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa Resort
Level 3
Tel: 6275 0100 / 6371 1971
Open daily from 6pm to 10pm
We happened to be in Sentosa attending a Beeps' baby boy's 1st birthday party, and decided to have dinner afterwards at Casserole. I've heard good things about this place and been wanting to try it out. The reviews were right. The food here is amazingly good, very wholesome, and with large portions to boot. The food facilitates communal dining, and each casserole can easily fill up 2 large eaters. In addition, every casserole is served with a carb (Asian stews are served with rice, European ones with mashed potatoes and Morrocan hotpots with cous cous) and a garden salad (because we always need our greens). We severely overestimated ourselves, and ended up not finishing 2 of our mashed potatoes, half the mushroom dish and most of the salad.
We started off with a Baked Seabass ($28) served atop buttered green peas, onions and saffron potatoes. The moist, perfectly salted, fish was kept light and breezy with a drizzle of lemon and some Italian herbs, while the potatoes were simply seasoned with bright sunny saffron. But, I felt the best part of the dish was the peas, they were so soft and buttery, with a sweet accent from the caramelised onions.
A highly recommended dish, the Beef Bourguignon ($26) was lived up to its much hyped recommendation. Chunks of beef were slow-cooked in a vegetable-sweetened stock with garlic, pearl onions, baby carrots, celery and white button mushrooms. This was a lot lighter than you'd expect of a beef stew, the broth was clear and delicate, but with the full flavours of the beef stock. But the piece de resistence has gotta be the beef, so flavoursome and incredibly fork-tender that even toothless peeps can enjoy it.
We also loved the Saute de Champignons Sauvages ($18) an assortment of shitake, enoki, porcini and white button mushrooms simmered with white wine and butter resulting in a luscious velvety gravy with earthy tones.
While we liked the combination of the Garden Salad, with baby spinach, olives, artichokes, cherry tomatoes and rocket leaves, we weren't fans of the mint dressing. We'd have preferred something a little more savoury, like a Japanese-inspired sesame dressing or olive oil.
While the Mashed Potatoes with chives were fairly ordinary, we used this to wipe up the rest of the delicious beef stew gravy.
Casserole @ Dine on 3
101 Siloso Road
Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa Resort
Level 3
Tel: 6275 0100 / 6371 1971
Open daily from 6pm to 10pm
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