Kilo

I first got to know about Kilo when my friend decided she need her dosage of coffee, and came to Loysel's Toy. Thus, I had been meaning to check Kilo out. And no, Kilo does not stand for Kilometers or Kilograms for the matter of fact. It's supposed to mean "I want to communicate with you". =)

It's a short distance to travel by taxi from Lavender MRT. And reservation is a must! I only managed to secure bar seats when I called the week ahead, but we were late, and managed to get a table seat after a group happened to leave when we arrived.

And from the menu, my girlfriends and I ordered:-

1) Fig + sweet onion pizza with mozzarella & balsamico, $25 - This was definitely interesting for us since I dont remember ever having such a combination before. The base is very thin and crispy, while the drizzled sauce went well with the fig and sweet onion. Though I dont think this may suit everyone's taste since not everyone likes fig. 

2) Seared scallops in mushroom sauce + tomatoes & sauteed white wine mushrooms, $21 - Not too bad. The dish did not look very appetizing upon served because the scallops were covered in the brown mushroom sauce. But the scallops were fresh! Not forgetting the mushrooms which were nicely done and juicy too.

3) Angel hair with cream of ebiko, $21 - A must try! It's amazing how they manage to toss the pasta such that every strand is covered with the cream sauce. Caviar (Correct me if I am wrong) is sprinkled on the top such that with every bite, there's different texture. A must try! Prawns were very fresh.

4) Day-night 12-hour pork belly with purple mash, sour cream & crackling, $28 - A must try! The meat is so, so tender! And with the fats (Oh yes), there's that melt-in-the-mouth feel. Very nice! The accompanied sauce was on the sweet side which made the dish felt chinese/japanese influenced.

5) Squid ink rice with prawns & squid + egg yolk, $22 - Again, another interesting and nice dish. The rice, not the soft but slightly hard type, is fragant on its own. Again, the prawns were super fresh!

I have to say it was an enjoyable dinner. It's a pity their range of desserts is very limited. Being lava cake, lemon tart and ice cream. Din try any of those as nothing jumped out at us. Haha.

The place is not air-conditioned. Thus, depending on where you are sitting, you may not be able to enjoy the wind from the fans. We were seated at the table directly in front of the lift and it gets pretty warm there as we were kinda positioned in the corner. Other than that, love the service too! Very warm and friendly staff.

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Kilo has been on my To-try list for quite some time now because 1) they only do dinners and 2) they open tues-sat only! So we havent been able to find a time to go down because he's in army and sat dinners are usually w our families but finally the boy and I made it to Kilo for dinner! 

If you're driving, you turn into Kampong Bahru road RIGHT after the Indian temple okay! Dont miss it like we did and turn a huge round back! Especially if you're hungryyyyy.

Go all the way in and you'll see this building, this is where Kilo is! 1st floor's Loysel's Toy and 2nd's Kilo! There's a ukelele movement on the 5th floor I think? Saw many ppl w ukeleles that night!

This is Kilo! The elevator is right at the opp end of this (near the red pic) and once it opens, its Kilo! The friendly staff will ask you for your name (if you made a reservation and I highly suggest so because they're v popular even on a Tues night!) and seat you at your table! 

Dont worry about it being hot because its v cooling there!!! You wont sweat, trust me.

THE MENU

I've been trying to search online for their menu but to no avail so I purposely took a pic of their menu so that I can refer back to it if I wanna go back for another meal!

Dessert menu!

They also have wines, sake, rum, etc liquor quite affordable!

To share: Seared scallops in mushroom sauce + vine tomatoes & sauteed white wine mushrooms 21





Big fat plump scallops!!! These were nicer vs Bistro Soori in the afternoon! There were 3 pieces of scallops. The sauce was salty (not overly so unlike BS's!) but went really well with the scallops! We loved the freshness of it! I liked the mushrooms!!!! Hugeass juicy ones, fragrant earthy taste! Wished there were a tad hotter though! Or maybe they're supposed to be served cold? But anw loved it still! 4.3/5

Day-night 12hr Pork with purple mash/sour cream & crackling 27

The purple mash tasted like potatoes mixed w cauliflower? Nice mash nonetheless. Sour cream + bacon bits made it seem like the idaho potatoes classic of Jack's Place! Anw star of the dish, the pork was aaaaaamazing! So tender, soft and full of flavour!!!!! A non-meat lover like me loved it! Haha. The boy obviously devoured this! That's the fried pig skin, super crispy!!! 4.7/5 

Nori-wrapped Salmon, wasabi mash with white wine mushrooms & crispy chicken skin 26





The boy and I both thought the whole salmon would be wrapped w seaweed aka nori but no haha it was just the middle part! Salmon was okay, for me, it was a tad overdone? The salmon skin that was (I presume) deep fried on top of the fish was vv salty :/ And not really crispy? Chicken skin was crispier though. The wasabi mash was quite good, quite like the addition of wasabi! And according to the boy, this mash was softer vs his purple mash! My much-loved mushrooms came out again and I happily ate them (: 3.4/5

Raw's lava & sorbet of your choice 7





We chose the vanilla, but the vanilla taste wasnt v strong? Lava cake was quite good since the boy ate it quite quickly haha. However we wanted to try the compressed watermelon margarita and the darjeeling tart but they didnt have it that day :( quite a disappointment but another reason for us to go back! Haha. Sorbet choices that night were: vanilla, mango, papaya, jackfruit (I think...)

Kallang river! Go for a stroll after dinner before heading home!

All in all, good food, good atmosphere, friendly service, love the huge stone basin in the toilet haha, and we'll be back to try the squid ink rice that so many talk about and the many oth appetizers to share + hopefully desserts that we want will be available that night! (:

I love the concept of the restaurant being embedded in an HDB. The atmospheric is fabulous. The food is as great as it was in the Raw Kitchen Bar.

I still love the black-ink risotto the most.

Tucked in some old building near Kallang park, no one will expect to find such a cool place here.  The place is not aircondition, but it had open window and was very breezy.

Fusion food, but we go for the traditional one, such as beef tenderloin, braised rabbit meat, duck leg.

Only point to note is that one of the waiter seems to be a bit muddle head.

The first time he told us that they ran out of duck leg after 30 minutes of the order, only to realise that it was the other table whose order did not get through.

The second time he told us that the rabbit ran out, but when we checked with the lady that took order, she told us that there was still rabbit meat!

Nice place to catch up with your friends.

Doesn't look much from outside - but as ABC said if you judge a book by a cover, do you judge the look by the lover ?

Anyway as you ponder that let me describe our scrumptious meals. Went with me mum over from blighty and me fiancee (second time with her).

We shared starter - bbq ribs with potatoes - very nice bbq sauce - best yet in Singapore I've found.

Mains I had fillet steak - perfectly cooked for me at medium rare  (on menu in Australian ie tenderloin), fiancee had some very nice lamb rack - and mum hit a gem with rabbit.

Washed down with nice red - and finished off with lava cake (choc) with some lovely strawberries and ice cream - again we shared.

Minor criticism with service on both occasions we've been here we've been told something we ordered is off menu when it is not. And main courses seemed stretched in terms of serving each dish. But the food is fantastic and fresh.

I won't kid - Kilo is a touch hard to find. I had to trek across the Kallang River to get there at 7pm. Scenes from Irreversible flashed across my mind, except it wasn't an underground tunnel, it was a dodgy bridge.

I made it safely, took the industrial lift up to 2nd floor and it opened to my ideal home. Warm, minimalistic with little hints of character, lovely art (both furniture and traditional pieces).

Quaint location - seated with a reservation without any fuss, very attentive staffers. Knowledge-able, I asked lots of questions about the menu because it is such a showcase of flavours. Not once was I met with a snide remark. You definitely can feel the love in the place and easily one of the best services I've experienced in Singapore

After much ado, we selected "fresh figs topped with Danish blue cheese, roasted with walnuts and bacon", "Lagavulin 16 year, beef tartare", Pork Belly and Grilled Lamb Rack....

Dish after dish, it was perfection bite after bite.  At $50 per head for food, it was very affordable especially for the quality and service involved. One last tip - try the cocktail! I had a rather quirky Monkey 47 which is a Gin Tonic coconction. It was delicious to the last sip!

Okay, I realise that there's an oodles of ! in my review. It is worth very compliment and exclaimation mark.

Kilo is an experience. Absolutely.

For full writeup and pics please go to www.thenewadventuresofoldelis.blogspot.com.

I never made it to Raw Kitchen Bar before it closed but omg I loved what the same owners have done with Kilo. Sure, it’s in an flatted-factory-like building along the Kallang River, a tad ulu for some people but fortunately for me it’s right on my home turf. Very minalistic décor but it's surprisingly given it some very trendy vibes.

 

The food was, in short, EXCELLENT. As you may know, I am a Japanese food-fanatic. And Italian food, well, doesn’t everyone love it?  Whatever they are doing with this “Japanese-Italian” cuisine, I say: please don’t stop.

 

It’s been a while, since I gushed. Forgive me.

 

We had two starters to share. There were the reliable sushi rolls which calmed our stomachs and left us wanting more. Then came the seared scallops with mushroom sauce, yums very fresh, every morsel was a delight.

 

The mains were impressive. I can’t decide what was the best of the trio but I really loved my salmon dish with the Chinese sauce which accompanied it. Also cooked perfectly was the beef Judy ordered. Check out that gorgeous pink!

 

I couldn’t resisted trying Andy’s ebi capelli – it looked so delicious and was calling out to me, haha. Sooo good, how did they get that lovely sauce to coat every strand so perfectly?

 

The wine list was limited, but competent. Wines by the glass, in particular, were poured generously into huge glasses. No complaints there! It’s also interesting, how they had a selection of about 5-6 types of sake, simply named “red”, “blue” and “green” etc. I couldn’t resist asking them why. “We don’t know our sakes, so we name them by the colour of the bottle” they replied.

 

Aha!

Located in a quiet nook in Kallang, enter a different world and let your stomachs and souls be filled.

A small space, no more than 30 covers, Kilo cooks food for the soul.  The 2 of us had the seared scallops, the tuna carparcio and the pork belly for dinner.  Kudos to the chef.  The flavours were so different and stood alone, distinct and well rounded.

The food was so satisfying, that the next morning we both did not need breakfast.  Sated, happy and longing to go back.

Go there.  Feed your soul.