Decided on ala carte style lunch ordering on my 2nd visit here:

Appetizers:
1) Slow-cooked live Blue Lobster - limited for a period of time, the lobster was real good, felt almost like melt in your mouth
2) Parma Ham & Melon - very nice combination of parma ham, rock melon and cheese to whet your appetite
3) Butternut Squash soup - tasted somewhat like pumpkin soup, and the staff surprised us by splitting 1 portion of soup into 2 bowls for our convenience

Mains:
4) Pappardelle pasta with Lamb ragout - simple but tasty dish that reminded me of beef bolognaise. Except that this is better
5) Wagyu Steak (grade 8 if i remember correctly) - melts in your mouth, whats more to say?

Overall very nice dining experience, the staff was very helpful and prompt. Even though the price is abit on the high side, worth another visit again.

We have been a long-time customer of Pontini and have been patronizing them quite regularly especially in the last one year because we bought the ala carte card which give us up to 50% discount depending on the number of diners. The food standard has always been there, and although not cheap, the decent food portion and quality standards kept us going back.                                                                                                        This month they contracted a new head chef who totally destroyed the good will built up with their customers over the years.                                                                                                         Food portion - Now at abt 2/3 of the previous size.  They also no longer serve the wonderful walnut bread.                                                                                                                Prices - Almost all prices are up especially anything to do with beef. The increase in price is as much as 100% up.                                                                                                         Ala carte member - More than 30% of the items in the menu are now no longer given any discount especially those that are expensive.   Food quality - It is still there but does not justify the leap in prices considering all things being equal. The restaurant sever/manager said the head chef used to be in St Regis therefore he wanted to reduce portion sizes and increase price to match St Regis standards. The hubby said if we wanted to pay St Regis’ prices, we will go to St Regis. Nobody walks into a Toyota showroom to buy a Mercedes!!                                                                                                      Also, they used to be friendly and served Spaghetti Bolognaise but they no longer do so perhaps because a bolognaise cannot justify the new prices they are charging.                                                                                                   Anyway since we were there, we just went ahead to order. I wanted a dish which had targiatelle as the pasta but wanted spaghetti as replacement, so we asked the kitchen if we could change the targiatelle into spaghetti and were told yes but the dish turned out to be linguini which I hated. How can an italian restaurant not know the difference between spaghetti and linguini??                                                                                                             Patronise at your own peril!

Went to this restaurant recently with some old friends.

- Squid ink pasta was lovely

- Lots of space between tables