Bounded by my promise to revisit Parma after a previous favourable experience there a couple of months back, I stepped into this cozy restaurant at the fringe of Serangoon Gardens on a lull Saturday evening with my gf.

Plain white washed walls complete with large squarish mirrors and wooden beams keep the interior simple while soft music plays in the background.

Complimentary Bread - The bread was notably more fragrant this time round but still came across as a tad too dry and flat in taste. I personally would have preferred a more robust taste.

Linguine Marinara - I'm not so much a tomato based pasta person but this dish was decent enough for me to actually consume more then my fair share. The sauce was mildly spicy with a nice smooth tomato overtone while the seafood (prawns, lobster & squid) was very fresh. Overall a rather light yet filling dish.

Smoked Salmon Pizza - The key reason that I was back at Parma - to try out their off the menu, much raved about smoked salmon pizza. Its really not difficult to see why this pizza is a hot favourite. For one, the crust is unlike any other pizza crust that I've come across. The thickness is a cross between the thin crust Italian variant and the thick crust American style pizza. The dough is baked for a short period of time to achieve a homogeneous pale white colour with dashes of brown and more importantly, a nice chewy texture with a slight crunch. Topped with smoked salmon that didn't come across as too fishy in a Hollander sauce base infused with dill, this pizza is definitely worth a return visit.

Tiramisu - I've been a fan of Parma's tiramisu ever since I first tried it and its comforting to know that standards have been maintained, except that portions seem to have increased slightly. The sponge to mascarpone cheese ratio was quite well balanced with a hint of alcohol. No limp sponge fingers from over soaking as well. If one slice isn't enough, there is always the option of a 1kg tiramisu at $48++.

Chocolate Fondant - Although a tad small, the chocolate fondant was asthetically pleasing with a slightly hardened exterior encapsulating thick molten chocolate that oozed out when I made a cut in the crust. Instead of the usual vanilla ice cream alongside, mint ice cream was served, which complemented the chocolate fondant very well in my humble opinion.

Recent price revisions have been made by Parma to offer a better value proposition and our dinner for 2 cost about $100, inclusive of juices. Service is good and food quality is evident, especially in the desserts department. Set lunches are now at $15.90+ and there is a pizza promotion on Tuesday where all pizzas on the menu (except the Grilled Rock Lobster Pizza) go for $12.90++.

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It's Friday, my girlfriend take the trouble to search around for a place for dinner. There she found Ristorante De Parma in HungryGoWhere.com.

We reach quite early around 6pm, first customer. The feeling was like small cosy resturant nice ambience gentle lighting it great. The conventional flame burn with oil on the table kind of don't match. But maybe other feel ok. We had pasta for our dinner great taste both of us enjoy our food for sure. The free flow ice lemon tea i personelly love it, value for money too. The Tiramisu that the best so far we had tried before, the portions suitable for two after dinner cost slightly expensive. Just one small comment was that the sugar level for the tiramisu could be lower slightly.

The service team good and there magazine for reading too. The overall feeling for the place and food are good for recommdation.

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Being a lazy Sunday where my boyfriend and i r too lazy to venture out of our comfort zone (ie juz e neighbourhood) and was juz looking forward to our game of Left4Dead.. we decided to simply hop into any restaurant at e gardens and into ristorante de parma we hopped!

Ambience is relaxed and casual which is great esp when u r clad in t-shirts slippers n shorts.. not exactly a desirable outfit for an italian restaurant but happily accepted here... Not terribly hungry we decided on a soup a pasta n a pizza to share..

The complimentary foccacia bread is a welcome being warm n crisp n i pretty much "balsamic" anything so tad biased here.. However it then became an essential becoz e food really took quite a while to arrive.. I'm surprised by e slow speed becoz e restaurant aint crowded n it's really eating into our Left4Dead time so haha we were like food food food!!!

The crema di funghi ($7.90) was juz alrite... it came with some pine nuts infusion which i didn't particularly appreciate coz e nuts did took away e mushroom flavour quite a bit... however i was happy over e moon when my bf preferred my homemade mushroom soup! Thanks jamie oliver!

We had e penne con granchio ($24.90) n pizza e funghi ($19.90) for mains.. The penne crabmeat pasta is flambeed with vodka in cream based... i tot it's alrite coz i liked it that e cream is light hence not too jielat so can afford to b more generous with e sauce.. e crabmeat comes in big chunks which is different from e usual small bits so great for crabmeat lovers but doing it this way u need e crabmeat to be really fresh fresh fresh.. not that it's not fresh but could b fresher.. The pizza is quite a letdown.. e italian pizza is thin-crust as stated but e tomato sauce kinda overpowered e mushroom taste which i was sooo looking forward to.. there's portobello n porcini u know!

Overall i tot it's juz an alrite place for italian cuisine... Nothing outstanding but e prices a tad high so i might rather go to other italian restaurants instead...

Psst.. They have some great deals for some credit cards though!

Went there for lunch with my partner after reading the reviews on this site, but was unfortunately disappointed. The food was pretty decent but the service was very bad.

My partner ordered the set lunch while i ordered a pizza. When the soup was served, we asked one of the waiters for pepper. The waiter decided to refill the water for everyone in the restaurant and lower the air-con temperature before bringing the pepper to us. I could not understand why he did so as this meant that we had to wait for quite a few minutes while the soup turned cold before we could start our meal.

Other basic service standards were also lacking. For example, the waiter cleared out plates before asking if we were done. Also, my partner had asked for penne, but was served spaghetti. We were only given a feeble apology and no offer was made to change the order. It did not help that the spaghetti was tasteless even though the fish was good. Another example of the poor service was when I asked to pack the leftover pizza slices. They gave me the pizza slices in a nice little box but without a carrier. I would think that it would be basic customer service to put the box in a plastic bag to make it easier for the customer to carry it back home.

Overall, the food was quite alright. But the lack of decent service was certainly highly disappointing.

I've been searching for Italian Restaurants for weeks and found Ristorante de Parma through this website with impressive reviews. Since then, I visited the official blog site almost daily to search for nice set of meals.

My hubby and I just celebrated our wedding anniversary this lunch, we stayed there for about 2 hours to finish our fantastic meals.

We ordered full set of meal - set lunch, soup, rib eye steak, quattro pizza, chocolate fondant. I'm very pleased with the Rib eye steak medium done, its the tastiest and juiciest steak I ever had.. i was glad it was served without any enhancers.

We'll be back there, we missed the Tiramisu - its unavailable that time =( The last descent Tiramisu I had was in Taiwan.