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Roma's Deli, an all vegetarian cafe thingy (no onions and garlic too), offering set meals - pastas, soups, sandwiches - cooked with mock meat and stuff. Figured it would be greatly appeal to all the wanna-be healthy people working offices nearby, but does it taste good? Hmm ...

Cream of Mushroom - it tastes rather Campbell-derived. There's a very distinct taste of "normal" cream of mushroom, nothing quite fantastic about this to be honest! Portion was quite big though, and it comes with 2 buttered toasted bread (of the Gardenia variety probably).

BBQ Chicken Spaghetti - Replacing the chicken was the chicken mock meat - spaghetti was in a watery tomato base sauce with some lettuce, mushrooms and tomatoes. And wow. Seriously, seriously, strange. The floury tofu-ey flavour distinct to chinese mock meats is very strong - the entire plate of spaghetti tastes completely like mock meat. While not exactly offputting, it's not something I would associate with being "tasty"

Sambal Prawn Spaghetti - The 'prawns' weren't as artificial-tasting as the 'chicken', but was still quite unnatural. And it wasn't exactly 'sambal' by any definition - it was just (too much) spicy red sauce. The few strands of shredded lettuce failed to provide any redemption - if indeed it was there for that reason.



I suppose the absence of garlic and onions (and real meat!) renders any attempt of Italian food completely futile. Not sure why this place seems so popular, but I'd take my buck(s) somewhere else.

K and I don't come across eateries that serve Western style vegetarian food often and when we stumbled upon Roma's Deli, we made it a point to check it out. Since then, we'd dined here twice.

On both occasions, we skipped the set meals as we planned to leave some stomach space for ice cream next door and were delighted that the staff served us plain water. We even got our empty cups refilled without prompting!

The pasta dishes we tried were cheese spicy spaghetti ($5.90) and sambal olio spaghetti ($5.90), which featured pretty much the same ingredients (carrot, cucumber and mushroom) except the former included vegetarian sausage while the latter had a heap of deep-fried crunchy bits.

As for our second visit, I ordered baked curry rendang rice ($6.90) that came piping hot with a strong curry aroma wafting from it. Under the layer of melted cheese was moist and fluffy rice that's wonderfully spiced. Curry leaves and cumin seeds were evidently embedded together with broccoli and carrots.

K decided on having creamy mushroom soup bun ($5.50) which wasn't too starchy but there were a couple of small clumps. The soup had an adequate amount of mushroom and the bun was fresh and soft.

The small eatery has limited seating, and its dark furnishings and dim lighting exude a cozy feel. There's even some magazines for browsing and we ate while trying to identify the singers of Mandarin pop songs playing in the background.

It's good to note that the food here doesn't contain eggs, garlic or onion so it's suitable for strict vegetarians who abstain from eating them due to religious reasons.

Honestly, I had no idea that there is such a cool vegetarian place in the heart of the city.

This place is kinda small, dark and the menu definitely speak no vegetarian except for the "Wholesome Vegetarian" words popping up on the wall. I even had to ask the lady who took our order if the food are ALL vegetarian. =)

There are four of us sharing 2 large pizzas - Chicken Mushroom & Mixed Mushroom Pizza. The set cost us S$18 for a pizza, a soup and a drink. The pizzas were pretty big and filling. If I did not observed wrongly, the pizza is freshly baked. Which is the better one? There is a tie in this question. Different people prefer different pizza. The chicken mushroom pizza tasted slightly better to me.

I am a little disappointed over their service. Don't get me wrong, they are ok in service.I am just disappointed in their opening hours and close kitchen at such a early time. The food served may take a long time to arrive. Bear this in mind when you order.

Overall, this is a nice place to chill and worth paying another visit... If you wanted to go there, you can make reservation. It is better this way...