Latteria Mozzarella Bar

We had a fantastic meal with great service on a lovely Wednesday evening, and all because the first place we went didn’t have a table until 10:30! Linsel was our waiter and he was kind and gracious. We ordered the burratini with pumpkin appetizer, lamb shank, special tagliatelle with pork cheek, and tiramisu. All were delicious. We sat outside and the setting was lovely. Probably our favorite meal during our two week stay in Singapore.

Ambience: really lovely placed nestled on Duxton hill. Wonderful place to hangout and chill with friends. There’s indoor and outdoor seating. The outdoor seating is really lovely as there’s a backdrop of the cbd dotting the nightline.
Food: reviewing the few foods that we ordered.
1) linguine crab and mascarpone: really love concoction and the pasta was very flavourful. Loved the generous portions of crab meat in the sauce as well. Recommended.
2) grilled whole Seabass: really lovely huge portion of the fish that was extremely fresh. Cooked to perfection.
Recommended.
3)grilled beef sirloin: not as fantastic. Ordered it medium rare but it appeared well done. However excellent service on that the staff immediately changed the dish without question. Taste was ok though not that good.
Not recommended.

Love the food and ambience. Very chilled and unpretentious — great/​non intrusive service, simple yet delicious Italian food. The burata will keep you going back. We had the seabass (whole fish and very fresh) and crab linguine (very delicious!) and dessert is on the scale of big — good to share. Much recommended for date nights, afternoon brunch with kids or group dinner…

Cheese does a body good.
Or at least it tastes really good.
One of the best cheeses out there is well made mozzarella. It’s most delicious forms are melted and oozing over a savory dish or in a burrata or stracciatella form when it is paired with fruity olive oils, nuts, and a rich fruit.
Latteria does mozzarella right and it’s fresh and cooked forms are solid.
The food:
I’ve gone with a large group and sampled most of the cheeses. They are all wonderful, but I love the classic and well executed flavors of the bufala with sweet cherry tomatoes and basil and the savory stracciatella with roast zucchini. There is a great variety of mozzarellas available as well as beautiful pairings with a few kinds of sweet roasted vegetables or savory oils or meats. Their main courses are also well executed and the lamb shank is consistently tender while the pastas are cooked al dente with generous helpings of sauce (I’ve had lasagne and the weekend brunch pasta with cream sauce — YUM!) Finally their desserts don’t disappoint and I love that Sunday brunch comes with 3 different kinds (mmm the smooth panna cotta may be my favorite!) Indulge away!
If you’re looking for a delicious Italian meal with a heavy skew towards cheese, you definitely have to eat at Latteria! They also have one of the best Sunday brunches around with generous family style helpings of cheese, pasta, steak and dessert!

Great alfresco dining area, very good value down to earth but high quality Italian food! For those who appreciate casual settings with a happening vibe and reasonable prices. A real gem!

Love this place. It has everything you would want in the perfect restaurant. Great service, great ambience, wonderful food, tasty desserts, just perfect!

I have travelled all Over the world but never expected to find in Singapore the most amazing Mozzarella I have ever eaten! Do your self a favor and eat here. Fact!

Revisited latteria mozzarella after a long time and they wowed me again with the really impressive service and the delicious food! Had the burratina with roasted pumpkin and truffle and our knowledgable and extremely helpful server added Parma ham to the mix to satisfy my sweet and savory craving! Best decision ever! I still can’t get over how fresh the cheeses are.
Garlic prawns were great though overshadowed by the cheese starter.
Fantastic crab linguine in a pink sauce which is as good as Valentino’s.
I will definitely be back for more cheeses!

Tasty but not sure about how authentic the Italian food is. Love the seafood pasta and lava cake. Nice ambience. With some appetizers and wine, you can expect to spend about 60 – 75 per person on average for dinner, which will allow you to eat about 15 meals in Hawker center, but I’d say it’s still worth the money.

Had a great dinner at Latteria tonight. Their burrata and other mozzerellas are definitely worth the trip. We had the classic burrata and the stracciatella with roasted zucchini, and I could’ve been happy with just those two cheeses and some bread. But on top of that, we also had eggplant parmigiana, which I thought was actually a little too heavy on the cheese and too light on the eggplant. The flavor was still good, though. Finally, for the entrée we shared the roast lamb shanks, which were tasty and tender, if a little gamey — but I think lamb shank is pretty much always gamey, right?
Aside from the food, the service was knowledgable, fast, and friendly. The lighting and ambiance inside are nice, but something about the acoustics make it really noisy for the size and number of people in that space. That’s fine though if you’re going in a large group, family style, which is what I’d recommend anyway.

I’m not entirely sure how authentically Italian the food here is. I mean mac & cheese inside a pumpkin? Come on guys. I guess I’d be impressed with the innovation if I liked pumpkin. Unfortunately I hate it. But I do love mac & cheese and with some careful fork work I was able to avoid the vile orange stuff it was enclosed in.
Everything else we ordered was delicious. The crab linguine wasn’t quite as awesome as my favourite at Kith Café but was still pretty great. Probably a little too much sauce smothering, it rendered the dish less than delicate.
I also really liked the lamb and the risotto. Add this to the wonderful al fresco vibe on Duxton Hill and this is definitely a restaurant you should try.
A word of warning: the indoor dining room can get very very loud.

We found out from a friend that Latteria has a daily $ 28 3-​course lunch special, so we finally decided to walk over and check it out. For the longest time, we were rather intimidated by the idea of $ 20 mozzarella after living in NYC with easy access to the affordable and incomparable Arthur Avenue mozz.
Sunday lunch was a pleasant surprise. The service was top notch with a lot of useful recommendations. We had a lovely stracciatella arancini in a beautiful gravy for our starter followed by entrees of tiger prawns and veal scallopini. Lunch was capped off with a lovely and very creamy tiramisu.
We enjoyed some nice bellinis (real peach purée!) along with our meal.
Throughout the meal, we had excellent and attentive service.
PARTING THOUGHT: Don’t miss the bread. They may add some corn meal to the dough, which gives it a lovely fragrance. It was served warm and crusty with nice balsamic and olive oil.

I set the bar pretty high for Italian restaurants so you can take this with a grain of salt, but I thought this place was pretty unremarkable. I’ll start with what I liked about it. The manager (owner?) was was friendly and engaging, greeting us at the table and taking our orders. One of the dishes we ordered was gnocchi in a truffle sauce. The sauce was very good: flavorful but not heavy. And the serving sizes were satisfying.
Now the bad. 1) Service was friendly (I always appreciate that), but terrible. There was only one waiter for the entire restaurant, so it took a long time to get served, we had to ask for things multiple times because he kept forgetting, and some things never came at all. 2) I don’t often say this, but the gnocchi was too firm. Almost rubbery. 3) I ordered the squash risotto, and found it completely flavorless and a bit chalky. 4) Worst of all, we ordered two mozzarella dishes and they tasted like Philadelphia cream cheese. I realize we’re a long way from Naples, but that is not the kind of quality I expected from a self-​proclaimed «Mozzarella bar». 5) Oh, and it was crazy loud. I’m not sure why they decided that metal sheeting was a good way to decorate the ceilings, but don’t come here expecting a quiet, romantic dining experience.

Also here for Restaurant Week, was pretty packed on Friday for lunch! Unfortunately, no more spaces indoors (or, not much, anyway). Outdoors is pretty, but it’s really hot and the fans helped alleviate the heat only slightly. It was a little tougher to get the attention of the servers outside, but as more people sat down that wasn’t as bad. I think al fresco in the evening would be really nice though! Lovely setting with the shophouses behind.
I was starving by the time we got there (long walk from office: p) and so was very thankful for the bread + olive oil/​balsamic vinegar (although somehow I couldn’t get at much of the balsamic vinegar :(think it had sunk beneath the oil!). Piping hot from the oven and deliciously crisp on the outside, warm on the inside, and fluffy!!! I love their bread.
Both of us had the restaurant week menu. Pan-​fried buffalo milk mozzarella wrapped in parma ham. 3 mozzarella balls! Very nice presentation. Parma ham wrapped around each ball with some herbs sprinkled on top, with some rocket and cherry tomato wedge in each little compartment of the 3-​part dish. I found the ham a bit slightly (but never really like ham anyway), balsamic reduction that came with was sweet and hence a good foil!
I chose the seafood cacciucco while bf had the lambshank. Lamb was tender, falling off the bone with a prod of the fork. Delicious sauce! He said he could taste the cream/​butter in the mashed potatoes.
I actually didn’t find the cacciucco remarkable, but again I don’t really have anything much to compare it to. Nice tomato-​y broth, light, fair amount of seafood (clams, fish, prawns, squid, all well cooked, not too tough or anything). Two thin slices of toast (rosemary/​sea salt sprinkled, I think?) and of course, I mopped up the soup with the rest of the delicious bread!
Dessert — red wine pear with mascarpone mousse and chocolate shavings. Delicious! A tad on the sweet side, but nicely poached pear and mousse went together well.

We had a really enjoyable Friday night dinner here. Duxton is a nice chill out area that is not crazy busy. Plus after a whole day of rain, the weather was at a nice cool 24 degrees, perfect for outdoor dining!
Menu is not big. Love places where they just focus on what they do well. As the name suggest, this is a mozzarella bar, so this cheese is featured on a whole page of the menu.
We started with two types: one wrapped around truffle, arugula and prosciutto. Beautiful. How do you go wrong with a combination like that. The mozzarella goes well with the saltiness of the ham and the bitterness of the leaves. and you are spoilt further with black truffles. Genius.
The second one we had was a creamier mozzarella served on top of a bed of grilled zucchini. Delish too as this mozzarella has a much richer taste and texture. A great contrast to the first. We can’t decide which one we like better.
Main course we had the special of the day: a wagyu beef steak. Done perfectly medium rare, charred on the outside and lightly pink inside. Meat was succulent and moist with a great bite.
The second main course is the spaghetti with mussels in a white wine sauce. On first mouth, I thought it was a tad salty. But the sweetness of the seafood broth with lots of garlic and white wine came through as you eat. Their spaghetti is very thin, even thinner than the usual linguine. Almost like an angel hair. Done al dente. Very nice.
We ended the meal with dessert. Lemon panda cotta with strawberries in balsamic reduction. The panda cotta is not sweet like some places and really smooth. Yum too.
Service was great as we were served by Kirby who recommended everything. After the two appetizers, we basically told him to just get us what he likes most from the menu for the rest of our meal and we ended up leaving very happy.

another restaurant week date!
apparently, restaurant week menu is only available to those who make advance reservations.
so i’m one of the privileged ones entitled to order from that specially priced menu.
at a price point of $ 35, i think i now understand why.
you get crab & stracciatella cheese salad with roast zucchini to start.
little rags of cheese on top, layered with crab paste in the middle and roasted zucchini forms the base.
very nicely plated and worked well together.
then you get the smoked scamorza and porcini mushroom risotto.
a very distinctive almost caramel like background taste of the smoked scamorza combined together with the porcini mushrooms.
the risotto was nicely al dente.
the tiger prawns with chick pea cream was selected as the main.
a generous 8 whole pieces of medium sized sauteed prawns sitting in the middle of a chick pea cream bath without a strong middle eastern taste.
for sweets, you get a lemon panna cotta with balsamic strawberries.
lovely, light and well balanced in sweetness with a hint of sour notes.
finally, you get a coffee or tea to complete your meal.
and their coffee was power!
almost artisan standards.
as usual, i ordered some ala carte dishes instead of 2 restaurant week sets.
to start i had their Burrata, Sweet Peppers Peperonata.
it is a huge portion, so it is definitely a sharing dish!
nice creamy mountain of fresh burrata sitting on a confit of peppers.
the ala carte main i ordered was the Grilled Pork ‘Spiral’ Sausage, Porcini & Truffle.
by this time, i was stuffed.
nice meaty sausages, all three of them, stuffed with peppers.
the truffle though was not distinctively tasted though.
again a big portion, definitely good for sharing.
service was very attentive and efficient.
you can choose their outdoor patio seating but it’s not fully sheltered from the elements.
some guests actually moved indoors when it started to rain.
oh for an italian salute, their prosecco was a clear choice, dry and full of bubbly

We affectionately call this place FoMo (short for Faux Mozza). Like the famous Mozza at Marina Bay Sands, this place features a mozeralla bar with tons of cheese selections. But unilke Mozza, the prices are very very reasonable, and the portions are huge and meant to be shared.
We really like the burrata and other cheese features. Sometimes their condiments aren’t very classic pairings, but the quality of the cheese and the amount more than make up for it. The mains are also good, the hanger steak is awesome.
I’m docking one point for the pastas. They taste like they’re out of the box, and not the classic Italian taste — overflavored, oversalted, and not fresh pasta. But they give you a huge amount.

I went there yesterday night, four of us we sat in the terrace.
I LOVED the mozzarella. We had the Burratina, Roast Pumpkin & Truffle and the Sfoglia, Prosciutto, Truffle, Rucola. These two there definitely the highlights of the evening. SPLENDID. The burratina was soft, juicy, milky, creamy… a dream. The Sfoglia… I mean how can you go wrong with the truffle and prosciutto!
We all had pasta. All were great even though not as outstanding as the mozzarella.
Linguine Vongole & Porcini — probably the best out of the 3, Olive oil based, vongole were great.
Spaghetti Sardi, Bottarga AOP — good but not enough bottarga (grey mullet dried eggs, resembles the taiwanese oh hi ji’ or the dried mullet roe. Olive oil based, could use more bottarga to my taste but it is quite strong…
Linguine Crab & Mascarpone — a little too creamy for my taste but good
For desert we had the Tiramisu — excellent and BIG
Wine-​wise, I did not like the Chianti (but I never do) I still ended up with it through because I liked the Primitivo even less (strong but drops dead in your mouth) and the last one that’s available by the glass was out of stock.
I will definitely go again and I might just have mozzarella only!

I found this place while trying to figure out where Entrecôte was. Four of us came for the $ 24-​ish set lunch – fantastic value as you get 3 courses for your money. Unfortunately (but understandably) there’s only one mozzarella dish in all the options, but the entire menu is open to you if you feel like burata at lunch time (or any time!). Between us we got to try most of the mains – the fish was good. And the tiramisu, ZOMG
Definitely worth coming back at dinner time!

I love this section of Duxton Hill because it reminds me of Europe, what with the cobble-​stoned road and lush trees lining each side of it. The one thing that makes it unmistakably Singaporean are the beautifully restored shophouses. It’s definitely a great retreat from the increasingly busy Tanjong Pagar stretch, and there is a good selection of restaurants here.
Latteria is a fairly new addition and took over Jackson’s Plan, which means they have that great outdoor garden space, and they’ve done a good job in making it cosy, well-​lit and generally very pretty at night. The interiors are inspired, too, and they have unique light fixtures and beautiful furniture.
They serve Italian cuisine with a focus on mozarella — it appears in lots of the entrees. There’s a good variety of options to choose from, and the food is not bad at all.
Worth a shot, and definitely try to get a table in their beautiful al fresco dining area!