Portico Prime

So, disclaimer, I love high teas. There’s something awesome about chillaxing with pals, drinking coffee, snacking on nibblies, and just having a good chinwag.
This place received a 5-​star rating because I took everything into consideration — food, ambience & other plus points. Sure, it’s not on the cheap side & can be out of the way for some folks, but here’s why I like this place.
Taking over from Prime Society, Portico Prime has outdoors seating which is perfect for peeps who bring their furry friends. I actually preferred sitting outside and enjoying the breeze. There is a vacant field right in front and it was therapeutic just looking into the distance. And free parking. Come on.
Ok the food.
I went for the high tea (available tues to sun, 3−5pm).
I liked almost everything. Like literally everything. Apart from the bottomless coffees and teas (yes!!! Multiple trips to the toilet, sure, but bottomless! Awesome!), my only gripe is that it features more sweets than savouries and I would’ve preferred a balance.
1) starters — my personal fave was the chilled truffle angel hair pasta, avuga caviar, & crunchy kawa ebi shrimp!!! Aiyoh I die!!! So fragrant!!! Help!!! I finished it in three bites, leaving me highly dissatisfied () and wanting more! Hahaha! I might go back just to have a proper-​sized portion during lunch!!! This was — frankly — bomb and possibly the best part of the high tea. The other two starters were good & decent, but the truffle pasta ROCKED MY WORLD.
2) savoury — all were good but my fave in this section was the squid & salted egg croquette. The salted egg surprisingly did not feature too strongly. The béchamel inside the crunchy croquette was fabs, and these morsels were delish. No joke.
3) petit sweets — oh babies. All were tasty. All. Some noteworthy mentions: (i) Rose lychee tart with exploding lychee pearls. Highly delightful. I was sad there was only one for each of us only. Too good. (ii) Masala Chai tea cake with honey ginger cream & orange confit. Yums. (iii) Baked apple crumble. (IV) chocolate blackforest mousse. This was DIvINE.
You know what? I liked them all. Come to papa, my sweet babies!
4) cookies & chocolates — I loved the homemade peanut butter cookies with confetti to add color. The cookies had some nuts too, so textually the cookies were awesome. Very tasty. I wanted to buy a jar of these cookies to take home!
5) scones — whilst the scones were delicious but standard, the standouts were their homemade jams, in particular the kaya honey jam. Oh lord, that jam… I smeared it onto everything. Even my cakes. True story.
All in all, a place that is spacious, has high ceilings, and provides good service … AND good food???
5 stars, honey.