Update: Feb 2020

Supply and Demand

277 Orchard Road, #02-13/14, Orchard Gateway, 238858
Cuisine: Italian
Nearest MRT: Somerset

There are two outlets for Supply and Demand, one located at Esplanade with alfresco dining while the other is at Orchard Gateway, near Somerset MRT. Since it was the haze period, me and my friends decided to visit the one at Orchard Gateway.

Tucked away in a little corner of Orchard Gateway on the second floor, the restaurant emitted nice vibes and it has nice decorations, such as the mini potted plant on the table which I jokingly mistook it to be the ice cream in a pot dessert that was served at another place.

For starters, we had garlic truffle fries ($18) which is about the cost of a main course. We also ordered two large pizzas to share ($20 for the regular and $24 for the large one). We had a truffle-mushroom-egg pizza and another one was Manzo Scottato. Manzo Scottato came with seared beef, wild rucola leaves and parmesan cheese drizzled with olive oil. Two of them also shared a Carbonara Classico ($13 for tasting portion and $17 for a full portion) which is carbonara done the classic way and without cream.

Lastly, the pizzas arrived. The truffle-mushroom-egg one reminded me of the one that I ate in Italy because the layout was the same, with an egg cooked in the middle of the pizza. Luckily, there were no olives on this as I don’t fancy them. The second pizza – Manzo Scottato was much more delicious. At first, I was worried that the rucola leaves would taste bitter like the rocket leaves, but surprisingly this was good enough to stomach and I enjoyed eating this pizza. The abundance of rucola leaves were paired neatly with the thin slices of seared beef scattered generously on the pizza. By the way, as stated on the menu, the seared beef is rationed to 90g. I also ordered a pint of Peroni Italian beer ($9.90) to go with the food.  The price of the beer was reasonable because it is happy hour all night long from Mondays to Thursdays.

Hence, judging from the supply of food ranging from pizzas to pastas offered by this restaurant, I am sure the demand for it from customers will remain strong. ok pardon my cheesy ending.

Since they had Happy Hour until 8pm, we decided to order beer and freshly-shucked oysters to go with it. The oysters were reasonably priced at $2 each, with every beer purchase, up to a maximum of 6 oysters with every drink order. The oysters were succulent and fresh. The Blue Moon beer that we had had a refreshing citrus taste to it. It is apparently a lager from USA.

Their signature pizza is the truffle mushroom egg, but this time it has been renamed to “The Morning After“. The dough of the pizza was thin and crispy, while the ingredients were fresh.

We also ordered a pasta to share, this was the bacon aglio olio. The smell of truffle oil lingered in the air even before the dish was placed on our table. The pasta also did not disappoint. We had the full portion to share among the three of us, but wished that the pasta could have been more. The ingredients given were just in the appropriate portions.

From Starhub to now, it has been almost 9 years and we are glad for the friendship throughout these years.