Covelli @ Orchard Central

Second visit to Covelli.

Covelli Zuppa di Funghi, $14

Cream of wild mushroom soup, with white truffle oil. This is considered a 'light' version of mushroom soup, which contrasts with The Tasting Rooms' rich version. While this was still all right, it still lost to The Tasting Rooms'. Even if we compare it with other 'light' types of mushroom soups, I think Prego's is still better.

Classic Caesar Salad, $14

One look at the dish and I groaned inwardly. The egg - its supposed to be poached, not hard boiled! True enough, the egg yolk was 90% cooked, which was a let down. But at least the salad itself was still pretty okay.

Risotto al Funghi, $18

Arborio rice, with gourmet field mushrooms in porcini mushroom cream sauce. Some white truffle oil was also added. Nothing really special about this; I thought the mushroom flavour could be richer. And there was a very slight tinge of sourness inside which didn't really go well with my palate. 

Black Truffle Ravioli, $20

One of their 'must try' dishes. The ravioli was filled with black truffle and cheese, and cooked in brown butter cream sauce. The garnishing on top is actually grated hazelnuts. This dish gave me the opportunity to taste the difference between black and white truffle (compared to the soup and risotto). White truffle seemed to taste much stronger, for one thing. (Or maybe they added much more white than black truffle.) And black truffle does not have the kind of 'gassy' smell like white truffle.

Past visit:
2nd May 2012