Fusing three major cuisines
Una corrals the flavours of Italian, French and Spanish dishes hot off the pan, albeit not very successfully, says JAIME EE
NEW RESTAURANT
Una
1 Rochester Park
Tel: 6773-0070; Open daily 6pm to 11pm
IT can't be easy opening a new European restaurant in Singapore. With every other chef opening a French, Italian or Spanish place, what can you do that hasn't already been done before?
Perhaps going by the notion that if one is good more is better, Una packs all three - Italian, French and Spanish - into a neat little package at the restaurant formerly known as One Rochester.
The name is still the same, only the language has been changed to Italian, a nod to chef Jean-Philippe Patruno's mixed heritage - his father is Italian, his mother is Spanish…
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