Oolaa - Italian with fancy ambiance

★★★☆☆

$$$ (with alcohol)

Oolaa is an italian restaurant with both romantic and lively ambiance. The restaurant was huge, sectioned in three area: an intimate dining room on the right, a casual dinning room/bar area on the left and an open pizza kitchen with several bar tables and sofa in the middle. If you are coming with someone special, do make a reservation ahead to secure your table at the more romantic section on the right.

We didn't make any reservation, so we were seated at the bar area, which was fine really. The staff were very friendly but not quite attentive. The bread basket had to be asked to serve on our table, not to mention it tasted bad!

Crispy Duck Tart $130

The duck leg was served with spinach, lentils, balsamic jus and red onion salad. The duck was tender and succulent but was not crispy as the name suggested. The duck leg was savoury enough without sauce, which is good because the balsamic jus was just too crazily sour. Anyway I still have no idea why this is called a duck tart as it was not served on a tart?

Wagyu Bolognese $140

Very lovely dish with rich and savoury meat sauce on nicely cooked spaghetti (but can be cooked shorter so it could be more al dente.) The shaved parmesan cheese made the spaghetti even more desirable. Get this when you are here.

Mediterranean pizza $145

Pizza topped with Parma ham, capsicum, artichoke, semi-sun dried tomato, olives and baby spinach, probably is the worst pizza at all times. First, bad pizza base; second the combine taste of super sour and super salty was pretty disgusting. Everyone stopped after the first slice. Enough said, just don't get the pizza. It was kind of sad since they have a nice oven for the pizza, why not try to make a nicer dough?

Oolaa Cheesecake Crunch $65

We all love this beautiful and tasty cheesecake layered with house made crumbs. Its pretty much like a sawdust cake but instead of whipped cream, it was replaced by a light and smoothing cream cheese. The pairing was really nice and yum.

Mango Crumble with vanilla ice-cream $65

The mango crumble was served piping hot with a crunchy top but a soft inside. It had a strong cinnamon aroma and taste, yet there was also a pungent taste of almond which I dislike. If there was no almond in the dish, it would have been perfect.

Final Comment

The food was pretty average and kind of disappointing really. The dessert was excellent though. Hence may be dinner at yardbird and come over for a drink and dessert?

Dishes Recommended

Wagyu Bolognese

Oolaa Cheesecake Crunch


Oolaa

G/F, Bridges Street, CentreStage, Soho
☏ 2803-2308
Website

Bill For Tonight
$250 per person