For a restaurant that’s housed in Capella Singapore, one of Sentosa’s finest beachside resorts, Fiamma isn’t at all what it appears. A chef with a three Michelin-starred restaurant (Mirazur, France) under his belt helms this new Italian kitchen but Chef Mauro Colagreco doesn’t seem to be taking it all too seriously. In a good way, that is – they’ve bid a parting ciao to starched white tablecloths and formal cutlery lineup.
Stepping into this newly opened restaurant is meant to remind us of home. Not quite the quintessential home in Singapore, but an Italian farmhouse that’s been taken up a notch with wood-fired ovens and cosy seating nooks. It’s a home, but still one undeniably for the bourgeoisie, with each dining area having its own title: you can choose to casually lounge by the “Den” or get front row galley seats at the “Kitchen Chamber”.
Rustic flavours pay homage to his grandma’s cooking and he’s also adamant on using fresh produce, thanks to the fond childhood memories spent foraging at his granddad’s vegetable patch. As he poetically muses, one of his earliest memories is of “a juicy sunkissed tomato, plucked straight from the vine in the vegetable garden”. Fiamma also translates to “flame”, so you can expect lots of wood-fire cooking and grilling over open flames.
