 |
| ANTO pizza e aperitivi | 2 Jiak Chuan Road, Singapore 089260 ๐ 10 minute walk from Chinatown, Maxwell, Outram Park stations ☏ 9689 6869 ⏰ 12 noon - 3pm | 6pm - 11pm |
Suddenly craved for good pizza ๐ and buddy suggested ANTO at #2 Jiak Chuan Road, one of his regular pizza and drinks hangouts in Chinatown.
ANTO is located at the picturesque streets of Singapore Chinatown where the new juxtaposed with the vintage, international with hyperlocal. This place is a metaphor for cosmopolitan Singapore.
ANTO is located at the intersection of colourful (pun intended) Keong Saik Road and Jiak Chuan Road.
(Jiak Chuan Road is named after the grandson of Tan Kim Seng, a wealthy trader and philanthropist in 19th century Singapore. Yeah.... Kim Seng Road is literally his grandfather's road.)
Stepping inside the coolness of ANTO, brought immediate relief from the scorching mid-day heat. The interior's relatively understated elegance and smiles of the friendly staff felt instantly welcoming.
Next time, I would love these front row seats to watch chef Antonio and the mixologist in action.
Chef co-owner Antonio Brancato is a 16-year experience pizzaiolo from Pignola, Basilicata in southern Italy. Antonio's career took him from south to north Italy, and the Middle East before opening his own ANTO with business partner (celebrity bartender cousin Giancarlo Mancino) in the historic heart of Singapore.
Each pizza served at ANTO is personally hand crafted from scratch by chef Antonio using Molino Dallagiovanna whole grain wheat flour from north Italy, considered Italy's finest. The hand kneaded dough is fermented for 24 hours.
Each pizza is baked at close to 500°C for 90 seconds.
We launched our pizza feast with a classic Margherita. At SGD26++, I feel it is priced well within range for the location, set up, and quality of food and service.
The centre was slathered with house made fresh tomato sauce, smothered by melted mozzarella cheese, dressed with basil leaves, and generous dribbles of extra virgin olive oil.
The cornicione (raised rim) thick as rope was well studded with "leopard spots".
I love pizza with thick, spongy, airy, bready, chewy cornicione (rim) with leopard spots that give the bread an added toasty charred edge.
ANTO's Margherita was the juiciest I ever had. The cheesy, savoury, sweet, tangy blend of molten cheese, tomato sauce and olive oil topping was drippy juicy on a thin floppy flat bread. Kaki kaki and I love it so much!
Melanzana SGD38++. Topped with mashed oven baked eggplant over scarmorza cheese and dressed with chopped mint and dribbles of peperoncino (chili) oil.
Love the lusciously juicy creamy sweet eggplant blended with the savoury scarmorza cheese.
Enjoying this gave me flashbacks and craving for artichoke pizza which I enjoyed in New York City. A quick check on ANTO's menu showed that they have pizza capricciosa with grilled artichoke - made a note to come back for this next time ๐️๐
Salsiccia & Friarielli SGD38++. Tomato sauce blanketed with melted mozzarella cheese topped with salsiccia spicy pork sausage and fleshy friarielli vegetable.
Juicy topping rich with soft tender textures and blend of savoury sweet subtly bitter flavours on Antonio's excellent bread base.
Bosco SGD38++. By this time, kaki kaki had all surrendered and I was the last man standing ๐คญ
This was smoked scarmorza cheese topped with tissue thin coppa (cured pork shoulder), porcini mushroom and parsley.
Another juicy full flavoured winner.
All pizzas were served scissor cut, portioned according to number of people in the party ๐
Dessert was an Alphonso mango tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh.
Kaki kaki won't let me leave a pizza or Italian place without a limoncello. It's a lemony sweet liquor with strong citrussy perfume. Love it ♥️๐
We had a great time at ANTO. Great pizzas, attentive, warm service, nice environment, fun kaki kaki - I will be back for an encore and to try other pizzas in ANTO's menu ๐
Restaurant name: ANTO pizza e aperitivi
Address: 2 Jiak Chuan Rd, Singapore 089260
Nearest MRT: 10 minute walk from Chinatown, Maxwell, Outram Park stations
Tel: 9689 6869
Hours: 12 noon - 3pm | 6pm - 11pm
Read more ๐
I haven't had the opportunity to visit Italy to appreciate and learn about pizzas there (hope to be there one day). Did had a chance to learn about pizzas in New York City, trying a few of the well known institutions there
Follow me on Facebook & Instagram
Written by Tony Boey on 1 May 2025
No comments:
Post a Comment
All comments submitted with genuine identities are published