Guy Savoy dinner

We went to Guy Savoy for my birthday!

We booked Guy Savoy at the Marina Bay Sands for dinner. Chris' and my treat to the family. Very expensive treat(almost $2K)! But it was a great experience. The wine list alone had bottles of wine that cost $30k to drink!! For food, you could get either a la carte, a basic 3 course meal or a choice between 2 degustation menus. A La carte was pricey. Some dishes were over $100 already. The basic 3 course meal was $90, but didn't seem very interesting. The 2 degustation menus were $280 or $480 +++. We chose the first one.

Besides the stuff on the menu, they had a guy pushing around a leg of Iberico ham. He went around the tables promoting it. $50 for 40g of ham. We thought... oh well, since we're here, BITE THE bullet! ... and it was not bad. Smooth and buttery flavour but a little chewy?!

Ma chose a bottle of rose to accompany dinner ( obviously didn't pick a $30K bottle!!) The meal started with warm freshly baked bread and FRENCH butter ( which WAS nice ), and an amuse bouche. The service was impeccable. After each dish was served our waiter came over to describe it and advise us on how best to enjoy it.

We had 3 different appetisers; followed by the "mains" which was pan fried scampi and poussin done 2 ways. The portions were not big but you do get pretty full by the time dessert comes around! Not forgetting the CHEESE trolley that came BEFORE dessert! There were over 10 different french cheeses to try, so we did! We asked them to just plate the cheese out for us to share, and I didn't expect them to be so generous with portions. We couldn't finish the cheese. There were 4 different goat cheeses, 3 or 4 soft cow milk ones, another 3 different hard ones and then a blue cheese. The goat cheese is definitely an acquired taste. You could literally taste and SMELL the goat.

Dessert was amazing. I think desserts were better than the mains. We started off with a fruit based one, with granita and some ?mandarins ? passion fruit, followed by 2 thin chocolate slices: thick chocolate ?mousse sitting on a caramel biscuit layer. AFTER that they gave me my birthday cake ( which was made of the same chocolate slice ) and let us bring THAT home. Just when we thought we were stuffed to the brim, they then trundled the DESSERT TROLLEY over!! 3 levels of pastry, ice cream, mousse, sweets, cookies/ maccarons and tarts!

How could we refuse that! We all had a little selection of pastry to try, and it was of course, delectable. 3 different freshly made ice-cream: caramel salt, vanilla and fromage.

I think when we were finally done, it was close to midnight and we just about rolled off the table! Actually, for what we had, it was worth the money we paid. The effort put into creating the menu, delivering it to us and the quality of the food really showed.

It was fun sharing the meal with company; I don't think Chris and I would've wanted to sit there all night having dinner just by ourselves. After having been to a few of these meals it definitely something better enjoyed with friends/ family. And of course not something you would do every weekend!