Cugini Italian Restaurant @ Joo Chiat Place

Cugini Italian Restaurant @ Joo Chiat Place
This is a cracker, a little gem in Joo Chiat. If you have not been I highly recommend you do. It is an abso-fucking-lutely cracking place with some of the very best Italian food eaten by these old lips. We had this place recommended by a few, including our very own Mrs Knibbs and even one of our food supplier partners to ChillaxBBQ. So highly recommended by BFF’s. The funny thing is we tried to book a few times to go for Saturday lunch after Jude Jude’s Chinese lessons, but could never ever find a slot. Today we happened to walk past an saw the outside seating area was quite empty so took a walk-in chance and success… We dined a wonderful lunch today. As it a superbly wonderful lunch today. We’ll be back here – that is a certainty.
BUT, learn from our lesson. It seems they do not take bookings via any 3rd party app. No wonder we have never been able to book. You have to book directly from their web site, call or email. How about that? So here you go – here they are;
Contact them @ +65 6243 5215 or cugini@singnet.com.sg
Visit them @ 37 Joo Chiat Place #01-01, 427761
We chose to sit outside in this Mediterranean-style, airy almost feeling beachy area. Bloody brilliant. We felt abroad. Now that is very important in these bloody Covid-19 days. To be transported somewhere else felt fantastic. Great atmosphere. Superbly styled. An incredible open-kitchen and stunning food to match.
I will have one moan though about lunch today, which was the delivery of the food. Let me caveat no complaints re the food quality as you will see shortly and no complaints about the serving crew, all of whom were just lovely. It was a ‘when’ thing. We got Wifey’s main course 1st after a long wait post initial order, then waited 20 minutes and a starter appeared, then 10 minutes and another starter, then a main, then starter, then the rest of the mains and we even had one forgotten starter which we had to re-order. When we got the food there was nothing but compliments about how stunning it was. But the ‘delivery execution’ felt adrift from the rest of the experience. A weird niggly thing.
Anyways. As usual, let’s hear from them… And I really could not agree more with what they say.
“Traditional Italian Cuisine at its finest. The first collaboration between Executive Chef Mauro Muroni and General Manager Gerri Sottile, Cugini is a popular dining destination in Singapore, serving traditional Italian gastronomy in a trattoria setting.
Inaugurated in August 2009 in 87 Club Street, after a successful run of 11 years, Cugini Trattoria Pizzeria continues its success by relocating to 37 Joo Chiat Place in October 2020. The new upgraded concept has a Sardinian and Sicilian touch, including an Italian custom-made wood-fired pizza oven and a traditional charcoal grill. Inspired by heartwarming, comfort food, Mauro brings together authentic, home-made Italian flavours in a modern way.”
Let’s have a look. Shall we?
Cugini Italian Restaurant @ Joo Chiat Place



Cugini Italian Restaurant @ Joo Chiat Place





I have to add this little section. Clearly, they are so proud of their pizza dough, and rightly bloody so. They call this out themselves on the menu;
“Our light and fragrant dough has a mix of 7 stone-ground flours, indirect dough cold-matured for over 70 hours, high hydration over 70%.”
FUCK YES!!! THE BEST EVER!!!



