Don Quijote

Once again, and thanks to the generosity of Denise and the Spanish Tourism Office in Singapore, we were invited to a fabulous dinner in a new Spanish restaurant in Singapore: Don Quijote. What a great name for a Spanish restaurant! As many people said before, it is not easy to get to this restaurant, but you really get a big piece of Spain after having dinner here.

When Xavi and I got there, there was only Vien and Ken in the table. We chatted for a while with Ken, the owner of the place, who has another homonym restaurant in Macao. This interesting and funny guy told us the story about the place, the first months and even the future plans :). Good conversation to start with some openings, like the bread with olive oil and tomato butter served with some very good sangría. "More bread more bread" we shouted to Ken, who was amazed by the speed of bread eating! That is something I miss in other restaurants of Singapore, and that was available in Don Quijote: bread and olive oil... mmmm... Oh, something great we heard during this conversation: this Spanish restaurant only serves Spanish wines. Check other Spanish restaurants in Singapore and compare.

We asked Ken if he could give us some different dishes so that we could try a little bit of everything. And what a wonderful job by the chef. We started with some really good cheese, chorizo and jamón de bellota. Then we had some garlic fried shrimp rolled in eggplants, clams in garlic, onion and white wine, fried buttered squid (great!), more garlic fried shirmp, spanish omelete (could be better if they fried the potatos) and oven backed eggplants. Those were the tapas for the day.

But we couldn't leave the restaurant without tasting the meat and the rice. So we could eat some juicy Stewed pig feet, and the two stars of the night: Paella y Fideua negra. The paella had great flavour, some really good seafood, with big and tasty shrimp, and a well cooked rice. The fideau had also a great flavour, but i would go for shorter noodle.

When we thought that everything was over, the deserts came, and as we said, "esto no es lujo, esto es lujuria" (This is not luxury, this is lust!). We had a tasting of three deserts, with a great cheesecake, a delicious bread and butter pudding and another star of the night: warm chocolate cake made with Spanish chocolates and served with vanilla ice-cream. The service was good and the staff is really nice. As I have said before, I keep thinking that Singaporean restaurants should spent some more money on the toilets :/. Oh, and we had some good coffee too! (even if it is Italian... hahaha, I know we can't compete against them in that :P)

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Tel: (+65) 6465 1811
17 Lorong Kilat, #01-09. Map here