Birthday Dinner at La Pizzaiol and Wimbly Lu

I turned 22 on 8th May 2013!

Almost every year, I'll spend my birthdays preparing for exams. Luckily for me, my last paper (ever!) ended on 6th May!

The plan was to visit La Pizzaiol for dinner and Wimbly Lu for dessert (I seriously can't get enough of it) since both of them are located at Jalan Riang. Haven't heard much about La Pizzaiol, but the reviews I found online looked pretty good. People were saying that they serve affordable and good quality pizzas.

Raymond made a reservation at 7pm for La Pizzaiol. When we reached at 645pm, there was already a good amount of dinner crowd. 

I didn't take photos of the restaurant, cos it wasn't too interesting. But here are some screenshots I took from their website. 

 

Quite a cozy place with the warm lighting and wooden furniture. Customer service was quite good. The staff who served us were super enthusiastic.

We ordered the Rucola Parma ($16.90). 

Half eaten pizza because I suck at remembering to take pictures before I eat.

Honestly, the pizza was okay, above average, but I don't think it was anything too special to warrant a second visit. The Parma ham was thin and nice, very generous portion. But I'm not a fan of the crust. It wasn't as crispy as what I expected and I had a hard time trying to cut it into small pieces (gave up and used my hands).

Devil chili flakes

We made a mistake of spamming the chili flakes, thinking that it was the innocent 'Pizza Hut Chili'. Holy mother of cats, that thing burnt our lips. Be very careful with this little pot of devil. Use sparingly.

Pizzoccheri Della Valtellina

The Pizzoccheri Della Valtellina looked interesting. I've never seen a pasta that looks like that before. But we didn't try it due to several reasons:

1. The Parma ham was okay, not too impressive
2. Our tongues were still recovering from the chili flakes shock
3. We were itching all over and we can't wait to get out.

We were seated right next to the plant, big big mistake. Please avoid that area if you don't want to end up like this...

Huge mosquito bites:(

Itchy face-hahaa,  don't kill me.

So we paid for our pizza and left for the highlight of the night. WIMBLY WIMBLY LU!!

They hung up holographic papers on the ceiling, so it glitters when the light shine on it. So pretty!!!

Super romantic atmosphere

This time round, we tried the root beer cake ($6) and of course my favorite Salted Caramel ice cream (double scoop) with waffle!

Root Beer Cake, comes with vanilla ice cream

The cake is actually root beer flavored chocolate cake. And it really tasted just like ROOT BEER! It's  very interesting, totally not artificial at all. I suspect they drizzled some root beer on the cake before serving us cos it was really quite legit. There was sufficient amount of chocolate, but not too much such that it overwhelms the root beer. The combination of the root beer cake and vanilla ice cream is genius. It doesn't taste like root beer float of course (don't expect so much from a dessert), but the ice cream was quite refreshing. Somehow everything I tried from Wimbly Lu has the perfect amount of sweetness that is somewhat satisfying, but not jelak.

I think I've said too much about their waffle ice cream. Please read my review here and i strongly suggest you do.

An awkward smile. 

But this is the only picture i took with my double salted caramel waffle. 

Thank you <3

La Pizzaiol  

Address: 15-3 Jalan Riang, Singapore 358987
Phone:+65 6282 5031

Wimbly Lu
Address: 15 Jalan Riang, Singapore 358987
Phone:+65 6289 1489