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\"ottos-deli-fresh-singapore\"Having read good reviews of Otto’s Deli Fresh at Raffles@Holland Village<\/strong>, I looked at their website and was befuddled: what does it mean to be “inspired<\/em> by the career and vision of Chef Otto Weibel<\/strong>“? Shouldn’t it just be “food by Otto”?<\/p>\n

I eventually found out that Weibel is retired so he won’t be around the deli. The menu consists of comfort food he loves to eat; some dishes use his recipes, and the handsome Head Chef Rick Chow<\/strong>, who deals with the daily running of the kitchen, creates the rest.<\/p>\n

\"ottos-deli-fresh-sg\"Here’s a resume of Weibel: he has more than 40 years of culinary experience, having worked at kitchens at Shangri-La, Stamford, and Fairmont. He was the “Swiss Chef of the Year 2001 Abroad” and is the Honorary President of Bocuse d’Or Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n

Rick Chow: 8 years of culinary experience at Saint Pierre<\/a>, Portico Prime<\/a>, and LaFite at Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

\"ottos-deli-fresh-holland-village\"Perhaps because of the good reviews, I had great expectations but unfortunately, they weren’t met. The menu is rather classic, with sections of salads, sandwich\/burger, pasta, and grill items.<\/p>\n

I expected the grilled Fremantle octopus salad<\/strong> ($17) to come as a whole leg of octopus because of the high pricing, but there are a few miserly pieces. They are nicely tender but the dressing is too sour.<\/p>\n

\"ottos-deli-fresh\"Many on instagram ordered the beef stroganoff fettucine<\/strong> ($16) but we opted for the Norwegian salmon capellini<\/strong> ($16) with mentaiko. The pasta is over-cooked, and too soft, although the taste is good, creamy.<\/p>\n

Ms Atas said of the fried pork cheek baguette<\/strong> ($20): “Wow, I know I complain that I can’t find the pork, but now I think it’s a good thing the pork is so scanty… it’s overly gamy.”<\/p>\n

\"ottos-deli-fresh-menu\"The only thing that we truly liked is the hand cut fries <\/strong>($6). It’s flavored almost like the Taiwanese \u54b8\u9165\u9e21 (fried salted chicken), which is very addictive. But the funny thing about the fries, we didn’t order it. Here’s the story:<\/p>\n

The service is well-meaning but raw. They open at 11 and when we were there at about 11.05am, it was not opened yet. And when it opened, there was only one young server; the rest were late, and came in from between 11.15am to 11.45pm.<\/p>\n

When we were in the midst of ordering and the server was taking down orders, the deli’s phone rang. “We want a flat white, an iced chocolate…” and poof!, she was gone to answer the phone.<\/p>\n

When she returned after the phone call, we asked, “The sandwich comes with fries, right?”<\/p>\n

“Yes,” the server replied.<\/p>\n

“Ok, do you think we can get a dip to go with the fries?”<\/p>\n

And the server thought that we wanted an extra side order of fries. So we ended up with two set of fries. Carbs are not fashionable leh<\/em>, don’t give us so much.<\/p>\n

We also had to ask for water twice before we got it.<\/p>\n

\"ottos-deli-fresh-review\"Speaking about liquids, the chocolate<\/strong> (iced or hot) comes highly recommended and we had it as a dessert, seeing that the dessert menu comprises waffles, which we thought are boring. The iced chocolate<\/strong> is rather costly at $12.50; it is too thick, hard to suck, and too rich to finish on one’s own. The hot chocolate<\/strong> ($9.50), however, is watery.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it was a bad day for the new deli, but there is certainly room for improvement: training for the service staff, and some consistency from the kitchen. We paid $118 for four persons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Otto’s Deli Fresh<\/strong><\/a>
\n118 Holland Avenue #02-01 Raffles@Holland Village Singapore 278990
\nT: +65 6694 3291
\n11am-10pm
\nfacebook<\/a><\/h2>\n

Food: 6\/10
\nPrice\/value: 5.5\/10
\nDecor\/ambience: 7\/10
\nService: 5\/10
\nOverall rating: 2.938\/5<\/p>\n

Written by A. Nathanael Ho.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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