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Trattoria Lafiandra

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46 Prinsep Street, 01-01 Prinsep Place, Tel: 6238-8746 Open: Noon to 2.30pm (Tuesdays to Fridays), 6 to 11pm daily

This could well be the tiniest Italian restaurant in Singapore. But Trattoria Lafiandra packs them in and it’s easy to see why.

Chef Cataldo Lafiandra’s food is terrific, the wait staff are attentive and funny, and there’s always an air of bonhomie in the 40-seat restaurant.

Aside from the terrific pizzas, the chef also makes a mean Mediterranean seafood soup ($10.90).

It arrives at the table smelling heavenly and is loaded with the good stuff – prawns with the heads still on, chunks of dory or seabass, squid rings, mussels and lots of vongole or clams.

The best part of the soup is, well, the soup. It is made with just tomatoes, garlic, flat-leaf Italian parsley and extra virgin olive oil. But it tastes gutsy, hearty and full of the flavours of the sea, which come from the prawn heads and the juice from the clams and mussels.

Ask for some warm bread to sop up the juices, suck on those prawn heads and you are suddenly transported to Italy.

For those who lament the small size of the restaurant, Chef Lafiandra has heeded the call for larger, more roomy premises.

At the end of this month, he will open a 70-seat restaurant at the Singapore Art Museum in Bras Basah Road. But I’d still make reservations, just in case.