Donna Carmela Traditional Home Style Cooking

Donna Carmela Traditional Home Style Cooking
2 Greenwood Avenue
Singapore 289189
T 6463-4206

Hit Greenwood for a spot of lunch at Peperoni Pizza (6 Greenwood Ave) only to find a notice on the door that they had closed 3 days ago (indefinitely!!) for renovations. Sigh! Thankfully, there’s still Casa Verde at the Botanics. Pity about Peperoni, as we had only been there once and enjoyed the pasta and pizza served there, we had so anticipated an encore visit today!!

[Is it me, or do the places at this stretch of Greenwood Avenue not seem to last very long? It’s definitely NOT that the food is bad, but somehow, restaurant fronts here keep changing, like those mediaboards you see all over town.]

So anyway, two steps along was the newly-opened Donna Carmela (one month old, according to Steven who took care of us)… we allowed ourselves to be invited in.

We took a little time with our order – we to carefully consider how best to fill the limited tummy space available.

They started us off with a bread and antipasta sampler... Freshly baked and sliced bread accompanied by tiny pickled onions, tuna, antipasta pickled veggies.





We decided on the Tomato Caprese salad and Tuna Carpaccio for starters. The tomato and buffalo mozzarella cheese make surprisingly good partners - try it!

The tuna carpaccio certainly didn't disappoint either. It was a pleasing mix of onion, carrot, herbs, cheese among other delectable morsels atop a generous base of cured tuna carpaccio. We finished this in under 5 minutes.


We wanted to order the Porcini soup, but Steven politely advised us to re-consider since we did have plans to try dessert as well.

These were followed by (mains) Aglio Olio Peperoncino (spaghetti) w extra chilli – nice and hot! Liberally sprinkled with sliced garlic (yum) and small red chilli bits, this went down a treat. What I liked particularly was that it was not oversalted. I consumed every single strand of pasta (and it was a rather large plate).



And the chef’s special – the Donna Carmela (spaghetti) was a delicious, creamy tomato sauce with pork sausage – I’m afraid my description does no justice to how good the pasta actually was. This is somehthing everyone should try!

The dessert menu doesn’t feature tiramisu!!! But you wont miss it as there are several other things to choose from, and dessert serving sizes are just right for a sampler-style buffet – 3 people could share 3 to 5 items, something like that. We picked the Perfetto Ice Mango and the Coppa Tartufo – a good way to end a satisfying meal (in the excellent company of Beloved).

The bill came to just over $90 (incl plain water, coffee, no alcohol). Illy coffee (yay)!!

Their name card also has Caipirinha (Brazilian Churrascaria) – anyone know where that is (or did Donna Carmela replace Caipirinha?) No address was given on the name card for the latter.