Sparklette Magazine » Mexican http://sparklette.net Award-winning Singapore food blog. Reviews, blog, deals and promotions for the best food, restaurants, hotels, resorts and vacations in Singapore, Thailand and Asia. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:27:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chili’s Grill and Bar – Hot Stuff!http://sparklette.net/food/chilis/ http://sparklette.net/food/chilis/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:07:34 +0000 Veron Ang http://sparklette.net/?p=920 Tip: To set the mood, listen to Chili’s Radio Network while reading this post. They have some GREAT music over there!

With a name like Chili’s, you can be sure that the food is sizzling hot and packed with flavour!

Chili’s Grill and Bar, the casual dining restaurant chain originating from Dallas opened in Singapore in 2009, its 200th restaurant worldwide. It brings to town an expansive and diverse menu so diners can chow down on their signature fajitas, American favourites such as ribs and burgers, and Tex-Mex cuisine, while sipping on one of their margaritas.

The decor is Southwestern-America style and the atmosphere is vibrant and lively, with ample booth seats, a bar and flat screen TVs showing sports. As part of its tradition, every Chili’s restaurant also sports a single upside down photo. We try to eye-hunt it down whilst waiting for our food, but once the piping hot dishes arrive, we dive in and give up on the photo hunting. If you do find it, let us know!

Chili's margarita grilled chicken

Margarita grilled chicken
S$14.90++
Rating:

I am particularly excited to try the margarita grilled chicken, because it looks every bit like one of those colourful Tex-Mex dishes with refried beans and Pico de gallo I fell in love with during my last trip to Dallas. I have been trying to locate decent Mexican or Tex-Mex food in Singapore ever since and haven’t found any. Swensen’s did try once but flopped.

The slab of chicken breast is seasoned with margarita mix and grilled. This is served atop rice with crispy tortilla strips on a bed of black beans, and topped with Pico de gallo. I think there is supposed to be tequila in it but I haven’t tasted any.

A Mexican expatriate once told me there is no such thing as good Mexican or Tex-Mex food in Singapore. For a long time I had to agree with him. Well, Chili’s does not disappoint and this is by far the best taste I’ve had of Tex-Mex cuisine in a long while.

Chili's Chicken Crispers

Chicken Crispers
S$19.90++
Rating:

Right off the chicken menu comes the Crispers. These are chunky strips of hand-battered chicken, served with sweet corn on the cob, a large portion of fries, and honey-mustard dressing. The chicken is tender, but pretty plain on its own. So do make full use of the dip, which is delicious and adds a lot of flavour.

For extra crispy and spicy Crispers, go for the honey-chipotle variety that is tossed in a spicy sauce.

Chili's chocolate molten cake

Chocolate molten cake
S$13.90++

The chocolate molten cake is highly recommended. This is similar to my favourite dessert, the chocolate lava cake. It is warm chocolate cake topped with vanilla ice cream, with a core of warm chocolate fudge filling.

Chili's Grill and Bar

On a return visit, I am definitely having a fajita and a margarita!

Chili’s
Tanglin Mall
163 Tanglin Road #02-23
Singapore 247933
Tel: +65 6733 3317 | Website
Service:

Bus services: 7, 75, 77, 105, 106, 111, 123, 132, 174, NR8, 174E
Nearest MRT: Orchard

Opening hours:
11am – 10pm (Sun – Thurs)
11am – 11pm (Fri – Sat)

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]]> 18 Tequila Rosehttp://sparklette.net/food/tequila-rose/ http://sparklette.net/food/tequila-rose/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:36:51 +0000 Veron Ang http://sparklette.net/archives/we-made-a-pact/ I bid farewell to my good friend, Fernando, yesterday. He would be doing his Master’s at the Vancouver Film School. That’s pretty cool, isn’t it? He’s one of the very few talented people I know that’s in the field of design, and one of the few friends that actually understand and appreciate my work, and me as a person.

Of course, being the awfully sweet dude that he’s always been, he got me this before he left, knowing how much I love it:

Tequila Rose

Ta-da! A bottle of Tequila Rose! Sweet, yummy, strawberry cream goodness! The black bottle with the rose emblem is almost too pretty!

Last December I was introduced to this drink at Café Iguana (credits to Tony a.k.a. Aristocrat for buying me my first Tequila Rose on the rocks. Coincidentally I was also with Fernando at that time). I was hooked ever since. Apparently it’s pretty rare too. Each time I ask for tequila rose at any pub outside of Café Iguana, they never have it (or have even heard of it).

Thanks dude! Now I can, err, drink this at home every night! I think the ladies would totally love this. It’s sweet and milky, pretty much the best-tasting alcoholic drink there can be.

Well, saying goodbye is always sad, never easy, even if it’s just for a year. Each time I bid farewell to someone whom I care about, my heart breaks a little! Damn, I hate goodbyes!

But anyhow, we made a pact (on the back of some coffee coasters at tcc, no less, since that’s where we were)!

Our pact, to meet again a year later

We have pledged to meet up at the same place when he returns from Canada a year from now. Does this sound high school? It’s my idea actually, and a rather good one. I have a high tendency in losing touch with friends once we stop seeing each other.

Farewell dude, I’m gonna miss you very much. Take care!

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