I've eaten at Fig & Olive a couple of times, once at the Downtown East branch and once at this VivoCity branch. Both times, the food, while not fantastic, was good enough to satisfy the hungry tummy. However, my meal last night was a HUGE disappointment.

My friend & I had just gotten out of a movie premiere were starving since we couldn't grab a bite before then. We scouted around for dinner and decided on Fig & Olive, based on my previous experience & the price. This was around 9pm, and the restaurant had only one other table with a party of 3 before we came in (we were the last customers for the day). The restaurant was having a set meal offer which we settled for, consisting of 2 mains, 2 drinks, 2 soups and a plate for bruschettas (4 pieces). The mains were the cheesy fish & grilled chicken with spaghetti.

The soups came first and were TERRIBLE. It was like drinking a soup of salt! I couldn't tell what soup it was although I would've guess it's Mushroom but all I got was just creamy salt. 2 spoonfuls later, I was done with that. Moving on to the mains, the cheesy fish was edible but not outstanding or fantastic. It was breaded fish (slightly overdone) with a bed of unevenly distributed cheese. The fries, on the otherhand, were better. The Grilled Chicken & Pasta was a sad disappointment as well. Chicken was not juicy or tender (read: dry & hard) and the pasta was tasteless, although it was only meant to be a simple tomato based pasta with chunks of tomatos. The only winner of it all were the bruschettas which was very simply done with a slight garlic butter spread, tomato cubes & onions with thousand island dressing on the side. The bread was soft enough but again, nothing to rave about.

However, seeing that we were starving & the food is already in front of us, we dug in anyway but note that we weren't satisfied at all after that.

The only thing they got right were the 2 glasses of coke (a no brainer) and the bruschettas which were child's play.

Maybe it was because we were the last customer's of the day so the food was compromised a great deal but that's no excuse. A business is a business. So to sum it up, the entire dinner was a great DISAPPOINTMENT.

I won't recommend this to anyone. Not only was it unsatisfactory, both my friend and I got home to down a gallon water because we were just too thirsty from all that salt/MSG.