{"id":90452,"date":"2026-10-05T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90452"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:21:00","slug":"casa-vostra-and-la-bottega-chef-opens-eastern-mediterranean-restaurant-petra-at-dempsey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90452","title":{"rendered":"Casa Vostra and La Bottega chef opens Eastern Mediterranean restaurant Petra at Dempsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cA Levantine restaurant has been on my mind for many years, ever since Lebanese and Middle Eastern food became my everyday staple when I lived in London,\u201d Miscellaneo, who is executive chef-owner of Petra, told CNA Lifestyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was simply waiting for the right opportunity. When it came, the idea had grown beyond a Lebanese cafe into something broader: a restaurant drawing on the whole Eastern Mediterranean, with the Levant at its heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPetra is my chance to finally bring that idea to life: food that is clean and delicious, the kind I want to eat every day because I genuinely crave it, and because it happens to be good for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miscellaneo started his culinary journey in Singapore with cult private-dining concept Casa Nostra, eventually opening his first restaurant, La Bottega Enoteca, in Joo Chiat in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Although he\u2019s known for Italian cooking in Singapore, this is an opportunity to not play to type. \u201cAs an Italian, I know how varied our everyday diet really is. But, outside Italy, people come to an Italian restaurant for pasta and pizza, and that&#8217;s what they expect,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/dining\/petra-dempsey-mediterranean-restaurant-casa-vostra-la-bottega-589906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Levantine restaurant has been on my mind for many years, ever since Lebanese and Middle Eastern food became my everyday staple when I lived&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}