From 13 to 15 November 2026, Chef Armando Aristarco of Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, Amalfi Coast is cooking alongside Chef Daniele Sperindio at L’Amo Bistrò del Mare in METT Singapore. There’s a S$188++ six-course menu and a S$98++ three-course lunch, so an Amalfi holiday that lives on your someday list can land on a Fort Canning table instead.
The collaboration is called Four Hands, and it runs for three days only, which leaves very little room for a “let’s go next week” in the group chat. It’s the rare screenshot-worthy dinner plan that arrives with a fixed price you can budget around, and that alone makes it worth a look.
Six Courses Along the Coast
The Four Hands Dining Experience costs S$188++ per person and runs at both lunch and dinner, with the double plus meaning service charge and GST (goods and services tax) go on top. According to the printed menu, it opens with an aperitivo of two snacks: a chickpea wafer with stracchino cheese and culatello ham, and a savoury meringue bruschetta with tomato cheesecake and olive.
Sperindio’s Crudo di Santa Margherita comes next, pairing amberjack crudo and red prawn with oscietra caviar, pear and chamomile. The menu then heads south to Campania, the region around Naples, for three dishes from Aristarco. There are cannellini beans from a Slow Food Presidia producer (a label the Slow Food movement gives to traditional products it works to protect) with Mediterranean black mussels and toasted pane cafone, followed by a Campanian risone with garlic, olive oil and anchovies.
The third is Zuppa di Pesce… Un Giro in Costiera, a seafood stew of scampi, octopus, catch of the day and crostone, whose name loosely means “a trip along the coast”. L’Amo’s Vitello Tartufato (roasted veal, porcini, radicchio tardivo and truffle) then turns inland for an autumn course.
Caruso’s Il Limone closes the meal. It’s a sablé with lemon mousse made with Sfusato Amalfitano I.G.P., the Amalfi lemon variety that carries Italy’s protected geographical indication (that’s the I.G.P.). A trio of L’Amo petits fours follows, including a dark chocolate and hazelnut bite called Gianduiotto 2.0, and that lemon dessert sounds like the course people will be posting about!
The Amalfi Half of Four Hands
Aristarco leads Il Pantaleone, the newly opened restaurant at Caruso inside the historic Palazzo Afflitto. There, he cooks under a philosophy he calls Antiqua Cucina Nova, roughly “old cooking made new”. Belmond describes it as dishes built from only a few carefully chosen elements that honour the culinary traditions of Naples and the Mediterranean.
Belmond says the hotel sits 350 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea on a cliff’s edge, with 52 rooms and suites, 18th-century frescoes and lemon trees in the gardens. The brand has been part of LVMH, the group behind Louis Vuitton and Moët Hennessy, since 2019, which tells you what tier of holiday this lunch is borrowing from.
Aristarco sums up his approach in plain terms: “Our cuisine begins with respect. Respect for the ingredient, for those who produce it and for the culinary traditions that have shaped our identity.” He calls the Singapore trip “a wonderful opportunity to build a dialogue between two Italian culinary stories connected by the sea”, which is a chef’s way of saying the menu passes back and forth between two kitchens.
You can see that handover on paper, because every course on the menu carries a L’Amo or Caruso label. It means you always know whose plate is in front of you, a nice touch for anyone keeping score between the two chefs.
On the Singapore side, Sperindio is METT Singapore’s Director of Culinary & F&B (food and beverage) and the chef behind ART di Daniele Sperindio. He says Belmond’s “deep respect for culture, craft and sense of place” makes this “a particularly meaningful collaboration for METT Singapore”.
Put together, the pairing reads as a proper split. Sperindio bookends the meal with raw seafood and veal, while Aristarco takes the Campanian middle and the dessert, so neither chef is a guest star on the other’s menu.
Lunch Is the Smarter Booking
The three-course lunch at S$98++ per person is the one we’d book. According to the printed menus, it keeps the same aperitivo, Aristarco’s risone and seafood stew, Il Limone and the petits fours, dropping only the crudo, the cannellini dish and the veal.
That gets you the Caruso core for a little over half the price of the full menu, which makes it the sharper pick if Amalfi is what you came for. The six-course version earns its price as a dinner occasion, especially if the caviar-topped crudo and the truffle veal are what caught your eye.
One practical note: the aperitivo on both menus includes culatello, a cured pork ham, and the menus mark allergens such as dairy, gluten, fish, crustaceans and nuts dish by dish, so raise any dietary needs when you reserve.
L’Amo, the Fort Canning Edition
L’Amo started in Dubai Harbour in 2022 and is run by Sunset Hospitality Group, with its Singapore outpost at METT Singapore on the grounds of Fort Canning Park, steps from Orchard Road. The listed heritage building celebrates its 100th anniversary this year with 84 rooms and suites.
Its everyday menu centres on Italian coastal flavours, so a chef whose whole idea is the sea fits right in. For anyone who treats November as eating season, this slots in nicely beside the kind of picks in our 13 Things To Do In Singapore: November 2024 guide.
The three days fall on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so the residency covers a full weekend plus one weekday lunch for anyone who can slip out of the office.
Bookings go through L’Amo’s Four Hands page on SevenRooms, or by phone and email if you’d rather speak to someone about seating and dietary needs.
Our verdict is simple. If you’ve been saving Amalfi photos for years, the S$98++ lunch gets you the most Caruso for the least money, and the S$188++ menu is the birthday or anniversary upgrade.
🗓️ Date: Friday, 13 November to Sunday, 15 November 2026
⏰ Time: Lunch 12pm to 2.30pm; dinner 6pm to 10.30pm
📍 Location: L’Amo Bistrò del Mare, METT Singapore, 11 Canning Walk, Singapore 178881
💰 Price: Six-course Four Hands menu at S$188++ per person (lunch and dinner); three-course lunch menu at S$98++ per person
🔗 Details: SevenRooms booking page, +65 9783 5503 or dining.reservationssg@metthotelsandresorts.com
Three days, two kitchens and a lemon dessert with a protected name make this about as close to the Amalfi Coast as a Fort Canning lunch gets. Lock in your table on L’Amo’s Four Hands reservation page before 15 November slips past, and send it to the friend who keeps promising you that Italy trip!
Photos and Visuals courtesy of Belmond and METT Singapore.
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