Famed NYC Pizzeria Roberta’s, Said To Be Beyoncé’s Fave, Opening S’pore Outlet

The pizzeria has outlets in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Nashville. And by the first quarter of 2022, it will open its first Asia outpost in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands, next to celeb chef Daniel Boulud’s db Bistro & Oyster Bar.

According to a Roberta’s rep, the 50-seat restaurant will serve “the brand’s entire pizza and salad menu with all the favourites from Roberta’s”. (The US branches also have homely pasta dishes and baked goods - fingers crossed that it will be offered here too.)

Signature pie favourites include the Bee Sting (topped with honey, chilli oil and soppressata, an Italian dry-cured pork salami), Famous Original (with tomato, mozzarella, parmigiano and gourd-shaped caciocavallo cheese), White Guy (mozzarella, ricotta, parmigiano and garlic) and the divine-sounding Cheesus Christ.

An Italy-imported wood-fired oven - the same kind used at all of Roberta’s outlets - will be installed at its MBS restaurant. Its kitchen team, with some Singaporean chefs, trained with Roberta’s chef-owner Carlo Mirarchi in Los Angeles, while the rep says the “core Singapore management have trained in Brooklyn under [co-owner] Brandon [Hoy's] guidance in preparation for the opening”. Brandon and Carlo, ”alongside other core staff from the US”, will also be flying into Singapore to oversee the opening.

Roberta’s Singapore opens circa Q1 2022 at B1 The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands.

Photos: Roberta’s, Yip Jieying