The Naughty Chef serves up Italian indulgences in Bedok Marketplace, bringing a nice variety to the cuisines on offer there. Freshly baked pizzas and homemade pastas are all yours to savor, and they’re quite affordable as well.

Their daily special on the day I visited was this 10 inch beef cheek with Gorgonzola cheese & portobello mushroom pizza at $19 nett, and boy did I net myself a superb deal.

The massive chunks of beef cheeks were stupendously savory and insanely tender. So tender, in fact, that all you need to tear up those thick cheeks are your teeth. The Gorgonzola cheese was a little too mild, but did it’s part by adding a salty, thoroughly enjoyable cheesy element to the pizza. The earthiness and chewiness of the portobello mushrooms rounded off the pizza’s flavor & texture profile very nicely.

Of course, the pizza wouldn’t have been as half as great as it is without that handsome, homemade pizza dough. It has just the right thickness, airiness and chewiness to endear it exceedingly to me. The dough really made The Naughty Chef’s beef cheek with Gorgonzola & portobello pizza a truly well rounded pie.

Priced at just $19, I would not hesitate to clap these dummy thicc cheeks repeatedly.