Full English breakfast with “foot-long” sausage from Claude’s – scrambled eggs, stewed beans, hashbrown, bacon, roasted tomatoes, chunky salsa, warm bread and fresh salad with parsley crumble and truffle butter. Not your typical brunch experience, flavour-wise. The girth of the masculinely spicy, Chinese-esque and well-endowed sausage was ideal for easy…
Assembly’s Brick Toast from Assembly Coffee – “Shibuya” honey brick toasts topped with vanilla ice cream, artisan honey Greek yogurt and fruits. Essentially mega crispy sugar biscuit cubes with razor-sharp, stiletto heel-esque edges. 3.7/5 Assembly Coffee 26 Evans Road Singapore 259367
Norwegian Royale from The Reading Room – smoked salmon, French-style scrambled eggs (no milk added), French butter and arugula on two French toasts. While the soggy toast sagged under the pressure of its French parents’ eggy demands, the absolute smorgasbord of warm egg and salmon chunks atop the toasts (hidden…
Tropical Paradise toast from Les Patisseries – coconut brioche, fresh mango, caramelised pineapple, candied almond, mango sorbet. The thick, tall toasts are bread trees, and the other tropical elements a refreshing sweet waterfall that cascades relentlessly. 3.6/5 Les Patisseries 222 Upper Thomson Road Singapore S574354
Roast pepper and chilli frittatas from Birdcage Bistro. Essentially the spicy omelette equivalent of receiving full marks for the MCQ section of a Primary Four science paper. 3.8/5 Birdcage Bistro 312 Old Birdcage Walk #01-12 Singapore 798485
Sriracha maple bacon, avocado and sourdough toast from Plonk. The bacon was like the wavy-haired nymph at the bar you knew was trouble when you walked in – chewy and an alluring BBQ powder-esque spicy at first, but eventually revealing itself to be insistently sticky and possessive. Elsewhere, the avocado…
Orange Cinnamon French Toast from 20F Specialty Coffeehouse – orange cinnamon, french toast, bacon, mixed berries, maple mascarpone. Wisps of aromatic orange peels lurked within the happily eggy toast, whilst elsewhere the bacon gets a silver star sticker for doing good in crackling crispiness class. 3.8/5 20F Specialty Coffeehouse 20…
Classic French toast from Shen & Co. – thick egg toasts, cinnamon apple compote, chopped nuts, whipped cream, honey and caramel sauce. Essentially how French toast would be done if your doting, generous aunt made brekkie – the delicious buttery egginess provides a familiar homemade comfort, whilst the cinnamon apple…
Cinnamon French Toast from The Halia (Singapore Botanic Gardens) – fresh seasonal berries, white chocolate sauce, Iranian pistachio. The moisture-challenged bread was a non-starter, thankfully made more pleasant by the thick white chocolate sauce which when tasted on its own revealed its happily sweet nature but when applied to the…