Buttermilk waffle with mixed berries compote and vanilla ice cream from Atlas Coffeehouse. Whilst the mixed berries compote scythes at you with the seductively tarty vengeance of a most coquettish minx, the usually reliable waffle, though internally still proficient, had the wizened, sun-weathered skin of a Punggol-living septuagenarian. 3.5/5 Atlas…
Salmon soba noodles from Atlas Coffeehouse – glazed salmon, soba noodles, marinated shimeji, fried egg. Whilst the sour, vinegary noodles played it nice and cool, the salty glazed salmon possessed a Hermione Granger class participation-esque enthusiasm to gain favour with flavour. 3.6/5 Atlas Coffeehouse 6 Duke’s Road Singapore 268886
Earl Grey Caramel Waffle from Atlas Coffeehouse – earl grey caramel sauce, vanilla ice cream. The dusky earl grey beauty vanishes into the night as mysteriously as she appeared, whilst elsewhere the waffle maintains a light crisp on the outside while having a buttery 3-ply softness on the inside. 4/5…
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
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…
“Orh Nee” from The Halia at Singapore Botanic Gardens – frozen home-made yam parfait, pumpkin purée, candied gingko nuts & lotus seeds. Essentially a rich, fragrant yam cake-mousse which is likely to evoke memories of coconut-based neighbourhood confectionery cakes you had as a TAF club child. The pumpkin purée was…
Snow White in the Blackforest from Halia (Singapore Botanic Gardens) – fresh red apple sorbet in a white chocolate casing, kirsch marinated cherries, dark choux branch, chocolate crumble, whipped cream and castor sugar soil. So jawdroppingly, show-stoppingly gorgeous a concept that the food could have been shit and all would…
The Ginger Garden from Halia (Singapore Botanic Gardens) – ginger flower sherbet, banana fritter goreng pisang, young root ginger crumble, edible flowers. The sherbet tasted like a floral Sprite soda, while both the chewy biscuit and candy had the sharp, distinct taste of ginger. The goreng pisang had a most…
Halia’s Singapore-style chilli crab spaghettini in spicy, sweet & tangy sauce. The crab bits were big, firm and intact, as if they were extracted fully from the shell instead of being all minced and clumpy. The spaghettini was nicely thin and slurpsome, and the spiciness at play is subtle -…