The new Dutch Colony Coffee UE Square outlet is their third cafe in Singapore. They started with the outlet at Pasarbella in Turf City, followed by the second and bigger one in Frankel Avenue. Branch #3, Dutch Colony UE Square, brings them into the River Valley / Clark Quay area and closer to downtown Singapore.
Read More »New Dutch Colony UE Square outlet – good coffee comes to River Valley
The Paragon at Orchard Road hosts some of the major names in the Singapore F&B business, names like Ding Tai Fung, Crystal Jade and Imperial Treasures, PS Cafe etc. We were looking for something to eat but were hoping to try something less well-known. That was when we came across Amiral Atelier Paragon. It looked like it could be a bakery, a cake shop or a cafe. On closer examination, it turned out to be a mix of all three, but mainly a cake shop.
Read More »Amiral Atelier Paragon – a breathe of fresh air in a crowded city
Isetan Scotts Food Hall is quite small but it is a vibrant and interesting place to explore. Located in the basement supermarket, there is a bakery and a pastry section where colourful products are beautifully presented. If you are on a tight budget or on a strict diet, don’t go there. We stumbled into Isetan Scotts Food Hall and spent more than we should and ended up eating more than we could afford.
Read More »Isetan Scotts Food Hall – Sweet Potatoes, Cakes & Bread
The Providore Mandarin Gallery cafe that overlooks Orchard Road has recently undergone some changes and has reopened, bright and refreshed. Although there is some gloom in the retail scene on Orchard Road because of cautious consumers and reduced tourism (see Straits Times article Cautious consumers, falling retail sales, high cost and strong dollar leading to empty malls ),  it is still hard to get an indoor table at the Providore cafe. They must be doing something right.
Read More »The Providore Mandarin Gallery cafe – improved and reopened Aug 2016
Mad About Sucre is a delightful French restaurant and patisserie. Many may already know about the pastry skills of the chefs there. With decades of working in Paris and having a name that proclaims that they are “mad about sugar”, one can presume that they will be good with producing the sweet stuff. We heard that they had recently started serving regular warm food in addition to their famous desserts and so we headed to Mad About Sucre for lunch recently.
Read More »Mad About Sucre, French restaurant and patisserie in Chinatown
The Coffee Daily is a small little cafe tucked away in a row of shophouses that is a distance away from the central round-about area of Serangoon Garden. It is located along Brighton Crescent, which is at the edge of the Serangoon Garden estate, near Yio Chu Kang Road. It is a cafe which we had not been to in a long while. We dropped in to see if it anything has changed.
Read More »The Coffee Daily – tiny cafe in Serangoon Garden