Working late today so we ended up at Upper Thomson area again… This time, we decided to try Cafe Etc because of its late closing time!
By Location
Sun Ray Cafe @Serangoon Gardens
Quote from the menu
We had initially intended to check out The Coffee Daily… But we walked past Sun Ray Cafe first and the very friendly host, plus the phrase “We roast our coffee” made us pause our steps and give its neighbour a skip 😛
This cafe occupies 2 shop houses and one shop house is specially catered for diners with pets! We saw a couple of diners came in with their dogs and both were happily having their meals together!
Categories: Coffee/Tea Break, North
Tags: cafe, cake, latte, matcha latte, salted caramel, Serangoon Gardens
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[closed] CRAFT Bakery & Cafe @Holland Village
Note: CRAFT Bakery & Cafe has ceased operations at this location.
Got to have kopi…
After a less-than-filling dinner at Cucina, we decided to look for a cafe to nibble more food…
We found the last 2-seater available indoors at CRAFT Bakery & Cafe, and we still couldn’t quite figure out where Mu Palour was, so we decided to stay here instead.
The Craft was sold out 😦 Hubby decided on the Har Cheong Kai burger while I settled for a original Lava Cake. Ok… I did say nibble right? Hubby is not a fan of sweet desserts, so he had to order something savoury right 😛
Actually, I’m also not super huge on sweet desserts, but hey! Lava Cake is supposed to be good here…
Categories: Central, Coffee/Tea Break, Dinner
Tags: burger, cafe, chicken, Holland Village, latte, lava cake
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Omakase Dinner @A secret restaurant
So we were trying so hard to get seats at Teppei that we gave up. Then came G’s friend, JY, who happened to know a chef in a Japanese restaurant, and she had seats for Omakase dinner! She very generously offered to bring us along and we were so excited (even though it’s not Teppei, haha…)!
Categories: Central, Dinner
Tags: anago, beef, century egg, chawanmushi, Japanese, Orchard, restaurant, sashimi, scallop, swordfish, uni
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Carpenter and Cook Jr @Upper Thomson
Same frontage
Having only just a coffee at Whale & Cloud is definitely not enough, so we venture on to find breakfast!
Carpenter and Cook (in Lorong Kilat) opened a new takeaway outlet in Jasmine Road and they named it Carpenter and Cook Jr. The website says no seating here, but there are still some counter seats inside and a couple of alfresco chairs if you want to just laze around and watch the world pass-by…
Besides selling freshly home-made baked goods and confectionery, they also sell curated vintage furniture, home decor, as well as provide dessert tables, styling services, vintage props and decor for weddings, parties, photo-shoots and more!
This interesting place was setup by 3 friends, a Carpenter (Phoebe who picks out beautiful vintage pieces), a Cook (Shenn who trained at the prestigious Cordon Bleu in London) and a And (Eunice who likes to dabble in a bit of everything). 🙂
Whale & Cloud @Rochor
A hidden passageway?
Many will seek but not all shall find
That’s written on their Instagram profile page.
And their exact address is 48¾ Niven Road (kind of reminds you of the famous Platform Nine and Three Quarters at King’s Cross Station in London featured in a very long movie series). 🙂
This is a highly secretive cafe hideout with so much interesting stuff about it, that was introduced to us by G’s friend.
Maybe secretive is not the word, because I don’t believe they intended to be secretive. It’s only that the location is kind of obscure and you need patience to find it (maybe not now, since there has been tons of post of exact directions, complete with picture guide, to lead you to the place). 🙂
There’s more to this place than meets the eyes…
Sumiya Charcoal Grill Izakaya @Orchard Central
High tabletop
Needed to go Orchard for an escape game in the afternoon, so we stopped by Sumiya Charcoal Grill Izakaya because we didn’t managed to dine here the last time.
This restaurant belongs to the RES Group, the same group that also owns Ichiban Sushi, Shimbashi Soba and the whole lot of 10 Japanese restaurants (Shokutsu 10) in nex. We thought we would be able to use our Ichiban rewards card but we can’t; they have their own rewards card. 🙂
The deco is quite modern with high tables and chairs which are not typical of Japanese restaurants.
As part of the welcome (and farewell, I guess) a waitress will strike a drum whenever customers enter (or leave) the restaurant. It actually startled us because there wasn’t a lot of customers at this time when we were there. Haha…
Categories: Central, Lunch
Tags: chirashi, Japanese, natto, Orchard, restaurant, yakitori
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NamNam Noodle Bar@Plaza Singapura
Nam Nam!
We wanted an early dinner before heading to Stephanie Sun’s concert (scream!) and there were empty seats at Nam Nam… Finally! The queue at Raffles City always made us wonder if the food was really so good, or if it’s because the prices were very reasonable for a place in town area.
We were happy to have seats by the counter in front of the kitchen area, so we got our seats immediately. We ordered a Pho Beef Steak Slices ($8.90) and Grilled Chicken, Egg Omelette and Chicken Floss Banh Mi (baguette $7.90).
Categories: Central, Dinner
Tags: baguette, Dhoby Ghaut, noodle, pho, Plaza Singapura, sandwich, vietnamese
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Burpz Cafe & Bakery @AMK
Newly opened!
Nice deco!
We chanced upon the website while surfing for neighborhood cafés and were pleasantly surprised by this new establishment that had opened only on May this year!
So while we were waiting for our blueberry cheesecake pie to cool down in the fridge, we brought our niece there for an early dinner!
The cafe was small but had both indoor and outdoor seating. Plenty of new magazines available for browsing and free wifi was available (get password from the staff), so we ended up spending a few hours here 🙂
Categories: Coffee/Tea Break, Dinner, North
Tags: alfresco, Ang Mo Kio, burger, cafe, fish, latte
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GRUB @Bishan Park 1
After a slow walk…
We were up early and took a slow walk (part of our new exercise regime) to Bishan Park!
It was a leisurely 40-min walk and at the end of it, we decided to go to GRUB (again!!) for breakfast today!
As we arrived shortly after it was opened for the day, we didn’t have to queue (or use the unique queue system which they shared with Wild Honey), yeah!
Categories: Breakfast, North
Tags: Bishan, cafe, egg, french toast, latte, park, sausage
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Eat.Eat.Walk.Walk . 吃吃走走 