Privé Bakery Cafe @ Keppel Bay

On an island, not far away from mainland Singapore, there stood an awesome place. It's a dreamland indeed. All it takes is just a bridge across.

Never been to a place like this before where you can view parked yachts and a breathtaking scenery? Just head down to Keppel Bay, near Vivocity but it will probably take a long time for you to reach there, top it all up with the stinging heat. Think you will definitely not want to walk. Hazel and I took a cab. Entering that place, we saw the bridge. Pretty yet un-Singapore-ish. How I wish this place could be somewhere in Europe man!

Just walk a little further down and you will see Keppel Bay Vista, a place where there are many restaurants such as TCC and this one that I'm gonna introduce to you. Welcome Privé Bakery Cafe with their all-day breakfast and nice cakes and pastries. It totally makes you drool when you are inside with them. As the weather was pretty warm, Hazel and I decided to take a seat inside rather than having the breathtaking view outside while sweating like nuts.

First up, we were surprised that this place sells a usual/ normal range of TWG teas for just a mere $4.80+, as compared to the shop itself at Ion Orchard that sells for $10.45++ per pot. As usual, I got myself English Breakfast blend while Hazel got her favourite Vanilla Bourbon tea. Being the tea lover us, we just ordered one each to satiate ourselves while brunching.

Served in small classy white pots, we slowly sipped our tea while waiting for our awesome food to be ready.

This Fluffy pancakes (13.50++) may just make you salivate like nobody's business because the toppings are really , albeit a little dry s0mehow. Pancakes coupled with strawberries and bananas in three layers and some sweet maple syrup and sweet whipped cream just sweeten up your day! What a great way to start your day!

The Ultimate Breakfast (17++) is totally a plateful of energy that you need to start up your day. It's the grandest that they could ever offer for some great nutrition. Toast, tomatoes, bacon, mushrooms, sausages, greens and some eggs of your choice. What is there not to like about this? 

However, Hazel mentioned that she liked the English breakfast set at Jones the Grocer more because it simply just have the wildest and juiciest of all mushrooms and tomatoes. Freshest spread ever. This is just a personal opinion but  just trying to make a little balance of our critics so that no one will be disappointed when you go there to try the food.

I wanted to try the Eggs Benedict (Bacon) and Eggs Royale (Salmon) there as I read from some food blogs that there are also something that you must try. :) But I'm just afraid that the portion may not be enough. 

Total bill was SGD 44.20 after taxes. In my opinion, the food was not that awesome but the place is definitely wonderful if you feel like enjoying some pretty scenery on a weekend. What's more it's relatively more afforable compared to other places which offers breakfast. Maybe, I would come back again to try their main course. After which, Hazel and I slowly walked out of the place whilst taking photos in the scenic place. :)

Privé bakery café
2 Keppel Bay Vista
GF Marina @ Keppel Bay
Tel: 6776 0777

Hatched @ Evans Lodge

I usually have a soft spot for a lazy day out when I'm really lazy. That means I love to go to a place which is quiet and doesnt usually have that much people. This is good for people who dislikes crowds and that's me at times, depending on my mood! :) One place that I would recommend is this cozy little eatery at Evans Lodge in Bukit Timah (near Botanic Gardens area) called Hatched. It's really a very lazy people. The moment you go in, the yellow lighting makes you feel like just lazing yourself out.

With eggy-stuff as their main designing concept, this little place is really filled with warmth and suitable for kids. Oh and it's also great if you bring your partner here on a weekday evening like the Wednesday where we went as they serve many types of beers and wines too. I like their "chalkboard-inspired wall" with all the cute drawings as the cuteness simply would attract kids, like me.

Another thing that captured my attention to a great extent is this cute little cartoonish menu. So who is gonna say this place aint for kids? For adults who also have a little tinge of kiddy spirit, this is really your type of place.

We waited for a short while before our food got served and we have got great service for this waitress who is pretty humourous. Do catch her if you are there.

I ordered this Papillote (SGD12) as I would love to have some lovely smoked salmon to go along with my eggs. As my friend and I went at the time of dinner, some little non-breakfast course would be great to go along with our eggy meal. The salmon were fresh as I could taste the freshness with a little bite and the potatoes were the better quality ones that could stand on its on. The idea of the two toast below those salmon-wrapped eggs were interesting as I can eat them together as one, like how you eat a burger. Yet again, the tomatoes were fresh. Totally juicy and I liked the way they grilled it. :)

My friend, a scrambled egg person, ordered this El Chorizo (SGD 14) as she's not a fishy person. She prefers a much more meatier option as compared to me. I think the portion for this is quite huge because she couldnt finish the sausages and so I had to help her with it. The dish is named this way mainly cos of the Chorizo sausage which is the Spanish term that is made from pork and paprika. My friend mentioned that she liked the scrambled eggs. The mashed potatoes were good too as the potatoes were fresh.

We sinned our stomach even more for this thick and fluffy pancakes (Happy trio for SGD10) (which we couldnt finish but I ate one of them). It's really really thick and nicely done and this is the type of pancakes which I would go back for more next time.

This meal has been a great All-day breakfast dinner. With a sweet service, sweet food and sweet (romantic) ambience, I believe it's a place which I would come back for more great food. Total bill was SGD 40 with no GST and service charge as they do not charge it. I asked the waitress why and she told me they wanted to give their lovely service for free.

However, the only problem is the difficulty in accessing this little place. It's always not easy to travel in Bukit Timah because the roads are one-way and there's always heavy traffic especially in the evening. So it's great if you have your own vehicle. Some of my friends asked me why I took all the difficulty to travel to such difficult places to have food. I told them, it's all because of the passion for having good food. I would often refer to the many famous food bloggers that I follow such as ladyironchef and camemberu to seek inspiration about nice food places. AS they have more experience than I do, I trust and believe in what they say. They are not only great critics, at least I get a range of ideas about the place before I go and try. In life, we learn from people everyday. So, isn't this the wonder of technology? :)


Hatched
26 Evans Road
#01-06 Evans Lodge
Tel: +65 6735 0012
* All Day Brunch: 8am – 10pm (Closed on Mon)

Jones the Grocer @ Dempsey Hill

On a bright yet lazy Sunday late morning, my foodie friends and I met for a great English-style breakfast at Jones the Grocer. Despite them being an Australian food place, they serve English-style breakfast due to their links with Britain as the latter was their colonial masters before. Most of Australian influences for the normal Whites were drawn from the British. We shall take a look at this place.

Located at Dempsey Road's hill, it's not easy a place to go but for those Westerners residing in Singapore, this is definitely a must-go haunt. :) We started off with a 15-mins wait as there was a long queue. Do make a reservation before hand to avoid long queue disappointments. While waiting, we looked around the place as they have a little grocery shop. Realised I didnt really have a nice photo of the shop so I decided to not upload but will do so the next time I visit that place.


The breakfast/brunch menu is awesome. I ordered English Breakfast tea, and milkshake was the rule of thumb for the other two.

Chocolate Milkshake. 4.50SGD ++.

And not to forget, my tea.

Now now, here's the best part. The food part of course! Introducing the Jones English breakfast Set. What a sumptuous spread we have in there.

There were eggs (of your choice), sausage, bacon, wild mushrooms, tomato and sour dough bread with butter. 

Imagine yourself indulging in this plate of food in lovely summer weather in the UK or Aussie. How nice! I liked how fresh the tomatoes were, they were sooo juicy that when you cut, it comes out nicely. It wouldnt split and splatter like those normal ones you eat at home and it's OMGosh soooo HUGE. Sally commented that the bacon was nicely salted. Hazel loved the wild mushroom for being just soooo wild. We all loved the bread and tomatoes. and not to forget our nicely scrambled eggs.

Nothing ever tastes soo milky that this but I like it.

Overall, this place has a good English breakfast feel on a hilly area. Breakfast for three costs a little pricey at 77plus but the portion that we had was definitely worth the price, they had 10% service charge but the 7% GST was already included in the bill.  Was it expensive? I dun think so. If you do have time, do check them out. 

Jones the grocer
9 Dempsey road
#01-12 Tanglin Village
Tel: 6476 1512