.: March 23, 2013 :.

Hubby picked our Brunch spot again this week, it was Selfish Gene. This Saturday also marked the last watercolor workshop session at Raffles… yes, it was an outdoor session this week yay. Alright, back to Brunch thingy. I ordered my all time breakfast favorite, two poached eggs on smoked salmon and toasted bread. Well, I was surprised, the bread tasted sooo good I can eat it without put any spread on it. Just because of the bread, this place goes among my top list.

.: March 16, 2013 :.

This small yet super adorable vintage cafe is located in Upper Bukit Timah, quite a distance away from city center but definitely worth the trip to step in and to admire the decor. I love vintage and the word clearly describe this cafe. Just look at those plates and tea cups, and oh the stuff they display on the store! I was drooling at them all. So I was glad that hubby picked this place for our brunch place of the week, and I thought I heard him wrong when he said he loved the decor and would definitely love to go back there again. I thought only me who secretly rejoicing and jumping up and down inside by the sight of all-vintage store haha 

Well, that's the interior, how about the food? They serve off-the-tray food, the same style as Starbucks, I like their lemon tart. I just wish that I could have something more heavier to choose from than just a quiche and sandwich.

.: March 9, 2013 :.

Hmm where do I begin with this post? At first, we were so excited knowing that the place we were going to was inside the botanical garden premise. I mean, surrounded by lush and beautiful garden, for sure the cafe would also be beautiful and cozy, no? Well, no. Food for Thought located just beside the basement car park. I was sooo disappointed and almost turned my back on it if I didn't remember the taxi fare costed just to get there! The inside I gotta admit is not that bad with high ceiling and wide space, but I couldn't get over the green thing that apparently was there on every table. It's supposed to remind you on going green but hey at least the staff could make some effort to clean the thing. It's broken and falling apart and just made me lost my appetite. The overall look reminds me so much of a cafeteria. Maybe it's cozy enough for garden strollers after hours combing the garden, but not if you go there on purpose to relax. But kudos for the food, they're good.

Oh I want some foam design on my cappuccino (kicking my legs)! It's one thing that get me 'high' and look forward to whenever I order one. This one look rather plain, eh?

.: March 2, 2013 :.

Hubby picked this week's brunch spot, The Epicurious. We like the location and we got the best table facing the Singapore river. Soon after we got our table, the long queue had already formed. It's how famous this little cafe is. It doesn't have too many seatings and I simply love the humble wood table and dinnerware. Unpretentious. 

I ordered two poached eggs and wild mushroom topped with cheese, another poached egg served in a style I've never tried before.

.: February 23, 2013 :.

We are back at the Dempsey Hill! Yes, the area is teeming with cute and cozy cafes and I can see us coming here very often in the future. Well, for this time round, we planned to visit The Barracks which was closed a few weeks ago. From the outside, there's nothing much you can see, as what the name suggests, the outer appearance still very much resembles a barrack. But once you step in, a cozy but quirky interior awaits you. Their menu looks like a newspaper, clever. 

We ordered skinny pizza, fries with truffle oil, a seafood platter. Err not too fond of the skinny pizza though, the skin is like super super thin crispy crepe when what I want for my pizza is thin dough so at least there's  something for me to chew.

~ Fries with truffle oil ~

.: February 16, 2013 :.

Hola, back with yet another post of cozy cafe. This time we went to PS. Cafe, located in Dempsey Hill. Love love love the place, I mean, look at it, with huge and tall glass all around it? Sitting inside or outside really doesn't make any difference thanks to the glass wall.

And ooh, the beautiful display of cakes! At once, my eyes found the green tart, it was key lime tart. The taste? Divine. The filling was buttery and had a fresh key-lime taste in it, not that fake, superficial flavoring.

I ordered a shepherd pie and roasted pumpkin soup with the usual mocha latte. I like the plating, just look at it makes me hungry :D As for hubby, he ordered sandwich which I found the taste was quite okay. Overall, we love the ambiance, the location, … and its key lime tart. 

.: February 12, 2013. Tuesday :.

The last day of Chinese New Year holiday and we set off to The Prive, at Keppel Bay island for, what else, a brunch. This was a second visit for us. The Prive located overlooking the marina, just the perfect spot to sip coffee and read books. 

~ Look how heavy the clouds were. And it was exactly this kind of weather that makes it such a perfect day to sit and daydreaming ~

It was a cloudy day, with the sun shying behind the clouds, such a perfect moment to sit outdoor and enjoy our meal. We ordered a pancake (with a honeycomb! *excited*), wagyu beef burger, and eggs benedict. Oh love the eggs benny. And… as often than not, we ordered too many. In the end, we didn't finish those beautiful stack of fluffy pancakes :( 

~ Pancakes with honeycomb ~

~ My new favorite, Eggs Benedict ~

.: Saturday. February 09, 2013 :.

Alrighty, the first entry for this project. Well, we went to Jones the Grocer unplanned, wanted to try the Barracks at first. Turned out the Barracks cafe was closed that morning, so we wandered aimlessly around Dempsey Hill in search of another likely cafe. Dempsey Hill is a secluded area full of conservatory, old, colonial building surrounded by plenty of greenery. Though you got that "secluded" feeling, it's actually within a short distance away from the hustle and bustle of Orchard district. So I'd like to think of Dempsey Hill as a little oasis.

And since we were at Dempsey Hill, we weren't too worried about not finding some cafe to eat other than the Barracks cafe. True enough, just a few steps away Jones the Grocer invited us in. It has a humble look from the outside, simple yet classy inside with a "clean" look. I love it. It has a high ceiling so you don't feel stuffed. I ordered a Spanish Eggs 'en cocotte' and iced black forrest coffee, hubby settled for a traditional english breakfast and iced cappuccino. 

~ Spanish Eggs 'en cocotte' ~

~ Iced Black Forrest Coffee ~

We ate so much food and waaayyy too much chocolate that day that I thought I wouldn't eat dessert for at least a month. We ordered churros fondue; came with three different choco dip, a banana split waffle - also came with additional small container full of melted choco, a hot chocolate soufflé with melted chocolate inside… and out! And all in big portion. A frontal attack of high dose of sugar indeed.

Pizza for dinner, woohoo! There's an Italian restaurant at my office building and has been around since, I dunno, a year maybe. I never tried their stuff before until today. I love the bread, it's chewy and tasty, I could just eat the pizza bread alone without the meat and the cheese. It's that good.

I had a meeting at client's office near Expo, so I came early and treated myself a huge breakfast at Starbucks :D Oh I needed that, alright, to prepare myself for the dreaded meeting to come haha. After breakfast, It started to rain, but luckily, only after I reached the office lobby.

Well, I was the first to arrive and that only meant another free time to sketch hehe This was done at outside lobby.

Back in office, after my meeting and umm… my first IUI (and let's hope it was successful and hence would be our last IUI). Had the whole room by myself.

.: August 09, 2012. Thursday :.

On the day Singapore celebrating its independence day, we went to a newly opened Gardens by the Bay. BUT… since we arrived there at the time where the sun was directly overhead, we chilled out at a cafe in Marina Bay Sands. Did draw the food and the people. Gosh, how I suck at drawing people. I want to draw people and their gestures effortlessly… well, I'll just keep drawing, and drawing, and drawing, and hopefully I can get better :)

Aaah Yayoiken… more and more Japanese restaurants that I knew back in Japan are here in Singapore. First is Ippudou *how happy I was, knowing Ippudou opened its branch here*, where I can always go to whenever I crave for a decent, oishii ramen and now Yayoiken. Ooh I know they're not that authentic but those restaurants, they're the closest I can get here *sob, sob*