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Opened in June 2000 by Thomas Wong and Shirley Soh, this chill cafe is a great space to read and reflect.
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Their rendition is topped with fluffy soft marshmallows, while the drinking chocolate has a milky thin texture rather like the Australian style, and chocolatey milky sweet flavour.
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The frothy foam head is the largest yet.
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Hot Chocolate
The Book Cafe
@ 20 Martin Road #01-02
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/12/best-of-singapore-hawkers-hot-chocolate.html

Absolutely refreshing in this heat.

The beans were purposely roasted for cold brew and coffee extraction. Love the chocolatey notes.

$5.0 on the left. Plain water on the right on the house.

Came with jam 🍓 and butter 🧈 $5.0

Smallish croissant 🥐 compared to TBB’s.

Eggs any style plus choice of bread: sourdough, brioche or croissant. $10.50

Picked sourdough 🍞 and scrambled eggs 🥚 . Came with jam 🍓 and butter 🧈, and a small fruits salad.

Since June 2000, this quiet cafe has been delighting those in the know - serving as an "alternate living room", suitable for reading, meetings, gaming, grazing, or catching up with family or friends.
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As many have claimed; there is a lot to like about this place. Ambience is cozy, classy, and comfortable. Service is friendly, professional, and caring. Food is well-executed, delicious, and reasonably priced.
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Here, 3 free-range eggs were folded with my choice of ham and tomato. The egg omelette is fluffy and tender and juicy, with pleasant eggy savoury salty sweet flavour.
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Served with crisp toasted buttered white bread with smoky bready buttery savoury sweet flavour, and juicy grilled cherry tomatoes which are nicely smoky vegetal sweet in taste.
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Loved the crisp potato rosti, which held starchy salty savoury sweet flavour, yum.
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Egg Omelette
The Book Cafe
@ 20 Martin Road #01-02
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More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2022/12/best-of-singapore-hawkers-egg-omelette.html

Common Man Fluffy Pancakes ($24)
I was honestly really excited for the pancakes, considering these were thick! The pancakes came with caramelised bananas and walnuts, salted caramel sauce, nutty crumble & berry coulis. Ngl this didn't taste like a pancake, but more like a cakey texture, which was dense and slightly dry esp at parts without the sauce. It also got jelak so you gotta share this.

Kinda expected more for the price, and I'd defo prefer some fluffy pancakes for brunch! Their other dishes might be better tho!

Overall Rating: 6/10

It was extremely crowded during brunch on weekends, but since it was near the area we decided to give their food a try.

Croissant Croque Monsieur ($18)
Look at that cheese! This croissant was filled with Ham, Bechamel & aged cheddar cheese. Certainly a hearty option for brunch, and it's a combination of flavours and texture that can't really go wrong. The portion might not be enough for some though!

So good … words cannot describe how elevated this coffee is

wasn’t a dish that made an impression but can i just say the vanilla ice cream was so good? best eaten with ice cream and the chocolate sauce! p.s. there’s a reason why they gave these two with it 🙈

this was initially underwhelming but it got better the more we ate it! the fries was warm, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and taste SO FRESH, wonder if it’s hand cut fries! herbs tho wasn’t very apparent except for the paprika. can order if you need an easy snack!

really a full breakfast and everything was so on point 🤌🏻 scrambled eggs were creamy soft curds that were perfectly made - sourdough was fragrant, crisp outer and tender inner - hashbrown was so unique, imagine rosti but a thicker bite size version! - their baked beans were hands down the nicest bakes beans i’ve ever had, tasted like it was freshly made! - portobello was so juicy, fresh and sweet that i enjoyed it on its own too!

Good cafe vibes food and coffee