Well Dressed Salad Bar & Cafe

Sexy Italian Pasta Salad ($9.50)
BPMH ($13.50)
Banana & Lychee Cake ($5.50 EA)
Smokey Edamame Chia Nachos ($7.50)

Everything was delicious!!

Tried the vegan burger, it was flavourful and comes with two sidea. The seaweed crunch was addictive while the pasta salad was a nothing spectacular.

Don’t be fooled by the name, Well Dressed Salad Bar certainly serves up a multitude of vegetarian and vegan dishes - and they are some good stuff! They’re housed in a corner unit with Eight Treasures Vegetarian (which serves Chinese vegetarian dishes) near the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. The staff will ask whether you’re here for WDSB or ETV, bring you to your table and provide the appropriate menus before coming back to take your orders later. Our young male server was a little blur about the menu items, but he was genuinely very sweet, friendly and earnest. Though some of the staff weren’t as friendly, the majority of them were proactive and helpful - even coming back to our table to check if we wanted ‘no onions’ in our other dishes as we’d specified that for another order, offering to take a family photo when all our food had arrived, checking if the sweetness was okay for my beverage as I’d requested for less sugar. The ambience at WDSB isn’t snobbish, it’s homely, welcoming, and with such delicious healthy vegetarian foods, I’ll definitely be returning.

Recommendations:
- Smokey Edamame Chia Nachos ($7.50)
- The BPMH Burger with SeaSalt Seaweed Chips as a side ($16.50)
- Veganlicious All-Day Brunch Set ($16.50)

The BPMH burger stands for black pepper monkey head mushrooms, served with bell peppers, celery, cucumber, tomato and avocado slices, tucked between lovely vegan wholemeal brioche buns. We ordered these without onions. This dish comes with two sides where you can select from herbed potatoes, seasalt seaweed chips, Italian pasta salad and garden salad. We went with the seaweed chips and garden salad which were fantastic choices - the seaweed chips were akin to fried popiah skin wrapped around crisp seaweed, which was a favourite across the table and we all agreed that we should order a double portion of this next time. The salad vegetables were really fresh, not a limp leaf in sight - always a good sign at any self-respecting eatery.

The monkey head mushrooms in this burger are sliced longitudinally which makes them all the better to absorb the black pepper sauce. I love the fibrous and meaty texture of monkey head mushrooms, and these were no exception. They were tender, chewy and oh so flavourful with the black pepper sauce. The vegan wholemeal brioche buns were toasted to crispness and tasted amazing. Not as buttery or sinful as regular brioche buns, but honestly they were so delicious in this burger I didn’t think I was missing out on anything. The vegetables in the burger were scattered quite haphazardly across the bun, so you won’t get a single bite with everything. That didn’t bother me much as the main star of the burger was the monkey head mushrooms, which were spread quite evenly across the whole burger. I did wish that the avocado was smashed and spread on the bun rather than sliced as the pieces kept slipping around. Eating this burger is a messy task, and I suggest just getting down and dirty with your hands instead of trying to be dainty and cutting it apart. Don’t expect that toothpick in the center to hold the burger together, and be gentle when putting the burger down as the fillings do tend to fall out.

Overall a delicious and satisfying burger that I wouldn’t mind ordering again but with such a wide variety of delicious and healthy dishes to choose from, it might be a while before I order the BPMH once more.

Rainbow greens with warm buckwheat noodles tossed in sesame ginger sauce

Matcha flavour isn’t too strong in this cup, but overall still passable as there’re lingering hints of earthy matcha. Probably wouldn’t order again on a return visit!

Adequately moist with a substantial taste of sesame in in the icing. I loved how the cake was decorated with pistachios as that really compliments the sesame icing. However I think the highlight was how the cake remained so flavorful without it being excessively sweet and also, containing vegan sourced ingredients.

Got this at a sustainable living market (gotta walk the talk and eat all the food). Tried diabetic cakes previously that just tasted like cake batter, but this vegan brownie successfully disguised itself as a fantastic piece of chocolate sin.

💸 $10.50

Warm olive rice, tofu scramble, sautéed mushroom, guacamole, purple cabbage, carrot, corn, chickpeas, edamame and kidney beans

Rice is fragrant and flavourful. Love the mushroom! A hearty bowl of goodness suitable for vegans.

You've heard of burgers with vegan patties, or burgers with lettuce wrap instead of buns, but have you heard of tofu burger?

Tofully Yours ($12.90) is the brainchild of Well Dressed Salad Bar & Cafe comprising 3 layers of fried tofu with mushrooms, vegan ham, cheese, egg, spinach, tomato, cucumber, ketchup and mayo. There's also a vegan version where nut cheese and vegan mayo are used and eggs are omitted. While these may just be your normal everyday ingredients, I liked how they presented it in the form of a burger and I love how the ingredients don't fall out of place with each bite/cut because of the added friction of the tofu skin (yay science).

This cafe offers vegan cakes as well and I'd really love to try some day!

Still can't believe Well Dressed Salad Bar is a vegetarian cafe cos all their options are so delicious

Especially these grain bowls—The Cilantro Lime Rice Pulled Jackfruit Hangry Jack Burrito Bowl suits those who like a lighter flavour with the rice being a little citrusy. And the Olive Rice Buddha Bowl is more for those who prefer a savoury comfort dish. I still can't pick which is my favourite. >.<

Remember to get your CandyBar stamps at Well Dressed Salad Bar—every 10 stamps gets you 1 free meal worth $20!

— Well Dressed Salad Bar —
282 South Bridge Rd, Singapore 058831

#WellDressedSaladBar

$10.50

IT IS SO DELICIOUS (for a vegan dish)! I wanted to have seconds. Haha.

The bowl consists of olive rice for your carbo, mushrooms, 3 beans party (chick pea, black bean and edamame), corn, shredded cabbage and carrot and what I think was egg (definitely not) but might be scrambled tofu. And it’s top off with guacamole. Mix it well and enjoy.

Highly recommended 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Fun fact: They sell cakes too. I haven’t tried it yet but from the pictures, its mouthwatering. YUM!

$4

It is soft and tasty!
But they could have used a better choice of chocolate sauce.
Not sure if they could include toppings.

Didn’t know vegan waffles could be so good without the use of eggs and butter. Wonder what ingredients they use to substitute.

Recommended is the peanut butter waffle (but I don’t like so I didn’t try :D)

I’m aware this place earned a spot in a Burpple Guide for Vegetarian & Vegan cuisine sometime ago, so that motivated me to take a trip down to this place. Oh and also how I’m always excited to find out new vegan-friendly places. 😜

The first time I had it, I was floored by it. The herb and cranberry-laced panini, drizzled with some truffle oil, the greens, the cherry tomatoes, and the smooth, luscious egg mayo — the arsenal of ingredients cannoned numerous flavours onto the palette. It was also really filling, which made it worth all the 800 pennies. (7.3/10)

I have often wondered how a cake made without milk and eggs would taste and finally had my chance of addressing that curiosity today .

The black sesame chocolate cake was moist and fork tender. However , the black sesame frosting on the cake was a little too sweet .

The cake also lacked the flavour of cocoa/ chocolate or black sesame .

The friendly service and the ample seatings and cool air con will probably be the better reasons for my re-visit to the cafe :)

Adorned with an exterior of peanut butter cream laid a thick single layer of matcha pound cake that's also sprinkled with some crushed nuts and matcha powder. Best to consume it at room temperature IMO, otherwise the cake might be too dry and the cream is also solid-firm. The matcha cake is fluffy and sufficiently moist (under ambient conditions) with a subtle albeit fragrant earthy note of matcha flavour. The peanut butter cream is smooth, light with a characteristic nutty flavour that was lingering. Always loving the vegan bakes here that helps me to satisfy my sweet tooth cravings guilt-lessly .
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Unlike what its name suggests, this cosy vegan shop along South Bridge Road serves more than just salads. Signature salad bowls like their Well Dressed Green Goddess ($9.50) are great if you want to load up on fresh veggies, but the menu also includes heartier choices like sandwiches and wraps (from $6.50). What the Burpple community often heads here for however are the vegan cakes, served by the slice. Made without eggs and dairy, these cakes are usually on the denser side, and are not too sweet. Choice bakes include the delicate French Rose Vanilla Cake ($4) and the earthy Green Tea Matcha Cake ($3.50). One of their coveted slices has to be the Matcha Gao Gao Cake ($7.50), which really packs in the green tea flavour. Burppler Natalie Wong describes it to as "a huge slice of vegan matcha flavoured cake sandwiched and adorned with matcha cream", topped off with fudgy matcha white chocolate brownie crumbles. It's a special bake that's not always on the menu. They usually post an announcement on their Instagram page (@welldressedsaladbarsg) when it's available, so stalk them if you must.
Avg Price: $15 per person
Photo by Burppler Natalie Wong

😅 Thanks @welldressedsaladbarsg for the reservation 🙂. A huge slice of vegan matcha flavoured cake sandwiched and adorned with matcha cream, topped off with matcha crumbles. The matcha crumbles are actually the matcha white chocolate brownie in disguise, which is fudgy and sufficiently moist, with a distinctive earthy note. The matcha cake was dense and resembled more of a pound cake, which I would have preferred it to be softer and more fluffy instead. Nevertheless, I love how the matcha flavour was distinctive with a characteristic subtle bitter undertone. The matcha cream was creamy and smooth, though a tad too rich and buttery for me. The main highlight overall to me were the matcha "crumbles"!! 💚💚 .
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😨 Thanks @welldressedsaladbarsg for the special reservation! No regrets travelling all the way for this brownie which was fudgy, dense and sufficiently moist 💚. The green tea flavour was distinctive with a lingering jasmine-alike floral fragrance. Coupled with a pleasant tinge of sweetness of white chocolate and dark chocolate drizzles, I would personally recommend consuming this warm(instead of chilled as recommended by the staff) for a more distinctive and prominent matcha flavour, as well as a softer and more fluffy texture. Pair it with the vegan ice creams offered (a pity matcha was sold out on my visit 😭) for a perfect hot-and-cold combination 💚 What's more, u get to enjoy $1 off every cake + ice cream combo! 😉 .
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Vegan "Hot Dog" [$7.00] were very similar to hot dogs. They were more crisp on the exterior.
The Hawt Dog Sandwich comes with 2 choices of bread; Ciabatta or Panini. (it might depend on what they had to offer that day)
I chose the Ciabatta while my friend had the latter. Both our bread were over toasted, really hard. Taste wise, it's not bad, texture wise, mm not really. The roof of our mouth were hurting after the meal from the hard bread.

😋 3/10
💸 6/10