Royal Copenhagen is a brand of porcelain from Denmark has a new tea lounge in Takashimaya. It's tucked into a corner in Takashimaya Shopping Centre, on level 2, and is camouflaging amongst the bags and Burberry - i've actually missed this v nice eating/lounging place many many times. The interior is quite nice, not to cramped like majority of the restaurants now, and one end of the restaurant faces the large cross junction between Paragon and Ngee Ann City.
It caters to more of the tai-tai crowd, when we went in at about 2pm, there were lots of perfectly coiffered women with gravity defying hair and manicured nails, along with outfits to match. There were only 2 men in the entire restaurant (excluding the staff) but more came in a while later.
Of course they cater to a crowd with deeper pockets - you won't really expect anything less from something named Royal.
Each table is nicely decorated with a flower arrangement and a sugarbowl, along with a container to put your bill in. Of course, everything is from Royal Copenhagen pocelain. Don't drop your plate!!
Ah don't you like the little CURL of butter! :D
Each piece is marked with a NUMBER (it's a bit dirty though but that's the base and it's not the sugar bowl, just the other one that they put your bill in. Don't worry everything is impeccably clean, just the way I like it.
The Lunch Set menu (ends at 2.30pm, $20++- altogether about $23) has soup of the day, 2 choices for the main course (baked salmon with mashed potatoes and homemade sauce or mushroom linguine aglio olio) or 3 open faced sandwiches, dessert of the day and coffee or tea.
There is also a daily high tea set which ends later and has 2 open faced sandwiches, 2 cakes and coffee/tea.
Soup of the day was broccoli soup which had bits of meat inside and it was not too creamy.
Baked Salmon
3 open faced sandwiches - Beef, shrimp and smoked salmon stufed with scrambled eggs. They are very generous on the meat portions. I think this was the best choice, only that it seemed a bit puny. But no compromise on the taste - it tastes really good, and i liked the shrimp one.
Jane has struck lottery cos she choose the better dish.
Tea
Highlight of the meal - Fruit Cake with Nuts served with strawberry icecream, which the restaurant makes itself. The icecream is really creamy and has chunks of strawberry inside! Delicious.
The cake is really good too!
I would like to go back to try their other cakes, including Baked Cheesecake, Blueberry Cheesecake, Green Tea Cake, Cranberry and Almond Cake, Selmonila Cake, Coconut Cake etc etc! the display there is really tempting!
You can just get a cake and tea if you just want something light. They have an interesting range of tea, which also includes Assam tea which I would like to try the next time i go there. It's about $6 per pot.
Overall, I think it's a much nicer place to go to than my usual Coffee Club, where I take a rest from my shopping. If I'm taka, I usally go there to eat their cakes which are on offer during tea time, since it's so simple to think of and they have so many branches anyway.
Verdict: Worth spending your calories on! Share the food so you can try more cakes, and skip the salmon if you're not dying for something savoury.
Royal Copenhagen Tea Lounge
391A Orchard Road
Takashimaya Shoping Cenre level 2
Tel 67356833
Soup of the day was Prawn Bisque
3 mini opened face sandwiches. It usually comes with shrimp, smoked salmon and roast beef, but since I don't take beef (for reasons unfathomable by most people), the restaurant is more than willing to allow you to choose from other options such as ham, tuna (i think?) and pate. The pate is made in house, and comes on a wholegrain bread.
Dessert of the day was pear cake with vanilla ice cream. If you want to change your cake, you'll have to top up $2.
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