Au Petit Salut
This used to be one of my favourite lunch places - though pricey (it's about $35 including taxes - more than what i would like to spend on the average lunch) the lunch sets have good food and great variety. About 5 different starters, entrees and lots of desserts. The desserts have yet to fail me even though i've been there quite a few times.
The speciality is the Souffles. The flavours change quite often, i've seen coffee, chocolate, mango, lemon etc. The picture is of a passionfruit souffle. You'll have to order it 20 mins in advance so it can be freshly baked and be sent wobbling to your table.
Brandied Cherry TartActually i think its a brandied cherry tart i can't remember anymore! I ate it so long ago.
The Creme Brulee is fantastic i usally order that but i haven't got a picture. The Choux Pastry is good too and there are other desserts such as sorbet etcBlk 44 Jalan Merah Saga #01-54
Tel 64751976
Azabu Sabo - Marin Square, Near Billy Bombers
This place has ice cream specially imported from Hokkaido - the green tea icecream is fantastic! my favourite green tea icecream comes from here. In fact, it was only after i tasted green tea ice cream from here that i started to like green tea ice cream. Prior to that, i believed that green tea only tasted good in tea form - and hot tea only.
I don't know the name of the dessert - but i have it nearly 90% of the time when i go to Marina Square. It comes with a scoop of green tea icecream, a vanilla soft serve icecream, and two mochi things, fruits and jelly. There's also red bean and green tea inside. The soft serve icecream will melt slowly and then form a nice green tea milkshake.
Kuriya - Raffles City
Tea time (2.30-5.30pm) special with desserts going for just $5 and comes with a drink (different japanese teas, orange juice etc). I tried the grilled icecream and it was stunningly presented skewered over a bamboo with a bed of ice.
Shimbashi Soba - Paragon
The cream Amitsu is my next favourite dessert - there are dumplings (mochi?) and it comes with a jelly and brown sugar.
The dessert tea time sets comes with either english tea or coffee, mugen cha (barley tea) or green tea. And it's only $5.These desserts are avaliable during lunch and dinner but will cost you about $8 and do not come with drinks.
Marmalade PantrySticky Date Pudding with Vanilla Ice Cream and Caramel
Apple and Rhubarb Crumble with Vanilla Icecream
It's obvious which dessert's mine. The ice cream's really delicious and its a nice generous scoop too! My first time eating sticky date pudding. It's full of dates and a bit sweet for my liking but then it went well with the icecream.
The apple rhubarb crumble was really good - big chunks of rhubarb, slightly tart, and lots and lots and lots of crumble. In fact, the crumble kept spilling over the dish =/
Menotti - Raffles City
This was the 50% off the price cos i got it after 10pm. I didn't like the dome shaped one cos it had orange - the one thing i absolutely do not eat. The one with the fanciful design and cornflakes was some hazelnut thing. It reminds me of a nicer tasting kinder bueno with crunchy corn flakes and hazelnut cream. The one with the strawberry is some cheesecake thing? and i can't remember what the greenbrown one is :(
I've been back twice since then - the Cannoli is really good - but you can't take that away cos the ricotta cheese will melt and flow out and the Cannoli won't be crunchy anymore.
The Warm Chocolate cake isn't really to my liking - too sweet.
There's this one which is called Catalana or something like that - i can't remember the spelling but it's creme brulee with brandied cherries. But i didn't get a picture cos it was too dark and i was rushing.
The desserts cost about $5-$6 and are half price abter 10pm.
La Strada - Shaw Centre (Lido Cinema)
This is on the other side of Shaw, near the entrance of the carpark, facing Pacific Plaza. Its italian and i went there for lunch. The tiramisu is very good - a generous portion for about $8 and it comes in these cup/bowls which is really big - much bigger than those tiny tiramisu that some restaurants give you and charge like $6. Its a bit watery at the bottom other than that, i think it's one of the bigger cheaper better tiramisus that i've eaten
Indulgz - Tan Quee Lan Street, Opposite Bugis Junction.
Chocolate mousse and Panna Cotta
OrganiCafe - Novena Square (Velocity, facing Harry's Bar and next to Pepper Lunch)
Other than the fact that the whole place reeks of Pepper Lunch, the food is good. I've been there twice and the food hasn't dissappointed.
The organic youghurt costs $2.50 and comes in 4 flavours. From Right to left - Mango and Lemon, Raspberry and Nuts, Konyaku Jelly and Mixed Fruits. The last flavour is the Blueberries and something i can't remember what but it was good. All four types come with organic honey.
Vis-a-Vis (Opposite Beauty World)
Chocolate souffle. I can't remember how much this was but it was very good too, Comes with brandied cherries and burnt caramel ice cream.
Corduroy Cafe in Vivocity
Granny Smith Apple and Almond tart - my fave i think i've more than 10 of these so far. But it tastes much better when eaten in the afternoon than late at night cos the pastry will go soggy - especially if you take away. The almond part (the pinkish layer) is really good. It tastes a bit like cheesecake, which i like! but the apples are a bit sourish and balances the richness of the almond layer. Its about $6.80 if i'm not wrong, pretty ex, and thats without taxes and service charge.
Apple and Rhubarb crumble in the back. It's not bad - lots of vanilla custard but i still like the apple almond tart better.
As you can see the 2 pictures are different - no prizes for guessing which one i ate :P
Smart Strawberries - costs about $1.90 each. Didn't eat it but then since they're unique i took a picture :DCorduroy & Finch, Bukit Timah Branch
I nearly missed a really good place to have dessert cos of the bad reviews i heard from most people who tried this restaurant. Though i have nothing to rave about the main courses (which i personally think are rather weak), the desserts are really impressive.
The dessert platter costs about $15 (somewhere there, but not exactly $15) and comes with 5 to 7 desserts. But it was really impressive. My favourite one has the vanilla icecream (comes with real vanilla beans too!) and some almond-ish thing inside. It reminds me of an un-cheesecake like version of the grannysmith apple and almond tart. It was a mad rush to eat the vanilla ice cream - it was melting over the sides of the narrow glass. And i don't eat melted ice cream.
There is a brandied cherry and whipped cream, a light mousse cheesecake (i think? with a mango sauce layer), chocolate mousse cake (reminds me of the nice sweet secret cake), and a marzipan cake. It also comes in portions for 2 people which will cost $26 and three people.
The chocolate platter costs $15 and comes with a chocolate mousse cake, chocolate pudding, another chocolate cake with crunchy corn flakes inside, a cookie topped with a chocolate chip chocolate ice cream, and yet another type of chocolate cake.
It is rather unwise to attempt to eat BOTH the chocolate and dessert platters between two people even though they're for one person each. 1+1 dessert portions do not = to 2 people can share.
Corduroy & Finch Pte Ltd
779 Bukit Timah Road 5 3/4 m.s.
Tel 67620131
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