A Void Deck in Everton Park
On an Everton Park microroaster that has refused for years to become anything other than what it already is.
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135 storiesThe Chicken Decomposed and Reassembled
On a modern French dining room inside the National Gallery that has had to balance the chef's vision with the building's institutional gravity.
An African Room on Jiak Chuan
On a Jiak Chuan Road cafe that takes African coffee and African food seriously enough to risk being misread as theme.
The Gilt at Bacha Coffee
On an Ion Orchard coffee room that staged a Moroccan heritage fantasy around Arabica beans, and somehow made the staging useful.
Three Cups at Apartment Coffee
On a tiny Selegie Road room that serves coffee the way a kappo bar serves dinner: slow, sequenced, and explained only when the explanation helps.
The Old Sign Is Still There
On the Tyrwhitt Road roastery cafe that gave Papa Palheta a public face, and is still, more than a decade on, where a lot of Singapore drinkers first met specialty coffee.
Who Wrote the Default?
On a Martin Road brunch institution that wrote the city's flat-white grammar, trained a generation of baristas, and supplied the beans behind half the third-wave cafes, and that now belongs to a different owner than the one who built it.
The Kouign-Amann on Eng Hoon
On a French bakery that arrived in a heritage neighbourhood, rewrote the city's idea of what a morning pastry should be, and now belongs to a different owner.