Cover Offerings at Allpress @ 73 Duxton
Offerings at Allpress @ 73 Duxton
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This month’s new cafés to visit aren’t your usual café offerings
Fancy something more than your typical cuppa? We’ve got you with our guide to the hottest cafés to try this month, offering their own unique twists to the usual café offerings. Allpress @ 73 Duxton, for instance, is bringing its New Zealand-born expertise to Singapore in a pop-up featuring premium roasts and decadent ice cream, and Café Lilac is presenting taro-centric delights to colour your day pretty purple.
Elsewhere, you can find exquisite Japanese fusion bowls and specialty coffee at Fifty Five Coffee Bar, or visit the first NFT-themed café in Singapore. Lest you miss stalwarts in the café scene, The Marmalade Pantry is opening a new outlet at Anchorpoint Shopping Centre, serving up classic favourites and outlet exclusives.
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1. Allpress @ 73 Duxton
Above Affogato sundae at Allpress @ 73 Duxton
Affogato sundae at Allpress @ 73 Duxton
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Auckland-born Michael Allpress’s renowned specialty roaster café concept Allpress Espresso is coming to one of Singapore’s hottest neighbourhoods. Boasting a retail pop-up store alongside its café offerings on Duxton Road, you can savour signature medium roast blends like the classic Allpress Espresso Blend, which is sweet and tinged with notes of caramel and dark fruit. Or go for the Browns Mill Organic, which has a subtle citrus acidity rounded off with the nutty sweet notes of toffee.
Get your hands on Allpress’ food menu featuring wholesome bagels, cakes and pastries, as well as a luscious affogato sundae that sees vanilla and mocha ice cream drizzled with two powerful espresso shots, topped with a crisp canelé and an almond Florentine. The coffee Basque cheesecake is both wonderfully light and rich, and the Allpress cold brew sorbet distils everything you love about cold brew in a cold cup of ice cream. Opening on May 2 for six months only, don’t miss out on this exclusive café opening.
Allpress @ 73 Duxton, 73 Duxton Road, S(089532)
2. The Marmalade Pantry
Above Pear poached in ginger flower syrup with mascarpone and honeycomb at the Marmalade Pantry
Pear poached in ginger flower syrup with mascarpone and honeycomb at the Marmalade Pantry
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Having made its mark on the Singapore café scene more than twenty years ago, The Marmalade Pantry is opening a new outlet at Anchorpoint Shopping Centre on May 7. The space offers menu classics to enthral your taste buds, like the Marmalade Mac and Cheese, a classic offering featuring mozzarella, parmesan, and blue cheese and enhanced with truffle paste, oil, and cream for a powerful umami punch. Even better, from now until August 31, you’ll be able to savour outlet exclusives like the fried artichoke with lemon ricotta for a creamy yet tangy appetiser, and the duck ragû pappardelle for a wholesome pasta main. Exclusive drinks like the Shimmering Gold Moscato, made with its exclusive Gold Moscato Tea with cranberry juice, soda water, and edible gold dust, are perfect for washing it all down.
The Marmalade Pantry, 370 Alexandra Road, 1/F (Central Atrium) Anchorpoint Shopping Centre, S(159953)
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3. Fifty Five Coffee Bar
Fifty Five Coffee Bar is a quaint café along trendy Neil Road with a selection of specialty tea, coffee and matcha alongside freshly baked pastries and hearty lunch treats. Take the Japanese fusion bowls made by partner Ooomahmee, which include cold truffle oil cappellini with either Hokkaido scallops; fresh trout with a generous serving of ikura; or the rice bowl with grilled unagi and flounder skirt topped with a runny onsen egg and edamame. The traditional cough syrup pipagao is having a renaissance with cafés coming up with their own innovative twists; Fifty Five is no different with its strawberry pipagao latte, a concoction that balances sweet, slightly tart and bitter flavours with the herbal profiles of pipagao.
Keep an eye on this café, which transforms into a stylish cocktail bar at night, offering craft cocktails and a curation of beers.
Fifty Five Coffee Bar, 55A Neil Rd, S(088892), +65 8817 8237
4. Café Lilac by Whisking Bakes
Swap pretty-in-pink for pretty-in-purple at Café Lilac, where you’ll be treated to cakes, pastries and coffee in a delightful shades of lilac. The café has revolutionised the traditional Teochew orh nee (sweet yam paste) by filling it in a tart (the first of its kind in Singapore) that pleases with a buttery crust and a soft yam filling. The tiramisu is not to be missed either; it swaps savoiardi biscuits for taro milk biscuits, adding a layer of pure, earthy taro paste over mascarpone before finishing the masterpiece with a dusting of sweet potato powder.
Accompany these confections with a refreshing lilac lemonade made with butterfly pea flowers, or the taro Einspanner, an iced black coffee made with sweet potato powder. It’s topped with a decadent layer of sweet taro cream.
Café Lilac, 466 Crawford Lane, 01-08, S(190465), +65 8850 5918
5. Coffee Bywassies
Above Signature blend by Coffee Bypasses (Photo: Hotel Bywassies)
Signature blend by Coffee Bypasses (Photo: Hotel Bywassies)
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Pop by Coffee Bywassies on Hong Kong Street, located in Hotel Bywassies, Singapore’s first pop-up hotel themed after the adorable platypus “Wassies by Wassies” NFT collection. The café boasts a signature blend made with beans from Brazil Laos, and Congo, making for a dynamic cup of joe that’s slightly acidic and floral with notes of stone fruit and a chocolate finish. It’s the ideal study spot with its minimalist, spacious concrete curves and simple wooden stools, and the perfect place to flex your NFTs—Wassie NFT holders get 69 percent off drinks at the café.
Coffee Bywassies, 5 Hong Kong Street, S(059648)
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