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Introduction
A 60 seater eatery along Neil Road with green artificial turf in the outdoors, complete with a dining room and bar within the cafe. Ardent’s Cafe boasts an extensive menu of all day breakfast, burgers, soups, sandwiches and rosti.
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Good For
Brunch
Opening Hours
Mon - Fri
11:00 - 00:00
Sat - Sun
10:00 - 00:00
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Signature Dishes
back and this time for desserts! Same plate. The most generous scoop of hazelnut ice cream i've seen. Sitting atop a bed of cookie sand.A molten lava cake sits on the opposite end of the long dessert plate. This was delicious. A scoop of warm lava cake and a bit of hazelnut ice cream. Bliss.There's an outdoor seating area that's very quaint but on most days its just too hot to be out! Well, one day though. They have a swing I always wished i could sit in.
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The weekend is slightly different from the usual ones as i spent my weekend in Singapore. After several of attempts to meet up for a dinner and obviously failed badly due to my inconsistency work timing. So, we ended up having our breakfast brunch together on this beautiful Sunday Ardent's Cafe Bar which located at 80 Neil Road and a walking distance from Outram Park MRT was our choice for the day. If you wish to give it a try, do exit from Exit H and it is about 300++ m away. The cafe is actually a shop house renovated to be a cafe on the day time and bar at night time. The design was cosy and the ambiance is quite soft and relax. The lightings played a part too as it is not glaring and the lights are dimmer so you totally can't feel the outdoor brightness. However, the design out from the cafe door is a space of green garden with the swings and white garden chairs and bench around it. The interior design and the exterior design gave me a different kind of feeling.Below are our choice of the day:-A pot of passionfruit tea S$6.80. The fragance smell of the passionfruit which smells very sweet but when i drank, it doesn't taste sweet at all. By the way, it's refillable Ardent's Breakfast Free Style S$20.00You can choose 5 items from the menu lists given. Snail Sausage, sauteed mushroom, smoked salmon, bacon, turkey ham. The snail sausage is a cheese sausage as I cut into smaller size, the cheese flows out from the sausage. The smoked salmon taste good as well. The portion is decent enough and the varieties are pleasant as well. However, i would prefer to have scrambled eggs on my plate We ordered plain rosti S$7.80 with add-on honey baked ham S$3.50.The plain rosti is quite disappointing though.I still prefer Marche rosti as this one a bit hard and taste like not well-cookedOverall the services are acceptable. The service staff has a pleasant smile and very approachable. I would review as 3 out of 5 and it's a nice place to hang out as well.
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http://thechosenglutton.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/absolute-ardents-avoidance/Plainly by looking at the pictures of the restaurant and its food itself, it’s so full of win. Right still, when you see the furnishing and set-up of the restaurant, especially its outdoor setting. Even though the indoor seating is dim and cozy, and air-conditioned, the outdoors’ just earn more ‘I am more chillax points’.The whole ambience mismatches its surrounding (along Neil Road), although positively. The impression still lasts, up till here.. The service was reasonable as well, to a certain extent. Their waitpersons are very polite.Rosti with Sour Cream + Smoked Salmon ($12.30) :: Plain Rosti itself is $5.80, and if your math is good, you should have worked out that the smoked salmon (4 slices) add-on is $6.50, more expensive than the rosti itself. We all agreed unanimously that the rosti is, the best amongst all for the night. Although it can’t be matched with Marche’s, it’s still acceptable. Maybe what, compared to the rest of the courses.Stuffed Blue Cheese Burger ($16.80) :: I thought the beef patty was alright. How do I put it – it’s the start of a bland, average-tasting and sometimes disappointing courses here at Ardent’s Cafe Bar. There really isn’t much to say about it because it’s very featureless. Only good point I can think of is, I don’t think I’ve seen this course in many other restaurants / cafes.Eggs Blackstone ($13.80) :: Poached eggs with grilled bacon. You know those eggs benedicts that you have, that is not only unadorned, but tastes like ones that you can cook at home. What with the English muffin being dry, bland, plain and hard. The worst part of Eggs Benedict is when the complementing sides, no matter bacon, ham or salmon, doesn’t complement the poached eggs, when you’re like having two separate courses when it’s actually one. It happened just that way for this course. It’s way far from the best Eggs Benedict I’ve ever had so far at Wild Honey.French Omelette ($13.80) :: Asparagus, tomato and mushroom is what it contains. And this ordinary looking omelette tastes, just as ordinary. After the first bite, I immediately blurted out, ‘which coffee shop’s is this from’ Yes it is that bad. Heavily peppered (I’m not complaining as I’m a pepper person), but bland that you thought they might have ran out of salt. It was so bad that the small portion of it wasn’t even finished by the six of us there.The Three Minis ($15.80) :: One of the dishes that looks promising on the menu description. Black Forest Ham with Bagel + Honey Baked Ham with Mini Burger + Black Pepper Ham with French Loaf. Those are the stated three mini burgers / sandwiches for the course. Being a cold cut fan, I was ecstatic to have it ordered, and eager to try. But it was nowhere near the hype. It feels like it was made from yesterday’s ingredients, hard and cold. Looks can be deceiving, so can its words on the menu.Mascarpone Nutella Pancakes ($12.80) :: In the spirit of redemption, we’ve decided to give the dessert (we consider) a shot at it after condemning 80% of its main courses. I must say it looks, once again, promising and hopeful with its presentation. But when they say it’s nutella, it really is. I thought the combination was just out of place and like the restaurant with its surrounding, mismatched. Once bitten, twice shy.Besides the issue of food, its policy is something of a big problem, at least to me too. See we bought the Groupon vouchers, two of them – $45 for $90 worth and $15 for $30 worth, as we thought six of us would probably spend more than $90. But over the phone during reservation (which isn’t needed at all, it was empty, and now I know the reason why), and when face-to-face at the restaurant itself, we were turned down the request of expanding both vouchers together. The voucher states ’1 voucher per table’, coupled with ’5 to 6 persons’ for the $90 voucher and ’1 to 2 persons’ for the $15 voucher. So I was asking how about them doing us a favor by splitting the bill, since we have 6 persons, it can be split into 5 + 1. And there they went to explain about their policy, how they don’t do it, etc. If it wasn’t for my kind-hearted friends, I’d have slammed them so hard in the face. I can never understand when restaurants do this with their vouchers. When told to ‘come back another time’ with the $30 voucher, I had half the heart to tell them that I wouldn’t come back even if invited for free. They really need to improve on their, everything, if they are to survive, it’s no wonder they need Groupon to help them out here. One of the worst eating experiences I’ve had in my life, no exaggeration.
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My girlfriend and I were filling a little too hungry. So when we headed to ardent’s, we ordered a little way too much. I ordered their egg benedict. It was so delicious. their eggs were poached perfectly on a nice toasted muffin. The muffin itself is so fragrant and delicious. the honey baked ham is absolutely tasty. and the hollandaise sauce really sums the whole dish up.My girlfriend ordered the California hangtown fry, it was really good. the oysters that they breaded were very fresh and juicy. the bacon was really crispy and the scrambled eggs was just cooked perfectly.We also ordered their rosti. It was very crispy.This place does serve great western food.
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