A wallet friendly café has been opened for business at Simon Road where most of the dishes are priced below S$15 nett. Lola's Café not only provide affordable food, the food was also delicious.

Lola’s café can be easily access via kovan mrt with about 5 min walk. We went on a Tuesday afternoon, but the pack was still packed. This goes to show how popular it is.

Lola’s café can be easily access via kovan mrt with about 5 min walk. We went on a Tuesday afternoon, but the pack was still packed. This goes to show how popular it is. It has a simple yet modern decoration in the café. The staff was really friendly where they served you plain water the moment you sat down. *Update* I have enclosed menu and update the price. It has gone up slightly but the food still taste great.

MENUTruffle mushroom toast consist of brioche toast, truffle cream mushroom, mozzarella cheese, onions, pickled red raddish, mesclun, sunny side egg, and feta crumbles. I must say that the ingredients used were many but I find that it was disappointing taut it lacks the truffle taste. Furthermore, the mushroom tends to be bland.Truffle mushroom toast ($12)

Honey and Paprika Wings was actually chicken wings drizzled with sweet honey and sprinkled with paprika flakes. The Chicken was deep fried to give a crispy texture. Howveer, it was great that it helps to retain the juiciness within and the honey gives it a tinge of sweetness in every bite. This is my favourite food which I craved for it even at this time
when I’m typing this post. Honey Paprika Crispy Wings($10)

The Avocado Eggs Benedict consists of Brioche bread,avocado, poached eggs, hollandaise sauce, garden salad, balsamic dressing. It was a large serving for us to share. The poached egg sat beautifully on the brioche bread but upon cutting it, the golden lava gushed out and moisture the bread.Avocado Eggs Benedict ($14)

The breakfast butter croissant meal consist of crispy and flaky butter croissant, smooth and running scrambled eggs, couple with pork ham ,honey bacons, cheddar cheese and honey
mayo. To create a more balanced meal, garden salad with balsamic dressing were also served.Breakfast Butter Croissant ($15)

Shoe-string fries were fried drizzle with warm nacho cheese. It was irresistible and sinful at the same time.Nachos Cheese Fries ($8)

This café is definitely worth a visit for the affordably priced delicious food and great environment to be in.

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Hatter Street Bakehouse and Cafe is a new café having the Alice in the wonderland theme opened in the heartland of Kovan/Hougang. It serves coffee, ice cream and waffles and
a small selection of cakes. They are known for their Pandan Gula Melaka waffle.

Hatter Street Bakehouse and Cafe is highly accessible as there are many HDB parking lots around the area and a bus stop right in front of the cafe. As the café do not have much seating space, it is usually packed with people. We have waited for about 30 minutes before securing our seats. Since it has gotten its name after alice in the wonderland, the café was also decorated with scene of the fairytale. Some of the cakes like brownies are placed in the cake display on the right to catch your attention. After looking, you will be tempted to order more than you need. “It’s So Kumquet” is basically a lemon tart with sweet cream. It has a buttery, crunchy crust filled with delicious sweet-sour lemon custard surrounded by sweet cream. For sour lover (like me), you will find yourself enjoy this tart greatly. It’s so Kumquet (SGD$6.00)

YOLO was the new addition to the café cake selection. It consists of cream cheese, chocolate fudge, chocolate ganache, chocolate frosting, chocolate cake and vanilla cake. You will be overdosed with chocolate. The cake was slightly hard, but it was surprising not overly sweet. YOLO Cake ($7.50, i think)

Whoaffles ($8.90) were their best seller. It was meant to “wow” you with their waffles. Since it’s their best selling items, we have order the waffles with chocolate ice cream and chocolate sauce and the Pandan ice-cream with Gula Melaka. We have to wait for about 30 minutes before it was served. After a long wait, we can’t resist eating after smelling how fragrant the waffles were. Thus we started eating the chocolate waffles without waiting for
the Pandan version.The waffles were crispy with a strong “egg” flavor. The chocolate ice cream was rich in chocolate but tends to be too much after eating for long. For the pandan ice cream, it was aromatic and rich in flavor while the gula Melaka drizzled on top of it was really sweet. WHOaffles ($8.90)- Chocolate ice-cream with Chocolate Sauce WHOaffles ($8.90)- Pandan ice-cream with Gula Melaka Sauce

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Grasso Coffee is used to be a takeaway concept kiosk located next to Simei Mrt station in 2012 selling only coffee and Ice Blend. In 2014, it has expand and relocated to The Commerze@ Irving at Tai Seng area where it now has extra space for seats. Over here at Grasso, you will be able to find both the Nanyang style Kopi and espresso based beverages. At the same time, there are freshly baked and packed sandwiches which come with different fillings every single day. However, they comes in limited quantities, so be sure to grab yours
before it runs out!

The commerze@ Irving is located behind exit A of Tai Seng Mrt. As it is an industrial area, during lunch time, you can see crowds flooding the row of café located there. Apart from the lunch time crowd, grasso is the place where you can enjoy quality and good food and beverage while taking a time out from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Grasso is “Fat” in Italian and the choice of this word is to simulate satisfaction. They aim to
provide diner with “cheap and good” food and beverage, this is why their food and beverage are affordably priced.Upon entering the café, you will be warmly greeted by the staff over the counter where you will place your order. One of the specialty of Grasso coffee is their homemade tiramisu cheesecake which I strongly encourage you guys to try. Cake Display~Their award for homemade tiramisu cheesecake.

If you are slightly a adventurous person, why not try to create your own coffee based on your preference. MENU~ ãGrasso
CoffeeAfter ordering, we sat down to chill while waiting for our food item to be served. From the decoration, we get to know more fun facts about coffee and grasso. We have order a Raspberry Latte ($4.60) & Homemade Tiramisu Cheesecake ($4.50). We actually customized our latte with the addition of raspberry flavor (+$0.60) to our latte ($4) which turns out to be surprisingly nice to drink. Homemade Tiramisu Cheesecake ($4.50) : It combines the flavors and richness of
tiramisu and Cheesecake. The lady’s fingers were dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa. It was soft and light. I enjoy eating this cheesecake as the sweetness was just right for non-sweet-tooth person like me.Raspberry Latte ($4.60) : Grasso Coffee uses Australian coffee beans for their espresso based beverages. According to the owner, Australian beans are milder in taste as compared to Italian beans. With the raspberry flavor added to the latte, you can taste traces of raspberry in every mouth without overtaking the natural coffee taste.

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Originating from Seoul, the Chir Chir (pronounced Chi-Re Chi-Re) chain is South Korea’s largest chain of restaurants, known for its signature freshly-cooked Korean chicken dishes. It has opened three outlets in 313@Somerset, Bedok Point and Chinatown Point. It was common to see queue snaking outside the 313@somerset outlet due to its popularity. It was a good place for gathering as more of the dishes are big serving meant for sharing. It was also spacious and brightly light with Korean music being played.There are a series of different Korean chicken to choose from. They really look yummy and smell good (smell from neighbouring tables). You will tend to overspend and overeat. I went with 4 friends of mine and we ended up being overdosed with chicken.

Nest Snow consists of chicken tenders together with cajun seasoning. It was topped with rich cream sauce and sweet salad. The chicken tenders have a crispy coating without an oily feel. The cream helps to prevent the tenders from being too dry. The swirl of whipped cream and sprinkles of cheese shaving makes it creamy and crispy. The tenders were very juicy within. It was a joy trying to dip the tenders into the creamy cheese, enjoying the joy of pulling the cheese from the sauce. Nest Snow ($32.90)

It was mentioned that the cheese fries were made up of crispy french fries served with Chir Chir's original secret sauce. However, we find it generally normal as it was not cheese enough and the fries were not crispy either. It was too normal to be priced so highly. Chir Cheese Fries ($9.90)

Kkhanpung King was a combination of spicy and sweet sauce with dipping cream. The chicken was really fresh and tender. It was sweet with a little spiciness. This spiciness was too mild even for non-spicy eaters. The sweet spicy sauces make the chicken very appetizing for consumption. The chewy topokki (rice cakes) and sweet potato help to create texture and variation to the dish. Kkanpung King ($28.90)

Garlicky tenders were simple yet delicious. Crispy tenders were glazed with soya sauce. It was also topped with roasted sweet potatoes and fried Toppoki that lent some balance to the textures and flavors. Garlicky Tenders ($26.90)

The bakery chef, located in bukit merah central, serves waffles, cakes, soft serves and their signatures toast. The toasts ran out of stock easily. Upon cutting the thick toast of bread, you can observe the lava within ooze out immediately.

The café was generally small and compact with some tables outside of the store to accommodate more diners. Upon entering, you will be greeted with a huge chalk board indicating the menu of the shop. If you are not tempted by the food menu, one can choose from the cake display or purchase their specialty – Bread Toast. We decided to order a few items to try such as the thick toast, rainbow cake, rainbow Caramel guilt and blue salted caramel soft serve. For the price of $12.80, you get a choice of toast (charcoal, brioche or matcha), fillings (salted egg, Nutella or matcha) and a scoop of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla or matcha). We have chosen two toast to try to spot the taste difference. The first order was brioche toast together with nutella lava and matcha ice cream while the other order is charcoal toast with salted egg yolk lava and vanilla ice cream. The brioche toast was actually a form of french toast.We could taste the buttery taste of the thick toast. It was really buttery and crispy. Upon bitting, the inner core of the bread was fluffy and soft. Oh ya, I forget to mention that I love cutting the toast. This is because the moment you cut the toast, the lava gushed out. The nutella lava was really smooth and rich. The café was really generous with the lava filling.Lava Toast ($12.80)See!! The lava following out

Generally for the charcoal bread, it was crispy but I found the bread very bland. But I guess it was ok as it was meant to accompany the sweet-savory salted egg yolk lava within. The salted egg yolk lava was flowly and a little grainy. Another hot favourite was the blue sea salt soft serve. It was really pretty and yummy as well. The salted caramel taste was just nice not to make you too sick of eating it. Sea salt ice cream ($7.20)

Rainbow Caramel guilt has a pretty appearance with layers of fluffy moist rainbow cakes topped with droplets of caramel cream. We love the texture of the cakes. Within the cakes, it also contains a caramel core. As we are not a fan of too sweet food, we find it a little too rich and sweet. Rainbow Caramel Guilt ($5.80) With the same square shaped design, the rainbow cake was another pretty cake that drew my attention. The colours of the raimbow cakes tend to be brighter and pretty. The sponge cakes were layered with cream making it moist and fluffy. This suit my taste better as it was less sweet as compared to the rainbow caramel guilt. All in all, the cakes and desserts served here were great. But my favourite was definitely the lava toast. I would suggest that you visit café earlier in the day as we have several failed attempted visiting the café was it closed earlier than the operating hours as more of their food were sold out.

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