For full review: http://www.molly-mia.blogspot.sg/2015/01/mias-review-bakery-bar-st-marc.htmlLured in by the famous Chococro of St. Marc Cafe, we decided to give Bakery & Bar St. Marc a try. And of course, the chococro isn't the only luring factor. Heh!Salted Milk Chococro (left) and Original Chococro (right)Smaller than an iPhone 4, it's definitely a pretty pricey treat at about $2.40 to $2.60, but SO WORTH IT!

Warmed prior to serving, the croissant is crisp and flaky with a strong buttery fragrance. The fillings (choco and/or salted milk) were rich and made the otherwise dry croissant slightly moisten as you chew.Garden Salad

They usually serve with the dressing mixed in, so if you take your salad without dressing most of the time, like me, do request that they separate the dressing (or omit). Yes, I know it looks pretty good and fresh, but.... pictures are deceiving here.

This is the saltiest salad I've ever, ever eaten. It's so salty my tongue hurts, and I had to force myself to finish this bowl of salted veggies by slushing my mouth with water after every bite towards the end.

I have no idea what went wrong in the kitchen, perhaps they mistook salt for some other condiments or what, or perhaps I should have just demanded they redo the salad for me. But I just didn't, and my poor tongue paid the price for it.

Never again, St Marc. I'll never try your salad ever again.Fish and Chips

Once again, looks pretty when served, but tasted just like a normal fish and chips, with a little too much batter to 'fatten' up the fillet.

The Bakery & Bar St Marc is supposed to have a fuller menu (sandwiches, pastas and other mains) as compared to their cafe counterparts, which focuses mainly on pastries and desserts, but by far it seems to me that I'm better off heading to their more easily accessible cafes to indulge in their pastries instead.

I rated them poorly on taste as Bakery & Bar is supposed to have a fuller menu as compared to St Marc Cafes. All those yummy choco cro can easily be found at all other St Marc Cafes, which isn't the dish that makes Bakery & Bar different.

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Attracted by their avengers-themed burger set groupon deal, I took great pains to persuade T to drop by with me on a Sunday early afternoon, and found the café absolutely deserted. Frankly speaking, I was really surprised, judging from the fact that there is a groupon deal ongoing and I've expected a huge crowd on a Sunday.

And first up, their service didn't really impress me much. I had to walk to the counter myself to get a menu from the staff, and get reminded by him, albeit in a very polite tone, that I have to return to the counter to make my orders.

And the real first impression killer was the menu. The menu book really.... sucks.

It's just a worn out clear folder slotted with crumpled papers with dish names and prices printed on them. You don't even get to see what the dishes (will/may) look like when served. Avenger's Burger Set

The result of a collaboration between a few brilliant local chefs, these colourful buns are made from natural ingredients, with no artifical flavouring, no gluten and no trans fat. Each set comes in 4 different coloured mini burger but there's only 3 flavours to choose from: Grilled Chicken, Grilled Fish or Classic Beef. Needless to say, this is indeed an instagram-worthy dish! Such adorable looking mini burgers with such bright colours.

But the good things end here.

The buns are pretty, but dry and hard, especially the outer skin. There seems to have a slight tinge of flavour in the buns (especially the orange bun, with a hint of citrus flavour) but it really didn't add any brownie points to the dish.

The grilled chicken was pretty poorly done, with a strong 'frozen chicken taste' to it and thick globs of fats under the slightly slimy skin (the chicken definitely wasn't fully cooked on the grill, but probably in a microwave).

Grilled fish, albeit better than the chicken, was still nowhere near good. Just, acceptable and not as bad as the chicken.

The french fries were also slightly soggy and dry inside. Didn't taste like they were freshly out from the fryer either. Rocky Beef Burger

T chose a beef burger and his only comment was: At least the food is (temperature) hot.

Finally, I'm back with another food/cafe review! Has been doing more beauty related posts recently and my food pictures has been snowballing in my blogging folder. Yikes!Located on the 2nd floor of the row of shophouses along Siglap (above the pub), I was greeted by a cute french bulldog, miu miu, at the gate. The cafe is not very big, with about 10 tables or so to accommodate about 40 plus (human) pax at a time. Other than a drinking fountain for the pooches, the cafe has also placed mop with bucket and litter pan for the pets and their owners.There's a section of the cafe serving dogs' meal, The Barkery. Menu includes savoury mains like meatballs & meat pies, and also desserts like pupcakes and biscuits.

The most popular dish for that day seems to be their meatballs, even a terrified kitty gave it a few munches! Well, we'll get to that later on.And now, to the human food section of the cafe. For a pet cafe, they actually do have a pretty wide range of choices, from light snacks, to salad, to pasta and western mains.My choice of the day:

Roasted Chicken with Salad and Mashed Potato (but they gave wedges) - $12.90

Mocha - $4.90

The coffee was okay, but the food was.... mehhh.

Both SL and I chose the same mains. Hers was okay, while mine was a little too salty, especially the salad. According to her, my salad dressing even looked a darker shade of brownish yellow. I guess that's why mine was overly flavourful.

And while SL and my sides were more flavourful. It was right at the opposite end at OYHZ, Dresden and MD's side. MD took Cabonara while both oyhz and Dresden took their All Day Breakfast.

It was painful looking at oyhz trying hard to stomach the extremely bland eggs. Just think, scrambled eggs with no seasoning?

No thanks.

However, the meatballs from The Barkery seems to be a big hit, for not only Butter couldn't wait to clean up the bowl. but even a terrified Froski ate quite a few bites of them. And even though it was left cold, it still attracted a very cute Corgi!"Woof, will you give me some meatball?"

This Corgi, named Coco, is so sweet and mild. Instead of dashing over to steal a bite, she simply sat down and stared at us until we decided to give up Froski's half eaten meatball for her.

And she literally WOOF it down in one bite.

Her owner was pretty embarrassed, constantly coaxing her to go back to their table and saying that she has already ordered meatballs for her too.The very first dog that caught my attention in the cafe is this 6 months old Chow Chow puppy.

He's so fluffy I'm gonna dieeeeee!Very chillax, sociable and playful too!This Shiba Inu puppy was pretty smitten and kept butt-sniffing and hugging him.

HA HA HA!Then came along a Japanese Spitz, who got pretty fed up by the touchy-feely Shiba Inu and started a small barking fest.And the so adorably tiny Chihuahua twinsy pups! The black pup seems to be blind in one eye, but still a cutie!At one point of time I spotted a toy poodle and a pug as well. And then came the biggest dog of the night, a cute Golden Retriever, who got smitten with Froski and wanted to befriend him.

Froski you got yourself an admirer!"WHAT?!"

When MD and Dresden first came in with Froski and attempted to let him out of the cage, it immediately attracted a handful of pups who bounded over and started barking excessively. Poor guy, he was so terrified and even peed on Dresden while she carried him away from one hostilely barking pup.

Throughout the entire 3 hours plus we were there, Froski was totally stressed up being the only cat in a cafe full of dogs. His face was literally a 囧 and he moved around slowly in a leopard crawl motion. Poor boy!

Apparently, Dresden has called to ask if it's advisable to bring a cat and they didn't bother to give much warning that the cat will probably end up in such a predicament.

Sorry Froski, no second time!As for Butter, it wasn't exactly a stressful time for her since she's just being surrounded by more of her own kind, I reckon.

But being more timid and introverted, she very much preferred to stay close to her humans, SL and P, and literally just dog-watch along with us.

Haha, how sweet!And after being fed meatballs and some of SL's roasted chicken, she went into this Zzz mode.

Love those floppy ears!

All in all, I think III Cafe will be an awesome cafe to bring your pet dogs over to chill and let your pup make some pup-friends and socialise on a weekend. Food wise....

Oh well, on the safe side you can always just stick to fries.

Oh, and please, no cats unless it's a seasoned dog-befriender.