cafehopping adventures ~ Craft Bistro, Orange Thimble and Fat Cat

It was a Monday, not Sunday, but we went off for our cafehopping adventures - simply because of two reasons: 1) it has been like 6weeks since our last cafehopping day (OMGGGG) 2) it was a PH and we had no plans on hand (like, finally!!!)

Went off for our first stop, for our brunch. It was Craft Bistro, a simple place set up in Holland Village with not too elaborated furnishing and pretty good crowd. Our only grievance is the noisy customers sitting beside us (both left and right)... Else, I would say the drinks and food all tasted good - good toast, fluffy rainbow cake, proper size of smoked salmon with salad and bread. I thought the baileys latte was not bad, with a slight yet obvious tint of baileys in it.

Just before the downpour arrived, we reached Orange Thimble (just next to Tiong Bahru Bakery). Quite full from our brunch, we only ordered a beef rendang stew to share. Dear and I ordered tea to "cleanse and digest". The lemongrass tea was refreshing though it was not to their credit since they used a tea bag. The rendang tasted alright, but too watery to my liking. Phyllis felt it was just curry actually. Luckily, the bread that came with it saved the day!

Final stop of the day was Fat Cat. A painful wait/ queue outside the cafe was enough to let us deduct many many marks from it. It was a humid day, and there were very few seats (no fan or cooler) outside though it was apparent to me that a queue was inevitable. Ok, I know I sound spoiled but you can interview those who queued along with us - some waited more than 45mins!

The smokey magnum was pretty interesting and tasted (like a magnum) while the charcoal gourmet waffle was not bad (but not the best we tried). It was the torturous wait for the waffle that convinced us not to head back again! Queue numbers 14 and 13 got their waffles before us (we were 12) and only after they attempted to serve us (looking frantically for 14 but could not find it as our order had been served to the two gals instead!), then they realised the mistake! Well, to me, it was strange that the two gals did not realise they were being served ice-creams which they did not choose... 

Of coz, being located at Bedok gave us a final closing that we will not travel so far east again for this.