Marche Bar and Bistro

The worst service & most mediocre food we have experienced on numerous visits to Singapore. Will not return. The lady who seats guests seems to perform absolutely no other purpose, & certainly does nothing to address service issues. The least expensive bottle of wine, which is a very inexpensive Chianti at retail, is SGD 72 here, so be forewarned. Tried to bring our entrees not once, but twice, «before» they served the wine. Seemed not to grasp that most diners want to enjoy the wine «with» their meals. Saw 3 tables of 2 guests each, simply get up & walk out, after receiving no service acknowledgement for 10 – 15 minutes. Pork was dry & tasted of ZERO seasonings. Mashed potatoes similarly flavorless. Food served barely warm after two failed delivery attempts, & sitting in window waiting for wine to be delivered, which did not happen for 25+ minutes after ordering it. Singapore is filled with fine restaurants & poor service is definitely the exception. Unfortunately, this place misses the mark in both instances.

Beautiful interior, high quality ingredients especially the smoked salmon which I am in love with.
Nice drink of the day!
I tried their crêpe with smoked salmon and additional 1x top up of smoked salmon… Deliciousss! The consistency ratio of cheese, flour, veggie and salmon is just right.
The setting is kinda outdoor so if you are indoor type of person this place might not be for you.
I’ll be back… :)

Freshly baked elongated pizza as a main dish for dinner, which is hugh for a HK girl… My colleague who got a lesser appetite can barely finish half of it. With a little more stomach than her, I’ve finished 6 out of 8 pieces *feeling proud** Mine is a Margherita and the cheese is authentic and finely cooked. Just good enough to melt and mix with the tomato sauce, fresh and not overcooked. Just good!

I was looking for an early breakfast place and stumbled on this. It was pretty hard to say no to a freshly made scrambled eggs & ham crêpe ($ 8.50). The atmosphere was great… And the fillings in the crêpe are fresh & plentiful. They even put a bowl of apples on the table! Ok… I’m ready to face my week after this!
PS. I had no issues with the service; it was good. Also, I’ve made it a point to mention restaurants that don’t cheap out on bad napkins & cutlery. One of the the easiest way to improve a good dining experience & spread goodwill in a restaurant that goes to all the trouble to renovate their space nicely: Pay attention to important details like ingredients, staff training, cutlery, free tap water & napkins. Details matter! It means that the customer matters and that I don’t have to worry about what other ways they are cutting corners. They had good quality, disposable napkins! I’ll come back again to try other things.

Breakfast par excellence. German beer garden styled restaurant delivers with authenticity in flavor and décor.

This place has a bad rap from other Unilocalers, but I was nearby on a Sunday with some out-​of-​town guests and couldn’t find any better alternatives to suit everyone. I was bracing myself for disappointment, but it wasn’t as bad as I feared.
Two of our party ordered a pizza, and two others ordered a savory crêpe and a tartine. The crêpe was fine but otherwise not worth describing, so let me leave that one alone. The tartine was tomatoes, pesto, and prosciutto. It was pretty decent; not Le Pain Quotidien, but OK nonetheless.
But the star of the show was really the pizza. The two shared a slice with us. Now, it does come in a funny shape, kind of oblong like a running track, but that was a little endearing to be honest. The crust looked nicely done on the edges and it was just crisp enough but still with a hint of breadiness inside. It was topped with arugula, prosciutto, and fresh mozzarella. Wow, the arugula was fresh and really set of the saltiness of the prosciutto and the creaminess of the cheese. On top of that, it wasn’t really that expensive.
I haven’t had much success with pizza so far in Singapore. Some may say that I haven’t been trying that hard, and they’re probably right. But since eating this pizza, any time I have thought of ordering from one of the standard delivery chains, I have stopped myself and thought: «No, I’m better than that. I can hold on. There is reasonably priced pizza in Singapore worth eating, and I have eaten it.»
Let me express complete agreement with the other reviewers that the service is slow … not quite glacially slow, but I think it’s safe to say the staff handbook doesn’t have a section on «rush» or «hurry.» You may even get your bill within 10 minutes of asking for it. If the pace of service was like this on a weekday lunch, it would wreak havoc on anyone’s work schedule. So, I can understand why some Unilocalers are displeased. But for a Sunday meal with pleasant company, we were fine with the pace except for needing a refill on our water.

Second try today as I always allow a Restaurant two strikes.
And they did it for sure…
The Service sucks here. It is bad. And incompetent. Basically everything that says: Stay away!
How can you write the Special of the day in big letters on your chalkboard and after everyone ordered drinks etc ‘oh this is only for dinner’. That was the only thing I wanted to eat. Left all beverages on the table and went next door to Brotzeit.
No go. I’m fed up with this crappy place!

This is my 2^nd time here cos my colleagues are interested to try the lamb rack lunch special.
Have to say that the service is lot faster and the server taking care of our table was a lot better than the first time I was there.
We reached the bistro around 1215 and the five of us have decided we’ll have a portion of the lamb rack each. Much to our dismay, we were greeted with a «oh you gotta wait 20mins for that».
It’s a lunch special, it’s the start of lunch time and the food is not ready for order. Not very smart. We ordered it anyway and it was alright.
I guess the quality of the food there is not too bad (even for the pizza that we ordered the first time I went), but they gotta really work on their service and get their act together.
Not sure if I’ll go again the 3^rd time but it won’t be anywhere near top of my list.

The décor is super pretty, but that’s about the only thing great about it. In their defense, I only got the caesar salad, but I have to say that anything that can go wrong in a salad went wrong. Not only is the dressing a sad dilute shadow of a caesar dressing (store bought versions are way better), the romaine lettuce tasted like butter lettuce instead, which is not great in a salad, and the whole thing looked impressive but tasted incredibly drab. I could make better salads at home.

If they didn’t have that awesome muesli for brunch, I would never ever come here.
I don’t know what it is but servers are terrible (as in they ignore customers) and slow. And they can’t seem to get the orders right.
Not recommended at all!