Shrove Tuesday

Hipster café in a rustic neighborhood. Main attraction: waffles
A friend brought me here, she can’t stop raving about this place’s waffles. We alighted at Braddell Station and walked in between the HDB block to get to this café. Approx 5mins.
It’s an old neighborhood, so it is fairly easy to find a parking lot if you plan to drive.
Typical cutesy, cosy hipster café. Nothing over the top, generally well decorated.
We ordered a Waffles with chocolate ice cream, café latte, citron tea and Mexican wings. Approx $ 22
They arrived fairly quickly. Waffles was good, and clearly they take pride in it — there is a dedicated chalk board to justify and tell people just why their waffles is so good and how they made them. In addition, the wifi password is «crispywaffles».
The coffee was below average, citron tea was ok. The Mexican wings were terrible. They all had a weird smell to them, felt like it was dunked in some detergent or cleaning solution. It was so bad, we had to stop eating them. Informed the staff when she cleared our plates, claims she will look it up but did not come back with a response. Instead, she sat down and watch her drama series.
I would have given them more stars probably ³⁄₅. If not for them — disregarding customers feedback and the horrible wings. The one and only thing (maybe two) that you would visit this place for would be the waffles and maybe the ice cream.

Located within 5 minutes walk of Braddell mrt is this café, located under a block of HDB flats. It has a very simple outlook, of white washed walls and sign board. But the minute you walk in, you are greeted by the variety of ice cream and rainbow cakes that they offer.
No pork or lard :)
Who knew you could display cakes alongside ice creams in the same fridge? COOL idea. Nonetheless, we got ourselves a waffle with 2 scoops of gelato. Roasted Pistachio which was a premium flavour so $ 2.50 + $ 0.80 and Rocher which was $ 2.50.
Waffle with Roasted Pistachio and Rocher Gelato $ 10.80
And here it was, the leaning tower of gelato! I really enjoyed both flavours of the gelato. I just couldn’t get enough of it. The roasted pistachio was my favourite. The rocher was very chocolatey and creamy as well. Both weren’t over-​poweringly sweet, and that’s why I loved it.
Look at the thickness of the waffle. It was so fluffy and awesome! Definitely coming back for more waffles!
Here’s why their waffles are so fluffy! Because they use yeast raised batter and each batter takes 3 hours to ferment! The fermentation processes releases C02 making their waffles light and crunchy!
Take note employees of the above companies, you get 10% discount M-​F 12−7PM :)
All in all, a great place to chill out even though I wasn’t able to connect to their wifi for some weird reason.
Wifi password: weloveshrove

Honestly, Shrove Tuesday is only my third café after returning from Tokyo. While I still hold a healthy skepticism with regards to the quality of café food, I am delighted to discover some stellar food here, thanks to the
recommendation by a coffee guru friend
Gelato is no longer a novelty but there is something playful when it comes to the Italian ice cream here. It’s Gelato desserts. This magnum-​lookalike «Milk Chocolate Classico» might not be convince you to splurge $ 10 but wait till you sink your teeth into the chocolate shell. Instead of the typical artificial-​tasting buttery ice confectionary, a dense caramel brownie-​like layer concealed in the fresh and smooth vanilla gelato, made it extremely pleasurable yet gratifying. Count yourself lucky if you managed to detonate one of their «BOMB» (bizzare ice cream balls), especially the salted caramel version which was unavailable during my visit.
Same goes for the Matcha & Black Sesame gelato ($ 2.50/$ 3 for premium). Yes, these might be my two favourite flavors but there is a reason why they are standouts of their own species. The Black sesame gelato grabbed our attention away from its matcha counterpart due to its warm earthy nuttiness, thanks to the incorporation of grinded BS seeds and BS paste. But be forewarned that the sugar content for both flavours were askew. Waffles ($ 5) were light and delicately crisp on the edges, crawling in with subtle honey sweetness.
Cakes are not as stellar as the gelato so expect standards to fluctuate with the nature of pastries. Baked goods like the Strawberry Rose Red Velvet ($ 4.50) had a stale, uninspiring rose buttercream, clearly not performing at its utmost. Though neither coffee nor orange was discernible in the Ivory Orange Coffee Mousse ($ 4.50), the texture of the mousse was smooth and wholesome.
While there is a range of other cakes such as Peanut Banana, Tiramisu and cheesecakes, I’m contented with their gelato creations, which I hope can be further experimented and one day expand to become the forte of the café, apart from waffles and coffee.