I could launch into a homily about delicious breakfasts / brunches as a legally binding meal.
Down with "Just Coffee"! .. "Gimme my Banana Butterscotch Pancakes".. "Bring on the Peanut Butter and Banana Toasts!"... "Bacon for President!".. "Make BREAKFAST, Not War!"
Ok, I'm stretching a little..
Situated in the middle of Raffles Place, this Coffee Club branch appeals to me for a couple of reasons: #1. Behind the glass walls, you could watch and almost escape from the mad morning rush of the corporate crowd. #2. It was one of the few places around the area, which serves good indulgent breakfasts.
Now I know they serve questionable entrees but "brekking speaking", they do a pretty good job and I, for one, feel Da Paolo could maybe learn a thing or two about presentation and creativity...
Smoked salmon and corn cake
The smoked salmon was an elegant tower of mustard & dill marinated salmon, perched on a bed of scrambled eggs and a baby-fist-sized corn cake. I was amused by the decorative avant garde-ish leaf.
Isn't the smoked salmon twist just darn pretty?
Although this dish was more than easy on the eye, taste-wise, it was almost-there. The mustard zing was nowhere to be found, but the instinctive pairing of dill and smoked salmon worked for me. The scrambled eggs were egg-pectedly ordinary and the corn-speckled potato patty was shallowed fried golden brown. However, the crisp was missing and the corn cake suffered from a soggy top, consequence of wet mush scrambled eggs. This was not my type of "moshi moshi". Luckily, the seemingly inssipid ciabatta was soft, with a great tear-away quality to it.
Gypsy Eggs
I have had it!
Eggs-wise, that is.
Scrambled, poached, sunny side up, omeletted, soft boiled, hard-boiled, raw... but never BAKED! What the kitchen does with eggs is great and I am simply perplexed by how such a cooking method could have gone unnoticed for so long. Hidden beneath the surface, the fat-ridden bacon shreds and roasted capsicum duet was a hit in the making. Served on the side was Manchego-chesse-topped ciabatta, which would make one "Wham! Wake me up before you go go." Derek Zoolander wannabes, take heart!
Mushroom Bruschetta
The mushroom bruschette is topped with arugula and served with scrambled eggs. Now if you have followed my blog long enough, you would realise that anything dominated by black mushrooms usually causes a knot in my gut and this was no exception. Even at a foot away, there was no escaping the mushrooms' intrusive smell. Alert: Fetor Fatale! But of course, if like Jimmy, you find things like smelly beancurd
Another item to try out is the turkish bread sandwich (not pictured), which consists of cheddar cheese, ham and scrambled eggs. This was the reason why Coffee Club's breakfasts caught my attention in the first place. A couple of weeks ago, my mum doggy-bagged her leftovers and after popping it into the microwave for just a minute or so, I actually had it for dinner. Erm, to be consumed within the very day itself.. Haha.. The melted cheddar cheese and scrambled eggs was uncompromisingly great and provided reason to get out of bed.
After such a sumptious breakfast, all I wanna do is head back to bed.
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