Cafe-hopped: Dolce Tokyo Cafe
Dinner with Joel on Tuesday after a long and busy day at work. Work has been so hectic because of the upcoming N level oral and everyone of us have to be usher/ receptionist/ messenger. Basically everyone is running around the school.
Despite of the busy day, time to enjoy some sweet tooth in town! Introduce you guys the Japanese-Italian interior concept café - Dolce Tokyo Café located at 313 Somerset. ‘Dolce’ mean ‘sweet’ in Italian and Dolce Tokyo serves a variety of Japanese desserts as well as best of Japanese Italian influenced cuisine.
At a glance you will notice a lot of bird cages scattered around the facade, covering not birds, but desserts! It is a quirky yet elegant way to present the dishes – first timers will enjoy the popularity of the cafe’s theme. The cafe was quite full and only a few staff were manning the bars and kitchens, understandable since it has been opened for quite some time, hopefully it will get better in the future.
Their Menu in the house. Took every shot of the menu so that you will have a rough idea on what food they served.
FOOD VERDICT:
Essential British ($18)
Baked beans, Chorizo Sausage, Scambled eggs on mashed potato drizzled with Brown sauce, cheese on toast.
The presentation looks appetizing.The toasted bread is crunchy and it blends well with the scrambled egg and mashed potato.Loving the brown sauce that compliments well with the sausage and the other dishes.
The Unagi Omu Curry Rice Set ($17)
looked tempting with the cheerful yellow omelette laying in its pool of curry gravy. Japanese curry leans toward a subtle and sweeter taste, so please do not expect any heavily spiced version. The curry tasted pretty decent, it goes very nicely with the soft, fluffy egg and rice, spelling comfort food in every mouthful.
Hot dessert- Mochi with matcha ice cream. ($7.90) For this plate, it was filled with red beans, glutinous balls, Mochi and a scoop of ice cream. The mochi (which we called it dumplings) is chewy and soft. There is black sesame as fillings in the mochi. Joel thinks its good but for me is just so-so.
Now for the sweet fix. Served in a bird cage, the signature Matcha Black Sesame Cake ($11.50) is a welcome change to the usual matcha-red bean duo. The matcha flavour does not hit one instantly, but creeps in gradually behind the sweet black sesame paste.
Overall, their main course is totally worth the price! Portions are huge and also taste really really delicious!
The staffs are friendly enough to make me feel comfortable and enjoy the atmosphere.
Perhaps it was the timing that we choose that wasn't a lot of people thus they are able to serve us well? Either way, I really appreciate it!
Dolce Tokyo
313 Somerset,
313 Orchard Road #03-23,
Singapore 238895
Mon - Sun: 11:30 am - 10:30 pm
Tel : 6836 5612
