Lola's cafe + Hatterstreet bakehouse cafe
For those of you living in Kovan, you got lucky! In case you didn’t know, there’s a newly-opened café just around the corner – Lola’s Café. Having only been around for about 3 months, this café has added liveliness to the area. This vintage café is also easily accessible – it takes you less than 5 minutes to walk from Kovan MRT (the exit opposite Heartland Mall). If you’re driving, (parallel) parking lots are directly available outside the café.
Thursday means Mum is not working, I have reasons to bring her down for a cafe hunt journey with me. Managed to drag along my brother who always complain about us having good food without him but the fact that he usually don't wake up after 12pm. So can't be blamed right?
Basically they have their brunch menu from 10am-3pm, dinner menu 6pm-10pm whereas in between 3pm-6pm is their resting time, perhaps to replenish their stocks etc.
Although its a weekday afternoon, the cafe were filled with people. Thinking that I might not get my seats, the owner actually allowed us to sit at the reserved seating areas. That's how nice he is.
Check out their dessert booth. My love for their tarts but I didnt try out any of it.
My bro ordered a Lola's Full Monty Breakfast ($15 nett). I thought the portion would be rather huge but it turns out to be just right. If there's anything that I remember about this dish, it's how all the meat has a sweet tinge to it- honey baked ham and honey bacon. The brioche was a little too small for my liking and the scrambled eggs a little too buttery for me.
My Mum ordered the Avocado Eggs Benedict ($15), the eggs were well poached with the yolks bursting and coating the honey toasted buns with its creamy goodness. The peeps at Lola’s even added some heat to the dish with some paprika powder on top of a well made hollandaise sauce. Avocados are a good way of making the dish seem less of a guilty pleasure.
I personally love to eat cheese fries, and I am pretty fine with their nacho cheese fries ($8) because it is not very cheesy and you will not get sick of it when you eat a bunch of it! The cheese was actually sufficient to last us to the last few fries
Lola’s cafe is very quiet on a weekday afternoon, which makes it very conducive for reading and for studying. You could also reward yourselves with some savoury desserts while working your brain cells! It’s also a good place to hang out with your friends in the late evenings over some beer and honey wings. Besides, it’s probably the only place in Kovan to get decent coffee (since the nearest starbucks is in NEX shopping mall). Service was great, staff were all very friendly. For me, I will certainly come back again to try out their cakes/tarts!
Opening Hours:
Tue – Sun: 11:00 – 00:00
Address: 5 Simon Road Singapore 545893
Tel: 6343 1808
Do you like a cafe with a fairy tale theme? This little cosy cafe, located in the heartland, has a beautiful deco with a “Alice in Wonderland” theme.
This cafe does not have a menu. All items sold are written on the wall. And cakes varieties depends on the chef’s decision that day. I like this concept as you will never know what cakes will be available on the next day. Who knows it might be a surprise?
The cakes are all freshly baked with no preservatives. Lots of varieties to choose from everyday. If you can’t decide, ask for recommendations. The chef’s are most willing to introduce the cakes to you.
The Chocolate Nutella tart ($6.80) is reserved strictly for pure chocoholics as the taste is pretty predictable and average.
Passion Fruit Tart ($6)
I love love this tart a lot. The base is not so hard that you can slice it easily but it is not soft either that it will fall into pieces with just a slight force. I love Passion Fruit Tarts and I wanted to get more but another customer took all the remaining passion fruit cakes when I was about to order another second round!
The popcorn cake ($6) was equally delightful, so light and ethereal, as if there were ZERO calories in it. Divine!
Whoaffles with vanilla ice cream & caramel sauce($8)
You can also choose to have it w pandan ice cream & gula melaka sauce. If you're expecting crispy outside, fluffy inside, this is not it. This is crispy all the way! Which does have its own merits. The batter was fragrant but I'm more a fluffy inside crispy outside, thick belgium waffle, kinda girl. Dipped in with the caramel and OH MY, it was really sweet! Ice cream was good and went well with the waffles.
That's me and my Mum with another companion (brother) behind the camera (:
Hatter Street Cafe
212 Hougang Street 21 #01-333 (same row as Nakhon Thai)
69884591
Tue-Sun 1pm-10pm
