'Joey's Blog': Truffle fries

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Just one weekend, I met up with Jue yu, Hong xiu, Benson and Hong wee for brunch and it was so perfect to stop by artistry for our cafe-hunt. We wanted to have it at to-gether cafe but the location was really far for our dear Hong xiu so by meeting near town would be the best location for all of us!

It was drizzling while we are on the way to the cafe but not to worry, the cafe was situated near the MRT station, a 5-10 mins walk would bring you there. Thankful for the shower rain, we were not drenched so badly.

I would have thought that this cafe will be filled with many people having their brunch but it seemed like the cafe was full but not to the extend that it has long queue as what many people have mentioned it on their blog. Its a pretty wait of 10-15 mins before we have gotten our 5 seater seats.

Unfortunately, we were asked to sit outside due to the number of people we have. We had to personally refill our drinks and had to keep going into the restaurant when we required assistance. I feel that the indoor seats are more spacious and sight-seeing but not to complain, at least we have our seats at a short period of time.

Part of the cafe interior that I captured, not giving a positive feedback on their design but their counter left me a good note. Just beside the counter, they displayed their "Cake for the day" and pastries for customers to order. From what I saw, not many choices to choose from but their red velvet cake was the one which got me drooling. $7.80 per piece can be reasonable with that size!

The cashier lady weren't very pleased to attend us as she didn't smile at all. That sulking face of her make me feel like we are not welcomed by her! On the other hand, another lady with a tie-dye green hair who served us was so passionate and even explained to us the best seller of food in the cafe knowing that this is the first time we have patron here.

Benson's Big breakfast ($15)

(Two scrambled eggs served with pork sausage marinated with craft beer, sauteed mushroom, spinach and toasted brioche)

The scrambled eggs were fluffy and cooked to perfection. I really loved the craft beer sausages as they were flavourful. Thanks to Benson for cutting a piece of it for us to try! Another interesting fact was that they changed the usual salad with spinach and sauteed mushrooms.

Jue Yu's Duck confit pesto ($18)

Unfortunately, its only applicable to weekend. I have only taken a liking to pesto pasta recently and this one with shredded duck and pine nuts was flavourful and addictive.

Crab Burger ($20)

(Jumbo lump crab cake, squid ink buns, tomato relish, choice of plain, Cajun or truffle fries)

The highlight however was the infamous Artistry Crab Burger. This burger is probably the second most instagrammed photo from the cafe apart from the French Toast and its no surprised to see why. Jumbo lump crab, crisp on the outside, moist on the inside is served between artisanal squid ink burger buns and comes with a side of truffle fries.The truffle fries is just as a side but it is good enough on its own, crispy and fragrant from truffle oil.

The Nasi Lemak Burger ($15)

The most creative and a must to try will be their Nasi Lemak Burger for example. Artistry gave the hawker rice dish its own twist by pairing a big slab of deep fried chicken, cheerful sunny side up with flowy yolk, sambal chili sauce, crispy anchovies, toasted peanuts and cucumber with pandan coconut buns. Those buns were so soft and fragrant that I stole them Hong Wee.

Kaya & Butter French Toast ($14)

I really love that lovely velvety Kaya texture filling my mouth and a coconut shred stuck on my teeth. Fat slices of fluffy brioche are stuffed with swirls of Kaya and butter. They are pan-fried until golden around the edges and soft in the middle. Completed with a scoop of coconut ice-cream, feel like im having dessert in BKK. I’m unsure of its classification as breakfast and am leaning more towards the idea of re-ranking it as a calorie packed dessert.

That's the food order that we have! It was worth every single cents. Happily eating and chatting with the them flavoured up the food. Before we left, we requested for a family shots. It is a must to have it whenever we gather together! So nice of a passer by who took the initiative to help us with the shoots. I guess he knows what I am thinking when I had an eye contact with him. The power of eyes!

Artistry

17 Jalan Pinang, Singapore 199149

6298 2420

Operating hours:

Tues- Sun: 10am - 7pm

We definitely need to stroll around after our meal so I brought them over to Haji lane for some window shopping. I was awed that 3 of my friends have never been to Haji Lane before. So why not take this time to bring them around to experience such wonderful place, especially their clothing!

That's the end of my day spent with classmates (:

The second half spent with Bf will be up shortly so stay tune for it.

Till then.

Lets just say that I really enjoyed cafe-hunting with my friends, especially on a mid-week because it is telling me that weekend is dropping by to say HI to me. And also to pamper myself after these 3 long days at work. Not like there were lots of work to be done, but at least I get to stay away from my computer screen to have a catch up session with the girls.

Met up with my 2 of my netballer girls for our new cafe hunt which was just so near to our area. Finally, they opened more cafes at the North-east estate. There's more reason for us to meet up for dinner!

Dinner was at Sunday Market, so strongly recommended by danielfooddiary from his 20 new cafe post.

The cafe was located at LIM TUA TOW! This street name can be a joke to us ( In Hokkien, it means BIG HEAD) and we were wondering why there is such street name in Singapore. Not only they have a weird street name, the cafe was located at the inner corner along the whole street of furniture shops. It will be difficult for some people to locate it if you are not staying nearby.

But finally, with a great piece of mind, we managed to find the cafe. We took from bus 82 Serangoon bus stop, alighted 1 stop later and walked the rest of the route by foot.

It wasn't hard to find because from far, we saw their striking red signboard shinning at us.

We simply love how comical their poster was. With lots of instagram #hashtags to fill in when you are uploading pictures of their food or cafe ambiance. It could be a good backdrop for photo taking too!

And this is what we did. HAHA, with the help of my mono stick to capture the backdrop behind. A good handy tool for people who love to camwhore like us.

Stepped inside the cafe and we were like WOW, got the feel of a mini garden. it has vines creeping on the wall and the plant pot lying around on the tables.

I wondered having a vintage bike is so trending at cafe now? There were cafes that I have been to were also decorated with their bikes on the walls, Sunday market has it too.

I always look forward to their dessert shelves and patronize it whenever I stepped into the cafe to see what is on their display for today. What I could see for the 'çake for the day' are red velvet, cheese cake and chocolate fudge. Not really appealing to me.

Menu are simple yet easy to look at! They squeeze all their menu food and drinks on 2 pages of cardboard paper?! Thats a good way of saving earth!

Here to our drinks for today:

We ordered their famous Thai Iced Milk Tea, Organic Apple Guava and also Matcha Latte.

I love their Thai Milk Tea, it somehow reminds me of the Thai iced that I had in BKK. That thick and sweet milk simply made my day. But paying ($7) for this cup of drink could really burnt my pocket.

Matcha Latte ($7) was good because I could taste the aroma of the green tea and the foam of milk layer did not cover up the whole Matcha taste. Apple guava ($5.90) was so refreshing too!

Their Skinny wings and Truffle fries ($6.90) was their only appetizer. Wings sticks marinated in house spices, deep fried till crispy and accompanied by shoestring fries tossed in truffle oil with Aioli and Thai chilli sauce.

Quite stingy for their portion but the wings were surprisingly good. They have marinated the wings well with the spices and herbs.

Seafood aglio olio ($14.90)

Mixed seafood in chilli oil, seafood broth, garlic, chilli, crispy fish flakes, mussels and prawns with spaghetti.

The dish can be a little too oily for females out there due to the chilli oil. But the whole dish was whipped out with a good liking by us. I specially love their crispy fish flakes.

We also order waffles in their Menu and chose their fried chicken waffles ( $11.90) .

Crispy fried chicken tenders with chitpotle maple drizzle, sweet and creamy slaw.

This was first served on our table but because of the long wait for the rest of the dish to arrive, the waffles became soften. So we couldn't bite through the crispiness of the waffles. The chicken was left soft too.

We had to get ourselves the famous Bangkok Toast ($10.90) which was a cinnamon thick sweet brioche toast with Matcha Green Tea custard, served with Thai milk tea ice-cream. The brioche

was little dry at the surface but moist within. Strongly recommended by others but I thought that it could be better.

Well, the mains here are really good. But the desserts were slightly disappointing. Then again, these desserts have very unique taste. So perhaps you will be able to appreciate them better.