'Joey's Blog'

Bf surprised me outside the hospital ward in the wee morning and waited for me to come down and rode me home. I specially want to thanks him for fetching me home from TTSH after a long and can't even sleep well night. The sofa in the ward was not meant for sleeping and lead me to a major headache and back ache.

After a good nap and off to meet him for my late lunch and early dinner. Sunday was our 'paktor'day and I made sure I make this short day a fruitful one by diligently did a good homework before that. And simply said that, he's willing to spend some time with me before he booked in.

And guess where are we heading to? HAHA, easy peasy because you can see the name at the back of the background. And yes, our cafe hunt at WHEELER'S YARD. I have been wanting to explore this cafe so much after seeing good reviews from friends on Facebook and Instagram, telling me how cool to have bicycles in a cafe. Deep inside, im like normal what but when you checked out the place, you will know how magical it is! That explained, social media make wonder at times. 

Located in an industrial area at Lorong Ampas off Balestier Road, in the midst of heavy industries and a old sleepy neighborhood (site is previously a rundown carpentry workshop), it fills a gap of a cyclist hangout in the area. Large space with high ceilings make this an ideal place to grab a coffee, get some work done, tune up your bike or meet up with some friends. 

This Bicycle Atelier combines both a workshop and cafe together to bring you a dining experience that is truly extraordinary. Wheeler's Yard provides a wide range of urban bicycles for sale as well as accessories which also makes up most of their display in the cafe

 Spotted a VROOM VROOM vintage scooter. Such an old eighties.

The outdoor area houses all the bikes and gear, while indoors has large workhorse tables where strangers can sit beside each other and get to know each other (if they wish to). 

They actually have quite a lot of seating both indoors and outdoors, but it was still super crowded the first time I went there (on a Sunday) at 4pm somemore. I expected less crowd due to this kind of weird timing.

 We chose the indoor seatings because we couldn't see any free space outside. And 'WOW' dismayed me when I entered into the cafe. Bicycles are hanging all around. They even decorated their walls with helmets? HAHA, who will ever do this? Such an unique cafe!

The counter where you can start ordering your food. And also they don't provide GST and service charge so they opened up a small booth for food collection.

 Do you see the water cart? This is where the cafe placed their water jugs and glasses for customers to help themselves to free-flow water. Quite an innovative and attractive idea.

Oldies toy that I found while I was queuing for my food.

Cafes menu

Nowadays technology is rising up. No need to use your voice to call out names. Simple use a small device and this solved your problem. No wonder its GST and service charge free as we have to collect our food on our own. So once the device vibrated, it shows an alert of our food is coming. So apparently this device vibrated many times and bf have to walk in and out to collect the food.

 Chicken Yard Burger ( $15.90)

Homemade chicken patty stacked with lettuce and tomato and caramlised onion, served on brioche buns and fries

There was a “twirl” sign of mayonnaise on the burger, so interesting. The chicken patty has a strong chicken flavour but I find it a little too bland though there were some coarse salt in the patty. When it was eaten with the caramelised onions, it tasted awesome. The caramelised onions has a sweetish taste when paired off with the chicken simply bring out the savoury flavour to the ultimate level. The fries were pretty normal though it was considered pretty delicious. 

Cheese fries ($9.90)

Bf and I are such a potato person so once we saw cheese fries on the menu, we couldn't resist it and have to order one to try! The best thing is they even have fries on the burger itself. Too much potato on that day, so starchy!

Their cheese fries was so much better than KFC cheese fries. The over-flowing nacho cheese poured all over the fries. They are too generous with the cheese.

Caramel Mousse Brownies ($6.90)

Sweet toothed me have to order one cake for my taste bud and I chose Caramel mousse because this is the only cake that I like ( set aside their apple crumble/ carrot cake). Sweet caramel with brownies, this is the first time I ever taste such pastries. A good one though!

In conclusion,

I loved how they combined both the bicycle artlier and cafe together. Wheeler's Yard is really spacious, with plenty of seats both in the air-conditioned and non air-conditioned area. This place would be great for large group gatherings, just that it might be a little inaccessible for those who do not drive! We had to walk in and out when we went after alighting form the bus stop.

Address:

28 Lorong Ampas

Singapore 328761

Tel: 6254 9128

Nearest MRT Station:

Novena, Toa Payoh

Buses: 21, 131, 145, 186

 Anyone wants to hire him to be your chauffeur? He can ride you to everywhere, anywhere but will never come back. So take your risk if you want to (:

 HAHA, photo-bombed by this meimei here tugging her shirt. Abit unglam leh Miss.



 Got that feel hor? Credit goes to boyfriend who is so good in taking photos nowadays. He even praised himself for that! HAHA, #thickskinned.



Humbly asked a passer-by to take a couple shot for us. Well-taken I would say!