Cafe Rouge @ Baghdad Street

Located in the area known as Arab Street, this cafe is at #20 Baghdad Street. But the sign posts says Bussorah Street. Hmm. Anyway, just above the cafe, is the newly opened SushiAirways 寿司航空 Sushibar.

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The set dinner at $28 was attractive because one can have a soup of the day, feta cheese salad, any main course of your choice plus tea/coffee. The mains are priced between $18 to $32. Sounds good, right? My friends agreed and they all got the set dinner except me.

Can't eat that much, if you'd ask me. So I got myself an $18 main course: boeuf bourguignon. If not wrong, the menu stated that it was wagyu.

This place serves iced water.

mini glass and carafe

boeuf bourguignon

Although there were plenty of good sized beef, but unfortunately most of it were not as tender as anticipated. Not quite the wagyu-like texture!

served with potato slices, carrots and cucumbers

For desserts ($6.50 each), simply go up to the counter and choose. We ordered creme brulee and a slice of chocolate something pear something.

chocolate something pear something

creme brulee

The chocolate dessert with pear was recommended by the service staff when asked about which one is the bestseller.

Both desserts were pretty sweet but creme brulee took the icing as being the sweetest! Oh, and one interesting thing was, the cappucino that my friend received was all foamy and milky white. So we thought the espresso shot was missing and asked for it to be replaced. They did, and we were informed that the second cup was done with double-shot. Then, double-shot it must be, otherwise, you'd be drinking just milk foam!

Service was accommodating and friendly.

Out Of The Pan @ Raffles City

Located at B1 of Raffles City Shopping Centre. Had a late lunch at this place. Ordered a caramel latte and a red wine beef stew crêpes. One can choose the crêpes type: normal, wheat or sun-dried tomatoes. The young chap who served us recommended sun-dried tomatoes, so we went for that and it turned out good.

Red Wine Beef Stew (@$15.50++)

braised beef shank pieces inside

Liked the crêpes texture. Softer than expected though. The red wine beef stew was tasty and tender. For the meat, there were two rather large pieces while the rest were smaller cubes.

Also tried the Smoked Ham Crêpe. Nice too, although the other ingredients like portobello mushroom, tomato sauce were rather subtle.

Smoked Ham (@$14.50++)

Currently, for DBS Indulge promotion, one can get a 1-for-1 main course/dessert.

Othello's @ Greenwood Avenue (Part II)

A nice relaxing place to enjoy a cuppa coffee/tea or, to sip that one cold beer or two.Ordered a mug of fries, a plate of drumlets to nibble.

mug of fries (@$6+)

drumlets (@$12+)

tasty sticky drumlets

Much preferred if midwings were used instead of drumlets, 'coz drumlets weren't juicy! Nevertheless, it was still kind of tasty. But it was odd, 'coz I was having Earl Grey with this...

a pot of Earl Grey

Though this place doesn't have any Happy Hour, they do have promotion on selected drinks from time to time. For January 2013, they're having Pure Blonde, Big Apple and Apple Tini for $8+.

Guess what I had?

Apple Tini

Very likeable this Apple Tini. Yummy.