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Canele Patisserie - Chocolaterie (Paragon)
Overall - 7
Food and Beverage - 6
Ambience / Setting - 7
Value - 6
Service - 5
Will you return to this place? Probably
I spent about S$21 per person

Review Date: 02 Mar 2010
290 Orchard Road, #B1-25 The Paragon, Singapore
Tea Break

We had:


Coffee ($4++) - Good


Carbonara ($14.50++) - Though light & interesting, Carbonara shouldn't be served with the egg cooked seperately. The pasta looked good topped with a nice poached egg.  However, a proper Carbonara should have the egg stir-in with Parmesan cheese. The portion was rather small too. It would be great to be able to choose a bigger portion with a higher price tag.


Gateaux Chocolate ($6.50++) - A nice impressive looking petite piece of cake. Quality wise, no different from the one I just had at the Greenhouse Cafe. Pretty good.


Tiramisu (S6.50++) - Ok.....Hmm....I'm trying to be nice here....This is the perhaps Canele's interpretation of a good old fashion Tiramisu. I had higher expectations because it was Canele. The taste for the whole dessert was nothing like those found in Italian restaurants.  To me, the dessert should be renamed but don't call it Tiramisu.


Service - Though the place is pretty small and the number of Service Staff is not that small, it is rather difficult to get their attention. From the moment of waiting for a seat, getting the menu, getting the order and getting the extra ice water besides the coffee was rather tough. To be fair, the staff were not chatting in a corner, but somehow, most of them were standing at positions that were somewhat difficult to wave them down or have eye contact. I need to walk to the counter several times to get some attention. However, the service provided, once gotten, was polite.


Ambience: A nice place to be seen though with all the nice and comfortable furnishing. It's a nice place to chill out with frens.


Value: Most dishes were priced much lower than I've expected.  However, I guess because of the low prices, the portion were much smaller.  Have had wanted to order a pizza, then realised that the price tag ensured not one whole round pizza but a small piece of rectangular portion  instead. 


Overall: The overall experience was good.  Will be back.

 
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Petite Mummy
on Foong Kee: Yummy Roast Duck Noodles
Haa...what an experience! This is indeed a place full of interesting characters isn't it? The Old Gentleman is really old now. It is good that they still keep him around ; )

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on Foong Kee: Yummy Roast Duck Noodles
Was there a couple of days ago. I believe this old 'gentleman' is still there but he has been relegated to clearing tables. In place of him, there is a weird middle-aged female server who insists on starting every sentence with "Ah See Tau Por ah....". I sat there for a good half an hour having my meal and observing her and I come to the conclusion that this female helper is only interested in serving and not interested in establishing the correct price you have to pay. Choosing to refer everything back to the 'See Tau Por' (Lady Boss). Which made sense because initially when I tried to place my order with her, she looked blankly ahead and IGNORED me. So I figured I had to order with the 'See Tau Por'. Totally pissed, I told the 'See Tau Por' she had an idiot for a helper. And you know what happened next? The female helper suddenly shouted on top of her voice "One Duck Noodle!!!" (in cantonese). Totally weirded out. But like you, I would shamelessly go back. Have to admit the noodles are good. LOL.

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