Bread Society (ION Orchard)

I always go for this place for the bottles of fresh fruits juices.  Without any ice to add-in, purely cold-drinks,  I even had the thought of buying a few bottles to keep it at my house's fridge, for anytime to have healthy fruits drinks, whenever i feels like it.  The next one I am always buying from, is the 4 breads in a set, tomato and cheese small buns.  I am a cheesy person.  This bun is really curb my cheese cravings.

Have had so-so experiences here...one recent pleasant surprise was the blueberry bread.  I spied it behind the counter when I was about the checkout and bought it on a whim.  It was my favorite purchase du jour.  I also picked up a few other things to test out...chocolate bagel...a bit too hard, even for a bagel and a chocolate brownie...middle of the brownie was moist, but the bottom, alas, crunchy/hard/crumbly brownie mess (ditto the goopy/over-sugared icing on top..gratuitous, if you ask me).

Counter staff could also use a few ESL lessons...VERY hard to communicate with when asking basic questions about products.

This is one place I always make sure I go to when Im in orchard.  What first caught my eye was the bagels that were displayed.  Not just your typical plain bagel but chocolate bagel with chocolate chips in it.  As much as I liked chocolate, the bagel was a bit on the hard side.  Unlike normal bagels which are hard outside n soft inside.  But taste wise not bad.

They do have some of the same breads such as the naan, some chicken with cheese on top and some other new n exclusive creations. 

But my ultimate favourite(by favourite i mean i can get 3 or 4 at 1 go)  Is the almond bar @ 1.50.  Its pretty small but i love the taste.  Like a mini butter cake that on the outside is slightly crisped but on the inside..super soft and moist. with whole almonds in it. I dont mind blowing my 1.50 on 1 piece. 

I liked the decor, a more atas version of bread talk and the paper bag is also nice :)

For me, I would head over there for the almond bar and maybe 1 or two other breads but overall, I think better breads can be found elsewhere and at more affordable prices.

There had been a slew of bakeries mushrooming throughout our city state. One of which is Bread Society. It is another creative food outlet of the BreadTalk group. Even though this branch of the growing BreadTalk tree carries two creative chefs from Japan, they are mostly rustic European bakes.

Black Sesame Society



Think hotdog bun served with a generous feeling of black sesame cream. The roasted black sesame sprinkled on top of the bun adds the crunch and the aroma is totally out of the world. Bread is soft (Japanese fluffy kind of soft) and the cream is slighty sweet and carried the nuttiness and sweetness of the black sesame. $1.50 The result? Boomz. Totally rocked my socks. (4.5/5)

Coffee Almond



Again, the bread is soft, with the right amount of bite. The white stuff taste like white chocolate, flavoured with a good balance of coffee flavour. The sliced almonds, roasted, finished the taste by adding crunch and character. $1.50. Love it. This particular bread is available at BreadTalk outlets too. (4/5)

Strawberry Cream Cheese



The cube bread is just intriguing, visually. Makes you wonder how they make the perfect cube shapes. They have three flavours available and we opted to buy this version. The cream cheese strangely tasted closed to crumpled feta cheese and in my opinion, didn't really mix well with the strawberry jam. My idea of cream cheese had always been set by the Kraft version. Overall, it tasted ok. But at $1.60, I thought it would had packed more punch. Looking forward to tasting the chestnut and yam version. (3/5)

 

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Not sure if they are under same management, but this place is really nice if you are looking for something unique for your breakfast. Even the staples like sausage buns are just done better and classier here. They also have unique items I've not seen in Singapore before. A bit more expensive than usual, but well worth the premium price.

decided to really try something from here, since the breadtalk people hired some very famous baker in the hyogo-kobe region(comme chinois) tried the chocolate croissant, cranberry kraftkorn and spinach cheese, why did i try these 3 items?? reason was simple, these 3 items are also in comme chionois bakery in kobe.

chocolate croissant - at $2 , this has got to be one of the best chocolate croissant in singapore, the other being the croissant at canele. this was flaky and crisp, and some chocolate drops on it.

cranberry kraftkorn - bread has a good chew and the cranberry lends a good fruity sweet flavour to the bread

spinach cheese - from the "mass" area, bread taste like the usual "breadtalk" breads at the mass area , juz different in topping flavours.

their signature bread " the bread society " is also the same as the one in japan, didnt taste it yet.

wanted to try their red wine pear danish, but they didnt have it that day, will try it one day.

Verdict - counter shelf items are good(creations by chef nishikawa & team), but not much in the smell factor, the rest are just mass products no different from breadtalk, the usual "curry, chicken and stuff" , makes me nauseous... but guess which breads sells the most?? hehehe... singaporeans sure love their bread with chicken & meat dont they???

i can eat their breads everyday. crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. it's really good!

26 JUL 2009

Think BreadTalk breads, but with more varieties of breads and pastry...

A new spin off from the BreadTalk Group (at least thats what my receipt says...), Bread Society is located where Wheelock Place meets ION Orchard on Basement 2, and a couple shops from Dunkin' Donuts...

The place was constantly packed as we walked past a few times whilst exploring ION Orchard... After walking past for the Nth times, we decided to talk-away some...

French Cheese/Bacon Bite-size breads (4x for $2.80) were quite nice. So were the Blueberry Pastry thingy ($2.20) and the Apple Pie ($1.50)...

Scanning through some of the price tags, I thought some of the new varieties were slightly pricer compared to BreadTalk (by about 10% to 20%), However, those looked a little more solid and not airy fluffy like how Wifey put it... at least that was true for the few items we ordered.

Will definitely be back for more!!

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