Cafe Eurasia

We only made a deliberate trip down on a Saturday evening due to the SG Deal of $10.50 for a main course, soup, and drink.

It was extremely quiet on a Saturday evening at 7pm, with only 1 other table of 3, but then again the whole Wilkie Edge is quiet. The place is small-ish and probably seats only 25pax but the whole decor is quite nice I thought.

We tried different soups and mains for the 2 set meals:

Mixed vegetables soup - we had thought this would be like minestrone but it was more like a cross between creamy and clear soup, almost similar to a thick dip. It tasted like a canned tomato soup but with bits of fresh vegetables thrown in. It was served not hot at all and we asked for them to heat it up, after which it came steaming hot. It should have been so in the first place - serving lukewarm soup is just not right.

Pumpkin soup - strangely enough, this came in a pastel green hue and tasted like a bland version of broccoli soup instead. Hmmm. Nothing wrong but nothing excellent, and had the same issue of being not hot when served.

Fish and chips ($10.90) - served with tartar sauce, lemon, and chunky chips - surprisingly good! The fish was crumbed and served hot with almost no trace of oil at all. The only let down was the chips which was soft. Freshly shredded carrot and 1 puny cherry tomato added some veg to it.

Smoked Salmon pizza ($16.90) - smoked salmon with onions, capers and mozzarella cheese - this has to be the hardest crust I have ever tasted - like hard biscuit. Salmon was too fishy, too little onions and an absolute overload on cheese. If all their pizza are like that, you're better off skipping the entire section.

Ice Tea - Way too much syrup which we only saw too late.

The staff was nice enough to forewarn us that the mains will take about 20mins at the point of order and we had no problem with it. They also asked how was the food when we were leaving and I was honestly quite pleasantly surprised at how they were concerned about our feedback as small establishments are usually not. We gave them our honest feedback and they acknowledged it.

I guess some may say for the voucher value we couldn't have expected much. But if those were reflective of their usual standard then it is not value for money. Not worth a return visit for me.

Prices reflected for the 2 mains above are how much they usually cost on the menu.

Wanted to go to a quite place for a quick bite neat my office place but ended up at cafe Eurasia. Thought I tried out the pasta. Order Amatriciana, as describe, originated from the pen of Amatrice, spaghetti tossed with bacon, onion and garlic mixed in spicy tomato sauce. Garnished with Parmesan cheese.

I did not expect to way up to 40mins for the pasta ,

Turn out the chef forgotten about my order. That's sure a great way to start, let's hope the pasta is good. The waiter who's a foreigner worker was nice enough to apologies and assure me

The pasta will be ready in 5mins. But it would have been better if he was more attentive and realized my food wasn't served.

Overall the pasta isn't too bad, they don't charge service charge and pricing are cheap for pasta. Definitely will come back to try other stuff, but will make sure to check if my order is not ready in 10mins.