Where to get thick toast
Image: Assembly Coffee
1. Assembly Coffee
This cafe serves Assembly Brick Toast ($12), which houses a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a 6cm-tall bread block. It is topped with toasted bread cubes, strawberries and almonds. There is a side of lightly tart vanilla yoghurt. Where: 26 Evans Road, Evans Lodge
Open: 8am to 7pm daily except Monday
Info: Call 6735-5647 or go to assembly.sg
Image: Brew Maison
2. Brew Maison
Its French Cubes ($8.50) is the best value for money among the ones featured here. Standing at 9cm tall, the toast is a hybrid of thick honey and French toasts. The hollow loaf and bread cubes are partially fried with eggs and butter. Caramel sauce is drizzled on the toast and the cubes are crowned with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and almond flakes.
Where: 01-09B, Alocassia Apartments, 383 Bukit Timah Road
Open: 7am to 10pm, weekday; 8am to 10pm, weekend
Info: Call 6836-2948 or go to facebook.com/BrewMaison
Image: Dazzling Cafe
3. Dazzling Cafe
Its thick honey toast has different cutting techniques. These include cutting the bread inside the shell into strips and cubes, and arranging the toast in stacks. Crowd favourites include Mango and Coconut Gelato Honey Toast ($18.90), with mango and coconut ice cream and fruit on bread cubes.
Where: 01-85, Capitol Piazza, 15 Stamford Road
Open: Noon to 10pm daily
Info: Call 6384-3310 or go to dazzlingcafe.sg
Image: The Straits Times
4. Stateland Cafe
Standing out from the plain bread used in most cafes is this 80-seat cafe’s charcoal and matcha toast. The Charcoal Toast ($14.90) is slathered with liquid marshmallow, salted caramel and topped with coconut ice cream, pistachios and candied walnuts. The toast undergoes two rounds of baking for a crispier texture. Flavours such as Mont Blanc and salted egg yolk are in the works.
Where: 32 Bali Lane
Open: Noon to 10pm, Sunday to Thursday; noon to midnight, Friday & Saturday; closed on Tuesday
Info: facebook.com/statelandcafe
Image: The Straits Times
5. Dessert Project
This 25-seat ice cream palour serves six flavours of thick toast. Crowd favourites include the Sticky Toffee ($14.90), which has coffee ice cream, crushed peanuts and toffee sauce; and Nutella ($14.90), with vanilla bean and Ferrero Rocher ice cream, chocolate-coated nuts and Nutella sauce. Its 7cm-tall bread blocks are bought daily from an old-school bread shop in Whampoa.
Where: 01-673, Block 22, Havelock Road
Open: Noon to 9.30pm, Sunday to Thursday; noon to 11pm, Friday and Saturday; closed on Wednesday
Info: tinyurl.com/orwrluw
This story was first published in The Straits Times on July 17, 2015. For similar stories, go to www.sph.straitstimes.com/lifestyle.
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