Good Cafes At Upper Thomson

Cafes used to be a big part of my life when studying in Australia. The Melbourne coffee culture usually consisted of dark coffee houses playing music. Cafe by day and bar by night. My favorites were those with an alfresco area overlooking the street below, good for people watching.

Now I'm in Singapore, here is my list of good cafes at Upper Thomson :

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Little Part 1 Cafe
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Indie cafe with really good buffalo wings. Good for tea time and dinner, with a nice selection of beers and ciders to accompany your food.

15 Adelphi Road
Tel 6451 7553

read Little Part 1 Cafe Review

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Habitat Coffee
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All day brunch for weekends and on weekdays till 5.30pm. They have a good selection of cakes to go along with your coffee.

223 Upper Thomson Road
Tel 6456 2567

read Habitat Coffee Review

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Neli's Ice Cream

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Serves both ice cream and coffee to satisfy both your cravings. Plan for holiday trips using their collection of destination maps, guidebooks and magazines.

233 Upper Thomson Road
Tel 6452 2410

Read Neli's Ice Cream Review
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Little Pancakes
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Sweet and savoury 3 inch pancakes which smell heavenly. Lots of iced coffee and frappes for hot days.

200 Upper Thomson Road #01-04

Tel 6258 8515

read Little Pancakes Review

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Dino Cake House and Cafe
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Nice cafe with pies, cakes and pastries. Nice for a light tea time snack.

257 Upper Thomson Road

6552 5088

Cafes In Upper Thomson

These are my favorite cafes in Upper Thomson, mainly because they are the ones that serve freshly made coffees.

Neli's Ice Cream Review

http://www.neli-icecream.sg

Neli's is a travel-themed lifestyle ice cream cafe. They have a departure/ arrival style menu like where you would go check flight timings at the airport. Then you order from their friendly 'cabin crew' and collect your ice cream from the pint belt like collecting your baggage and start your journey around the world.

It would be a great place to plan holiday trips as they have travel maps, guidebooks and magazines on display. There are also these notebooks where customers have written down their recommendations on where to go too. The sitting area reminded me of study areas in the library. It makes for a good discussion area if you are planning a trip with friends.

Book shelf full of travel tip resources

Ordered an Affogato and 3 scoops of Ice cream. Was quite surprised that we could choose which flavor of ice cream to go with the Affogato as most places just serve it with Vanilla. You could get really creative i guess. Perhaps coffee and Earl Grey Tea ice cream to get a Yuan Yang?

The Affogato looked more like a float as the Ice Cream was floating at the top of this big cup of coffee. Perhaps their espresso shot is larger than usual.

Affogato with Vanilla Ice Cream

The Earl Grey flavor was unanimously the best out of the 3. I would definitely come back when I'm craving this flavor as it tastes as good as drinking a cup of hot tea, but iced. The Cookies and Cream which I chose was disappointing as I was expecting something creamy with lots of cookie chunks similar to the Haagen Daaz tub :p Horlicks flavor was quite light but was nice too. So in order of preference for the night would have to be 1. Earl Grey 2. Horlicks 3. Cookies & Cream.

Horlicks, Earl Grey Tea and Cookies & Cream

Their icecream philosophy, which I have typed out below.

About their ice cream

Every other ice cream shop uses the word “artisanal” so we’ll make it sound simple. We handmake all our ice creams from scratch – just basic ingredients milk, cream and sugars. No artificial flavouring, no colouring, nothing fake. Every single bin of ice cream is painstakingly hand whisked (hello triceps and biceps!) and churned in small batches in our kitchen.

We squeeze the most out of our ingredients – vanilla pods are scraped clean of beans, premium early grey leaves soak a night (or two) before churning, bananas are perfectly ripe and caramelized, gummy bears bathed in vodka till they’re drunk – to ensure that our flavours are rich and luxurious.

New flavours and mix-ins dance around in our minds every waking moment (even in the shower!) and we approach every new trial with excitement and anticipation. With that said, there are rounds of trial and error for each new flavour before it gets to wave to customers on our shelves.

Neli Ice Cream Thomson

Overall I like Neli's Ice Cream for their cool Mint and White color scheme and spacious layout. Would come back to try their other flavors as the Ribena Sorbet has caught my eye. Heard that they have Gummy Bears soaked in vodka in them. I used to always mix Gummy Bears with my ice cream at ColdRock Creamery.

233 Upper Thomson Road

Singapore 574364

Tel 6452 2410

Sun- Thurs 12pm - 11pm

Fri & Sat 12pm- 1am

Upper Thomson Road Singapore Living

Thursday, October 10, 2013