D & D @ 1 Caramel

today's the return visit to 1 Caramel in less than a week. went with Cece for a major catch up sesh which was partially overdue. we stayed there for 5 hours. from 7 ish to 12 ish.

customised cupcakes selling @ $6 per cupcake and min order is 12. very pretty!

thought i saw a family having pizza the other time i was there and told Cece that yes, they served mains. however, after studying the menu for like countless times, we didn't see any pizzas! in the end, we resorted to asking the waitress if they served other savories. surprisingly, they did. 3 kinds of pizzas: Margarita, hawaiian and parma ham. so we opted for the parma and mushroom soup. we didn't order cakes at the point in time coz we were going to revisit the display fridge after the mains.

the mushroom soup arrived first and had two slices of crispy toasts. i like the just nice richness of the soup. it's thick with generous bits mushrooms blended to just the correct size adding a good texture to the soup. unfortunately, the were bits of leaves (i think dried basil leaves? Dunno) in the soup and it sort of marred the last few moments of drinking the soup. overall, i'd order it again coz it's savoury enough and not overly creamy!

the pizza arrived thereafter and it's quite big. divided to 8 slices, it can feed at least 3 people or even 4. it's definitely not as good as the one i had in Skinny P coz the toppings weren't that generous and the dough was not exactly fantastic. it could also be because we had too much. we didn't finish the pizza. 2 slices were left behind though we finished the rocket leaves and the parma ham.

if you don't want to visit the fridge, which is something you should do, they also have a menu. i counted, there were a total of 27 different kinds of cakes!

we ordered tea too. mine's the fruit mountain. not too strong, it's quite light but not as light as Cece's Geisha something. the butter cookie is yummy too!

by then we were pretty full, took a walk to the gigantic see through fridge to finalise the cake of our choice for the night. initially we were pretty optimistic, that we will be able to eat 4 cakes in total, but we ordered 2 different cakes first, just in case.

cece ordered the Chocolate Praline Cake. As described in the cakes' menu, quote: '1 Caramel's Cocoa signature with varying layers of chocolate mousse and hazelnut praline feuilletine.' when i ate the cake, i thought it was sweet. cece didnt think it was. i guess we have different levels of sugar tolerance. to me the cake tasted like kit kat again. i very much prefer the CBL coz of the balance of tart and sweet.

i ordered the Nid d'abeilles. Don't ask me how to pronounce it, but quote again: 'Layers of honey chiboust cream and strawberry jelly sandwiched with crispy almond dacquoise.' hmm yet another cheem description. i thought the cake was quite sweet as well. Though the strawberry jelly is sour, it's still sweet. overall, sweet. i didnt taste much honey but the cake was really soft and the chiboust cream was light a fluffy. almond dacquoise is also sweet. hmm.. everything sweet.


i think we had a bit too much sugar that we went on a sugar high and was hyper for a short 30 mins and started to seh for the next 30 mins. we got back to our original state by drinking lots of water that coupled with lots of laughter as we chit chatted. it was so therapeutic and i missed her company. it's always nice to chat with her when there are things i find it hard to understand and needed someone who bothers to analyse and unafraid to tell me her thoughts in a evaluative manner. she didn't need to provide solutions, it's just great to hear what she has to say.


food though not as amazing as the first experience, company was great and the place was so nice to nuah!! i didnt feel like moving from the long bench with that huge fluffy brown pillow. felt damn shiok! it was a wonderful friday night and i look forward to meeting up with my dear friend soon :)!

Skinny Pizza @ Suntec

met up with mdm tay and mr yeo on Monday for our very overdue lunch. we have been trying to meet up for lunch for the longest time and this was the third attempt after 2 failed ones.


the 2nd time i suggested Skinny Pizza coz i happened to read about it on somebody's blog and everyday i see the Skinny Pizza poster 'screaming' out to me! decided have to try it!


we ordered Skinny Pizza's version of buddy meal on Monday.

i like how they did up the menu for the promo set. it was simple. a cut out picture of what customers are going to have and words written via marker pen.


for a price of $38++ you'll get 1 Skinny Pizza of your choice and you can pick from any flavour in the menu. we were recommended the meatball bolognese pizza. quote from the waitress 'this one wins all other flavours hands down when we first launched it'.


digressing a bit, actually, the flavour which made us decided that we should go into the restaurant was after tasting the chorizo almond pizza.


continuing with the set meal, you also get 2 soups of the day. if you do not want the 2 soups, you can exchange it with their desserts of either strawberry shortcake or brownie. so we took a white bean cuppaccino soup and brownie.


as for the drinks menu, they were very generous. wine/beer is not included in the set, you can order any drinks in the menu. so we took ginger beer and apple cider which cost about $4.50 and $5.50 separately.


we contemplated to order another pizza as the dough looked too erm thin! so we were deciding between squid ink pizza (it's black in colour with seafood), chorizo almond and mushroom truffle oil pizza. since neither of my friends were attracted to the squid ink pizza, we settle for the mushroom truffle oil or if that's what it is being called.

our meatball bolognese arrived and we kinda regretted having ordered another. it was HUGE! and yes, it could feed 3 peepz if you are all small eaters. it has generous toppings of arugula leaves and lots of meatballs! and they were also very generous with the long slices of cheese. it was good!

juicy meatballs, thick sauce, loads of cheese and the pungent, slightly bitter arugula leaves all mixes very nicely when eaten together. i felt healthy! the crust was super crispy and it's really like eating crackers! very fun experience!!


then came the soup. unfortunately, the picture turned out blurry. white bean cuppuccino is not a coffee soup. it is white bean soup coated with creamy froth. the soup was thick, i like it lots. it's got lots of flavour and punch. comfort food in fact.

then came the mushroom skinny. i didn't like it as much and it became rather jerlat after like one and a half slice. also the smell of truffle oil reminded me yet again of gas, no offense to truffle lovers. but they were very generous with the topping. for the price paid, i think it's pretty worth it.

then came our brownie. hmm, didnt sit well with me coz it's too RICH! it's interesting how they presented the brownie, i mean not in the way of display but the brownie came in 2 slices. one was full of dark, thick, sticky chocolate and the other was like a normal sponge cake but fuller and slightly dry. i don't know why they did it like that, made the whole brownie experience quite weird. anyways, i would very much like to try their churros. looked very yummy.


the set also came with truffle fries which were passable though nothing much to rave about.


on the whole, the meal was good and the prices were reasonable. next time i wanna try the squid ink skinny! it's definitely a nice place to go to and it's actually not very crowded during lunch time. the staff were attentive and helpful. they also asked what we liked and don't like about our meal. do try it out if you are around there some day!