Living Cafe came with a glowing recommendation - fresh flavours, whole food, good portions - I couldn't wait to try it out!
We were seated by the deli counter and spent the whole hour and a half eyeing up the raw sweet treats on offer - key lime pie, apple and cinnamon slice, spirulina and mint balls, and many more. Despite being pretty full, we decided to share the black forest bar with our coffee - excellent choice.
First impressions? It certainly looks like a cafe in a holistic health business. The walls are lined with bottles of potions, powders and capsules of every kind of super food you can imagine, the interior is clean and simple and tables are spaced out, not the cheek by jowl that you see so often around Singapore.
The menu is extensive, really, I'm talking about eight pages, and all of it looks fantastic (see for yourself here). I was originally eyeing up the chia porridge, but when I picked up the lunch menu I was forced to abandon that plan. Temptation beckoned in the form of raw zucchini hummus, brown rice sushi, living salad, quinoa salad, brown rice bowls, wholemeal pizza, baked aubergine... and that was before I got to the juices, smoothies and desserts.
Disappointed to find out that the wholemeal pizza was unavailable for the rest of the month(!), we opted for the zucchini hummus and sesame crackers, and living salad to share, and a brown rice bowl each (one Mexican and one more Greek). Delicious!
The zucchini hummus was smooth and fresh. I'm not sure how the sesame crackers were held together, but I suspect it was something soy sauce based as it had a salty tang.
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| Raw zucchini hummus and sesame crackers |
The brown rice bowl came next and didn't disappoint. The flavours were light and fresh, and the portion size perfect. The living salad was tasty but completely over dressed and soggy.
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| Brown rice bowl - Greek-style |
We were seated by the deli counter and spent the whole hour and a half eyeing up the raw sweet treats on offer - key lime pie, apple and cinnamon slice, spirulina and mint balls, and many more. Despite being pretty full, we decided to share the black forest bar with our coffee - excellent choice.
So far so good right? Well, I guess people who are into raw/whole food aren't into coffee, because it was quite a disappointment. Try a juice, tea or smoothie instead. If you're blessed with a car in Singapore, lucky you, because getting a taxi was also quite difficult.
Still, the food speaks for itself and I'll be going back to try a few of the other menu items which caught my eye.
The Living Cafe is a part of Balanced Living which is a mecca for health/whole food and living holistically. They have yoga classes, nutritionists, raw food cooking classes, books... in short, everything you could need if you're interested in health and wellness.
The Living Cafe
779 Bukit Timah Rd (just before 6th Avenue)
P: +65 6762-8029
Open: Mon - Sun / 9am – 10pm
I suspect the same way as flax crackers - they're soaked and get all glutinous, seasonings are added then dehydrated. This place looks glorious!
ReplyDeleteThat would make sense - do you think it would also be possible with chia seeds then? They also have classes to introduce people to cooking raw. Does anything like this exist in NZ?
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