Marble Slab describes the Irish Cream flavor as :

“Hints of coffee flavouring make this a sophisticated indulgence. A rich, creamy flavour that provides ultimate satisfaction.”

Did it meet the mark? Yes on all counts. The ice cream is smooth and creamy and the flavor is rich without being overpowering. Kind of like the perfect marriage of a what outwardly appears to be just a plain, ordinary, unassuming scoop of ice cream but with the blended flavor of a masterpiece. (Yes, I know I’m waxing lyrical. Heh.)

I had a Kiddie Cup (the smallest size, a single scoop) which costs SGD 4.50. Just the right size for one to indulge in a little bit of perfection without having to share and just right to leave you wanting ‘just a bit more’.

I also love their kitschy tagline of ‘Find happiness within’. It’s the perfect phrase to go along with a scoop of loverly ice cream on a lazy weekend.

Marble Slab Creamery @ Marina Bay
8A Marina Boulevard #B2-40
Marina Bay Link Mall
Singapore 018984
Tel : +65-6834 3693
Website : www.marbleslab.com.sg

Hope it doesn’t make you drool too much, because I’m hungry just looking at all the photos!

Some kinda salad – not sure which one it was since I wasn’t the one ordering.

French fries and aioli dip. I would have preferred the aioli to taste more, well, aioli-like, but the fries were done to perfection.

Pesto spaghetti with honeyed chicken cubes. This is a firm favorite of mine and if I can’t have the brunch sets, I’ll order this every single time without exception.

One more picture of a hearty brekkie. Isn’t it simply gorgeous?

Salmon quiche. Nice and soft without being runny and absolutely delish as well.

Oreo cheesecake as a fitting finale to all the good food shown above.

Now who’s game for yet another round of brunch @ Marmalade?

Marmalade Cafe
Lot 1F-18
First Floor
Bangsar Village II
2, Jalan Telawi 2
Bangsar Baru
Kuala Lumpur

Tel : +60 3-2282 8301

Click here for the Google Maps link to Marmalade.

Read my previous post and other blogger reviews on Marmalade here.

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in November when the blogger girls gathered for a good old-fashioned natter about… what else, gossip!

Can you see our table in the picture above?

The Bee fits all of our criteria for a meeting spot. A cozy setting that is great for photography, an extensive and delicious brunch menu, bemused staff (very important!) who are tolerant of the noise and demands that our group of females can be capable of coming up with. The suggestion to meet at The Bee came from Kahani, and as one of us, her suggestion was definitely spot on.

The Bee tags itself as “Your neighborhood food and drink hangout” and it’s a popular place on the weekends, as evidenced by the steady stream of customers that came and left during the 4 hours we were there. Evidently brunch as a weekend past-time is gaining popularity amongst Malaysians.

The only slight drawback about The Bee as a meeting place are the tables. For our slightly larger group of 9, we had to put together tables in order to find enough space for all the food we ordered. Oh, and the chairs could be slightly more comfy for *ahem* long-winded folk like us.

Service at The Bee is good, but could be improved upon as there were only 2 servers for the entire restaurant. Nevertheless, they got the job done, and with good will too, seeing the numerous orders of food and drink our table alone had.

I simply love all the photo opportunities this place has to offer me. Sitting down, standing up, wandering around – each different angle shows another side of The Bee that is equally as delightful to capture in my viewfinder. I can imagine all manner of photoshoots taking place at The Bee.

The Bee does a pretty good brunch spread that is available on public holidays and weekends only, superseding their regular menu. The highlight of the weekend brunch menu has to be the ice cream from The Last Polka.

Drinks at The Bee

I found The Bee sticker on the glass to be really cute and a good way of advertising the restaurant brand.

Our party of bloggers ordered everything available on the brunch menu and even repeated some orders because the food was that good. The picture above shows the Huevos Rancheros Wrap (MYR 17.00).

The Bee Big Breakfast (MYR 24.00)

The one thing I remember the most is the rosti that comes with every brunch set – we loved it so much that we wiped out The Bee’s remaining stock of rosti on that day!

I personally loved this Smoked Salmon Omelette (MYR 26.00), which was filled with smoked salmon and melted cheese. Such a delectable combination!

As always, sharing the brunch sets is always a good idea as one gets to try a greater selection of what’s on offer.

Alas, I did not get to taste this Truffled Scrambled Eggs set (MYR 27.00) as it was devoured not long after this photo was taken. But I heard that it was good and yummeh.

The nice and wobbly poached eggs that came with the Salmon Benedict brunch set (MYR 25.50) gave rise to private jokes between Connie and Xin at the other end of the table.

And finally, to round off a very satisfying brunch, we had the piece de resistance – The Last Polka ice cream. With unique flavors of Guinness, Horlicks, Black Sesame and Teh Tarik as but some of the flavors we sampled, this brunch was truly a feast.

The Bee
2A-G, Block K, Jaya One
No. 72, Jalan Universiti, Section 13
46200 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel : +60 3-7960 2160

Read other blogger reviews here :
Kahani – photoshoot only
Lyrical Lemongrass – The Last Polka ice cream only
Pink Parisian

For folk who are familiar with Food Foundry in Section 17 PJ, you’ll be happy to know that Huckleberry is opened and run by the same folk, so you can expect the same standards to apply at both eating outlets. I’d heard of Food Foundry before, but never managed to find the time nor an occasion to check it out but I think I’d want to after sampling the light finger foods and desserts at Huckleberry.

Huckleberry is tucked away into a nook at the back of Times Bookstore in Bangsar Shopping Centre (BSC). (As such, I had a moment of confusion when I arrived and checked BSC’s tenant list only to find no Huckleberry there. Luckily, a quick call to Paris B sorted things out. Phew!) The area itself is not very large, but the tables, chairs and comfy sofas have been neatly arranged to maximize space constraints without feeling cramped. I can imagine chilling at Huckleberry with some coffee and cake whilst browsing books from Times on lazy afternoons.

And since we had some time to spare before the food tasting began, we had an impromptu photoshoot session for Kahani so that she could showcase the lovely cerulean blue dress she wore on Frocking Around.

Then it was on to the food, glorious food!

Here’s my iced cafe latte (MYR 6.00) before I mixed it all up. A decent enough, normal cup of latte that went well with the pastries and cakes that we had.

We started off with the savories. Here you can see 2 types of quiches and a cornish pastry. The spinach and beef bacon quiche (MYR 9.00) was less savory than the mushroom and onion quiche (MYR 9.00) (which I really liked!) but both were melt-in-your-mouth delicious, with just the right amount of flaky pastry the way I like it, which is that it doesn’t remind me of pie, where I have to go through layers of pastry that flakes to bits before you can get to the savory filling. But the standout would be the beef rendang cornish pastry (MYR 9.00), which had a solid meaty filling of rendang that reminded Paris B and me of serunding and would be excellent with nasi lemak.

We then moved on to the sweet stuff (but not exactly desserts yet), starting with the Banana Raisin Bread Pudding (MYR 9.00). Silly me forgot to take a picture of the pudding! I love a good bread pudding and the addition of bananas and raisins to traditional bread pudding was pretty inspired, if you ask me. Not overly sweet, but just nice. Made me wish for vanilla ice-cream to accompany it though.

From left to right, clockwise, you have the Guinness Chocolate Cake (MYR 9.00), Whooppie Pie (MYR 5.00), and Macarons in the flavors of Pineapple, Green Tea and Red Bean (MYR 2.50 each). I would have preferred a slightly stronger tasting Guinness Chocolate Cake and it also needed to be a little bit more moist but on the whole it was good. Same with the Whooppie Pie (could’ve been more moist) which reminded me a bit of Oreos and made me wish for vanilla ice-cream again. The macaroons were uber sweet but oh-so-tempting! The pineapple one reminded us all of traditional pineapple tarts but my absolute fave was the Green Tea one, because the taste balanced out the sweet macaroon shell.

We were by no means finished, because like a magician, Candy whipped out four varieties of cake for us to try! Clockwise from bottom center you have the Chocolate Cake, Hummingbird Cake and Carrot Almond Cake (MYR 9.00). The Chocolate Cake was just right, chocolate-y and moist and reminded me of brownies that would go absolutely perfectly with ice-cream (yes, I think I was craving for ice-cream that day. *wink*). The Hummingbird Cake was nutty and grainy, just the type for people who like “healthy tasting” cakes and got classified as “now-I-know-where-to-get-a-cake-for-my-godmother”. (The Huckleberry Cafe does take orders for whole cakes, but you’ll have to call them up 2 days in advance.) I had rather high expectations for the Carrot Almond Cake because I love carrot cakes in general and this was one of the good ones – not too sweet and light, but filled with lots of good, nutty ingredients. The only thing that threw me off a bit was that faint taste of cinnamon, which I’m not used to having in my carrot cake, and which I suspect may have to be an acquired taste for me at least.

If you have been counting, you would have noticed that I talked about tasting four varieties of cake but only pictured and described three above. Well, I had to save the best for last, right? Here is the highlight of the desserts…

Mille Crepe Cake (MYR 10.00)! Pictured above in Vanilla, it also comes in Strawberry and Chocolate flavors too. Even now, I can picture and taste the delicate crepe layers melting in my mouth with every bite. No wonder this is the best-selling cake at Food Foundry.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go and settle some dessert cravings from writing this post. Contact details of The Huckleberry Cafe are as pictured below.

The Huckleberry Cafe
@ Times Bookstore
Bangsar Shopping Centre
Tel : +60 3-2095 1606

Read other blogger reviews here :
Kahani (featuring the photoshoot session only)
nrewq
Paris B
Xin