Hotspots

    ROBERTSON QUAY: When it comes to coffee, there are many different terms and definitions for green, organic and fair-trade practices swirling around the coffee industry – so many that it’s easy to be confused....

    ROBERTSON QUAY: Think wine experts are the only ones who sniff and sip? For coffee buffs, cupping is the equivalent of wine tasting. Coffee roasters sniff, sip and slurp to assess and select coffees...

  If you are ‘out on the town’ and need to satisfy your hunger pangs late at night, pop in to Jin Shan Lou, in the Marina Bay area, for a Taiwan porridge supper. There...

  In a new location since October, Huber’s Butchery and (now larger) Bistro, helmed by members of the affable Huber family, offers cheese and bread sections, vegetables, fruit and herbs mainly from Australia, barbecue grills...

Gerard Ward tries out a no-menu cocktail bar tucked away in Haji Lane.   ‘Are you into sweet flavours, or perhaps something spicy?’ you’ll be asked this as you sit in the cosy second-floor cocktail bar...

You’re either the kind of person who would happily shell out a tenner for a rare, single-origin cuppa or you’re not. Those partial to the specialty coffee scene (and who don’t mind emptying their wallets...