The Green Room Café

Pssst… have a newfound secret. Found a quiet green heaven with eateries right smack around the city. It brings me so much happiness and joy today as I have never felt so healthy and good before!

Went for a healthy walk at Bishan Park this morning and chanced upon this group of Deli in the Park eateries. A concept café by the Asmara Tropical Spas and managed by the Aramsa Spas, there are also another 3 lovely eateries there. The park is actually quite huge, divided into 2 parts (Park I and Park II). Some more eateries can also be found around the Park. But here we were at the Bishan Park II. Walking around the big park, watching the dogs running around in the Dog Run Area and looking at the pond… we spent a quiet morning there. If you love the greenery, you will also love to dine at one of these eateries there!

Looking around the group of eateries at the Park II, we choose The Green Room Café as we are prepared to get healthy and have a good clean diet too! Plus with my problematic stomach these days and only starting to get better, I deserve to start anew with a healthy diet. Away with the old!

And so I did it! Had a healthy detox diet for lunch. At The Green Room Café! This place is quietly camouflaged among the many plants and shrubs, and hidden at the area inner among the 2 other restaurants, the Canopy Bar and Acacia Restaurant in the Park. Nice white walls lined the interior of the restaurant. Décor is simple as are the dishes listed in the menu. This place boosts of outstanding food served there that will change the way you view vegetarian cuisines. So after a good walk in the morning, I was all ready to go for some light delicious and healthy vegetarian food …

To start off, I had the Detox Fruit Juice (@ S$7.80) consisting of a mix of Carrot, Apple and Cucumber juices. It was a real refreshing drink! Never knew this concoction can create such a nice blended, quenching and refreshing feeling. Immediately felt good having a gulp already.

My choice today was the Portobello Field Mushroom (@ S$12.80). This proved to be nice and healthy indeed. Dish was marinated in rich aged balsamic vinegar, topped with their homemade tomato relish and served between a freshly baked bun with some fresh summer leaf salad. The balsamic vinegar was sweet and blends very well with the 2 Portobello mushrooms. The dish was also served with a generous serving of chips and the salad was fresh as the day!

I feel all light and refreshed today with this simple meal! You may want to try it sometimes and I believe I may be back there again! For your info, there is also the Aramsa – Garden Spa, Fox Spa Salon and Power Moves Pilates Studio all there too, if you feel like some therapy for your soul! I already feel nurtured today, at this green hidden newfound secret! The Green Room Café is at Bishan Park II, beside Aramsa – Garden Spa.

The French Stall

This time we venture to a quaint little food stall located at one of the small lanes near to Little India, Serangoon Area. Here is where you will least expect to find a French restaurant, where they call themselves “The French Stall”. This place claims to serve authentic French cuisines prepared by a French ex-chef so we thought we will drop by to try.

The ambience is open and relaxed. The walls inside are lined with newspaper cuttings and reviews. Customers can opt to either sit indoors or at the tables outside. The place is not air-conditioned so be prepared! But given the lovely little lane and sometimes with cool wind in the evening, you will not mind being given a table laid with nice white tablecloth at the outside. So Ted and me was brought to a table near the small lane. I managed to capture a shot of the place from where I sit.

So we proceeded to order. First, soup and starters to begin with. We decided to go for the set menus but I decided to change the Daily Soup of the Day in the set (which was “Pumpkin Soup”) to the “French Onion Soup”. Alas! The food was not really up to our expectations. We found the food nice but not really quite the exquisite like what we were looking for in French cuisine. Serving was quite generous for a French meal though!

My main was the “Pan Fried Dory Fish Fillet with Mashed Potatoes”. Nicely presented but it fell short of my expectations as the fish does not taste fresh, it seems. The soft mashed potatoes underneath the fish saved the day. Ted ordered the “Vegetarian Dish”. The dish was made up of eggplant, long beans, carrot, potatoes and some vegetables. Real vegetarian. Just what Ted wanted. I ended my set with the “Crème Brulee”. I would say it is soft and sweet to end the evening. There were no surprises for us that night and we would say it was a generally pleasant meal. We may go back again. The French Stall is at Serangoon Road, Sturdee Road, Singapore.