Prive Bakery & Cafe

Oops, it's 31th Dec already!! Is it too late to say Merry X'mas and Happy Holiday peeps? I'm sorry, I just got back from my trip to Singapore.. But I think it's better late than never rite? hehe.. So Merry X'mas and Happy New Year yaa, hope you have a wonderful X'mas holiday.. Let's back to our trip, here's our first food reports there (^_^)v..


Our first stop was this nice cafe in Marina at Keppel Bay, Prive Cafe located on the ground level of the Marina facing the waterfront, and has a fantastic view with overlook the beautiful yachts and breeze..


Keppel Bay is a waterfront area in Singapore near to Harbourfront and Vivo City.. It's a perfect getaway for boat lovers.. It's a nice spot where you can experience an "out of Singapore city feel".. We just fell in love with this place instantaneously!



The bright and spacious interior seating area in modern style with some X'mas decorations, this cafe really has a nice spot to enjoy the view and relax on Marina edge..

The Prive Bakery & Cafe serves some selections of breads, sandwiches, soups, salads, waffles, cakes, desserts, coffee and fresh juices.. And we're here just to grab a small bites..


E ordered Iced Cappucino (SGD 6.00), the coffee tasted quite strong and nice blended with the milk..


My Fresh Fruit Juice (SGD 8.00), we can mix the fruit we want.. I opted apple and orange, it's really refreshing.. They didn't put any sugar on it..

And for the sweet treat, we try one of their cake selections.. The waiter recommended this Sliced Carrot Cake (SGD 6.80).. I never tasted the carrot cake before, carrot is a vegetable how come it can be used in sweet cake? Hmm I'm so curious..


Oh my.. this cake was huge! Let's dig in and find what's inside.. There are a walnut, shredded carrots, cinnamon, and cream cheese spread over the cake.. The cake was really moist and has a soft & dense texture.. The creamy cream cheese frosting was really smooth, it's a nice combination with the cake itself..

The price here is really expensive if you convert to Rupiah, I think we pay more for the nice ambiance here hehe.. Now how do we get there? It's better for you to just grab taxi from Vivo City, and ask the driver to Marina @ Keppel Bay.. It's not far from there..


Prive Bakery & Cafe
2 Keppel Bay Vista
Marina @ Keppel Bay, Ground Floor
Tel. (65) 67760777

Chewy Junior

A friend of my brother gave us this one pack Chewy Junior.. It is not a donut and is not a cream puff, but it topped like donut and filled like cream puff.. I think it is a fusion between the two..


He gave us a dozen various types of it, the chocolate version had a chocolate cream filling, while the jelly topped had a vanilla cream filling instead.. The texture of puffs is unique, chewy and soft..


I guess this is the peanut butter one, bit crispy on the top and filled with peanut cream.. the filling is generous enough.. I like the cream oozing out of the chewy puff when you bite it..

About the price, buy a dozen various types of chewy junior for 75K, a half dozen for 42K, and 9 pieces for 59K..

Chewy Junior
Taman Anggrek Mall 4th Floor/E 25
Jl. Letjend S. Parman No. 21
West Jakarta
Tel. (62 21) 5639717

Senayan City 5th Floor No. 31-32 (End of May 2009)
Jl. Asia Afrika No. 19
South Jakarta

Helen's Fine Food & Patisserie

Helen's Fine Food and Patisserie is an international bistro with semi fine dining concept. Located in the strategic area in South Jakarta, Helen's Fine Foods and Patisserie has a new 2-storey building, the first floor for Cakes and Patisserie and second floor for fine dining.

Helen's has a great ambiance. Cozy..warm..romantic with live music every Saturday nite.


For the drinks, we ordered Ice Lemon Tea (12K) and Hot Jasmine Tea (15K)


These are their compliments. Warm Dinner Roll with Butter and Fried Spinach Pastry. These were so delicious.

Fettuccini Carbonara

Fettuccini Carbonara (55K), served with sliced smooked beef and mushroom. So tasty and creamy...

Tuna Club Sandwich

Tuna Club Sandwich (60.5K), it was quite expensive for the sandwich. But I feel satisfied for this, since the tuna was abundant, fresh & tasty and their bread was home made.

Creme Caramel

Finally the dessert was Creme Caramel (35K), good texture and its sooo smooth. yummyyy...

Helen's Fine Foods and Patisserie also provides services of making the cake with a tailor made service to bring personalized cakes. In general, orders for cakes presented at a special, for example, on weddings, birthday parties and other special events.

Helen's Fine Food and Patisserie has a great place with good foods. But in my opinion, their price was expensive, but the taste and their food quality made up for the price.

Helen's Fine Food & Patisserie
Jl. Wolter Monginsidi 63B
South jakarta
Tel. (62 21) 7258885

Cheese Cake Factory

Located in Tebet with minimalist elegant concept of building, The Cheese Cake Factory is not only houses the cheese cakes stall, but also sell cheese ingredients based foods, mostly are Italian foods; pasta, pizza, bruschetta. They also served various selections of ice cream and desserts.

We went to Cheese Cake Factory together with two frenz of us. Indeed the place was cozy and nice to hang out, but their dining arrangement was not spacious enough. Make this place miserably packed on a Sunday's nite. Nicely, they have several outside dining table on their balcony.

For the drinks, we ordered Iced Tea (10K) and Hot English Breakfast Tea (10K) for my friends, Hot Teh Tarik (13K) for E, and Hot Chamomile Tea (10K) for me.

Hot Teh Tarik

Actually this Hot Teh Tarik has milk foam on top, but E had finished already before I took the picture.lol.

Hot Chamomile Tea

Both of Hot English Breakfast Tea and Hot Chamomile Tea came up with a cup of hot water, tea bag, and several sugar packs.

French Fries

This nice tasty French Fries (18K) was started our meal. It came up with deep fried potato chips with melted mozzarella cheese.

Penne Pasta with Tuna

That nite I ordered Penne Pasta with Tuna (30K), is penne pasta with tuna stir in tomato sauce, white wine, black olives, and dried chili.

Fusili Arrabbiata

E ordered Fusili Arrabbiata (30K), is fusili stir in arrabbiata sauce, with slice fresh chili, black olive, topped with Parmesan cheese.

Fettuccine Seafood

Both of our frenz ordered Spaghetti Seafood (35K), and by our request the spaghetti can be replaced with fettuccine. I took photo only the fettuccine one. The pasta is satisfied enough, its cooked in al-dente, firm but not too hard and not overly soft.

BBQ Beef

And BBQ Beef (30K) to share. Actually, they serve pizza in two sizes; regular and large, but the regular should be enough for us. Like we expected, the pizza came up with generous size. This pizza was nice, since their bread is so tender and the topping was rich.

Blueberry Cheese Cake

Lastly, we decide to share one single slice of Blueberry Cheese Cake (17K) which one of their signature dish, for our dessert. The creamy, light and spongy cheesecake topped with blueberry jam, it was delightful.

The Cheese Cake Factory can be your alternative choice to buy birthday or occasional cakes for your someone special. Their cakes selection are so various, you can choose from their signature Cheese Cakes to other Classics, as well. I think their prices are still affordable.

For all cheese lover, it’s worth to give it a try. Try their cheesecake and you won’t regret it. And don't worry, their price is very affordable (^_^)..

Cheese Cake Factory
Jl. Tebet Barat Dalam Raya No. 23
South Jakarta 12810
Tebet
Tel. (62 21) 8354735

Jl. Barito 2 No. 19A (new branch)
South Jakarta 12130
Kebayoran Baru
Tel. (62 21) 7392101
www.chzcakefactory.com