The Coffee Concierge was at the URA Centre looking at the Masterplan exhibition which was up for public feedback before it gets gazetted at the end of the year. For anyone interested in Singapore's living conditions in the future, the exhibition is well worth seeing and is only open for a month.
There is a cafe called Pacific Cafe in the URA building on the side facing Maxwell Road Food Centre. It has the usual range of coffee drinks and a Boncafe Expresso machine behind the counter. The Coffee Concierge ordered the usual expresso to see what it would turn out like.
The expresso had giant bubbles of foamy crema most probably from a fully automated machine as he doesn't remember the milk being foamed at the milk wand separately and the expresso appeared in double quick time. Faster than a manual process. The crema with its giant bubbles persisted for quite a while and was the customary golden brown shade. It did not have much of an aroma or aftertaste but the taste itself was pleasant enough but not wonderful. As the Coffee Concierge was with several other people at the time, a group poll was taken and the various comments were that it was "mediocre", "smoky", "slightly bitter", " I like this", "light" (this referring to the mouth feel). All in all, a fairly average, not unpleasant cup without a sour flavour.
Needless to say the group drifted afterwards to the Maxwell Food Centre for a much fuller, more robust round of flavours from the local hawkers.
Price: S$1.90
Flavour: 3 beans
Service: 3 beans
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