No, no, no, those are not the Devil's Cupcakes though they sure are tempting with those white chocolate sticks. It's a rum and raisin chocolate truffle cake at the Coffee Club at Holland Village.
The Coffee Concierge decided to go to the birthplace of modern coffee culture in Singapore: the Coffee Club at Holland Village. This was the first modern coffeehouse to set up in the early 1990s. The owners were originally coffee traders so setting up this coffee house was a natural extension of their trade. Since then they've grown into a full blown retail chain with a number of cafes across Singapore.
The Coffee Concierge noted that while there were different beans of coffee on offer under the section labelled coffee with detailed descriptions of the kind of taste of the bean, the expresso section did not offer any such choice of beans. The Coffee Concierge found that a little strange, after all, since they have the beans ready stocked, they might as well just grind them for expresso as for a long black.
The expresso I ordered was a tad thin on the crema which desipated a little faster than it should. The coffee was mild and a little sweet on the first sip but on the second sip was distinctly sour when swirled around the mouth. I'd taken pains not to eat the sweet before tasting the coffee. There was a bitterness but only very slight so overall the Coffee Concierge thinks it could have been better and honestly, what *is* with all this sourness in Singapore coffee? The coffee concierge would have expected a bit better for S$4
The service however was polite and prompt and the barista herself came to serve me the expresso after the waitress came out with the rum and raisin chocolate truffle. The rum and raisin chocolate truffle tasted like a good chocolate mousse. The Coffee Concierge couldn't taste the rum or remember eating a raison but it was still a pleasing rich chocolate flavour.
Price: S$4 for a single expresso (with shortbread cookie on the side)
Flavour: 2.5 beans
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