6 Letter Brunch: Spacious and Sleek Garden-Themed Cafe at Siglap
Those in the East might already be familiar with 6 Letter Coffee at Tanjong Katong, which has been around for a few years now.
Meet their newest venture called 6 Letter Brunch, which they’ve opened at Siglap’s Frankel Avenue.
As you push in through the glass doors, you’ll find a beautiful space decorated with potted plants everywhere.
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For a shophouse space, 6 Letter Brunch doesn’t feel narrow or stuffy, and there are several tables friendly for larger groups as well.
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As you walk further into the cafe, you’ll even find a patio area out back, which is as Instagram-worthy as it is warm, thanks to our tropical temperatures.
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Nevertheless, even on a weekday, 6 Letter Brunch already attracts quite the crowd.
The menu here is four pages long, which is quite a feat.
You’ll find traditional breakfast and brunch favourites, a slew of rösti and pancake dishes, pastas, burgers, meat and fish plates, sides, and soups.
To top it all off, you can even find a kids menu, smoothie bowls, waffles, gelato, and desserts like brownies and crème brûlée.
I was intrigued by their house-made röstis, and thus we got the Grilled Chicken Rösti (S$18) and Salmon Rösti (S$19).
Served with mashed avocado and sour cream on the side, we felt both our rösti dishes were okay, but not terribly impressive.
The grilled chicken is essentially a chicken chop-esque dish you can easily get at more wallet-friendly establishments, the marinade of which is a simple one that most of us who cook could easily whip up at home. The same can be said for the baked salmon.
As for the rösti, the perfect rösti for me lies in the buttery and crispy texture of waxy potatoes, and clarified butter which is rich in flavour and gives it that deep golden mouthwatering colour.
6 Letter’s take on it lacked the above for me, pulling apart too easily.
In their defence though, it is likely a bit healthier than a traditional Swiss rösti as they probably used a lot less butter, so different strokes for different folks!
And that’s not to say that the food was bad, it was just a little too simple, and when I’m paying almost S$20 for a meal, I’d like a bit more than simple.
Moving on to the beverage menu, you’ll find the usual espresso-based subjects and teas, as well as milkshakes, juices and honey-based drinks.
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We had the Iced Latte (S$6) and and Iced Matcha Latte (S$7.50).
Coffee here is decent, and the latte was on the milkier side of things.
Surprised by the foam that accompanied my matcha latte, I was expecting it to be like the delicious sweet foam lattes I had in Seoul.
Well, this was just regular frothed milk.
Oh.
No matter, but similar to the iced latte, the matcha latte was also quite milky.
Overall, 6 Letter Brunch is just, well, okay, and while pictures of their colourful pancake dishes look a lot more appealing, I’m not one for sweet brunches either.
However, service was friendly, the space is aesthetically pleasing, they are bike-friendly (quite like Little Rogue Coffee) but the food we tried was just okay.
As an aside, parking is a bit of a nightmare.
Frankel Avenue is quite busy, and there aren’t any dedicated parking spaces along the street per se.
With a narrow strip of tarmac just in front of the shophouses, parking is haphazard— with some vehicles parked on the left, and others on the right.
Both ingress and egress out of that small street are not the easiest either, so that was a bit of a hassle.
With the sheer amount of cafes popping up in the East, alongside already well-established players, 6 Letter Brunch has a bit of a ways to go for me.
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WHERE | 103 FRANKEL AVE, SINGAPORE 458225
