Clarke Quay

[Lisa13]

Hi staying in singapore for 1st time March/April 2012 Any info on
great brekky cafes
Thanks

Lisa13

[Agent007]

Try my place 

[Brekkie]

hmmm not really western breakfast - unless you can go to a hotel and have breakfast there. 

Places like coffee bean and mcdonalds do breakfasts but I can't think of anywhere fancy around there apart from the hotels.  Sometimes places will open for breakfast at the weekend but not always on a weekday.

If you want a more local breakfast there are lots of small hawker style cafes and coffee shops around the back streets (not so much on Clarke Quay itself).  Kaya toast, roti prata, congee and all that kind of thing. 

[CAtoSG]

do you mean like... bacon, and eggs, and hash browns, and things of that sort?  If you find out... PLEASE let me know.  Hotels are the only real luck I've had

[windy]

Boomerang on Robertson Quay. Good brekky!

[further afield]

The Colbar for a full slap up english brekkie..

[Lisa13]

Hi all

thank you for all help will definitely try the colbar and boomerang    very cheeky 007 can you cater for 4

[too far]

The Colbar's miles away from there - I've been here 10 years and never got around to going there 

You could go down to Robertson Quay though as suggested by windy.  There's a hotel called the gallery which has a riverside restaurant and I remember seeing that they did breakfast - it's quite  a nice setting at night if you don't make it down there in the morning.

[further afield]

Colbar is indeed further afield.  It has an almost legendary status with expats who love a full british fry up. 

I have been in asia over a month, and yet never been to the Colbar for breakfast myself. 

If its got real sausages, blackpudding etc..I may just consider it one of these mornings

[Loads of bacon]

Picotin, Casa Verde, Black Bird, Wild Honey, Saddle Club, Coastes, Epicurious as well as others I can't recall the name of now. ....... Hmmm I'm hungry now.

[Loads of bacon]

Sorry these aren't at CQ - however with the exception of Wild Honey, black bird, they have an out door setting and a good place to have a holiday breakfast.
Jones  at Dempsey is another.

[Pleeeease...]

Picotin, Casa Verde, Black Bird, Wild Honey, Saddle Club, Coastes, Epicurious as well as others I can't recall the name of now. ....... Hmmm I'm hungry now.

Yes, and all of them are overpriced and the food and service are a nightmare. Singapore is not a "breakfast kind of place" if one is used to Western style breakfast.

[Loads of bacon]

PP... true in part...not true of all.
However this is what is available here.  If one wants a western breakfast...one should be hardly surprised that they are hard to come by in the East. No?

[True]

I don't know how to answer a question about "good breakfast" . I've always felt that breakfast is the most subjective meal of the day. Everybody has their own particular idea of what makes a good breakfast, and it depends a lot on where people come from. For me, I come from New Jersey, so going out for breakfast means some diner by the side of the highway. Even in other parts of the States, people have different opinions - is it bagels and a schmear or scrapple or biscuits and red-eye gravy? After being in Asia for so long, I have completely altered my expectations. I've eaten hot dogs and baked beans for breakfast (is that some kind of local version of an English thing?), kaya toast and runny eggs, bowls of noodles, steamed buns, nasi lemak, etc. And I can work my way through a good hotel brunch buffet. If I want my kind of breakfast I either cook it up at home or wait til I go back for a visit and go hog wild. Sure makes you appreciate the little things   

[Lisa13]

Thanks to you all once again....checked out Colbar it is too far and the Boomerang sounds good and I do agree with Very True but you know when you have had a big night out all you want is a big fry up to soak up all from the night before so have decided on the Park Hotel Buffet...came with the deal

Cheers