Cheese Cake Cafe

I don't like cheese and neither do I like cheesecake. In fact, I would never eat cheese alone. It's that bad for me. But cheesecake? I might. Depends on how good it is. I think the best one I have ever tasted is the one at Carnegie Deli in New York. Creamy, smooth, sweet, delicate, grounded with the right amount of crust and topped with freakin huge strawberries.

Cheese cake cafe is nothing like that. In fact, I would say that the cheesecakes served at this cafe are different. Good different? I would say yes. The cheesecakes here are smaller, taste a little bit more like ice cream and not as creamy and smooth. No crust is involved except the American cheese cake. There are distinct variations of the traditional cheesecake. Things like Rum and Raisin cheesecake, chocolate cheesecake, I remember they even had the green tea cheese cake. I like variety like I like women. That sounds weird. But the bottomline is that variety is good.

I love the ambiance of the place. Its well but dimly litted. The furniture are teak and Indonesia/Bali style furniture. The service is always fantastic. Always might be an exaggeration, how about most of the time if not nearly all the time?I wouldn't normally pay $1 for cheesecake, but here I would gladly pay five over dollars per slice. The tea that you order is refillable and I even get a 10% discount using my UOB card. There are tons of the latest magazines for you to read.

We ordered a tiramisu, a oreo cheesecake and chocolate cheesecake with camomille, Darjeeling and a latte. The damage was $41. A little bit rough but I think its worth it every so once in a while. The great thing for me is that not many people know the place YET. So its still pretty cool in my book. I was once asked what is the difference between having coffee at starbucks and coffee at a regular coffeeshop. I was thinking about this when I was sitting in the cheesecake cafe last night. And I thought to myself. There is a heck of a difference! Whether you want to admit it or not. Anybody wants to be seen in a place like cheese cake cafe. Its cool. It exudes cool. It tells people you're in. A great place to bring a date and a great place to go after dinner! You want to be seen just like you want to be seen at Starbucks. Is the coffee better at starbucks? Not necessarily so. But it is better to sit on a comfortable couch than at a sweltering coffee shop.

If you love cheesecake like I like my women? You would be remissed to miss this place.

Another gem in the east!

Food: 7/10
Service: 8/10
Value: 5/10

Hope this helps.