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Sunday, May 27, 2018

The Dark Gallery - A Place to See and to be Seen

As the title of this post has highlighted, this is a chic cafe to hang out at to see the people passing by and to be seen due to the open concept of the place. And I guess chilling out at here gives the impression that one is in a dark, seductive mood, thus having a craving for dark, rumoured to be mildly aphrodisiac chocolates?



Anyway, I have only tried the ice-cream and macarons, and my personal opinion is that the ice-cream is worth a shot while the macarons can be skipped. The ice-cream is very rich, thick and creamy, which is all good. The macarons look so pretty due to the pastel colours and feature some exotic flavours that tempt me to buy four of them to try. Alas, they are huge disappointment. The shells are too flimsy and have lots of huge holes within them, so the chewy texture I relish in macarons is non-existent here. The cream sandwiched between the shells is too thin to allow the flavour in it to be noticeable. The quality of the macarons is not even comparable to those made by some home bakers. It does not help that when I spend more than ten dollars to buy four macarons, they are packed into a pathetic clear plastic bag that can be found in SKP stores.

Service is a mixed bag. One of the staff is thoughtful enough to see that it is pretty unsightly for me to lug around a cheap-looking plastic bag of macarons and offers a paper bag to me to put the macarons in. The other staffs are pretty unimpressive in their standard of service. They look perpetually grumpy and are pretty unhelpful, giving half-hearted answers to my queries.

Maybe the dark chocolates here are good, but it will take a while before I get around to trying them since the service does not make me feel welcomed, and the standard of the macarons here further deters me from jumping into it.

My Thoughts: Not Bad, I mean the Ice Cream only

Nearest car park: Millenia Walk’s car park
Nearest MRT: Promenade

Millenia Walk #01-K5
9 Raffles Boulevard
Contact No: 62550368