Good news for the south-westies, as a new café pops up in depot
road area. One would be surprised to learn that Compound Coffee Co., a boutique coffee roaster is located
with the very instagrammable Interlace Condominium.
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| Picture courtesy of www.theinterlace.com |
For now, the café only serves for the residents due to
management and security issues and would slowly open up to the public in time
to come. We had the lucky opportunity to visit the café during its first few
days of opening after bypassing the angsty security.
We were greeted by the sleek clean white interior design of
the café upon stepping in. It could accommodate approximate 20 persons with either
round table seats for big groups (3-4pax) or bar seats for some me-time. Compound
coffee serves coffee ranging from the standard Americano to flat white to
filter brew and simple bites outsourced externally.
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| Round tables for small groups |
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| Have a read on their BARISTA magazines |
The café is crowded with the residents and their kids when
we visited in the late afternoon and the occasional sharp cries of babies would
put off many who would want to enjoy a quiet time here. Using slayer espresso
coffee machine, compound coffee brew their own coffee beans in house and serves
up coffee that’s smooth in texture with a slightly acidic tone.
The flat white that we had was of medium body that goes well
with their savoury items which we ordered. The filter brew comes served in a dispenser,
cute right? It tastes rather refreshing and citrusy with a hint of blackcurrant
taste. Seems like fruity flavour filter brew seems to be trending these days?
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| Flat white |
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| Filter Brew |
We ordered the ham and spinach quiche and croque monsieur
from their savoury menu and were pleased with both. Quiche has slight crispy
crust that goes well the flat white and the croque monsieur was very generous with the gooey cheese! Yays for cheeselovers like us. Being a sweet tooth, we ordered their bread with honey infused cookie butter upon recommendation form the staff. Although we loved the cookie butter, this fell short of our expectations as the bread was too dry and perhaps yakun steamed toast would be much better than it. The scone we ordered was soft and fluffy but could have been better if served with strawberry jam or clotted cream by the side.
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| Foreground- Quiche; Background- Bread with honey infused cookie butter |
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| Ham & Cheese Toast; Scone |
In all, we found compound coffee pretty cosy if not for the
baby cries and good for a catch-up with friends but given the spurge of café openings
this year round, they might need some unique (made-in-house) to really attract
the crowd should they open up to the public in future. It is certainly a one
stop convenience for its residents to have a spot for coffee and light bites (since
they do not have a kitchen) within the condominium premises, residents of other
condominiums would definitely be jelly of this special privilege of the
Interlace residents.
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