For the past one and a half years since it opened, I have heard so much about PS. Cafe amongst the local foodie circles. To see what the hype was about, I decided to finally pay a much overdue visit to this secluded restaurant in the Dempsey area.
You know this is an isolated place when all you see in its surrounding radius are trees and greenery! Without private transport or a cab, the restaurant is barely accessible. That is why you would find a stack of “taxi calling cards” on every table.
Ps. Cafe is started by the same people behind the ProjectShop clothing line (that’s what “PS” stands for). They opened their first café together with a ProjectShop boutique at Paragon. This second restaurant that I visited has a different concept altogether. It is slightly more upmarket, and is housed in a bungalow with one side completely made up of full-length glass windows!
Even before sitting down for a meal, I could already see why PS. Cafe has received so many rave reviews. The whole place just looks so nice and homely, with all the cosy seats, dim lighting and wooden flooring.
Outdoor dining looks very promising too, although I’m not sure how hygienic it would be. Given its proximity to all the greenery, I feel as though a bug might crawl onto my food anytime!
S$9.80++
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Soup of the day was cream of turnip. It had a mildly sweet taste which I found kind of nice. The bread and all the cream were extremely filling too. They got me feeling bloated pretty quickly.
What seem to be the crowd favourite are the fish & chips. The couple sitting at the table next to ours had two bowls of it. Yeah, bowls! Have you seen fish & chips being served in a bowl before?
S$24++
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Besides the unusual presentation, the fish and chips was also served with two different dips – homemade tartar sauce and sweet chilli lime aioli. The tartar sauce was average but the lime aioli was an absolute delight! It was interestingly sweet with a sour tang. This was the perfect complement to the fish fillets and chunky fries. There was no need for chilli sauce at all.
Now, fish & chips isn’t really the kind of food that people would rave about. But this particular one was indeed good. I’ve never had a fish fillet with a crispier crust!
S$20++
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The flamed prawn pasta was a big let-down though. The tiger prawns were flamed with brandy, red shallot, pickled garlic, sweet basil, fresh green peppercorns, yellow teardrop and cherry tomatoes, with snow peas, a touch of cream and tossed in romano pecorino tortiglioni. The pasta just didn’t taste good. Was this meant to be a cream pasta? I couldn’t tell. There wasn’t much of cream (or anything else, for that matter) in it.
The cute little cherry tomatoes were a nice touch though. They were soft and sweet and very juicy!
The food is a tad pricey, but it’s still a good price to pay for a cosy meal if you’re looking for a great ambience.
Aug 4, 2008
1
hi! may i know if P.S cafe open during public holidays?
Aug 4, 2008
3
Hi Gladys,
You may want to check out their website
http://www.pscafe.sg/ as they have a few branches and number to call too.
Hi Veron…sorry…took the liberty to response as I happen to visit your lovely site again.
Cheers!
Apr 8, 2010
6
Hi, if you like ps dempsey, you would definitely like ps palais. As it’s less crowded there, the food and service are much better. All three ps cafe outlets have different ala carte menus and daily specials. Some websites even rated ps palais as one of the best restaurants in singapore. So definitely must try.
Apr 8, 2010
3472
Great! Palais Renaissance is more accessible, too. Thanks for the recommendation!
Apr 8, 2010
6
well i happen to work there as well.
Feb 12, 2011
1
received some feedback from my friends and this is what I remebered from my earlier visit to the cafe.
upon entering the cafe, it was a mad rush of service staff everywhere. These staff were seemingly engaged in doing something but when examined further, it was a deliberate attempt to look busy so that they can conveniently “ignore” customers whom they considered not worth to serve. To elaborate further, you can take a look at the customers, mostly are executives or more popularly caucasians who form the majority of the cafe’s customers. As long as they give good tip & have blue eyes, the service staff will bend all ways to attend to, otherwise, for the locals you might as well forget about getting such elaborate service! Get it, you local people?
Closer listening to the accents of the service staff one could tell they are not locals. So putting things together, a home-grown business with lesser cost foreign workers & obviously sought-after caucasian customers, all which equals to a ridiculous mix of food & beverage business! A question though?? Since the foreign market is the focus of the owners or brothers, why do they keep opening one chain after another in an ASian country like Singapore?? Try this concept somewhere else and see the results…
May 26, 2011
1
horrible place with ultra bad service that sucks to the core! dun be fooled by the nice-looking exterior. Try going into the kitchen & see the “behind-the-scene” or during their break time what they say behind customers’ backs.
I betcha jaws will drop!
ignorant customers will love it cos these fake cheap labour from these third-world countries are so pretencious… nice one