Although this Japanese restaurant had been around for quite some time, we had not tried visiting it even having walked past it several times. We finally decided to walk in and give it a try on this day. Though we were second in the queue, we waited for a very long time. We could clearly see there were quite a few empty tables, but the staff did not usher us in. After 10 minutes, the family in front of us were seated. When we were first in the queue, Momo Dear asked one of the staff who walked past us many times if we could take any of the empty tables but were told they were not ready to sit us down yet. What!? After about another 10 minutes or so, we were finally given a table...
After sitting down, we then picked items from the menu which looked the most interesting. I ordered the Tomato Omu, which consisted of an omelette on top of some tomato rice, with some rather unique tomato sauce, prawns, broccoli and some cheese bits. It was a really unique combination and in fact, quite tasty!
The logo of Hoshino Coffee.
Tomato Omu (top view)
Tomato Omu served with fresh prawns and cauliflower. ($15)
Momo Dear ordered something even more interesting. It is an Omu Soufflé. The fluffy and bouncy egg soufflé felt as though it was jelly when we tried shaking the whole plate. And the moment we cut a slit in the soufflé, cheesy egg white started oozing out. It felt like opening a present, making one wonder what is inside. The rice seems to be the same tomato rice used in my dish.
Omu Soufflé ($15.80)
Since the name of the restaurant is Hoshino Coffee, it would most probably mean coffee is its specialty. We ordered a Cafe Latté to see whether it was really a specialty. Dear loved the taste while I found it to be too bitter.
Cafe Latté ($7)
Plenty of empty seats but long queue at the entrance.
Display of their mouth-watering dishes
And here's Hoshino Coffee in Kanji (Japanese Chinese Characters)- 星乃珈琲店.
The service could have been better. We also noticed many empty tables while there was a long queue outside. We couldn't understand why the customers were not ushered to the empty tables much earlier. The food was fascinating and certainly worth trying, but the service, in our opinion, require improvement.
Website (Japanese): http://www.hoshinocoffee.com/
Website (English): http://www.hoshinocoffee.com.sg/m/index.html
Opening Hours
Mon - Fri: 11:30am-10pm
Sat, Sun, PH: 10am-10pm
Address:
68 Orchard Road
#03-84, Plaza Singapura
Singapore 238839
Tel: 6338 3277
