Refuel Cafe (Bedok Reservoir): Full Tank + Porky Egg Waffle + drinks ($42)!
Brunch at Refuel Cafe, Bedok Reservoir: the Full Tank big breakfast with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, the Porky Egg Waffle with BBQ pulled pork, a hazelnut latte and iced lychee tea. $42 for two.
Brunch with BB at Refuel Cafe in Bedok Reservoir. Full Tank + Porky Egg Waffle + drinks, $42 total. πππΌ
Refuel Cafe is the heartland brunch spot tucked into Reservoir Village along Bedok Reservoir Road, a hidden gem done up in a fun gasoline-station theme (hence the petrol-pump menu names like βFull Tankβ). It has been refuelling the neighbourhood since 2014, serving an all-day breakfast and Western-Asian fusion menu just a short walk from the reservoir park.
What was on the table:
- Full Tank plate: pressed toast triangles, soft scrambled eggs, sauteed mushrooms, crispy bacon, a grilled sausage, smoked salmon ribbons, grilled tomato, dressed salad, butter pat
- Porky Egg Waffle plate: a round waffle base loaded with scrambled eggs, BBQ pulled pork piled over, fresh salad leaves on top
- Hazelnut latte: the tulip latte art, served in the red-saucered glass
- Iced lychee tea: mason jar, mint sprig, lychee pieces in the tea
The Full Tank is the cafe big-breakfast formula done with all stations filled: two proteins (bacon + sausage), plus the smoked salmon upgrade that most big breakfasts skip. Scrambled eggs were the soft-fold type, not the dry crumble. The name promises a full tank and the plate delivers exactly that brief.
The Porky Egg Waffle is the more interesting build: a savoury waffle doing the carb work that toast normally does, scrambled eggs as the soft layer, then sweet-smoky BBQ pulled pork as the headline. Waffle-as-savoury-base was the late-2010s brunch move (chicken and waffles walked so this could run), and the sweet batter against the BBQ sauce works the same maple-on-bacon logic.
Drinks: the hazelnut latte leaned dessert-adjacent without drowning the espresso; the iced lychee tea was the right palate cleanser against two rich plates, the lychee sweetness doing the work sugar syrup usually does.
At $42 for two mains and two drinks, this is standard Singapore cafe brunch pricing for the smoked-salmon-and-latte-art tier, and reasonable for a sit-down brunch in a quieter part of the east, away from the usual cafe-belt crowds.
If youβre around Bedok Reservoir, Refuel Cafe is worth the detour for a relaxed weekend brunch, and the Porky Egg Waffle is the order to beat.
Overall: 4.4 / 5. πππΌ Solid brunch date. The pulled pork waffle was the standout plate, the Full Tank the safer-but-complete order. Would re-visit.
