Glasshouse — build-your-own breakfast + crispy chicken chunks ($41++)!
Glasshouse cafe build-your-own breakfast: soft scrambled eggs, sourdough, mushrooms and blistered tomatoes, with a side of crispy chicken chunks. $25++ + $16++.
Brunch at Glasshouse, $41++ for the build-your-own breakfast + crispy chicken chunks. 😋
What was on the table:
- Build-your-own breakfast plate: soft, glossy scrambled eggs dusted with chives, two slices of toasted sourdough, sauteed brown mushrooms, and blistered cherry tomatoes on the vine
- Crispy chicken chunks: a basket of craggy fried boneless chicken pieces
Glasshouse is a specialty-coffee cafe with a tight brunch menu, the kind where the coffee programme and the plating are the draw. The build-your-own breakfast is the format that lets you assemble the plate: pick your toast, egg style, and the sides and proteins you want, so the breakfast comes out to taste rather than off a fixed list.
The scrambled eggs are the test of any serious brunch kitchen, and these were the soft-fold, barely-set style (not the dry crumble most cafes serve), glossy and rich, the chives cutting through. The sourdough is the proper cafe touch, a real fermented loaf with a chewy crumb and a crust that holds up under the egg, not supermarket sandwich bread. The blistered tomatoes add the acid lift, and the mushrooms the savoury depth.
The crispy chicken chunks on the side are the indulgent add-on: boneless fried chicken, craggy and golden, the kind of thing that turns a healthy-ish brunch into something more fun. A shareable basket for the table.
At $41++ for the breakfast plate and the chicken side, this is standard Singapore specialty-cafe brunch pricing, you pay for the coffee cred, the sourdough and the air-con.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. 😋👍🏼 The soft scrambled eggs on proper sourdough were the standout. Cafe brunch done well, would re-visit.
