Cedele: Novena Square

You must wondering why I like to blog about food places around these areas: Novena Square, Square 2, Velocity, and so on. Well, I do hang out at these places a fair bit for some reason other than shopping.


My favourite cafe of choice would be Cedele. I have had bad encounters with them before and so did my cousin on Christmas eve 2010, but that was at their Frankel Main shop and the Amara hotel outlet, respectively.

Briefly, here was what happened to my cousin  on Christmas eve: She was working at her office nearby and was going to collect the cake after she had rushed out some last-minute work. Then comes the phone call from Cedele at a certain time to ask her when she was going to pick the log cake up. My cousin asked them when they were going to close and they gave her a time (say, 2pm). At about 1.15pm thereabouts, she gets another call from the shop. This time, the staff sounded more rude. It was almost like a command for her to go down to the shop now or risk not having a log cake for Christmas.

Well, did they not say their closing time was 2pm? Apparent not!!!! How absurd! You want to rush off for your long weekend holidays and you actually rush a customer like that? Worst part was, when my cousin rushed off to get the cake, she still saw some other people's orders yet to be picked up. Rude and bad service.

Well, this particular Cedele at Novena Square changed my mind though. I have eaten here many times after I boycotted Hans. I admire this rather young team of staff. The supervisor (if I may call her that) does not speak perfect English. Nevertheless, she speaks with confidence and yet, not in a rude manner. The young lady who makes the sandwiches makes them beautifully.

How do a gauge whether it is a good sandwich or not? It must not fall apart when I am eating it. Unless of course, that the sandwich itself is too big, in which case, I would need to eat it in part and not in whole.

I also went to the Cedele at Takashimaya last week. I found the food to be surprisingly good. I used to half expect to be pretentious: pretending to be very western but tasting very local (i.e. bad cooking). It was totally not so. Plus, the service was good. I do not get to see sour, faces like those that I get at Frankel.

Mum reckons that the staff at Frankel were proud and obnoxious. She also added that the staff at the Novena Square outlet used to be like that too, when they had a more mature team.

Well, anyway, here's to more non trans-fat baked goods and healthier eating. Oh, but it is a little on the pricier side though, so eating there has always been a treat.