This is one of the more popular places at Paragon on a weekend morning. For us, we chose to have brunch there on a PH morning and arrived early at 1130am. The brunch crowd was not there yet.
Did you know that H&C has a Granola menu? Dearborn granola is available here. An extract from Dearborn's website states that it is a "hand crafted, small batch breakfast food that is proudly made in Singapore. Ingredients are sourced with the same intent, with a keen focus on traceability and sustainability." Let's support local.
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| Granola Menu |
We opted for the simplest version with milk for a taste test.
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| Dearborn Granola and milk @$9 |
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| Dearborn Granola |
I suspect that am probably too accustomed to the taste of commercial granola and those generic cereal packs to understand the differences. Dearborn granola has natural tasting and knowing that the ingredients were sourced with sustainability in mind, probably made me feel better eating it.
Ivan chose the Dan Dan Spaghettini, and it was a repeat order for him. There's a choice of spicy or non, and we opted for non-spicy version.
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| Dan Dan Spaghettini (non-spicy) @$26 |
Give the noodles a good mix before tucking in. Noodles were good, tasty with the minced meat bits but leaning towards the sweeter side.
Crispy Squid in the menu was quickly noticed by both Tracy and myself. It turned out to be a good choice. Chunky, tender squid well battered and fried to a golden brown. This was so tasty! My favourite.
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| Crispy Squid @$18 |
Hence ordered an orange coffee and it was interesting. Orange juice was served separately and the coffee was in cube form.
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| Orange Yuzu Passionfruit Coffee Cubes Latte @$14 |
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| in goes the orange |
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| ta-dah! |
The last main dish was the Grilled Tiger Prawn Risotto. The dish looked vibrant with its beautiful colours. However, I was confused by that piece of bread served together with the risotto.
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| Grilled Tiger Prawn Risotto @$32 |
This dish was rather refreshing with the diced zucchini, oriental corn, multigrains and pumpkin 'risotto'. Again, strong flavours and overall enjoyable!
For dessert, we were unanimous in choosing the Nutella & Banana French Toast. It came with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
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| Nutella & Banana French Toast @$23 |
On first bite, I was intrigued by that one singular taste that was familiar but can't really pin a name to it. We debated amongst us for a very short while before having the eureka moment of revelation. "The fritters taste from the goreng pisang!" Hahahaa!
Overall, the food at H&C have good variety and delicious. Will be back to try the other dishes. Spent about $34 per pax.
H&C Halcyon and Crane @ Paragon Shopping Centre
Address: 290 Orchard Rd, #03-09 Paragon Shopping Centre, Singapore 238859
Website: https://linktr.ee/halcyonandcrane
Contact: +65 9727 5121
Business Hours:
Sun - Thur: 9:00 AM–8:30 PM
Fri - Sat: 9:00 AM–10:00 PM
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