FOCR Tanjong Pagar or Five Oars Coffee Roasters Heritage is a chic cafe with friendly service, nice food and good quality coffee.
Five Oars Coffee Roasters is no stranger to the cafe scene, having been a Tanjong Pagar mainstay for several years now. Known for a minimalist and beautiful space, as well as a spacious shop floor, they moved out of the premises at the end of January.
Overall, middling coffee, lovely ambience for an afternoon of chats or kickback with a coffee and book.
Even though it was a brunch place, I find the prices a little bit prohibitive for that purpose and would probably go back again for their dinner (funny, cos its usually the other way around).
It’s rare to find a spacious café space in the CBD enclave in Singapore and Five Oars Coffee Roaster ticks the checklist for me in terms of a good café experience. The food and coffee is robust, and it is only a matter of time before the space is swarmed with hipster crowds.