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Best cafés in Bugis

We round up the best cafés to drop by while you're in Bugis

Written by
Time Out Singapore editors
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Take a break from shopping and sight-seeing, and pop by these cafés for brunch or a tea-time snack while you're in Bugis. Since most cafés are air-conditioned, they're also a great way to cool down in between walking in this hot weather. 

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Symmetry

Symmetry

When historians decades from now catalogue the food culture of the 21st century, Symmetry will be their definitive example of a ‘hipster...

Paper Crane

Paper Crane

Paper Crane is one of those cafés you might miss if you weren’t looking for it. Nestled within the premises of the Singapore Council of...

All Things Delicious

All Things Delicious

Don’t go searching for All Things Delicious at Crawford Lane – the Halal café has since moved to bigger and brighter lodgings (courtesy of...

The Lab SG

The Lab SG

Fans of Breaking Bad will appreciate this café, but it’s got nothing to do with meth – beakers, test tubes and copper pipes create...

Butter Studio

Butter Studio

This Halal cake brand has grown to two takeaway outlets in the city, but you’ll want to retreat into its cottage-like Jalan Besar flagship for a sweet...

Tanuki Raw (National Design Centre)

Tanuki Raw (National Design Centre)

We know – this is a restaurant, you say. But given that Tanuki Raw’s outlet in the National Design Centre shares its space with a retail store,...

LOWERCASE

LOWERCASE

Perhaps its location in an art school has compelled this café, whose name is annoyingly stylised as LOWERCASE (oh, how ironic), to look the...

I Am

I Am

This people-watching corner spot at Haji Lane also doubles as Dutch-inspired Halal café, I am. Scaling back on the breakfast-as-lunch fare elsewhere,...

Artistry

Artistry

Part-café, part-gallery space, Artistry with its white-washed walls and concrete floors makes for a soothing sight for square eyes. When you're...

CAD Café

CAD Café

Located on the busy pedestrian crossroad of Arab Street, Haji and Bali Lane, this hole-in-the-wall coffee joint is the perfect place to set up camp for a...

Chye Seng Huat Hardware

Chye Seng Huat Hardware

Follow the hipster past the huge covered metal gates and you’ll find Chye Seng Huat’s semi-secret (well, not so much anymore) compound in the Jalan...