Charlie Brown Cafe @ Orchard Cineleisure

Last weekend, I got to collect my event's pack for "Bare Your Soles 2014" at Orchard Central.  We parked our car at Orchard Cineleisure and after the collection, we decided to settle our late lunch at Charlie Brown Cafe at Cineleisure.

 A friendly Charlie Brown sculpture at the front of the restaurant welcoming us with the menu.

 We were allowed to sit anywhere we liked because the restaurant was quite empty.  We went right to the back and chose a corner seat besides the shelving with Snoopy sculpture on top.

 Took some photos of the little ornaments that they placed at the shelving.

 The restaurant was exceptionally quiet with only 1-2 tables occupied.  The whole place was clean and neat, decorated with a few Peanuts' character sculptures.  However, it was a completely different concept compared to the very cosy Charlie Brown Cafe that I visited in Hong Kong a few years back.  I felt that the one in Hong Kong was more "Kawaii" and better decorated as a themed restaurant.     

Front cover of the menu was quite cute with all the Peanuts Comic Strip's characters.

 I decided to order Hawaiian Baked Rice since I like cheese baked rice and it was one of their recommendations.

 Hubby ordered Charlie Cappucino and hoped that he would get a cute character on his coffee.

 Sweet drink - Cranberry Raspberry Snapple for me.

A Smiley Snoopy's outline made from cocoa powder dusting :)

 My main course was served and it looked quite promising.

 However, I was utterly disappointed with the food.  If you took away the top layer of cheese and ham, below was just plain rice.  I am quite sure that I could whip up something better than this for less than $5!  This cost $11.80 before GST and Service Charge.  

 Charlie's Famous Lamb Chop ($18.80) was not very impressive too and definitely not worth the price tag.

 I think we will probably not return for the pricey average food.  By the way, "Eighteen Chefs" that is a few steps away was brimming with good business.

A few more photos of the restaurant.....

  A very small corner to sell Peanuts' merchandise. 

Charlie Brown Cafe
8 Grange Road,#04-01
Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Singapore 239695
Tel: +65 6836 5344
Fax: +65 6547 4735

Back at Skinny Pizza @ Wheelock Place

Met up with my friends to go to Openrice office to redeem our gifts.  I took part in their Hungry Games contest and for the month of September, I redeemed a coffee-bean card which is valued at $28.  Cheryl from Openrice also gave us some freebies such as the Smiley fan, tissue pack and pen from Openrice.

After that, we joined the rest at Skinny Pizza at Wheelock Place.  This was my second visit to Skinny Pizza and this time, I got to try out more items as there were 7 of us, so we ordered more dishes.

There was a "3 sides for $18" promotion and thus, we ordered different side dishes to share.  The sides were served in mess tins without handles.

Harissa Prawns won thumbs up from everybody.

Truffle Fries was cripsy and nice too but need to finish it fast before it turned greasy.

Sweet Potato Nibblets, which came in big chucks, were nice but very filling of course!

Brie Cheese (Right) was tasty too.

My friends also ordered another set of 3 sides of 1/4 sausage (Chicken, Beef and Pork).

I ordered the Mixed Berry Tark drink ($7) which tasted a bit like Ribena.

My friends had the Portobello Soup ($7) which was very thick with mushroom bits.  I find this better than the Sweet Corn with Crab Soup ($7) that I had.

One of our friends had the Squid Ink Pop ($15).  Basically, all the ingredients used were the same as squid ink pizza but you got to "burst" the ball and dropped the ingredients inside.

Of course, this is a must-order pizza at Skinny Pizza - Squid Ink Pizza! ($26)

Chicken Satay Pizza ($22) which was topped with thick satay sauce.  The slice of pizza that I took, happened to have only the satay sauce without much meat, thus, a bit unsatisfying for me.  Maybe the pizza would be better if they can be more generous with the chicken meat chunks?  

Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars... Looking up the dome structure at Wheelock Place from inside the building.....  Beautiful!

After dinner, we strolled along Orchard Road and chanced upon 2 "ghosts"!  Haha..... and even took a group photo with them.  But the "ghosts" looked rather friendly, don't you think so?  

The "Twins"

They were actually doing a publicity stunt for the Halloween event at Scape:

Where:

SCAPE Warehouse (Level 2)

When:

18 – 31 Oct 2013

Time:

6pm – 11pm

6pm – 12mn (31 Oct 2013)

Ticket Prices:

Normal – $20

Students and Early Bird – $17

Where To Buy Tickets:

Tickets can be purchase at the venue and online.

For further information and to buy event tickets, visit Museum of Horrors website.

Trailer

We also spotted a floating "ghost" above the flea market area at Scape, it looked really eerie at night.

I did attend a few Halloween events in the past for the fun of it.  You may read up my past Halloween events' experience here:  

Halloween at Night Safari (2010)

Halloween at Singapore Flyer (2012)

Do you celebrate Halloween?  :P

Skinny Pizza Wheelock
601 Orchard Road
#03-04
Wheelock Place
Singapore 238880

Skinny Pizza | What a Crack @ Wheelock Place

This was a Friday dinner with my hubby after my hair treatment at Wheelock Place.  I managed to "chope" two seats at around 6pm before the queue started.  This was our first time at Skinny Pizza.  It is not difficult to find this restaurant at the 3rd level of Wheelock Place as you can find many of these "Pizza guides" on the ground, leading to the restaurant.  

What a crack.

While waiting for my hubby, I flipped through the menu and it was no surprise that I ordered their signature squid ink pizza!

Wow!  Look impressive, isn't it?  Generous amount of squid rings on the black skinny crust. 

Hear the crackle as the pizza cutter rolled across the pizza?  

Looking at this photo while I blog is such a torture now when I haven't had my dinner yet.

This is how thin the crust is.  Seriously, if you eat on its own, it tasted like normal cream biscuit.  However, when you eat it together with the toppings, it brought the taste to a whole new level.  

Overall, we had a very good dining experience here with the delicious food and the service staff were also all full of smiles.

Skinny Pizza Wheelock

601 Orchard Road

#03-04

Wheelock Place

Singapore 238880