The Social Space - Marina One

Quaint peaceful cafe with limited seating located at Marina one. Coffee is excellent. Cakes and granola bowls on the other hand are average and on the pricey side. All in all, I support their cause and would be back for their coffee! :)

Good coffee and toast. Beautiful space with plenty of sunlight to decompress.

Nice place with good coffee in lovely cups. But as for food, I took tropicana bowl and almost broke my tooth on petrous raisins hidden in the bowl. They were as hard as stone. The taste of the bowl wasn’t good unfortunately.

Egg plant toast tasted dry and unappetising, coffee was pretty good though, but most unpleasant was one staff in particular who was being quite paggro about making us leave by clearing our table loudly, taking all our waters as soon as we finished our food and curtly telling us to put on our masks. Perhaps could understand the need for turnover but i felt the rudeness/coldness was totally not needed.

First time going here today, and it’ll be my last. Food in itself was ok, a bit pricier than what it’s worth. The cutlery, cups, table and chairs were cute and adds to the “aesthetic”, but were a bit troublesome to use (cups with ears as holders isn’t exactly ergonomic). It was pretty hot inside too, there’s air conditioning but it doesn’t seem strong enough and the way sound bounces around the space makes it hard to have a good conversation inside. Regardless, the place and food itself wasn’t what made our experience horrible. Despite not having a lot of customers in the morning, the filipino lady by the counter seem to be in a rush to have us order. After being in our seats for just barely an hour, the same lady was again in a rush to clear our table and told us to leave as there was a queue outside. Understandable if we were there for a long time, just like the lady happily reading her book without any food on her table but we weren’t. We were barely there, and we were asked to leave. People in the other tables including the lady reading her booking weren’t asked to leave not like us. No thank you-s while leaving as well. Horrible service for an overpriced place. Won’t be coming back, and I suggest not wasting your time there too. *Edit as per latest response: No, there was no thank you after clearing the table nor when we left. There was no “sorry” as well for kicking us out. We wouldn’t be appalled with the service otherwise, and if other people who were done with their meals were asked to leave as well (again, lady beside us with no food reading her book was not asked to leave). Please just take the criticism to improve your service, and not attempt to twist the narrative to make it seem like your staff handled it well.

Food quality & taste - 3 stars Food value for money - 3 stars Staff service - 4 stars Overall ambience - 4 stars Giving an overall 3 stars review as the price of our bill $52.00 was not worth the taste/portions of what we ordered. Smoked salmon toast was average - better ones elsewhere Tahini & brussel sprouts toast - brussel sprouts were well cooked. Overall taste might not be for everyone. Bowl - average We went on a Saturday for brunch so it was pretty quiet & there was no trouble getting seats. Staff were all friendly so that sort of makes up for things.

I was cycling slowly in front of this cafe on Wed, 20 Apr 2022 towards Marina Bay Sands around 9.30am. There is a set of uneven tiles that caught the front wheel of my bicycle and caused me to flip over - my face hit the ground. I was bleeding from my nose and had cuts in my mouth. While I was in daze, a kind patron at this cafe came to help me. The patron told me that he had seen others fall in the same way. I wrote to the building management to tell them that the tiles have to fixed before a more serious accident happen. They did not reply. I am writing this to alert others and be extra careful when they are riding past this place.

Very bright downtown cafe. I'd like to compliment them on their presentation. The coffee cup was very creative and unique, thumbs-up. The coffee itself tasted great, very foamy! The menu is pretty standard for such a cafe, but well executed. The advantage is that you can choose between full or half portions. The mushroom toast was crispy, fresh, soft, had a great flavour.