Chanced upon this new Korean cafe (with some Korean waitstaff), Cafe De Muse, on the ground floor of Isetan at Shaw Centre in Orchard.

The pasta was piping hot, waited maybe 15 minutes for it. Came with pumpkin puree and basil (I think) and sun dried tomatoes (vegetarian option I believe). Kind of like baby food! It’s alright. I was wondering why there was no tomato based pasta on the menu and they informed me that they are gonna be adding that. Right now there’s squid ink, carbonara, prawn aglio olio and the pumpkin pasta.

There were a number of customers in the cafe, groups of people as well as people working on their computers.

Might try their bingsu next time, they have a number of flavours like Oreo, rice cake (or rice powder), brownie, cheesecake, green tea, melon, strawberry, and more. They also appear to sell their own brand of tea.

They have a number of brunch mains, desserts, cocktails, beef nachos and $10++ truffle fries.

The ambiance is like a stylish, not that high end bingsu cafe!

Upstairs they have a second outlet, a dessert bar, which I suppose specialises in desserts, coffee and tea.

I think Cafe De Muse should figure out what its specialty is, right now it seems like they have many different food items on their menu. The pasta was alright but it was not cheap and probably not something I would crave, it just happened to be the nearest cafe I spotted and I was hungry and curious :p