[ New Café – Solid gelato at XM Studio’s Gelato and Coffee Bar ] Had the opportunity to visit a certain someone’s friend’s new gallery-office-café space at Kitchener Complex mid-week during their grand opening! Big congrats!! (Where was this café when I was looking for places to chill pre-D&D 🥲)
If you’re a fan of figurines and collectibles like me, you’ve likely already ogled at their intricate statues and figurines at toys/hobby conventions over the years. The best bit? XM is homegrown! How’s that for inspiration?
Since I consider myself a casual hobbyist at best when it comes to comics/TTRPGs/adjacenthobbiesandthelikes, I’ll hold my opinions – just swipe past the food for some of my fav pieces in their gallery! (Yes, it’s open to the public so feel free to visit!)
What I do consider myself more a snob of, is food. When I was sold – multiples times, mind you! – that this new café spot will be serving some mean gelatos, a certain someone and I hauled our behinds over after sweating it out at the Gardens By The Bay for some much needed reprieve.
And oh boy, they delivered.
I’m quite forgiving when it comes to ice creams/gelatos and the likes, but it’s fairly difficult to please me beyond mild satisfaction. So when my face lit up after rolling the velveteen texture of my pistachio gelato around my mouth – one of their two non-dairy options – we knew we had something special, literally, in our hands.
Pistachio can either be a breathtaking or an exhausting flavour. It either coils at the back of your mouth with the scent of smoky roast, tugged by the melting flavour of nuts upon your tongue, or it languishes in dull bitterness against the walls of your mouth, like an indelible acrid aftertaste.
No prizes for guessing which one this falls under.
Their scoops can be yours at three different price points: $6 for their classic batches, $7 for their premium, and $8 for that sweet, exclusive selection.
We sat nursing our drinks – my coffee was a lil bland, but his roasted green tea was a delight – as the rain pattered outside, watching XM staff meander through the spacious area, and making plans for which gelato to try when we return.
