Project Shop Café

#03-41/44 Paragon Shopping Centre T. 6735 6765

I like coming to the Project Shop Café for its coffee and cakes and interesting dishes like laksa pesto pasta (linguini with a thick spicy curry sauce) and banana and mango crumble. However with the recent departure of its Australian chef, these just don’t quite taste half as good. At one visit, we found the laksa pesto rather watered down and the crumble, more chunks than crumble.

I was however determined to find something else good on the menu, which was why when we dropped by the café this week, we opted for the eggplant stack and the roast beef sandwich. The eggplant stack turned out to be a good choice with layers of rocket, peppers in olive oil, feta and pesto nicely balanced on top of a mound of risotto. Sure, the risotto tasted more like glutinous rice, but the different textures and flavours came together marvellously. The roast beef slices were equally yummy especially with a dash of mustard. They were served on two thick slices of bread and a side of potato salad, which oddly, had a slight metallic taste.

On thing that is consistent about the place though is its service: friendly but inattentive. That aside, it was a very pleasant afternoon indeed.