Alice Boulangerie & Restaurant

Alice Boulangerie & Restaurant is a bakery-café and restaurant at Icon Village on Gopeng Street, in Tanjong Pagar. It bakes bread, croissants, cakes and French-style pastries in-house. It also serves brunch, lunch and dinner from a modern European menu that borrows a few local flavours.

The shop's mascot is the Alice squirrel, which appears in the décor and in a squirrel-shaped whole cake. In August 2024 the Icon Village shop reopened after a month-long makeover. Seating grew from about 45 to 70, and it became a full restaurant with a dinner menu. A second branch runs at Raffles City Shopping Centre.

What to order

Start at the pastry counter, then decide whether you are staying for a full meal.

• Bakes: croissants, including flavoured versions, plus mini cakes and whole cakes. The bakery says it uses no preservatives and keeps sugar on the lower side.
• Brunch: the Alice Big Breakfast, shakshuka with Kurobuta sausage, rösti eggs Benedict and a chilli crab egg toast with soft-shell crab. Fried chicken waffles and blueberry pancakes appear at weekends.
• Starters: seafood otah croquettes made with mackerel and tiger prawn, and charred broccoli with tobiko.
• Mains: a "char siew" wagyu short rib, duck confit, tiger prawn capellini in prawn bisque and a wagyu beef cheek risotto. At dinner there is a Spanish pork belly claypot rice with salted fish and Chinese sausage.
• Burgers: you can choose a brioche bun or the house croissant roll.
• Dessert and drinks: apple pie, pecan tart and tiramisu, with cream lattes in black sesame, matcha or houjicha.

On weekdays there is a set lunch with a main plus soup or salad. A three-course set dinner is also offered most evenings. Wine and draught beer are available too.

The setting

After the 2024 revamp, the room was styled as a squirrel's cosy hideout. Warm browns, pine greens and moss tones fill the space, with wood throughout. It now feels more like a relaxed restaurant than a grab-and-go bakery.

Good to know before you go

• The bakery says its pastries are ready from late morning, so go after that for the full range.
• You can reserve a table through the restaurant's own website.
• Pork features widely, from bacon and sausage to the claypot rice. Vegetarian dishes are marked on the menu.
• Some desserts contain alcohol, and the menu flags these.
• Whole cakes and festive bakes can be ordered online for delivery.

Getting there

The nearest MRT station is Tanjong Pagar, about five minutes away on foot. Hotels close by include Oasia Hotel Downtown and Sofitel Singapore City Centre. For another bakery with wine in the wider area, try HENRI Wine Bistro & Bakery. You can also browse more cafés and bakeries or all restaurants in Chinatown and Tanjong Pagar.