Best eats of 2024: Best bread – croissant from Ami Patisserie
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The croissant from Ami Patisserie has whirls of buttery lightness enclosed in a crisp exterior.
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Where: 27 Scotts Road amipatisserie.com
Open: Patisserie-cafe: 11.30am to 6pm (Wednesdays to Fridays), 11am to 6pm (Saturdays and Sundays), closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
Tel: 8907 6146
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Restaurants have ramped up their bread game, new bakeries and cafes offering serious bread spring up all the time. But the best bread of 2024 is the croissant from Ami Patisserie in Scotts Road, which Japanese pastry chef Makoto Arami, 36, opened in January after operating as an online business.
Apart from the eight-seat Tsudoi Dining Room, where he offers a tasting menu, the place also has a 12-seat patisserie-cafe, with pastries, tarts and his signature choux puffs. His heavenly croissants ($6.80 each) are available there for dine-in or takeaway.
Eaten as soon as it lands on the table or straight from the takeaway bag, the crisp outside yields to whirls of buttery lightness inside. There is a faint tang to the pastry – perhaps from the cultured Lescure butter from France?
It holds its shape admirably too, for hours, and does not collapse in a heap in humidity. Revive it in the toaster oven, use the croissant setting on a Balmuda, and it is almost as good as fresh.
It needs nothing else – no butter, no jam. Well, maybe an espresso at the end.
