Upshot Specialty Coffee

A quiet coffee place on level 4 of One Raffles Place over the weekend, when all the busy weekdays CBD crowds are not here.

Going through their menu and found this Okinawa Latte, which I won’t find it in many places here.

It used the type of brown sugar from Okinawa region.

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I love the chill vibes on a Monday morning. Their coffee was well-balanced, neither too bitter nor acidic. The coffee (Large) + pastry set is extremely worth it, at approximately $7 depending on your choice of drink.

The staff was so polite and nice as well! She recommended the kouign amaan which was perfect for my palette (i drink 25% bubble tea for a reference), though would prefer it to be crispier but all’s good.

It is a shame that the other coffee places at the lower floors garnered a lot more attention. People shouldn’t give this a miss especially with such amazing quality and affordability!

Was meant to check out Upshot Specialty Coffee for a while but hadn’t really made that trip down until really recently. Being one of the few spots that serve up specialty coffee in One Raffles Place, Upshot Specialty Coffee is perhaps one of the most hidden ones as well — decked in a minimalistic theme that features plenty of white elements, the cafe is hidden up at level 4. For those looking for hot food options here, Upshot Specialty Coffee only serves up a Ham & Cheese Toast, Cheese Toast, Corndog and Croffles for its hot food menu. Apart from those, patrons also can pick between the various pastries that they have to offer in the display shelf; beverages are largely centred around both espresso-based coffee and filtered coffee, with non-coffee options including the Matcha Latte, Chai Latte, Chocolate and Passion Fruit Soda.

Between the small selection of toasts that they have to offer, it was obvious that the Cheese Toast was going to be our choice. Served in a rather simplistic fashion, we initially thought that we would be disappointed with this one; but boy were we so wrong about that. Whilst the toast looks fairly thin as compared to that of the sourdough toast that some other establishments may choose to use for similar items (which also carries a more premium vibe to it), the toast here was especially crisp, yet easy to chew. In between the slices of toast would be the melted cheese — whilst it seemed pretty pedestrian and could have easily lacked the cheese pull that most people would be looking for in an item like this, that cannot be further than the truth; the melted cheese in between is everything stretchy as one chews the Cheese Toast apart. If anything, we did like how the Cheese Toast was a fine balance between bread and cheese here — there wasn’t one element that seemed to be stronger than the other; a beautiful combination of both which did not actually feel anywhere near being jelak.

One thing particularly concerning during our visit to Upshot Specialty Coffee that we have found is how empty the place seemingly is even despite our visit made during lunch hour on a weekday at The Central Business District. Can’t be really certain if it was the location (the basement level of One Raffles Place is where most would be at with the most food options — level 4 would definitely take some effort to get to), or if it was a lack of hot food options in its menu. Whilst we do understand that there might have been challenges with serving certain types of hot food due to the space it is located in, we do wish that there were more choices available considering how limited the offerings are here. Nonetheless, the Cheese Toast is a fairly decent eat; overall a spot worth considering for a quiet cuppa and a light eat in the heart of the Central Business District.