Baker & Cook @ Hillcrest Road

Due to my mother being a huge fan of bread, I brought her here for breakfast this morning. Baker & Cook is located at 77 Hillcrest Road, along Bukit Timah Road (opposite Hwa Chong Institution). It was refreshing to find such a place that opens for breakfast as early as 7am.

The place is rather small; there is only one big table for indoor seating. The other seats are outdoors, so some customers would inevitably have to sit under the sun. But I liked the design of the interior, especially how they display their bread. However, the smell of freshly baked bread was noticeably missing, something I should have taken note of when I stepped in.

Baker & Cook Freshly Baked Bread & Croissant Selection (for two to share), $10

I am not a bread fan. Which made me wonder why I offered to order this to share with my mother. The bread was obviously not freshly baked. They were hard. They were dry. The crust of the bread was so tough that I discarded almost all of it. For the croissant, ignoring the fact that it was cold, also did not taste good, as the delicious buttery taste that is indicative of a good croissant was definitely missing. The butter cubes were also quite tasteless and did not help to make the bread easier to go down too.

For a place that specialises in bread, Baker & Cook disappoints big time. I suspect that the bread was left over from yesterday; there is no way freshly baked bread would taste this bad.