{knead to eat} at 6 Changi Business Park Avenue 1, UE BizHub East North Tower, #01-30 - The Beginning The Ambience The Menu

{knead to eat} Founder 

Mumtaz Marican 

Mumtaz Marican was working as account manager in an information technology research company, and had experience a bit of a mid life crisis when she hit her mid thirties.  At a gathering among colleagues where they lament about the struggles in the corporate arena, one colleague suggested going into a business venture together. That one idea triggered that entrepreneur spark in her that saw her pouring her heart & soul into researching & developing a business plan that blossom into what is known today as {knead to eat}.

As part of the research to develop the menu for {knead to eat} Mumtaz has to scour & devour every sandwich & salad & soup from bistros she can find in CBD, Suntec City Mall & CBP (Changi Business Park). Mumtaz wanted to own a business based on what she was passionate about - food, & she wanted to serve whole food that is made from scratch, homestyle, nutritious, nourishing using traditional recipes and latest technology such as sous vide style used in cooking the beef rump in Brutus Beef Sandwich & chicken breast in the Pesto Chicken Sandwich. 

So at 34, she quit her corporate life, armed with zero experience in F&B industry, forked out close to about S$200,000, she hired consultants to help her venture into the F&B industry in coming up with the Corporate branding, in furnishing & designing her sandwich (bistro) parlour as well as developing the menu & recipes. Within barely 7 months she managed to set up her sandwich parlour and trademarked it {knead to eat},  a pun on the words "need to eat", and since it is a sandwich house, of the necessity of kneading the dough to get the bread to make the sandwich. 

The Ambience 

The sandwich parlour {knead to eat} adopts an open concept  in its furnishing & decor. The Payment Counter (*below) is where customers pay for the food they ordered.  

The {knead to eat} Sandwich Station - is where you find the team of Sandwich Artists serving you with their friendly, hospitable, cheerful demeanour whilst making the sandwich of your choice flavors. The meats at {knead to eat} are typically made from scratch, with the 4 kg rump for the Brutus Beef Sandwich & the chicken breast meat for the Pesto Chicken Sandwich made sous vide style, whilst the chicken leg in bite size pieces for the Chicken Tikka Masala Sandwich are oven roasted. 

The Dining Area - there are about 10 tables for customers to dine in.

The {knead to eat} Full Menu 

The {knead to eat} Soup - The menu consists of hearty fare with home made soups made from scratch. There are total of 10 different soup flavors as can be seen below here, with a few flavors available each day of the week :

• Chunky Mushroom Soup
• Chunky Minestrone Soup 
• Corn Chowder Soup
• Spicy Beetroot Soup 
• Roasted Peppers & Tomatoes Soup 
• French Onion Soup 
• Chunky Leek & Potato
• Curried Pumpkin Soup 
• Borsch Soup 
• Grandma's Chicken Noodle Soup

The {knead to eat} Salad - {knead to eat} Founder Mumtaz Marican shares that she has a Specialty Salad Station where she has increased the selection of salad ingredients to enable customers to customise their made to order salads with their choice ingredients. 

The {knead to eat} Breakfast - For breakfast you can choose between Ala Carte or Set (*below) :

• Breakfast Toastie Set (Choice of Nutella, Vegemite, Peanut Butter, Jam, Marmite) + Toast & Spread
• Bacon/Ham & Egg Sandwich Set + Toast /Cheese
• Bagel/Croissant/ English Muffin Set 
• Homemade Oatmeal Set 
• Cereal with Milk Set 
• Yoghurt Pot Set 
• Homemade Berry Breakfast Quinoa Set  

The {knead to eat} Gourmet Sandwich - Mumtaz just launch 6 new Gourmet Sandwich flavors in addition to the current 6 Classic Gourmet Sandwich flavors : 

• Brutus Roast Beef 
• Runaway Reuben
• Old Fashioned Ham &Cheese
• Chicken Tikka Masala 
• Tuna Meltdown 
• The Great Portobello (For vegans)

The 6 new Gourmet Sandwich flavors include :

• Veg-Out Feta (V) = Roasted Vegs & Feta Cheese +Tomatoes +Eggplant+Onions & Feta
• Salmon Mango Tango = Smoked Salmon & Green Mango )
• Go Hot Turkey =Smoked Turkey with Spicy Cranberry +Lettuce + Tomato
• Grandma's Guacamole BLT =Bacon +Lettuce +Tomatoes+Guacamole dressing
• A Pollo Pesto = Chicken breast +almond pesto + peppers+lettuce
• Smokin' Pulled Pork = 24hr sous vide pork +BBQ sauce +coleslaw

{knead to eat} is located at :

6 Changi Business Park Avenue 1,

UE BizHub East North Tower, #01-30, 

Singapore (486017) 

Tel : 67020887

Email : orders@kneadtoeat.com.sg

www.kneadtoeat.com.sg

www.facebook.com/kneadtoeatsg

Opening Hours : 

Mon - Fri 7am to 7pm

Call for Corporate Catering & Delivery Services 

Doutor Coffee at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3 - The Signature Desserts The Signature Coffee Blends

The Doutor Coffee Menu 

The menu is simple & made up of 5 categories : - 

• Pancakes  (with mango & kiwi, with choco banana, pancakes platter)
• Sandwich (Ham & tomato, teriyaki chicken, tuna cheddar, Tonkatsu, chicken with Mentaiko, seafood)
• Salad
• Cakes (Strawberry Rare Cheese Cake, Hokkaido Milky Roll, Mount Fuji Mont Blanc, Hokkaido Souffle Cheesecake.)
• Coffee 

I managed to squeeze some time out of  a busy Saturday noon to savour a selection (*below) of Doutor Coffee cakes when they first opened at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3.  

Strawberry Rare Cheesecake - has a tender smooth cheese texture layer balanced perfectly by the sweet flavor coming from the strawberries. 

Kyoto Matcha Cake - one of my must haves here at Doutor Coffee)  the strong matcha flavor comes out from the matcha layers and blends in very well with the light creamy layer & the sweet azuki beans. 

Hokkaido Milky Roll - a soft light melt in your mouth milky roll with a creamy lightly sweet centre.   

Mille Crepes Cake - this is a layer after layer of the ultimate unforgettable sweetness. 

Hokkaido Souffle Cheesecake - Soft fluffy texture, light cheesy flavor, delightful savour. 

At Doutor Coffee, the blends are "pre-mixed" - meaning that the coffee beans are mixed before roasting. It takes a lot of knowledge, expertise & skill to roast the blend in a pre-mix as the various types of coffee beans have different moisture content and composition which makes roasting pre-mix a pretty daunting task, however the end product offers a well-balanced, full-flavored taste.

Doutor Coffee’s roasting plant, differs from other roasting plants that uses traditional hot air. Doutor Coffee uses the in-house method of Open Flame Roasting, that requires thrice the amount of time needed in the hot air method. This longer time needed for Open Flame Roasting ensures the beans are uniformly roasted, giving rise to distinctive taste and aroma of Doutor Coffee's coffee. The entire roasting process is overseer  by the Master Roaster, who ensures every step of the roasting process are carried out according to standard procedures : from weighing of the beans, the roasting temperature, flame condition, ambient temperature, humidity, the internal bean temperature, right down to amount of water used.

Even up to this modern day, Doutor Coffee's  Open Flame Roasting procedure is fully manual & cannot be replaced by machines or be automated. Each & every roast is carried out by Doutor Coffee's skilled Roasters who have to rely on factors such as : environmental changes, smells and human instinct to get the perfect roast every time. To date, Doutor Coffee is the only company capable of using Open Flame Roasting technique to roast large quantity of coffee beans on open flame at any one time.

Coffee retains its flavour for about 2-3 weeks from the time it is roasted. At Doutor Coffee, the beans in frozen form are shipped direct from Japan to Singapore to ensure the freshness of the beans. To prevent over-stockage, Doutor Coffee uses centralised computer software to manage inventory at the outlets. The required amount will be roasted only days before to maintain the freshness of the beans. At Doutor coffee, all brewed coffee has to be discarded 30 minutes after brewed, to ensure freshness served to their customer. Thus, expect only the best freshly grounded and brewed coffee at any time, every time from Doutor Coffee.

Doutor Coffee retails the following coffee blends :

• Iced Coffee
• Kona Coffee Mauka Meadows Blend 
• Mild Blend The Basic 
• Italian Espresso Coffee

as well as Drip Cafe that comes in 12 pieces packets :

• Drip Cafe Mild Blend The Basic 
• Drip Cafe Kona Coffee Mauka Meadows Blend 
• Drip Cafe Golden Mocha Blend 
• Drip Cafe Blue Mountain Blend

****************************************Doutor Coffee is located at :

12 Marina Boulevard, #01-05

Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3,  

Singapore 018982.

Email: enquiry@doutorcoffee.com.sg 

Tel: +65 6604 6082 

www.doutorcoffee.com.sg

Opening Hours :

Mondays to Fridays          - 7.30am to 9.30pm

Sat, Sun, Public Holidays - 8.30am to 4.30pm