Sunday, May 24, 2009

Pacific Coffee @ red dot Traffic, Singapore

If you work around the Tanjong Pagar and Raffles Place area, you would have at least spotted this great red colonial building which used to be the former Singapore traffic Police Headquarters, just two minutes walk from Tanjong Pagar MRT station.

The Red Dot Design musuem is now a landmark to showcase the various innovation in this little island. Whilst the musuem is an anchor tenant, the red dot Traffic houses some creative companies, including advertising agencies and design studios.

Nestled within these red walls is a Pacific Coffee pitstop, and one of Singapore's best hidden secret hideouts! But it's really too good not to share this with everyone.

The Pacific Coffee brand has gained much popularity in both Hong Kong and China, with most branches strategically situated at Central Business Districts such as Raffles Link, Raffles Place, Citibank Plaza, Bank of China Tower and IFC Mall. The weekday crowd is hardly ever underdressed to say the least ;)

Comparing to the lights of the more commercialised Starbucks and Coffee Bean, this place offers ultra comfy couches (those that allows you return into a fetial position while reading your book), as well as a library of magazines. We're talking about Travel + Leisure, BusinessWeek, Cubes and many more selections!

And if you need to spend the weekend working on 'that' piece of assignment, here's the place which will give you way more inspiration than that 3-by-3 cubicle of yours. Fresher environment, faster thinking, smarter working ;)

Pacific Coffee
red dot Traffic
28, Maxwell Road
Singapore
Tel: 6327 4835

2 comments:

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Austin

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