PS.Cafe Harding in Dempsey now has a menu where a S$29 Lap Cheong Carbonara shares space with teh-C pancakes and a risotto modelled on braised duck rice. The refresh was announced on 19 October 2026, and it shows where Singapore café food is heading: hawker flavours treated as everyday pantry staples instead of nostalgia props.
The Harding Road outlet closed for renovation on 23 August 2026 and came back with a rebuilt room and 51 dishes served all week, according to PS.Cafe. That single card replaces the old split between weekday and weekend menus, so the Saturday brunch crowd and the Tuesday lunch crowd now order from the same list. For anyone who has turned up on a weekday craving a weekend-only plate, that’s a welcome fix!
Carbonara Meets Chinese Sausage
Asian condiments do the heavy lifting. There’s preserved salted radish (chai poh), pickled mustard greens, coconut cream, and fermented bean curd (fu ru) for umami, with calamansi, kaffir lime, and Thai basil cutting through the richness.
The dish everyone will talk about is the carbonara. It swaps spaghetti for udon and folds lap cheong (Chinese cured sausage) and bacon bits into a carbonara sauce made with preserved soy bean cream. An onsen egg and sesame crumbs finish the bowl. It sounds like a 2am dare, and on paper someone took that dare very seriously.
Hawker Flavours, Café Prices
Many dishes are built on hawker classics, and that’s where the price gap gets interesting. The Duck Confit Risotto takes its cue from braised duck rice, pairing crispy duck with yam risotto and a mustard greens relish.
The Fried Mac & Cheese Cake riffs on fried carrot cake, with pan-fried mac and cheese, sautéed preserved radish, sunny-side-up eggs, and sriracha yoghurt. Over on the full menu is the Crab & Prawn Laksa.
Then there’s the Snapper Assam Arrabbiata (S$32), which crosses Singapore’s tangy assam fish with a fiery Italian tomato sauce. No one is pretending these replace your neighbourhood stall. The premium buys the room, the trees, and a table where six friends can split a pizza without anyone clocking the time.
Where the Menu Gets Clever
Three dishes stand out because each of them commits fully to the bit. King prawns, an onsen egg, tau pok chips, sakura ebi, and calamansi come along for the ride, which makes it the most confidently local plate on the card.
At brunch, the Teh-C Thick Cakes (S$24) nod to teh-C, Singapore’s tea with evaporated milk, through a teh-C salted caramel poured over thick pancakes with ricotta and candied longan. The Rendang Lamb Shank Mac & Cheese (S$36) is the heavyweight. A braised lamb shank sits on rendang-spiced macaroni, and it’s one of the dishes PS.Cafe flags as recommended.
The lighter end deserves a mention too. The vegan Panzanella Salad (S$24) replaces the usual Italian bread with crispy youtiao, the fried dough stick most of us know from porridge, and dresses it in fu ru. The Sesame & Soy Cream Cold Noodles (S$24) use chewy udon in a sesame soy-milk broth.
Fries, Pizza, and Kids
The Truffle Fries remain on the menu, finished with truffle oil and parmesan. Long-time fans will be relieved, since the group credits its famous truffle shoestring fries with building its following back in the early days.
Pizzas follow the same local-accent logic. The Garlic & Burnt Scallion uses garlic and five-spice butter, while the Lap Cheong & Pepperoni brings the sausage back for a second appearance. For families, the Kids selection covers a Cheese Burger, a Carbonara with lap cheong and bacon bits, a Maple Butter Thick Cake, and a Tomato Pasta, with pork and bacon sauce for S$2 more.
A Room That Faces the Forest
PS.Cafe says the renovated space has floor-to-ceiling windows with an unobstructed view of the surrounding forest. The palette runs through mustard, copper, burnt orange, and deep brown, with mid-century wooden furniture and linen, suede, and leather throughout. If your idea of a café afternoon involves a laptop and a deadline, our guide to study cafés in Singapore covers that mood better.
Michael Bovell, chief executive officer of PS.Gourmet Group, the company behind PS.Cafe, framed the redesign around how people here live now. “We wanted a space that reflects how Singapore actually lives and eats today, a little global blend with an Asian accent, rather than a fixed idea of heritage,” he said. That line is the clearest summary of the menu you’ll find.
Next to Candlenut and Cookhouse
Dempsey already has strong Asian-Western options, and Harding sits in its own lane among them. Candlenut, chef Malcolm Lee’s restaurant, serves contemporary Peranakan (Straits Chinese) cooking through communal à la carte dishes and a tasting menu of more than 10 courses. Dempsey Cookhouse and Bar goes for a polished, global look, with dishes like a black truffle and fontina pizza in a dining room of black-and-white tiles and lanterns.
PS.Cafe Harding is the casual one: brunch, carbonara, and fries, with local flavours folded into Western comfort food. Candlenut is where you’d go to taste a heritage cuisine done properly. Harding is where you’d go on a Sunday with friends who can’t agree on whether they want pasta or laksa. That middle ground is how a lot of young Singaporeans eat already, and few cafés have written a whole menu around it.
From Clothing Store to 15 Outlets
PS.Cafe began in 1999 as a small café inside the Projectshop clothing store, started by Peter and Susan Teo. The group now runs 15 outlets across Singapore, including nine PS.Cafe outlets, Chopsuey Cafe, two Jypsy restaurants, Park Side, and Decker Barbecue. It opened its first overseas outpost in Shanghai in 2019 and now runs three PS.Cafe sites in China.
🗓️ Date: Refresh announced Monday, 19 October 2026
⏰ Time: Brunch Menu 8am to 4pm; Full Menu 11am to 9pm, according to PS.Cafe’s menu
📍 Location: PS.Cafe Harding, Harding Road, Dempsey, Singapore
🍝 Menu: 51 dishes served all week, across Sharing, Big Plates, Noodles & Pasta, Brunch, Pizza, and Sweets
🥞 Brunch prices: S$24 to S$32, as listed on the menu
🧒 Kids: Cheese Burger, Carbonara, Maple Butter Thick Cake, and Tomato Pasta
Lap cheong in a carbonara was always going to show up on a Singapore menu one day, and it fits that it arrived under the trees at Harding, the outlet PS.Cafe calls home.
Photos and Visuals courtesy of PS.Cafe.
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