Tom’s Palette

Contrary to believe, Tom’s Palette was founded by couple Chronos Chan and Eunice Soon. Chronos had a polytechnic friend named Tom, who did not believe that a ice-cream shop can survive in Singapore. Chronos named the shop Tom’s Palette to remind himself of what his friend said.  

Tom’s Palette has been creating and serving homemade ice-cream since 2005. This shop specialises in creating unique ice-cream flavours using ingredients you would never imagine. There is ice-cream made of popping candy (Melt ‘n’ Sizzle), coconut (Salted Coconut) and floral tea (Lavender). You can find a list of some of the popular flavours here. 

At Tom’s Palette, you can have your ice-cream in a variety of ways.

Tables are decorated with drawings and photos of happy customers, giving the place a relaxing and playful vibe. 

I ordered Waffles with 2 of their most popular ice-cream flavours, Grandma’s Favourite and Salted Egg Yolk. The Belgian-style waffles are freshly-baked and served with foam named Espuma. The ice-cream is velvety-smooth and sweetness of the ice-cream is greatly enhanced by the slightly salty Espuma foam.It would have been perfect if the waffles had been a little more buttery and dense.

With 27 flavours of ice-cream to choose from, you will be spoilt for choice.

Chronos let me try a flavour they are working on at the moment, which is made with shoyu and sesame. It tastes a little like salted caramel ice-cream with a very strong sesame taste. They have not come up with a name for it yet, I think I shall call it Open Sesame for now.