Worth it for / Skip if
Not on record yet. Clauses here are generated only from named fields — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — and this venue carries too few of them to draw the line honestly. Nothing is inferred to fill the gap.
What it costs
No priced item is on record for this venue. Forkin publishes a price only where a dated public source carries it, so nothing is estimated here. The venue's own published price band is Pour-overs like Ethiopia Yaye (S$10), cold brews (from S$6), banana matcha (S$8), Tung Ting oolong tea (S$6), pandan kueh lapis (S$7), kaya croissant (S$5.50).
How to get a seat
No online booking channel is on record for this venue. Verified hours are not on record either, so call ahead before travelling.
What to expect
- Getting there — Bendemeer MRT / Lavender MRT · CT Hub 2, #01-68, 114 Lavender Street, Singapore 338729.
- Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.
The longer version
Diff is a specialty coffee and tea bar in Lavender/Bendemeer pairing pour-overs and cold brew with local-flavoured treats like pandan kueh lapis and a kaya croissant — reported by Daniel Food Diary and HungryGoWhere.
Signature dishes
Dishes named in official sources for this venue:
Menus change, and this list is not dated. Confirm current dishes and prices directly with the venue.
Opening hours
Day-by-day hours are not verified for this venue. The venue's own summary reads: Mon-Fri 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Sat 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Closed Sun. Hours are published here only once a dated source has been read for the whole week, so a partial week is never shown as a full one.
If not this, then
Assessed Specialty Coffee and Tea Bar listings from Forkin's own directory — cuisine first, never geography alone.
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Inside Diff
No rights-cleared photograph of this venue is on record. Forkin publishes a photograph only where provenance and permitted use are recorded against the file, and never republishes an image from a review, a social post or a search result.
Official Instagram
Official posts by @diffspecialty on Instagram ↗. Forkin' Worth It does not host or reuse these images — displayed as links to Instagram's public posts only.
Common questions
No question can be answered from this venue's record yet. Answers here are generated from sourced fields only — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — so none is written where the field behind it is missing.
At a glance
LavenderCT Hub 2, #01-68, 114 Lavender Street, Singapore 338729
Bendemeer MRT / Lavender MRT
Mon-Fri 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Sat 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Closed Sun
Opened February 2026
$ Pour-overs like Ethiopia Yaye (S$10), cold brews (from S$6), banana matcha (S$8), Tung Ting oolong tea (S$6), pandan kueh lapis (S$7), kaya croissant (S$5.50)
Last verified 19 July 2026
How this was assessed
This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked substantive sources, at confidence medium, last assessed 7 October 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.
Sourced from HungryGoWhere and Daniel Food Diary. Plus 1 official page. 3 sources in total.
Why Diff scores 7.8
WORTH A LOOK · band 7.0–8.4 (base 7.5)
The Forkin Evidence Score is a transparent calibration of the published evidence behind this venue's editorial stamp — not a personal dining rating, and never derived from Google data. It starts from the stamp's base value, applies the five evidence adjustments below, then clamps the result inside the stamp's band.
- Source consensusmoderate+0.05two independent attributable sources or some disagreement
- Critic calibreestablished+0.05established editorial food/lifestyle publication backing
- Praise specificityhigh+0.10multiple concrete dish/experience signals and supporting guide detail
- Consistencymoderate0.00generally favourable without a strong unanimity signal
- Evidence recencycurrent+0.05newest assessment, publication, or verification is 2025 onward
Scores are rounded to one decimal place and are only published for venues carrying an evidence-backed editorial stamp. Full rubric: Forkin Evidence Score methodology.
Editorial stamp
WORTH A LOOK
Confidence: mediumForkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.
Two substantive, exact-outlet reviews from separately owned publishers qualify: HungryGoWhere (established) and Daniel Food Diary (independent). Both report a generally positive firsthand experience. HungryGoWhere samples several coffees, matcha, tea and pastries; Daniel Food Diary discusses two coffees and pandan kueh lapis. The two reviews are positive overall, supporting WORTH A LOOK. Their publisher-page dates are in 2026 and therefore evidenceRecency is current under the canonical calendar-year rule (2025 onward). HGW's article contains no hosting disclosure found, but there is no positive hosted-visit evidence; this unresolved possibility is caveated rather than treated as automatic exclusion. Official Diff social identity evidence is context-only.
What public coverage says
Diff's specialty coffee bar inside the Local Chapter coffeeshop at CT Hub 2 receives generally positive firsthand coverage. HungryGoWhere praises the smooth, fruity Ethiopia Yaye filter coffee, balanced hot white, banana matcha and pandan kueh lapis while noting that Tung Ting oolong could be fuller-bodied if enjoyed immediately. Daniel Food Diary gives specific tasting notes for two coffees and pandan kueh lapis and suggests the café may be worth a detour. HungryGoWhere's article does not disclose whether its visit was hosted; no positive hosted evidence was found, so the uncertainty is disclosed without excluding the review.
Last assessed 7 October 2026 · 2 linked substantive sources
Linked evidence
HungryGoWhere (hungrygowhere.com) · 16 February 2026Daniel Food Diary (danielfooddiary.com) · 27 January 2026Diff Specialty Coffee (official Instagram) · contextCaveat: HungryGoWhere article-level sponsorship/hosting disclosure was not found in the full captured article; hosting remains unresolved. No positive evidence of a hosted visit was found, so this uncertainty is not treated as an automatic exclusion. Both article dates were verified from publisher-page DOM metadata, not registry dates. Daniel Food Diary's DOM JSON-LD datePublished is 2026-01-27T06:00:52+08:00 and the rendered page date is January 27, 2026; HungryGoWhere's article:published_time is 2026-02-16T08:54:02+00:00 (2026-02-16 SGT), with modified metadata 2026-02-20T06:35:05+00:00.
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Full source log
This opening record is backed by the following public sources:
Official website or social profileHungryGoWhere · February 2, 2026Daniel Food Diary · February 1, 2026Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 19 July 2026.