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cafeSpecialty coffee · CafeReported open August 2026

Slab Coffee

2026 opening record. Confirm current status

Specialty-coffee cafe at Royal Group Building, serving espresso and filter coffee with breakfast bites and pastries.

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.

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 — Raffles Place MRT, 2 minutes on foot · Royal Group Building #01-03, 3 Phillip Street, Singapore 048693.
  • Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.

The longer version

DanielFoodDiary's August 2026 review of the Phillip Street cafe finds the specialty coffee programme the clear draw against a competent but ordinary breakfast menu, supporting a low-confidence WORTH A LOOK stamp under the single-source exception.

What the published coverage says, assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 1 linked source — not a personal dining review. Every source behind it is under How this was assessed.

Signature dishes

No dish is named for this venue in any source on record. Dishes are listed here only where an official source names them, so none are guessed from menus or reviews.

The official menu

No official menu is on record for this venue. Forkin transcribes a menu only from the venue's own published source, never from a review or an aggregator listing.

Opening hours

Day-by-day hours are not verified for this venue. 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

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Nearby

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Photographs

Inside Slab Coffee

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Official Instagram

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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

Raffles PlaceRoyal Group Building #01-03, 3 Phillip Street, Singapore 048693

Raffles Place MRT, 2 min

Last verified 20 August 2026

How this was assessed

This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 1 linked substantive source, at confidence low, last assessed 1 September 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.

Sourced from Daniel Food Diary. One source in total.

Why Slab Coffee scores 7.3

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 consensuslimited−0.15one/limited attributable source
  • Critic calibreindependent0.00independent/blog-only attributable backing
  • Praise specificitymedium+0.00at least one concrete dish/experience signal
  • Consistencylow−0.15mixed stamp, explicit caveats, or material contrary signals
  • 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: low

Forkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.

One current, exact-outlet review gives mixed-but-useful detail — the coffee programme is the strength, while the breakfast is competent but unremarkable — and batch 48 corrects criticCalibre from 'established' to 'independent' under rule B46-R1: DanielFoodDiary registers as an independent publisher on its own disclosures, so one-decimal rounding leaves the public score unchanged at 7.3. A single source cannot establish consensus, so the stamp stays WORTH A LOOK at low confidence under the single-source exception.

Last assessed 1 September 2026 · 1 linked substantive source

Caveat: Single-source limitation: only one countable source supports this stamp, so consistency cannot be assessed from it, and under rule B46-R1 that source registers as an independent publisher rather than an established title. This stamp no longer satisfies the established-publisher condition of the single-source exception and is queued for withdrawal review; the band and score are held only pending that decision. Ensure copy distinguishes the Phillip Street cafe from the outlet's 33Club private-members-club location.

How these stamps work · They are non-numerical and separate from Google Maps information.

Full source log

This opening record is backed by the following public sources:

Daniel Food Diary · 2026-08-19

Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 20 August 2026.

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