The Urban Hideout is a pet-friendly cafe at The Brooks I on Springside Walk in the Yishun area, built around a simple belief: coffee and gelato solve everything. The team set out to offer the finest quality coffee and gelato available, carefully selecting their coffee blend for aroma and flavour, and curating their gelato from only the freshest ingredients.
Beyond the coffee and gelato, the cafe serves brunch — and it extends a warm welcome to four-legged guests. A pet food menu has been specially curated with PAWFF sg, so furry companions get their own treats while their owners enjoy a cuppa, gelato and a meal together.
The cafe is open Tuesday to Friday from 12 pm to 10:30 pm, and on weekends from 10:30 am, staying open until 10:30 pm; it is closed on Mondays. Tables can be reserved online, and enquiries and orders are taken over WhatsApp.
Tucked into The Brooks I along Springside Walk, The Urban Hideout is a neighbourhood cafe that keeps things refreshingly simple. Its whole identity fits into one tagline — Coffee. Gelato. Brunch. — with one important addition: pets are welcome, and not just at the door. The team's founding belief, as they put it themselves, is that coffee and gelato solve everything, and that everyone deserves the finest quality coffee and gelato available. That conviction shapes everything the cafe does, from the beans it chooses to the ingredients that go into its gelato and food.
The Urban Hideout describes its coffee journey as 'from coffee bean to coffee cup', and it takes that intense craving for a piping cup of coffee seriously. Rather than treating coffee as an afterthought, the cafe carefully selects its blend to bring out unique aromas and flavours, aiming for an experience that is both enjoyable and satisfying down to the last drop. It is a small promise, but one that matters: coffee that is deliciously roasted and of great quality, cup after cup. Whether you are dropping in for a quick pick-me-up or settling in for a slow afternoon, the coffee is meant to hold its own from the first sip.
The other half of the cafe's heart belongs to gelato. The philosophy here is 'from fresh ingredients to artisanal gelato': the team believes everyone deserves food that is both delicious and of top quality, and so they carefully select only the freshest ingredients to curate their gelato and food selection. It is the same care applied to the coffee, translated into frozen form — a proper dessert stop, not an afterthought. For a preview of the line-up, the cafe maintains a gelato flavours page on its website, though plenty of visitors prefer to simply decide at the counter on the day.
Brunch rounds out the menu, making the cafe as much a destination for a leisurely meal as for a coffee or gelato fix. But what truly sets The Urban Hideout apart is its embrace of pets. 'Having a pet is like having a companion, and what's mealtime without our trusty companions?' the team asks. Here, the answer is clear: pets are treated as guests, with their own pet food menu specially curated by PAWFF sg, so your little loved one gets a proper treat while you work through your cuppa, gelato and brunch. For pet owners in Singapore, where genuinely pet-welcoming cafes are treasured, that combination is a rare and lovely thing.
The Urban Hideout sits at 60 Springside Walk, #01-05 The Brooks I, Singapore 786020, in the Springside area near Yishun. Hours run from 12 pm to 10:30 pm Tuesday through Friday, and from 10:30 am to 10:30 pm on Saturday and Sunday — the earlier weekend opening makes it a natural choice for a relaxed weekend brunch before an afternoon of gelato. The cafe is closed on Mondays, so plan accordingly.
Reservations are easy: tables can be booked online through the cafe's reservation page, and the team welcomes enquiries and orders over WhatsApp at 8879 9722. If you would rather stay in, delivery is available through the cafe's delivery link. You can also follow the cafe on Facebook and Instagram for updates on flavours and happenings.
Whether you come for the carefully selected coffee blend, a scoop of fresh gelato, a leisurely brunch, or simply because it is one of the few cafes where your dog has a menu of their own, The Urban Hideout lives up to its name: a friendly urban hideaway where the coffee is aromatic, the gelato is fresh, and no companion — two-legged or four-legged — gets left behind.