Merci Marcel Tiong Bahru is the Tiong Bahru outpost of Merci Marcel, a Singapore restaurant group whose cafe-restaurants also cover Club Street, East Coast, Orchard, Robertson Quay and Serangoon Garden. The same group is behind the French Fold creperie brand and the Maison Marcel boutique, giving it a firmly French identity across dining, coffee and retail.
The cooking leans classic French. Across the group's menus you will find 100% buckwheat galettes folded around Comte cheese, ham, eggs, chorizo or ratatouille, and wheat crepes spread with brown-sugar butter, raspberry jam, Manuka honey, 70% Valrhona chocolate, homemade salted caramel or a palm oil-free hazelnut spread. Birds of Paradise gelato - hojicha sea-salt, strawberry basil and dark chocolate sorbet - can be added to any crepe, and morning sets pair a croissant or pain au chocolat with coffee.
Alongside the creperie side, the group's breakfast menus read like a modern brunch cafe: poached eggs with avocado and pomegranate, truffle scrambled eggs with aged Parmesan, Benedict eggs with Bayonne ham and Hollandaise served on a buckwheat galette, homemade granola, tartines and a bakery assortment made for sharing.
Tables at the Tiong Bahru branch can be reserved through the group's online booking system, orders can go through Marcel To Go, and gift cards and private events are handled by the group. Its venues operate as cash-free zones, with a 10% service charge and 9% GST on prices. Since this page is compiled from the group website, current hours and the branch menu are best confirmed with the venue directly.
Merci Marcel Tiong Bahru brings a taste of French cafe life to Eng Hoon Street. It is one of several Merci Marcel venues run by Merci Marcel Group, whose cafe-restaurants stretch from Club Street and Robertson Quay to East Coast, Orchard and Serangoon Garden. The same family operates French Fold, its dedicated creperie brand, and Maison Marcel, a boutique at Palais Renaissance - a small Singapore empire built around a very French way of eating, drinking and lingering.
The group frames itself around wine and dine, and its venues are conceived as places to settle in rather than rush through. Beyond the dining rooms there is Marcel To Go for ordering directly online, the Maison Marcel shop for retail, an events and launches programme, gift cards, and a Marcel Fam page covering the team and careers. Reservations for every venue - Tiong Bahru included - run through a single online booking system, and the group's shared inboxes handle everything from private events to press enquiries.
What ties it all together is a consistent French identity: the crepes and galettes, the bakery counter, the coffee, and a rhythm that runs from morning sets to a proper sit-down table.
The group's menus are the best window into what it does. Its buckwheat galettes - made with 100% buckwheat - are the savory side of the house, folded around Comte cheese, ham, sunny-side-up eggs, sauteed mushrooms, chorizo or a ratatouille stew. Numbered like a taxonomy of comfort, they run from the simple French butter galette, offered with salted, black pepper, lemon or Espelette pepper butter, to the loaded No.00 with sausage, pork pancetta, egg, red beans and tomato.
The wheat crepes take the sweet shift: brown sugar with French butter, raspberry jam, artisanal Manuka honey, 70% Valrhona chocolate, homemade salted caramel and a palm oil-free hazelnut spread. For something cooler, Birds of Paradise gelato - hojicha sea-salt, strawberry basil, dark chocolate sorbet - can be added to any crepe.
Mornings get their own ritual. The group's breakfast menus pair a croissant or pain au chocolat with any coffee in the sweet morning set, while the savory version adds a Comte-and-egg galette with Espelette pepper.
Beyond the creperie classics, the breakfast menus read like a modern brunch cafe. There are poached eggs on sourdough with avocado, pomegranate and portobello mushroom; scrambled eggs with truffle paste and aged Parmesan; and Benedict eggs with organic crispy Bayonne ham and Hollandaise sauce served over a buckwheat galette. Homemade granola comes with fresh and freeze-dried fruits, mixed nuts and a crunchy biscuit chocolat, with a choice of milk or yogurt, while tartines range from simple sourdough with butter and jam to peanut butter with fresh banana and chia seeds. A bakery assortment for sharing gathers croissants, pains au chocolat, sourdough and baguette with butter and jam.
The Tiong Bahru branch sits at 56 Eng Hoon Street, #01-68, Singapore 160056. Tables can be reserved in advance through the group's online booking page, which covers every Merci Marcel and French Fold venue. Note that the group's menus state its venues are cash-free zones, with a 10% service charge and 9% GST applying to prices.
Because this listing is compiled from the group's website - which serves several branches - the menus shown here come from the group's shared French breakfast menus, and no opening hours for this specific branch are published on the pages provided. It is worth confirming current hours and the Tiong Bahru menu directly with the venue or through the group's site before setting out.
Whether you come for a quiet morning coffee and croissant, a buckwheat galette at midday or a sweet crepe finished with a scoop of hojicha sea-salt gelato, Merci Marcel Tiong Bahru puts a dependable slice of French cafe culture on a Tiong Bahru street corner - backed by a group that has made that formula its signature across Singapore.