COTTA is a dairy at 104A Tg Pagar Rd in Singapore's Tanjong Pagar, holding a 4.5 Google rating and keeping in touch with customers through Instagram.
Good dairies trade on freshness: ice cream churned in small batches, and waffles pressed to order so they stay crisp outside and soft within. Flavours usually rotate, so it is worth asking what is new before settling on a favourite, and most counters will let you taste first. Regulars time their visits for the quiet stretch between meal hours, when the queue is short and each waffle comes out hot. The real test is balance — dairy that tastes of cream and its flavourings rather than sugar alone.
Tucked into Tanjong Pagar's stretch of shops and eateries, COTTA gives the neighbourhood one more reason to slow down.