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Endoh Taiki's Reviews

11. Pitch Black

31 Aug 2007 at 2:02 pm

Category: Cinemas, Coffee and Tea, Deli and Cafe, Performing Venues

Arts Café, that’s what they call themselves.

Tucked away in Haji Lane is Pitch Black, a small café seated comfortably among the role of shophouses. It is not the kind of café that will grab your attention with loud colors, and that is perfectly why I find it cosy. It’s not a big place to speak of, with little space available. However small, I was compensated with a lazy couch to enjoy my drink.

A few steps up the narrow staircase, is their screening room. My first impression was a messy little place, with uncoordinated sofa and seats. Yet, this small screening room is capable of holding up to 30 persons. A very basic setup of a projector and the sound-room hidden in the rear is the source of every screening. Perhaps, it stops only as far as that. If only the place was kept cleaner, and with proper seat arrangement.

If you’re thinking of attending a live show, you will be disappointed. The sound quality is good, but don’t expect the best. The projection is better than our TV, but don’t expect HD quality. The screening room is simply not fitted with equipments to cater to that. But for a minimum food expenditure of SGD$5 to attend a screening free, it’s quite a bargain. For that, don’t demand sound-proof walls like those in theatres.

Pitch Black’s two young staffs are probably the only people you will see behind the counter. Being such a cosy arts café, they are easy to talk to and they will serve your drinks and food right up to your seat while you enjoy your screening. You don’t need to pay big bucks to enjoy that service. Coming to that, I realized I didn’t have a proper place in the screening room to relieve myself from holding on to my drinks and food throughout the entire show.

And yea, only one washroom to cater to the entire place. Be prepared with Queue Singapore.

My verdict? There’s a lot more to do to sufficiently call it an Arts Café.

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Rating given: Rating: 2 out of

Comments on this review:

CanYouCaprina? said:
but the photos on the website says otherwise? it looked like a real arty farty cozy screening cafe with "High Definition Blu-Ray Projection and 6.1 Cinematic Surround Sound."? Trying to smoke noobies?
02 Nov 2007 at 10:01 am
Endoh Taiki said:
The time I was there, the arrangement of the furnitures are totally different from the pictures. Visit to experience... :=)
02 Nov 2007 at 5:45 pm
Desmond T said:
Hi, is the screening controlled by the cafe itself? meaning we see what we get what we get there? Heard of this cafe before but havent find a nice time to go there...
30 Dec 2007 at 5:13 pm