Over the past few years, Marvel has had great success opening pop-up cafes with our characters around Asia. Now, it seems that DC has decided to not only follow our lead, but to one up us, by opening an impressive, and permanent, DC Comics Super Heroes Cafe inside the Marina Bay Sands here in Singapore last week…
The place is massive! It’s actually three different shops all under one roof; a retail outlet, a coffee & cake shop, and a sit-down restaurant. Above you see the entrance to the restaurant, below the cafe and store…
Here’s a look at the overall experience, starting with the coffee shop…
Harley on the signage, but Wonder Woman logos on the pie…
Nothing screams “Batman!” like apple pie…
Something you’re not telling us, Clark…?
The restaurant has smartly-designed booths devoted to many of DC main characters…
I love the pattern on these chairs and wanted to take one home!
Batman and Catwoman salt & pepper shakers…
As well as Super Friends S & P…
And a quick look at the DC Cafe’s menu; some of these naming choices cracked a lot of people at the press event up…
Not sure I fully understand “Catwoman into Tuna”…?! Huh?
Poor Krypto…
While we were there early for the event and not much food was being served, the one thing we did get to see were these cool black-bunned Batman Burgers…
While we were told these were made from 100% wagyu beef, the slime and barnacles you can see on the burgers below made me thing otherwise. I didn’t try one, but the folks who did wished they hadn’t. Holy Bat Barf!!
One final thing that’s interesting to note is that while DC Publishing still seems stuck on continuing with their New 52 characters and costumes, DC Licensing must feel differently as most of the art featured around the cafe was either classic or evergreen…
As a comic fan, even one who works for Marvel, I was thrilled to see the effort that WB/DC has put into building not only their brand here, but the super hero genre as a whole, and thoroughly enjoyed checking the place out today!
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