Three Michelin stars, a dining room inside the National Gallery, and a chef cooking in honour of his grandmother — Odette is Singapore’s most decorated restaurant, and its tasting menus are the benchmark against which the city’s fine dining is judged. The lunch Terre & Mer runs S$368++; the dinner Épicure S$498++. Chef Julien Royer’s…
Some restaurants serve dinner; Waku Ghin stages it. Chef Tetsuya Wakuda’s Marina Bay Sands flagship — holder of Michelin stars and Asia’s 50 Best honours — has defined Singapore fine dining since 2010, built around a Chef’s Table where seasonal Japanese produce meets produce from Hokkaido to Shiga, and signatures like marinated botan shrimp with…
Fifty-seven storeys above Marina Bay, CÉ LA VI is Singapore’s definitive rooftop: a restaurant, SkyBar and club lounge stacked on the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark with the city’s most photographed view. Dinner here is modern Asian cuisine with the skyline as the side dish — pan-seared scallops (S$38), a salt-baked whole seabass for two (S$140)…
Singapore’s most famous Japanese-Peruvian restaurant does not do subtle entrances — Nobu at Four Seasons Hotel on Orchard Boulevard is where black cod with miso became a status symbol. Since opening, it has defined luxury Japanese dining in the city: yellowtail sashimi fired up with jalapeno, rock shrimp tempura in creamy spicy sauce, and a…
There are steakhouses, and then there is CUT. Wolfgang Puck’s temple of beef at Marina Bay Sands grills USDA Prime, Australian grain-fed Angus and Japanese Wagyu over hard wood and charcoal, with prices that climb from around S$70 for American prime cuts to S$280 for top-tier Japanese Wagyu. The CUT by Wolfgang Puck menu Singapore…
There is fine dining, and then there is Burnt Ends — a Michelin-starred temple of open-fire cooking where everything passes through custom-built wood grills and a four-tonne oven. Chef Dave Pynt’s Dempsey restaurant turned live-fire theatre into Singapore’s hardest reservation, and the menu reads like a love letter to smoke: quail eggs with caviar, pulled-pork…
