When the craving is for soup that tastes like hours of patience, Lao Huo Tang is the name Singapore reaches for. The Cantonese soup restaurant chain slow-simmers its herbal broths the old way, with signature soups from around S$12.80 and the luxurious Buddha Jumps Over the Wall at S$24.80. The menu stretches beyond soup into…
Tokyo’s Michelin-recognised sioAOYAMA has a casual little sibling in Singapore, and Sio Pasta at Raffles City is causing the kind of queues that suggest it will be here a while. Chef Shusaku Toba’s Japanese-Italian pastas start at just S$13.80 — handmade noodles, Japanese flavours, Italian technique — with the famous Best Mentaiko Pasta at S$16.80….
Penang’s hawker legends rarely travel well — except at Penang Culture, Singapore’s first halal Penang-themed restaurant, where a Penangite head chef recreates assam laksa, char koay teow and nasi kandar under one roof. The headline is the all-day unlimited buffet at S$31.90++ for adults, with à la carte sides from around S$7.50. The buffet includes…
Halal Italian food in Singapore has a clear frontrunner: Kucina Italian Restaurant at KINEX in Tanjong Katong, founded by Italian-Muslim chef Gero with over 30 years of Italian cooking behind him. Pastas start at around S$15, antipasti from S$8.90, and a comfortable dinner lands near S$40–50 per person — with full halal certification across the…
Thirty-eight floors above Bugis, 665 Degrees Fahrenheit — the temperature at which its grills sear — pairs serious steakhouse cooking with one of the best dining-room views in Singapore. The Andaz restaurant’s à la carte menu runs from S$15 sides to S$128 wagyu ribeyes, with a weekday set lunch from S$48++ and dinner sets at…
Two meals in one sitting — that is the promise of Dookki, the Korean tteokbokki buffet at Suntec City where diners cook their own spicy rice cakes first, then finish with kimchi fried rice on the same hotplate. The 90-minute all-you-can-eat buffet costs S$20.80++ for adults, with a weekday lunch special at S$16.80++ and student…
Hotel buffets in Singapore are a competitive sport, and Makan@Jen — the all-day dining restaurant at JEN Singapore Tanglin by Shangri-La (now operating as J65) — plays it well. The spread leans seafood-heavy with live grill stations, and the weekday international lunch buffet runs about S$75++, with dinner from S$88++. The signature move is the…
A chapel, a three-Michelin-starred chef, and French home cooking without the white-tablecloth anxiety. Claudine — chef-patron Julien Royer’s (Odette) brasserie in a restored colonial chapel atop Dempsey Hill — serves the rustic French canon: coq au vin, chou farci, vol-au-vent, a showpiece bouillabaisse. Dinner mains run roughly S$58–S$78; the average meal per head lands around…
Tucked along Desker Road near Jalan Besar, Goldenroy does something no other pizzeria in Singapore does: San Francisco-style sourdough pizza, fermented for 48 hours from a 100-year-old heirloom starter, served in a halal-certified shop where every table has its own little toaster for reheating slices. Whole pizzas start at around S$26; single slices go for…
The bi-colour croissants are what put it on the map; the full modern-European menu is what keeps people coming back. Alice Boulangerie at Icon Village, Tanjong Pagar — the artisan French bakery that launched in 2021 — is now a full-fledged bakery-cafe-restaurant: in-house baked bread, cakes and viennoiserie up front, and a dine-in menu of…
