Food
Best Restaurants in Singapore
Guide: Fire, Heritage & Destination Dining
Singapore's serious restaurant tier moves between Peranakan inheritance, hawker memory translated into tasting menus, live-fire cooking, Cantonese precision, and polished seafood. These ten reservations justify planning a meal around them.
- CandlenutMalcolm Lee's Dempsey dining room treats Peranakan food as a living cuisine, balancing buah keluak depth, bright rempah, and polished family-style service without sanding away its character.
- Restaurant LabyrinthLabyrinth turns familiar Singaporean flavours and local farm relationships into a tightly narrated tasting menu; the Esplanade setting is formal, but the reference points remain recognisably local.
- Burnt EndsDave Pynt's open kitchen works as a theatre of fire, smoke, grills, and custom ovens, with deceptively simple plates that reward counter seats and a deliberately paced order.
- OdetteJulien Royer's restaurant pairs precise contemporary French cooking with Southeast Asian produce inside the former Supreme Court, making it the city's clearest special-occasion reservation.
- The Coconut ClubThe Beach Road flagship makes coconut milk, sambal, and nasi lemak its serious business, with polished service and enough menu range to work for breakfast, lunch, or supper.
- The Blue GingerThis Tanjong Pagar shophouse is strongest as a shared Peranakan meal: order across spicy, sour, braised, and coconut-rich dishes rather than treating it as a one-plate stop.