The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Straits Chinese Nonya Restaurant 土生坊正宗娘惹餐馆 (1953)
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Rank 1. Cloudstreet
Innovative
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Rank 2. NAEUM Restaurant
Contemporary Korean
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Rank 3. Nouri
Innovative
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Rank 4. Odette
Modern French
Odette sits inside the National Gallery and honestly feels like part of the collection, with a ceiling installation that earns its own second glance. It's a fine dining room where the chef's modern French cooking quietly pulls in Asian ingredients without making a big deal of it. The room draws the kind of crowd that planned this dinner weeks ago and dressed accordingly. It holds a spot on Asia's 50 Best list, and the food makes that feel earned rather than inherited.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #25 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best 2026 · Asia's Best Sommelier Award 2026, sponsored by VIK · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants · Lesley Liu
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Rank 5. Born
Modern Chinese
Born is a fine-dining destination doing something genuinely interesting: a multi-course tasting menu that maps Chinese and Asian flavours onto classical French technique, built around a loose philosophy of life's journey. The building helps, an old colonial-era rickshaw depot in Chinatown with soaring glass ceilings and a suspended paper sculpture that makes the room feel like a gallery. It's on Asia's 50 Best list, so dress up and bring someone you want to impress.
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Rank 6. Nae:Um
Contemporary Korean
Fine dining that earns its quiet confidence, Nae:um serves a seasonal tasting menu that reframes Korean nostalgia through a contemporary lens. The intimate shopfront room draws couples and serious food people who sit very still so they don't miss anything. Each course is built around a narrative theme, Korean culture translated into something you eat rather than read about. It's on Asia's 50 Best list, and you'll understand why by the third course.
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Rank 7. Zén
European Contemporary
Björn Frantzén's three-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant occupies a beautifully restored shophouse, and it earns every star. You start with drinks and snacks downstairs, then head up for eight neo-Nordic courses that quietly absorb Japanese technique along the way. The crowd is dressed up, unhurried, and the kind of people who booked weeks out. The non-alcoholic pairing sounds like a dare but somehow lands every time.
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Rank 8. CUT by Wolfgang Puck
Steakhouse
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Rank 9. Labyrinth
Innovative
If you want to understand what Singaporean food can become in the right hands, this is the place. Labyrinth is a set-menu fine dining spot that takes the hawker classics you grew up eating and rebuilds them into something quietly mind-bending, with interactive presentation that's theatrical without being annoying. It's earned a spot on Asia's 50 Best, and the room draws food-serious regulars who know not to expect the same meal twice.
- 50 Best 2025 · #97 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best 2026 · #40 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 11. Hamamoto
Sushi
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Rank 13. Saint Pierre
Modern French
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Rank 14. Araya
Innovative
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Rank 15. Willow
Contemporary Japanese
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Rank 16. Ma Cuisine
French
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Rank 18. J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff
Street Food
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Rank 19. Han Kee Fish Soup
Street Food
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Rank 20. Thevar
Indian
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Rank 21. JAAN By Kirk Westaway
Contemporary British
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Rank 22. Meta
Modern Korean
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Rank 23. Hoo Kee Bak Chang (和記）
Street Food
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Rank 24. A Noodle Story
Noodles
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Rank 25. Sushi Hare すし晴
Sushi
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Rank 26. Jungle
Modern Thai Cocktail Bar
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Rank 27. JAG
Contemporary French
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Rank 29. Sushi Sakuta
Sushi
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Rank 30. Solo Ristorante
Italian
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Rank 31. Hayop
Filipino
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Rank 32. 54 Steakhouse
Steakhouse
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Rank 33. Lerouy
Contemporary French
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Rank 34. QIN Restaurant & Bar
Asian Contemporary
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Rank 36. Sospiri
Southern Italian
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Rank 37. Lei Garden Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 38. Luke's Oyster Bar & Chop House
Steakhouse
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Rank 39. Whitegrass Restaurant
Contemporary French
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Rank 40. Cumi Bali
Indonesian
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Rank 41. Whole Earth
Thai-Peranakan Vegetarian
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Rank 42. Marguerite
Contemporary New American
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Rank 43. Summer Pavilion
Chinese
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Rank 44. L'antica Pizzeria Da Michele
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 45. Heng Kee Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee
Street Food
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Rank 49. The Blue Ginger
Peranakan
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Rank 50. Les Ducs
French
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Rank 52. Un-Yang-Kor-Dai Singapore
Isan Thai
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Rank 54. KOK Sen Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 56. Rojak · Popiah & Cockle
Street Food
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Rank 57. Majestic
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 59. Ammākase
Indian
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Rank 60. Fat Prince
Middle Eastern
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Rank 61. Ingleside
European Contemporary
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Rank 62. Mott 32 Singapore
Contemporary Chinese
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Rank 63. Sushi Katori
Edomae Sushi
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Rank 64. VUE
Contemporary New American
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Rank 65. Fiz
Malaysian
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Rank 66. Ushidoki Wagyu Kaiseki
Japanese
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Rank 67. Latido
Colombian
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Rank 68. Revolver
Barbecue
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Rank 69. Ki Su Shoujin Omakase
Japanese-French Vegetarian
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Rank 70. Butcher's Block
Wood-fired Steakhouse
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Rank 71. Fleur De Sel Le
Modern French
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Rank 72. Dill
Scandinavian
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Rank 73. Ah Heng Duck Rice
Street Food
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Rank 74. Ann Chin Popiah
Street Food
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Rank 75. Hokkien Street Bak Kut Teh
Street Food
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Rank 78. Fatty Ox HK Kitchen
Noodles
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Rank 79. Buko Nero
Italian
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Rank 80. Xiu Ji Ikan Bilis Yong Tau Fu
Street Food
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Rank 81. 168 CMY Satay
Street Food
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Rank 82. Esquina
Spanish
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Rank 83. 鮨然SUSHI ZEN
Sushi
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Rank 84. Seroja
Malaysian
Fine dining rooted in the Malay Archipelago, Seroja is a tiny 24-seater that landed on Asia's 50 Best almost immediately after opening, which tells you everything you need to know. The chef cooks the cuisine of his own culture with serious technique, and the tasting menu feels personal rather than performative. Counter seats put you right up against the kitchen action, which is where you want to be. The crowd dresses up a little and pays attention to what's on the plate.
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Rank 85. Bar-Roque Grill
Alsatian French
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Rank 86. Olivia
Catalan Spanish
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Rank 87. FOC Restaurant
Catalonian Spanish
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Rank 88. 旬水 | Shunsui
Japanese
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Rank 89. NÓMADA
Spanish Contemporary
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Rank 90. Bistro Gaston
French
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Rank 91. Yong Xiang Xing Dou Fu
Chinese
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Rank 92. Dong Dong Hainanese Chicken Rice
Hainanese Chinese
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Rank 94. Brasserie Astoria
Swedish French
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Rank 95. Lek Kee Authentic Teochew Braised Duck
Teochew Chinese
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Rank 96. True Blue Cuisine
Peranakan
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Rank 97. National Kitchen by Violet Oon
Singaporean
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Rank 98. Rempapa
South East Asian
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Rank 99. Jin Ting Wan
Chinese
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Rank 100. Les Amis
French
Fine dining French in Singapore that's been around forever and still earns its place on Asia's 50 Best list. The kitchen has deep Joël Robuchon roots, and it shows in the kind of classical technique that never feels dusty. White-gloved service, serious cheese and truffle trolleys, and a room full of people who dressed for the occasion. It's a special-occasion place in the best sense, not stuffy, just genuinely polished.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- 50 Best 2026 · #38 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants