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The 100 Best Restaurants in Singapore

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The best restaurants in Singapore, according to the experts: Michelin Guide, Forbes Travel Guide, and The 50 have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Les Amis comes out on top.

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Odette and Zén hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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  1. Rank 1. Les Amis

    French

    White-gloved service and a dedicated cheese cart signal exactly what kind of evening you're in for at this French fine dining institution tucked into Shaw Centre. Chef Sébastien Lepinoy, who spent nearly two decades with Joël Robuchon before landing here, runs a kitchen that holds three Michelin stars, a Forbes Five Star, and a spot on Asia's 50 Best list. The room is formal but never stiff, the kind of place where the truffle server knows more about truffles than you ever will.


    Address
    1 Scotts Rd, #01 - 16 Shaw Centre, Singapore 228208 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–1:30 PM, 7 PM–8:30 PM

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  2. Rank 1. Odette

    Modern French

    A paper installation by artist Dawn Ng hangs from the ceiling of this three-Michelin-star modern French restaurant inside the National Gallery, which means dinner arrives with a side of actual museum energy. Chef Julien Royer grew up on a farm and cooks like it still matters, sourcing from small producers across Asia and Europe. The menu sits on a French spine with Asian inflections folded quietly through it. It holds a spot on The World's 50 Best Restaurants.


  3. Rank 3. Zén

    Nordic

    Björn Frantzén's Singapore shophouse holds three Michelin stars and a tasting menu that moves you floor by floor, aperitif and amuse-bouche downstairs, the full neo-Nordic progression upstairs. The kitchen leans on seafood and Japanese ideas without quite belonging to either, and the non-alcoholic pairings are eccentric in a way that somehow makes you trust them more. Worth knowing the restaurant is temporarily closed before you plan around it.


  4. Rank 4. Meta

    Modern Korean

    Black awnings and concrete floors set the mood at Meta, a fine dining restaurant on Mohamed Sultan Road where Sun Kim's cooking is the real architecture. His menus blend French technique with Korean ingredients and Japanese influence, shaped by time in Sydney under Tetsuya Wakuda. Six and eight-course menus follow, composed and precise. Meta holds two Michelin stars and a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.


  5. Rank 4. Thevar

    Indian

    Counter seating and green leather make Thevar look like a moodily lit sports bar, but the food arrives from a different universe. The chef trained under Guy Savoy and channels Penang childhood memories and Indian heritage into modern dishes that are lighter than tradition but uncompromising on spice. It holds two Michelin stars and a spot on Asia's 50 Best, and earns both quietly, without the pomp you might expect.


    Address
    16 Mohamed Sultan Rd, Singapore 238965 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–11 PM

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  6. Rank 4. Waku Ghin

    Contemporary Japanese


  7. Rank 7. Born

    Modern Chinese

    A former rickshaw depot at a Chinatown crossroads, the triangular building alone stops traffic before you step inside. Born is a fine dining restaurant where glass ceilings and a suspended paper sculpture set the tone for chef Zor Tan's multi-course menu: Modern Chinese cooking shaped by French technique, with each course tied to a principle like Memory or Legacy. It holds a Michelin star and a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants.


    Address
    1 Neil Rd, #01-01, Singapore 088804 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–11 PM

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  8. Rank 7. Iggy's

    Contemporary French

    A dessert counter with a global reputation sits at the back of this intimate 36-seat fine-dining room on Orchard Road, where contemporary French cooking picks up quiet Asian inflections along the way. The wine cellar runs to tens of thousands of bottles, which makes sense once you know the culinary director is also a sommelier. Iggy's holds a Michelin star and a Forbes Four Star, and has been around long enough to count as a genuine Singapore institution.


  9. A cereal box arrives at the table and turns out to be dessert, which tells you most of what you need to know about Labyrinth. This Michelin-starred fine dining room takes hawker-stall nostalgia, bak kut teh and all, and rebuilds it into a theatrical set menu where the props are part of the point. The room runs dark and spare, warmed by wood and Singaporean art. It holds a spot on both Asia's and the World's 50 Best lists.


    Address
    8 Raffles Ave., #02 - 23, Singapore 039802 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6:30 PM

    Wednesday 6:30 PM–11 PM

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  10. Rank 7. Nae:Um

    Contemporary Korean

    Each seasonal tasting menu at this fine dining restaurant arrives framed as an "episode," with past chapters organized around Jeju Island, a sunset walk along the Han River, and a backyard barbecue. Chef Louis Han reinterprets Korean nostalgic cooking through Western technique, so cold buckwheat noodles become haute cuisine and a buttery sauce quietly channels a spicy fish stew. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list, and the intimate shophouse room, all cream and warm light, keeps the focus on the plates.


    Address
    161 Telok Ayer St, Singapore 068615 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–10:30 PM

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  11. Rank 7. Seroja

    Malaysian

    The name comes from the Malay word for lotus flower and the street where the chef grew up, which sets the tone for what follows. Seroja is a 24-seat fine dining restaurant built around a multi-course menu of Malay Archipelago cooking, with counter seats that put the kitchen on full display. Mangrove wood-charred scallops with laksa leaf sauce are the signature. It holds a Michelin star and sits on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.


  12. Rank 12. Buona Terra

    Contemporary Italian

    A colonial house on Scotts Road holds one of Singapore's sharper arguments for contemporary Italian cooking, and it holds a Michelin star and a spot on the 50 Top Italy world list to back that up. The dining room reads elegant without trying too hard, and the menu leans on seafood dishes where restraint is the whole point. Dry pasta shows up in several forms, which in this context feels almost defiant.


  13. Rank 13. Cloudstreet

    Sri Lankan


    Address
    84 Amoy St, Singapore 069903 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6:30 PM

    Wednesday 6:30 PM–Midnight

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  14. Rank 13. JAAN By Kirk Westaway

    Contemporary British


    Address
    2 Stamford Rd, Level 70, Singapore 178882 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:45 AM

    Wednesday 11:45 AM–2:30 PM, 6:30 PM–10:30 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  15. Rank 13. Saint Pierre

    Modern French

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    Address
    1 Fullerton Road, #02-02B, One Fullerton, Singapore 049213 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 6 PM–11 PM

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  16. Rank 16. Torno Subito

    Regional Italian

    Massimo Bottura's regional Italian restaurant sits in the converted colonial bungalows of Dempsey Hill, and the dining room goes full Riviera fantasy, bright colors and all. The cooking is rooted in Romagna, with a la carte or a six-course tasting menu, and the pizza is taken seriously enough that the espresso after feels like a point of pride. Ranked sixth on 50 Top Italy's list of Italian restaurants worldwide, which is a long way from home.


    Address
    26 Dempsey Rd, #01 02, Singapore 249686 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 5:30 PM–10 PM

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  17. The bread alone causes a small scene: guests are openly encouraged to ask for seconds, and the room obliges in unison. This fine dining restaurant inside the Mondrian Duxton pairs Chilean soul with Japanese technique, the work of a chef whose resume runs through El Bulli and Mugaritz. It holds a Michelin star. Flavors are surprising without being smug, and the kitchen's curiosity reads as genuine hospitality rather than theater.


  18. Buah keluak, a fruit that has to be fermented before it stops being poisonous, appears here as ice cream, which tells you almost everything about chef Malcolm Lee's approach. Candlenut is a Peranakan fine dining restaurant in the leafy Dempsey Hill enclave, holding a Michelin star, with the menu drawing on Straits-Chinese recipes passed through his family. You can order à la carte or surrender to the omakase, both paths ending somewhere unexpected.


    Address
    17a Dempsey Rd, Singapore 249676 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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    SevenRooms
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    Orchard Turn, #03-05 ION Orchard, 2, Singapore 238801 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 6 PM–11 PM

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  20. Rank 17. JAG

    Contemporary French

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    Contemporary French

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  25. Ivan Brehm calls his cooking "crossroads cuisine," which sounds like a thesis statement until you taste Afro-Brazilian fritters pulling turmeric and coconut curry, or risotto threaded with yuzu kosho. The Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant on Amoy Street draws from his Italian, Brazilian, German, and Spanish roots, with a sleek communal marble table designed to make strangers talk. Brehm came up at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck, and the intellectual ambition shows.


    Address
    72 Amoy St, Singapore 069891 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–1:30 PM, 6 PM–8:30 PM

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    333 Orchard Rd, Level 35 Hilton Singapore Orchard, Singapore 238867 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–10:30 PM

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  27. Rank 17. Summer Palace

    Cantonese

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  28. Rank 17. Whitegrass Restaurant

    Contemporary French

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  29. Rank 17. Willow

    Contemporary Japanese


    Address
    39 Hongkong St, Singapore 059678 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–11 PM

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  30. The dining room looks out over Marina Bay with the kind of view that makes first-timers forget what they ordered. This is a Cantonese fine-dining room inside the Parkroyal Collection, where the kitchen turns classic Chinese cooking toward something a little more composed and contemporary. The chef has been doing this a long time, and the plating shows it. A good pick if you want dim sum to dress up for.


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  34. Rank 32. Bismillah Biryani

    North Indian

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    Address
    50 Dunlop St, Singapore 209379 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–8:30 PM

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    399 Balestier Rd, 401 & 403, Singapore 329801 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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  37. Rank 32. Cheok Kee

    Chinese

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    Address
    50 Tras St, Singapore 078989 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 6 PM–9:30 PM

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    Apulian

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    Address
    678A Woodlands Ave 6, #01-08B, Singapore 731678 · Singapore
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Wednesday 5 AM–10 PM

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    Address
    2 Kallang Ave, #01-08/13 CT HUB, Singapore 339407 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–7:30 PM, 12:15 PM–7:30 PM

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  60. Kok Sen is a no-frills zi char spot on Keong Saik Road, which has since filled up with boutique hotels and cocktail bars that probably don't know it was here first. It's wok-fried Cantonese home cooking, ordered fast and eaten faster, and the Bib Gourmand has not shortened the wait. Put your name down, then spend the half hour studying how efficiently the staff ignore you. Bring cash-register patience and an appetite for gravy.


  61. Kotuwa is a casual Sri Lankan restaurant in New Bahru's old school block, and it's the first on the island to cook only the food of Sri Lanka, curries mostly. Seventies records play while servers set your spice level, so nobody leaves with steam coming out of their ears. Hoppers, the thin fermented rice pancakes, handle the gravy better than rice does. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which keeps the bill friendly.


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  64. Rank 32. Lagnaa

    Indian

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    Address
    6 Upper Dickson Rd, Singapore 207466 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–10:30 PM

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    Address
    592 Geylang Rd, Singapore 389531 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 11:45 AM

    Wednesday 11:45 AM–2:30 PM, 5:45 PM–9:30 PM

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    Address
    269 Beach Rd, Singapore 199546 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–3:30 PM, 5:30 PM–10:30 PM

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    SevenRooms
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    Address
    47/49 Armenian St, Singapore 179937 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5:30 PM–9:30 PM

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    57 S Bridge Rd, #01-02, Singapore 058688 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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    SevenRooms
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    76 Peck Seah St, Singapore 079331 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 5:30 PM–10 PM

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    36 Purvis St, #01-04, Singapore 188613 · Singapore
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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  88. Rank 89. Mott 32 Singapore

    Contemporary Chinese

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  89. Cantonese fine dining inside the Crystal Jade group, which spans much of Asia, but this Orchard Road outpost is the only one in the family holding a Michelin star. The room draws local families who clearly never need the menu, and the kitchen splits its attention between contemporary Cantonese and Teochew cooking, a combination rare enough that it doubles as a reason to visit on its own.

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    Address
    290 Orchard Road, Orchard, Singapore, 238859, Singapore · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–3 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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  90. Rank 90. Esora

    Modern Japanese

    A monaka built around foie gras torchon instead of sweet bean paste signals the kind of modern Japanese cooking Esora is after. This intimate 26-seat kappo restaurant works in micro-seasons, and the chef's time at Odette and Nihonryori RyuGin shows in the precision. A tea-pairing program served in champagne flutes adds an unexpected, slightly theatrical grace note to the meal.

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  91. Rank 92. 168 CMY Satay

    Malaysian

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    Address
    335 Smith St, #02-112, Singapore 050335 · Singapore
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    Open now, until 5 PM

    Wednesday 9 AM–5 PM

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    Address
    1 Claymore Dr, #01-05 Orchard, Singapore 229594 · Singapore
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–10:30 PM

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