The Best Places in Singapore

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Philip Starck designed this hotel, and the interiors make sure you know it, with deliberately odd furniture pieces sitting alongside rotating digital artworks. Rooms look out over Marina Bay, putting Gardens by the Bay and the waterfront within easy walking distance. The neighborhood pulls hard, so it takes some discipline to linger, but the lobby alone gives you a reason to slow down before heading out.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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.

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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.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
2. The Infatuation The Best Restaurants & Bars To Eat And Drink At When You're Visiting Singapore

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The wraparound windows frame Marina Bay well enough to make you feel like the city is performing for you. MO Bar is a hotel cocktail bar inside the Mandarin Oriental that takes its cues from Asia's ports and the Pacific, with drinks named for the stories that built Singapore. The Miss Samsui, a tribute to the immigrant women who helped construct the city, arrives with Lapsang tea and shochu, which is a more interesting history lesson than most.

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Nine bars and restaurants in one hotel is either a bold lifestyle statement or a very long walk to check-in. Mondrian Singapore Duxton sits on Duxton Hill and brings 302 rooms done in clean lines, stainless steel, and wood panels softened by green marble that nods quietly to the tropics. The outdoor pool has vertiginous skyscraper views, but the building's real center of gravity is the drinking and dining, which runs around the clock.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A 13-metre living wall anchors the lobby of this Marina Bay hotel, part of a design concept that folds more than 2,400 plants into the building rather than around it. The sunlit atrium and neutral-toned rooms lean into an eco-wellness mood that could feel precious but mostly doesn't. Book The Gnome's Burrow or Treehouse rooms if you have children to impress, complete with bunk beds and wooden slides.

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A cocktail bar inside the Ritz-Carlton that commits to a 1960s aesthetic without apology, all velvet and low light and the general suggestion that someone nearby is plotting a merger. The drinks lean into the theme with more discipline than you'd expect, pulling from art, cinema, and music for their references. Glitter shows up in at least one glass, which is either a dealbreaker or the whole point.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The coffee shop chairs don't leave at 4pm; the bartenders just arrive. Stay Gold Flamingo splits its Amoy Street shophouse between a daytime cafe and an evening cocktail bar, and the two halves share almost nothing except the address. Come nightfall, the team behind Jigger & Pony and Employees Only Singapore are mixing drinks for a crowd that clearly got the memo about happy hour.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A cocktail bar in Chinatown that treats Little India as its pantry, sourcing everything from nearby Tekka Market and turning the haul into distillates, ferments, and jellies that line the shelves like a apothecary's fever dream. The room itself goes full commitment: wood, gold, and vermillion, so the vibe lands before the drinks do. It earned a spot on The 50 Discovery list, which tends to find places like this before everyone else does.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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Vaulted ceilings and arched ironwork give this waterfront Italian cocktail bar the mood of a golden-age European train station, which feels about right for a spot gazing straight at Marina Bay Sands. The team behind Jigger and Pony runs an all-day operation, so the aperitivo hour bleeds comfortably into however long you planned to stay. The open-air tables out front make daytime drinking feel almost virtuous.

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The house Gibson arrives with a smoked quail's egg, pickled onion, and housemade nukazuke, which tells you everything about the ambition level here. This cocktail bar on Bukit Pasoh Road leans into Asian inflections on the classics, pairing Roku Gin with a homemade Ginjo sake-vermouth. The mood is relaxed without being casual, and the food menu runs surprisingly seafood-heavy for a drinks-first room.

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Mid-century Japanese design, neutral tones, and cocktails that lean toward the delicate end of the spectrum: Live Twice is a cocktail bar on Bukit Pasoh that draws a direct line from Singapore to Ginza. It's a sibling to Jigger & Pony, and the drinks share that same considered approach, built around sherry, shochu, and quiet precision rather than anything showy. Happy hour runs six to seven daily, if you'd like a reason to arrive early.

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Fifteen acres of tropical gardens sit between this Singapore hotel and the Orchard Road circus outside, which is the whole point. Its 792 rooms spread across three wings, each with a different personality: the Tower Wing skews family, the Garden Wing looks over koi ponds, and the Valley Wing has a private lounge and separate entrance for guests who prefer their anonymity well-staffed.

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The cocktail menu at this sleek Fairmont hotel bar is organized by mood rather than spirit, which sounds like a wellness gimmick until you're actually choosing between Confident, Indulge, and Reset at ten on a Friday. The drinks are genuinely considered, leaning into fermented ingredients and unexpected pairings. A five-star bar could coast on atmosphere alone; this one seems unwilling to.

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A Neapolitan-style pizza bar in the Jiak Chuan Road dining strip, where the dough is long-fermented, the crust rises high, and the aperitivo list is taken as seriously as the pies. Negronis and Americanos anchor the drinks, and the room, dark-toned and minimal, fills quickly with people who know to book ahead. It ranks on the 50 Top Pizza World list, with a 2025 One to Watch special award to go with it.

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Fifty-seven floors above Singapore, the SkyBar canopy flaps gently while the city sprawls out beneath your drink. Ce La Vi is a rooftop cocktail bar perched atop Marina Bay Sands, with al fresco and indoor spaces that each frame the skyline differently. The cocktail list leans inventive, truffle oil showing up alongside single malt and Campari without anyone treating that as unusual. A Discovery listing from The 50 keeps it on the circuit.

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1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

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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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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Terrazzo floors, brass fittings, and rattan chairs give this natural wine bar on Club Street an aesthetic that can't quite decide what decade it wants, which turns out to be part of the charm. Le Bon Funk pours a tightly rotated list of natural wines alongside sharing plates that sit somewhere between casual and considered. The kind of spot where no one opens the menu before ordering a second glass.

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1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Sunlight pours through floor-to-ceiling windows at this cocktail bar inside the Four Seasons, where the botanical theme isn't just decor, it runs through the menu. Drinks pull from fresh market produce with plant-based and wellness-leaning options alongside the classics, and the Kitchen Garden cocktail mixes aquavit with tomato, mushroom, and celery in a way that sounds like a salad but drinks like a dare.

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Vintage vinyl lines the floor-to-ceiling shelves at this Duxton Road bar from the team behind the Ginza-style speakeasy D.Bespoke. The specialty is Japanese shochu, served across an extensive range that shows how varied the spirit can be, which puts it ahead of most bars in Singapore for anyone curious about it. Guest DJs work the actual records regularly, so the collection is more than decoration.

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