Other restaurants in Singapore
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Amara Sanctuary
Top of the pile on Sentosa; private villas come with private plunge pools and outdoor baths.
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Tiong Bahru Market & Food Centre
For breakfast, head out to Tiong Bahru Market & Food Centre. Go up to the 2nd floor, park yourself at a bench, look out for any stall selling cof-fee and order a kopi or teh (thick coffee or tea sweetened with condensed milk) and kaya toast (a heady coconut jam slathered with butter over thin charcoal-toasted bread). When you've polished that off, look for Jian Bo Shui Kueh (a market stall) and order some chee kueh – S$1 will get you four steamed rice cakes topped with chai poh (fried preserved radishes) and chilli.
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Lor 9 Beef Kway Teow
For dinner, make your way to Lor 9 Beef Kway Teow. Once you've stopped gawking at the street-walkers across the road in this red-light district, order the beef hor fun (flat rice noodles wok-fried with tender slices of beef in black-bean sauce) and some tian ji zhou (frog's leg porridge). The frog is cooked in a claypot with dried chilli, spices, spring onion and soy sauce. It tastes like chicken, only crunchier. Wash it all down with copious amounts of Tiger beer.
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YY Kafei Dian
This modern coffee shop pays homage to the Hainanese eateries of days past, with its ceiling fans, linoleum floors, round marble-top tables and wooden chairs. For breakfast, order the soft kaya (coconut jam) buns, half-boiled eggs (go nuts with the condiments) and a thick, sweet kopi (coffee). For lunch, try the Hainanese chicken rice. There’s an extensive á la carte menu at dinner, so order with abandon.
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Golden Mile Food Centre
Promotes the government’s ‘Ask for Healthier Changes’ policy (less oil, syrup, fat etc), but the famous tulang soup (S$5) from basement stalls 4, 15 and 28 doesn’t really comply – meaty bones stewed in a rich, spicy, blood-red tomato gravy. Gnaw off the flesh, suck out the marrow, and sop up the sauce with bread. Seedy karaoke bars and Thai food stalls proliferate in the Golden Mile Complex across the road.
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Sun with Moon
If Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami opened a restaurant, it would look exactly like Sun with Moon. The cavernous interior has light-filled seats (sun?) and dark little nooks (moon?), hanging Japanese lanterns and shag carpets. Kamameshi (rice dish cooked in an iron pot) is delicate and the desserts taste as good as they look (the tofu cheesecake is playfully served in a bird cage).
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Empire Café
Not every-one wants to get sweaty at a hawker centre over a plate of char kway teow (broad noodles, clams and eggs fried in chilli and black-bean sauce), Hainanese chicken rice or other local delights. Those people should visit the faux-1920s-style coffee house Empire Café. For those who want to get sweaty, there are al fresco seats facing busy North Bridge Rd.
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Oriole Cafe & Bar
Stuck at the back of a service hotel, Oriole’s modern bistro sensibilities are reflected in a wide-ranging menu guaranteed to induce dining indecision. Do you go with the beef-cheek tagliatelle, good old fish and chips or a Philly steak and cheese? Singapore’s barista champion, John Ting, pulls perfect espressos behind the impressive La Marzocco machine.
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Nagomi
The stunning but dark atmosphere at this eatery is so moody you just want to nurse sake all night. Thankfully, the food will lift your spirits. Ingredients are flown from Japan four times a week, and meals are prepared omakase (there’s no menu and the chef prepares seasonal specialities) and served in beautiful Japanese earthenware.
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One on the Bund
The Marina Bay waterfront is hardly like the real Bund, but that’s not stopping restaurateurs from calling it so. Housed in the former Clifford Pier, One on the Bund has replaced boat services with Shanghainese food service. The cavernous atmosphere is a little too art gallery/mausoleum but the smoked duck helps warm you up.
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Shiraishi
Don’t let the casual izekaya appearance fool you. This restaurant is strictly for those seeking an exquisite Japanese dining experience (and who have the cash to spare). Prop yourself at the sushi bar and watch sushi chefs bark orders before proceeding to make masterpieces from hunks of raw fish.
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Sin Hoi San Eating House
The pre- and post-clubbing crowd love to pile onto the plastic chairs and load up on a variety of sze char (cooked to order) dishes. If you want to splash out, try the chilli crab. Yes, the crabs and seafood are taken from one of the many aquarium tanks that line the walls of the restaurant.
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Naïve
The cosy dining room has communal tables, so you can rub shoulders with other diners enjoying a feel-good vegetarian fix. The menu features meatless variations on local favourites such as Golden Oat, where tofu (instead of prawns) is deep fried and coated with sweet oats. Portions are a little small.
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Au Petit Salut
Au Petit serves up familiar French fare in peaceful environs. Down tenderly cooked beef cheeks, the speciality dish, to the chirping of crickets. An extensive wine list tops the experience off. The set menu (typically three courses) offers similar food to the à la carte menu but with better value.
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Maxwell Road Food Centre
Generally esteemed as one of Singapore’s best hawker centres, this is in an open-sided food barn with over 100 stalls under the roof. Don’t miss the raw fish congee (Zhen Zhen, stall 54). Can’t decide what to eat? Look for the stall with the longest queues and get to the end of the line pronto.
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Rice Table
An uninspired building in Orchard Rd is saved by a restaurant serving rijsttafel (rice table) – a free-flowing buffet of 11 to 20 small Dutch-influenced Indonesian dishes such as daging rendang (spicy beef stew) and gado gado (tofu and beansprouts in peanut sauce).
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Marutama Ramen
When the ramen stock runs out, the restaurant closes up for the day. It does happen because it’s that good. Sadly, ingredients are on the skimpy side and you’d best shell out extra for side dishes (S$1 to S$8) or risk succumbing to McDonald’s later. There’s a branch at Liang Court.
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Pariaman Warong Nasi
Cars roll up for quick takeaways at lunchtime at this corner coffee shop, where you’ll smell the food before you see the crowd waiting to order the Malay dishes. The beef rendang (dry beef curry) and sambal goreng (long beans, tempeh and fried bean curd) are dishes to try.
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Iggys
Singapore’s best restaurant. Period. The suprisingly casual dining room is forgiven when the courses hit the table. Japanese and European sensibilities are meshed together in a tasting menu of epic proportions (eight courses for dinner). The wine list is as impressive as it is extensive.
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Highlander Coffee
If you’re tired of the weak coffee they call lattes at Starbucks, head here for your fix. Highlander blends and roasts its own beans and the owners, Phil and Cedric, are happy to talk coffee all day. Have a smoked duck ciabatta to accompany the brew. Or sign up for a coffee-making class.
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Gunther’s
The dining room is akin to a museum crossed with a tomb but the service (immaculate), presentation (classy) and the food (tasty) will soon distract you from the sombre environs. If you can’t decide what to order, the maître d’ does a very good show and tells using the day’s produce.
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Holland Village Food Centre
Avoid the raft of expat locals dining at pricey restaurants across the street and join the in-the-know locals for cheap Singapore grub. A small clutch of stalls sell chicken rice, prawn noodles and other classics. Walk off the calories with a visit to the wet market behind.
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Glutton’s Corner
Food celebrity KF Seetoh took the hard work out of finding great hawker food by inviting the best ones here, beside the Esplanade Mall. You can’t go wrong with dishes such as oyster omelette, satay and barbecued stingray. You have to try the divine kaya fondue.
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Epicurious
The worn coffee-shop tables and breakfast bench here are a result of diners frantically shovelling down walnut bread French toast with orange butter, laksa pesto and other delights. Weekend breakfast single-handedly breathes life into this largely ignored quay.
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Kuriya
Singaporeans are more accustomed to the ubiquitous ‘conveyor-belt’ sushi bars, and Kuriya is a sneering ‘up yours’ to such plebian Japanese dining experiences. Seasonal seafood and vegetables are flown in from Japan and diners are charmed by waiters in a classy setting.
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