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Peach Garden
For a Chinese restaurant with a view, it's tough to beat this one - and the food and service are immaculate too. Try to reserve a window table well in advance and tuck into superb dim sum, or try the duck, roast goose or lobster noodles.
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Qun Zhong Eating House
Lunchtime queues conga onto the street for seafood, pork and vegetable dumplings expertly rolled by a crew of old ladies up the back of this shophouse. The red-bean pancake is a knock-out dessert.
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Royal China
An excellent spot for afternoon dim sum, though you'll likely need to reserve a table. Have a light breakfast and fill up on scallop dumplings, crispy duck and lobster noodles.
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Saffron Bistro
Saffron Bistro offers a modern take on classic Indian dishes, its chefs using less oil for a healthier product. The lamb vindaloo will clear the humidity from your nasal passages; the cheesy palak paneer will have a more calming effect.
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Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant
Select a tasty main or one of 10 set menus then absorb the bodacious 60th-floor views. Standout dishes like braised abalone with mushrooms and steamed king fish in soy sauce will temporarily tear your eyes away from the windows.
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Singapura Seafood Restaurant
This old-school, family-run restaurant at the base of an apartment tower has carved itself a culinary niche preparing Foochow-style food from southern China. Try the excellent cold crab, fragrant crispy duck and prawn rolls.
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Smith Street Hawker Stalls
Some vendors have also set up along this street, beneath red umbrellas - rivulets of water run down unwitting shirt backs when it rains. It's very touristy, but locals eat here too.
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Soup Restaurant
One of 11 'Soups' around town celebrating dishes enjoyed by Samsui women, tough Chinese construction-worker gals. House specialities are the double-boiled medicinal soups which (amongst other things) prevent coldness and cure 'windiness'.
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Superbowl - The Art of Eating Congee
There aren't many American gridiron players here, but we did find dozens of MSG-free varieties of congee (Chinese porridge). Try it with 'drunken' chicken, pigs' kidneys, preserved eggs, or a more appetising-sounding combo of your own.
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Unique Seafood Market
When they called this unique, they weren't lying. Set in the grandstand of the old racecourse, it features a seafood market where you choose your victims from more than 50 tanks, before retiring to either the Hong Kong-style Ah Yat or pan-Asian Owen seafood restaurants. A memorable experience, particularly at weekends.
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Vansh
An unusual Indian restaurant, in that it's ditched the usual Indian decor in favour of an eye-catching modern design with recessed, cushion-laden seating, Vansh's take on the cuisine is equally impressive. The tandoor offerings are superb - or go on Sundays for all-you-can-eat kebabs and beer.
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Wing Seong Fatty's (Albert) Restaurant
Standing the test of time, Fatty's has been knocking around various Albert St locations since 1926. Today's incarnation fills with flight crews tucking into the signature chicken clay-pot (with special spicy sauce!).
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Xinmin Vegetarian Food Court
A few doors down from the Chinese Buddhist Association, Xinmin is an inexpensive vegetarian option. Chow down on bean curd, noodles and faux duck/pork/shark-fin in a traditional shophouse.
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Ya Hua Rou Gu Cha
There's no such thing as 'location, location, location' when it comes to hawker food. Singaporeans would crawl through a sewage pipe if there's a good meal at the end of it, so the positioning of this famous bak kut teh (pork-rib soup) joint next to the port and beside an expressway doesn't stop the multitude coming from far and wide to sip peppery broth and gnaw on bones.
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Yum Cha Restaurant
This capacious place with broad clattering floorboards and grumpy trolley ladies serves from early till late, so there's no excuse for going hungry. Munch into bite-sized prawn-and-abalone or crystal-chive dumplings at bite-sized prices.
