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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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Sin Hoi Sai Eating House
Simple, cheap Cantonese is what this roadside eatery is all about. Standard-issue red plastic chairs gravitate to timber-veneer tables under a huge awning; happy diners chug beers and converse into the night.
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Sin Huat Seafood Restaurant
Perhaps the most famous seafood joint in Singapore - and certainly the priciest hawker food. Chef Danny Lim is renowned internationally for his crab bee hoon , yet Sin Huat is determinedly grungy and its fame seems to have inspired some desultory, if not rude, service. They know people will keep flocking in, so they're not too bothered. If you want to eat sooner rather than later, try something else, such as the gong gong (whelks) or so-called 'MRT' prawns.
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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 St Hawker Centre
You can't quite beat dinner in the open air - and clearly thousands of people agree, which is why Smith St Hawker Centre is such a hit. Grab a table, order a barbecued seafood feast, an endless stream of cold Tigers, and your night is made.
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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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Suburbia
Cool, modern wine bar and restaurant set in a lush garden setting. It doesn't have the sea views of its Sentosa competitors, and the building looks a bit like a university science block, but at night it's a perfect spot to sit outside and down a bottle or two.
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Sunflower Vegetarian
Sunflower is deservedly popular for its 'Green Lunch' special - so called because the rice or bee hoon (rice noodles) are cooked in a homemade spinach oil. This special offers a choice of up to 14 dishes, from until everything's sold out. After that it's a la carte - and the wonton laksa and sesame beancurd are particularly tasty.
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Sungei Rd Laksa
Selected by the Makansutra street-food guru as Singapore's best laksa - and who's to argue? Apparently this laksa master uses only charcoal to keep his precious gravy warm and, unlike other successful hawkers, refuses to open other branches. Get there around or after to avoid the lunchtime rush.
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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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Supernature
Feeling rough after a night on the tiles? Drop in for a detox juice (try the predictably green 'Incredible Hulk'), an organic sandwich or a soy burger. Its deli's shelves heave with chemical- and gluten-free veggies, groceries, wine, fruit and meats.
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Tekka Centre
Queue up for biryani, dosai (South Indian savoury pancake), roti prata and teh tarik, then wedge yourself into a table at this legendary hawker centre wrapped around the sloshed guts and hacked bones of the wet market. Not for the faint-hearted.
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Thanying
Thanying (which means 'the noble lady') is one of Singapore's best Thai restaurants. Meticulously prepared Royal Thai curries and stir fries are shuffled out by efficient, unintrusive staff.
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The Cliff
Stunning views, a breezy clifftop outdoor setting and superb seafood, this rivals Il Lido for romance - even better if you can retire to one of the hotel's junior suites afterwards. With all those oysters around, you might need it. One of Singapore's best spots to eat.
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The Olive
Tucked away on a hill inside thickly forested Labrador Park, The Olive cries out for a romantic, candlelit occasion, watching the twinkling city lights through the trees over some fine pasta. Worth the extra effort to get there.
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Tiffin Room
The very name evokes pith helmets, linen suits and parasols, and the elegant interior only reinforces the image. Open all day, but best visited for the dinner buffet starting at , which is something close to curry heaven, though you may need to be carried out after.
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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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Victoria Street Food Centre
Seemingly manifested to fill a space between high-rises, and with its small shrine outside, this is great for a late-night feed. Locals wheel and deal, friends neck bottles of beer, solo guys read books - you might even catch some English Premier League on the telly.
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Vietlang
Viet Lang's cool, captivating interior fills with muttering parliamentarians enjoying pho ga (white rice noodle soup), soft-shell pepper crab and French-influenced desserts. Perfect for a special occasion.
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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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Xin Tao Yuan
Watch fresh Taiwanese-style noodles being rolled, pressed, stretched out wingspan-wide then dumped into boiling vats in the restaurant window. Try them cold with sesame paste and cucumber. The dumplings are good too.
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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.
