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The City Bakery (Mandarin Gallery)

2026 opening record. Confirm current status

The City Bakery, a bakery/cafe brand founded in New York in 1990, opened its first Singapore outlet and first Southeast Asia outpost at Mandarin Gallery on 13 August 2026. The space combines a bakery and a "Pan No Mi" (bread + drink pairing) cafe/restaurant concept with terrace seating overlooking Orchard Road.

Worth it for / Skip if

Not on record yet. Clauses here are generated only from named fields — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — and this venue carries too few of them to draw the line honestly. Nothing is inferred to fill the gap.

What it costs

No priced item is on record for this venue. Forkin publishes a price only where a dated public source carries it, so nothing is estimated here.

How to get a seat

No online booking channel is on record for this venue. The verified hours below are the only seating information held; treat it as walk-in unless the venue says otherwise.

What to expect

  • Menu — A selection of 8 items from the venue’s own published menu is on record, without prices.
  • Getting there — Somerset MRT, 5 minutes on foot · 333A Orchard Road, #02-05/06/07 & #02-24/25, Mandarin Gallery, Singapore 238897.
  • Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.

The longer version

No longer read of this venue is published yet. The desk has assessed the public coverage behind this listing — 2 linked sources — and that assessment is set out under How this was assessed.

Signature dishes

No dish is named for this venue in any source on record. Dishes are listed here only where an official source names them, so none are guessed from menus or reviews.

The official menu

This official source does not publish prices, so none are shown. Menus change — confirm current items and prices with the venue. Source: Venue official website, menu page. Last checked 1 September 2026.

Opening hours

Monday9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)
Tuesday9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)
Wednesday9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)
Thursday9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)
Friday9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)
Saturday9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)
Sunday9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)

Hours can change at short notice, especially on public holidays — confirm with the venue before travelling. Source: The City Bakery official Orchard outlet page. Last checked 1 September 2026.

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Photographs

Inside The City Bakery (Mandarin Gallery)

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Official Instagram

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Common questions

When is The City Bakery (Mandarin Gallery) open?

Monday 9am–9.30pm, 11am–5pm, 5pm–9.30pm; Tuesday 9am–9.30pm, 11am–5pm, 5pm–9.30pm; Wednesday 9am–9.30pm, 11am–5pm, 5pm–9.30pm; Thursday 9am–9.30pm, 11am–5pm, 5pm–9.30pm; Friday 9am–9.30pm, 11am–5pm, 5pm–9.30pm; Saturday 9am–9.30pm, 11am–5pm, 5pm–9.30pm; Sunday 9am–9.30pm, 11am–5pm, 5pm–9.30pm. Source: The City Bakery official Orchard outlet page, last checked 1 September 2026.

At a glance

Orchard333A Orchard Road, #02-05/06/07 & #02-24/25, Mandarin Gallery, Singapore 238897

Somerset MRT, 5 min

Daily9am–9.30pm (Bakery & Cafe), 11am–5pm (Restaurant lunch), 5pm–9.30pm (Restaurant dinner, last order 9pm)

Opened 13 August 2026

Last verified 25 August 2026

How this was assessed

This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked substantive sources, at confidence low, last assessed 4 September 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.

Sourced from Orchard Malls (official) and TheRantingPanda. 2 sources in total.

Why The City Bakery (Mandarin Gallery) scores 7.5

WORTH A LOOK · band 7.0–8.4 (base 7.5)

The Forkin Evidence Score is a transparent calibration of the published evidence behind this venue's editorial stamp — not a personal dining rating, and never derived from Google data. It starts from the stamp's base value, applies the five evidence adjustments below, then clamps the result inside the stamp's band.

  • Source consensuslimited−0.15one/limited attributable source
  • Critic calibreindependent0.00independent/blog-only attributable backing
  • Praise specificityhigh+0.10multiple concrete dish/experience signals and supporting guide detail
  • Consistencymoderate0.00generally favourable without a strong unanimity signal
  • Evidence recencycurrent+0.05newest assessment, publication, or verification is 2025 onward

Scores are rounded to one decimal place and are only published for venues carrying an evidence-backed editorial stamp. Full rubric: Forkin Evidence Score methodology.

Editorial stamp

WORTH A LOOK

Confidence: low

Forkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.

Two countable exact-outlet assessments, both from publishers registered independent under rule B46-R1. Both are item-level specific and both record drawbacks, so consistency is moderate rather than high.

Last assessed 4 September 2026 · 2 linked substantive sources

Caveat: The blog review prints #04-05 while the mall directory places the outlet on Level 2; the DanielFoodDiary piece also says Level 2. Unit number unresolved, outlet identity is not in doubt. Both sources are within a month of assessment; no longer-run record of consistency yet. Corrected 4 September 2026: this record held the same DanielFoodDiary article as two separate counted citations and declared three countable sources. It holds two, which is what the note above describes.

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Full source log

This opening record is backed by the following public sources:

Orchard Malls (official) · 2026-08-14TheRantingPanda · 2026-08-14

Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 25 August 2026.

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