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Hikiniku To Come

2026 opening record. Confirm current status

The viral Japanese hamburg steak chain from Japan (originated 2020) with outlets in China, South Korea and Taiwan. Counter-style seating arrangement around a central binchotan charcoal grill. Only one menu item: The Hikiniku To Come Set ($27.90++) with 3 freshly-grilled beef patties, miso soup, raw egg, and free-flow rice.

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. Verified hours are not on record either, so call ahead before travelling.

What to expect

  • Getting there — Harbourfront MRT, 2 minutes on foot · 1 HarbourFront Walk, VivoCity, #01-102/103, Singapore 098585.
  • Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.

The longer version

Hikiniku To Come is the Singapore outpost of a Japanese hamburg steak chain that went viral after launching in 2020, with counter seating built around a central binchotan charcoal grill. The concept keeps things singular: one set of three freshly-grilled beef patties, miso soup, raw egg and free-flow rice.

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

No official menu is on record for this venue. Forkin transcribes a menu only from the venue's own published source, never from a review or an aggregator listing.

Opening hours

Day-by-day hours are not verified for this venue. Hours are published here only once a dated source has been read for the whole week, so a partial week is never shown as a full one.

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Photographs

Inside Hikiniku To Come

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Official Instagram

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Common questions

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At a glance

Harbourfront1 HarbourFront Walk, VivoCity, #01-102/103, Singapore 098585

Harbourfront MRT, 2 min

Opened June 2026

Last verified 22 July 2026

How this was assessed

This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked substantive sources, at confidence medium, last assessed 15 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.

Sourced from SETHLUI. One source in total.

Why Hikiniku To Come scores 7.8

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 consensusmoderate+0.05two independent attributable sources or some disagreement
  • Critic calibreestablished+0.05established editorial food/lifestyle publication 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: medium

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

Two independent, dated, exact-outlet reviews of the VivoCity premises are favourable and specific. There is no major-title assessment and no inspector coverage, so the evidence supports a solid provisional assessment rather than the top band.

What public coverage says

Two independent reviews from June 2026 — The Ranting Panda and Asia 361 — assess the VivoCity outlet favourably and in specific terms about the hamburg steak, with a practical caution that walk-in queue seats fill quickly. No major title has assessed the food, and every other located review either discloses hosted access or could not be verified, so this sits as a confident provisional assessment rather than a top-band one.

Last assessed 15 August 2026 · 2 linked substantive sources

Caveat: The previously counted Time Out review is excluded at publisher level. Coverage of the Tokyo original was excluded throughout; only the VivoCity outlet is assessed here. HungryGoWhere discloses a hosted tasting; MiddleClass.sg is undated; SG Food on Foot and Eatbook could not be retrieved far enough to verify their disclosures, so all four are excluded rather than assumed independent. The Straits Times covered the arrival on 2026-05-30, but as a new-openings report rather than an assessment. Batch 32 flags an unresolved independence signal on the Asia 361 source: every photograph in the article is credited 'Photo © Hikiniku To Come', i.e. the imagery is venue-supplied, and the publisher's front page is dominated by product-launch and brand coverage. There is no disclosure of hosting, and the source-independence policy is disclosure-based, so the row is left counted — but if Asia 361 were reclassified, this venue would fall to a single countable source and would need a low-confidence single-source caveat. FOR EDITORIAL DECISION by Ernest.

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Full source log

This opening record is backed by the following public sources:

SETHLUI

Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 22 July 2026.

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