Worth it for / Skip if
Worth it for — knowing the bill before you go — the venue publishes S$5.90 to S$32.50 across the individual items on record; arriving by train — the record puts it 1 minute on foot from Telok Ayer MRT.
Every clause above is drawn from a named field in this venue's record — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — and nothing else.
What it costs
The venue publishes S$5.90 to S$32.50 across the 7 individual menu items in this selection. Those items are priced on different bases — portions and individual dishes — so the range is not a per-person budget. No service-charge or GST note is recorded against any priced row, so no all-in figure is estimated here.
Confirm the current price with the venue when you book. Forkin publishes prices only where a dated public source carries them, and flags it when sources disagree. Source: Sarnies (Telok Ayer) official menu. Last checked 3 September 2026.
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
- Menu — The venue’s own published menu is on record — 7 items, with prices.
- Getting there — Telok Ayer MRT, 1 minute on foot · 136 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore 068601.
- 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 — 4 linked sources — and that assessment is set out under How this was assessed.
Signature dishes
Dishes named in official sources for this venue:
Menus change, and this list is not dated. Confirm current dishes and prices directly with the venue.
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.
If not this, then
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Inside Sarnies (Telok Ayer)
No rights-cleared photograph of this venue is on record. Forkin publishes a photograph only where provenance and permitted use are recorded against the file, and never republishes an image from a review, a social post or a search result.
Official Instagram
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Common questions
How much is Sarnies (Telok Ayer)?
The items on record run S$5.90 to S$32.50, as published by the venue. Drinks are extra unless the venue states otherwise. Prices last checked 3 September 2026.
At a glance
Telok Ayer136 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore 068601
Telok Ayer MRT, 1 min
$ $$
Last verified 19 August 2026
How this was assessed
This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 4 linked substantive sources, at confidence medium, last assessed 2 September 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.
Sourced from Grab Dine Out. Plus 1 official page. 2 sources in total.
Why Sarnies (Telok Ayer) 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 consensusmoderate+0.05two independent attributable sources or some disagreement
- Critic calibreestablished+0.05established editorial food/lifestyle publication backing
- Praise specificitymedium+0.00at least one concrete dish/experience signal
- Consistencymoderate0.00generally favourable without a strong unanimity signal
- Evidence recencydated−0.10newest dated support is before 2023 or unavailable
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: mediumForkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.
Three countable exact-outlet reviews survive and are consistently favourable, but every one of them dates from 2014. Twelve-year-old coverage cannot support a top-band verdict on a cafe still trading today, so the record moves to the middle band with the recency penalty applied. Re-verified 2 Sep 2026 (batch 38): Rubbish Eat Rubbish Grow was wrongly held as context-only under an overly strict independence test; it carries no sponsorship/hosting markers and is now counted (4 total). The Business Times exclusion is reconfirmed correct (pure business-expansion story, no food assessment). Factors and score recompute unchanged at 7.5.
Last assessed 2 September 2026 · 4 linked substantive sources
Linked evidence
MissTamChiak.com · 2 May 2014SethLui.com · 11 July 2014jiaksimi png (jiaksimipng.wordpress.com) · 28 July 2014The Business Times (businesstimes.com.sg) · 15 July 2026 · contextRubbish Eat Rubbish Grow (rubbisheatrubbishgrow.com) · 7 October 2016Caveat: All three counted sources are from 2014. No qualifying independent, dated, substantive review of this outlet from the last decade was located. The Business Times feature of 15 July 2026 and the Straits Times feature of 15 November 2025 are independent and dated, and confirm the Telok Ayer flagship is still trading, but neither assesses the food, so both are context only. The outlet is confirmed open at 136 Telok Ayer Street as at 2026-08-15; the group’s Bangkok and other overseas outlets are different venues and were excluded. This record has no listing page; it publishes through guide entries and rankings only.
How these stamps work · They are non-numerical and separate from Google Maps information.
Full source log
This listing is backed by the following public sources:
Sarnies — official Singapore locations pageGrab Dine Out — Sarnies, 136 Telok Ayer StreetFacts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 19 August 2026.