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Wild Honey (Orchard)

Orchard · All-day brunch · $$

Wild Honey Mandarin Gallery is an all-day brunch café at Mandarin Gallery on Orchard Road.

The Populus (Outram Park)

Outram Park · Café

The Populus Coffee & Food Co. is a café at 146 Neil Road.

Public coverage: The Populus is a decade-old gastro-cafe on Neil Road, from the team behind Department of Caffeine, and the countable record is unusually longitudinal for a Singapore cafe: warmly reviewed at opening in 2015-2016 for the Populus Scramble and the spring-onion-and-corn pancake with fried chicken, and revisited in 2022 as a place that had outlasted its trendier neighbours and improved on a weekday.

GUUM

Keong Saik · Korean

GUUM is a Korean grill at 29 Keong Saik Road. Its official reservation page describes it as a K-steakhouse by Chef Louis Han and the team behind NAE:UM.

Public coverage: Four independent sources, including a major international outlet (Condé Nast Traveler) alongside established Singapore food media (The Ranting Panda, Eatbook, MiddleClass.sg), consistently praise GUUM's contemporary Korean grill concept, standout proteins (Iberico pluma, Woodae Galbi) and ambience, with pricing and one overcooked dish as the only minor detractors.

Garibaldi Italian Restaurant & Bar

City Hall · Italian · $$

Garibaldi Italian Restaurant & Bar is at 36 Purvis Street, #01-02.

Public coverage: Garibaldi Italian Restaurant & Bar is assessed on three independent, dated assessments.

PS.Cafe (Dempsey)

Dempsey Hill · Cafe · $$

PS. Cafe Harding Road is at 28B Harding Road in Dempsey Hill.

Public coverage: PS.Cafe's Harding Road outlet at Dempsey Hill, one of the brand's original locations, continues to draw positive coverage praising its lush greenery-framed setting, generous mains, and standout desserts such as the sticky date pudding.

Sarnies (Telok Ayer)

Telok Ayer · Cafe · $$

Sarnies Café's official locations page identifies its flagship at 136 Telok Ayer Street. The current dining listing names Halloumi Salad, Tuna Melt and Latte on its menu.

Yan Ting

Orchard · Cantonese · $$$$

Yan Ting is a Cantonese restaurant within The St. Regis Singapore at 29 Tanglin Road.

Public coverage: Yan Ting is the Cantonese restaurant at The St.

Wang Dae Bak Korean BBQ

Telok Ayer · Korean

Wang Dae Bak Korean BBQ is the brand's Charcoal BBQ outlet at Cross Street. The official site lists the outlet separately from its Amoy Street and Holland Piazza concepts.

Public coverage: Two independent reviews of the Cross Street/China Square outlet, spanning 2014 and 2021, are consistently positive about meat quality, charcoal-grill execution and the overall dining experience, with no substantive negative counterpoint found.

Caffe Fernet

Marina Bay · Italian

Caffe Fernet is at Customs House on Collyer Quay. Its official visitor page names Chicken Saltimbocca and tiramisu among the food served and provides vegetarian and gluten-free menus.

Public coverage: Caffe Fernet draws mostly positive but not uniformly glowing coverage.

Chang Korean Charcoal BBQ

Dempsey Hill · Korean

Chang Korean Charcoal BBQ is a Korean BBQ and grill restaurant on Loewen Road. Its official site states that it provides private dining and corporate-event spaces.

Public coverage: Chang Korean Charcoal BBQ sits in the Loewen enclave at Dempsey Hill, grilling premium cuts including wagyu and kurobuta over charcoal.

Guccio Ristorante

Telok Ayer · Italian

Guccio Ristorante is an Italian restaurant by Chef Marco at 20 Gemmill Lane in Chinatown. Its official site describes Italian cooking using classic methods and says its pasta is handmade.

Public coverage: Two reviews from Robb Report and City Nomads both praise Guccio Ristorante's regional Italian cooking and Chef Marco Guccio's Calabrian heritage.

Basilico

Orchard · Italian · $$$

Basilico is the Italian all-day dining restaurant at Conrad Singapore Orchard on Cuscaden Road. The hotel describes buffet service with a cheese room, pizzas, pasta and a carpaccio bar.

Public coverage: Basilico draws positive but primarily descriptive coverage as a long-standing Italian buffet destination at Conrad Singapore Orchard.

Ki-sho

Orchard · Japanese · Kaiseki · $$$$

Ki-sho is a kappo-style Japanese restaurant at 29 Scotts Road. Recent coverage identifies Chef Taro Takayama as its chef and describes the restaurant's kappo offering.

Public coverage: Since chef Taro Takayama took over Ki-sho's kitchen in September 2025, national broadsheet critics have praised his produce-led kappo cooking — a clear rausu kombu dashi, dry-aged sashimi, Tottori wagyu, and a signature sanma donabe.

Bacha Coffee (Orchard)

Orchard · Cafes & Coffee · Coffee

Bacha Coffee is located at #01-15/16 in ION Orchard. ION Orchard's directory describes the brand as offering specialty coffees.

Public coverage: Bacha Coffee’s ION Orchard coffee room is the Singapore expression of the Dar el Bacha house from Marrakech: a mirrored, chandeliered thirty-seat room pouring more than two hundred single-origin arabicas from silver pots, with croissants alongside.

Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro

Orchard · Chinese · Sichuan · $$

Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro is a Level 35 restaurant at Hilton Singapore Orchard.

Public coverage: The MICHELIN Guide’s inspector page for the Level 35 Orchard Road outlet describes an interior that still exudes luxury and elegance after refurbishment, in an updated and understated register, and a head chef who trained for over twelve years at the Tokyo branch and champions a refined take on Chūka Sichuan cooking, singling out his signature mapo tofu and a stir-fried Hokkaido Mangalica pork.

Wolfgang's Steakhouse

Robertson Quay · American · Steakhouse · $$$$

Wolfgang's Steakhouse is a New York-style steakhouse at InterContinental Singapore Robertson Quay.

Public coverage: Wolfgang’s Steakhouse is the Singapore branch of Wolfgang Zwiener’s New York dry-aged-beef chain, on the second floor of InterContinental Singapore Robertson Quay.

Cote Korean Steakhouse

Orchard · Korean · American Steakhouse

Cote Korean Steakhouse is COTE’s Singapore restaurant on Level 3 of COMO Orchard.

Public coverage: COTE Singapore is the first overseas outpost of the Michelin-starred New York Korean steakhouse, in partnership with COMO Group at COMO Orchard.

Bistecca Tuscan Steakhouse

Mohamed Sultan · Italian · Tuscan · Steakhouse

Bistecca is a Tuscan steakhouse in a heritage shophouse on Mohamed Sultan Road. Its official menu lists Fiorentina T-bone and Costata bone-in ribeye as signature sharing steaks.

Public coverage: Both countable sources centre on the Fiorentina.

Long Beach Seafood Restaurant (Dempsey Hill)

Dempsey Hill · Seafood · Chinese

Long Beach Seafood Restaurant at Dempsey Hill is a seafood restaurant at 25 Dempsey Road.

Public coverage: Long Beach Seafood’s Dempsey Hill outlet occupies a colonial building on a rise above Dempsey Road, with live tanks, an air-conditioned room and a naturally ventilated section.

Keng Eng Kee Seafood (Bukit Merah)

Bukit Merah · Seafood · $$

Keng Eng Kee Seafood has an Alexandra outlet at 124 Bukit Merah Lane 1, #01-136.

Public coverage: The MICHELIN Guide’s own inspector page for the Bukit Merah outlet calls it a popular cze char restaurant that “does some great dishes”, naming the fried salted egg crab, coffee pork ribs and claypot duck with sea cucumber, while noting it is not conveniently placed and that the setting is not unlike a hawker centre.

J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff

Telok Ayer · Curry puff · Local

J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff is a curry puff stall at unit #01-21 of Amoy Street Food Centre, 7 Maxwell Road.

Public coverage: The MICHELIN inspector describes a flaky, crispy pastry and points diners to the black-pepper chicken, sweet taro and chilli sardine flavours.

Ippudo Singapore (Mandarin Gallery)

Orchard · Ramen · $$

IPPUDO Mandarin Gallery is the flagship outlet of the Japanese ramen chain IPPUDO in Singapore, located on the fourth floor of Mandarin Gallery on Orchard Road.

National Kitchen by Violet Oon

City Hall · Peranakan · Singaporean · $$$

National Kitchen by Violet Oon Singapore is a Peranakan and Singaporean restaurant inside National Gallery Singapore's City Hall Wing, part of the Violet Oon Singapore restaurant group founded by chef…

Public coverage: The exact National Gallery outlet of National Kitchen by Violet Oon draws strongly favourable coverage from Conde Nast Traveler and an independent blog, but a third independent review found the food merely good rather than exceptional.

Labyrinth

Marina Bay · New Singaporean · $$$$

Labyrinth is a restaurant at Esplanade Mall run by chef-owner LG Han, which its official website describes as an exploration of Singapore's culinary heritage.

Public coverage: Restaurant Labyrinth is a one-MICHELIN-star "New Singaporean" restaurant at Esplanade Mall, where chef LG Han reworks hawker and heritage dishes.