10 Best Restaurants in Singapore (August 2026)

Worth having the current picture before the list, because a lot of what ranks for this question is two years out of date.

• The Michelin Guide Singapore hit its 10th edition, with 307 establishments. Three restaurants hold three stars, nine hold two, 33 hold one, and there are 97 Bib Gourmands after ten new additions.
• 1887 by André debuted at two stars. André Chiang returned to a permanent Singapore kitchen at Raffles Hotel and the restaurant went straight in at two, in under a year, and also took Opening of the Year. Debuting at two is rare anywhere.
• Seroja was promoted to two stars after three years. Kevin Wong opened it in 2022 cooking the Malay Archipelago through local produce, regional spices and traditional technique, and it is now the highest-rated restaurant of its kind anywhere.
• Six restaurants earned a first star: Cherry Garden by Chef Fei, Jin Ting Wan, Sushi Kimura Plus, Tenshima, Yong Fu and Loca Niru.
• Twelve places have held a distinction in every single edition since 2016. Candlenut, CUT, Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle, Jaan by Kirk Westaway, Lei Garden, Les Amis, Odette, Shisen Hanten, Shoukouwa, Summer Pavilion, Sushi Ichi and Waku Ghin. A hawker stall on that list next to three three-star rooms is the whole argument of this page.

On the other scoreboard, Singapore took six places on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026: Odette at 19, Seroja at 20, Born at 23, Les Amis at 38, Labyrinth at 40 and Nae:um at 45, a new entry. Odette held its position as the highest-ranked Singapore restaurant while dropping twelve places, and Les Amis fell ten, which is the honest read on where the city sits regionally right now. Odette's sommelier Lesley Liu was named Asia's Best Sommelier.

One practical change that has nothing to do with awards: the A, B or C hygiene grade displayed at every food business changed meaning on 19 January 2026, when the Singapore Food Agency replaced the old annual inspection grade with the Safety Assurance for Food Establishments framework, which grades on track record over time. A grade A now means more than it did in 2024.

Most people searching for the best restaurants in Singapore do not want a tasting menu, they want a specific thing. Here is where to go for each.

• A specific dish. Chilli crab, chicken rice, laksa, Hokkien mee, satay, nasi lemak and dim sum each have their own guide with real prices.
• A cuisine. Steakhouses, omakase, Korean BBQ, hotpot and steamboat, pasta and sourdough pizza.
• An occasion. Date night, family-friendly restaurants, high tea and buffets.
• A dietary requirement. Halal restaurants is the starting point, and each dish guide flags which specific stalls hold MUIS certification rather than simply claiming no pork and no lard, which is a weaker and much more common claim.
• Something seasonal. Mooncakes for Mid-Autumn, with the early bird deadlines that decide what you pay.

Two booking habits worth having across all of it. Lunch is cheaper than dinner at nearly every restaurant on this page, often by a third, for the same kitchen. And at the top end, reservations open one to three months ahead and the good seats go on the release date rather than gradually, so a calendar reminder is worth more than persistence.

Eating at the best restaurants in Singapore costs from S$8 to S$620 per person in 2026. Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle, which holds a Michelin star, charges S$8 to S$15. A starred Cantonese lunch at Lei Garden is about S$50. Candlenut's tasting menu is S$108++ at lunch, Odette is about S$298 at lunch and S$448 to S$498 at dinner, and Zén is S$450++ and S$620++.

Note that ++ means service charge and GST are extra, adding roughly 19 percent. A S$620++ dinner is about S$738 on the bill, and a S$198++ menu is about S$236. That gap is worth doing in your head before booking rather than at the table.

Three restaurants hold three Michelin stars in the 2026 Michelin Guide Singapore: Les Amis, Odette and Zén. All three retained their rating in the guide's tenth edition, which covered 307 establishments in total, with nine restaurants at two stars, 33 at one star and 97 Bib Gourmands.

Odette is the highest-ranked Singapore restaurant on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 at number 19, and Les Amis appears at number 38. Michelin ratings are reassessed every year, so check the current guide before booking specifically for a rating. Lunch menus at all three run substantially below dinner for the same kitchen.

Yes. Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle, a bak chor mee stall at Tai Hwa Eating House on Crawford Lane, holds one Michelin star and has held it in every edition of the Michelin Guide Singapore since the guide launched in 2016. Bowls cost S$8, S$10, S$12 and S$15, and queues routinely run an hour and can reach two.

It is one of twelve establishments to have retained a Michelin distinction in every single edition since 2016, a list that also includes Les Amis, Odette, Candlenut, Lei Garden and Summer Pavilion. Singapore also has 97 Bib Gourmand listings, many of them hawker stalls, which recognise good cooking at modest prices rather than fine dining.

The 2026 selection was the tenth edition and included two major changes at the top. 1887 by André at Raffles Hotel debuted directly at two Michelin stars less than a year after opening and also won Opening of the Year, and Seroja was promoted from one star to two after three years. Six restaurants earned a first star: Cherry Garden by Chef Fei, Jin Ting Wan, Sushi Kimura Plus, Tenshima, Yong Fu and Loca Niru.

The full selection covered 307 establishments, with three three-star restaurants, nine at two stars, 33 at one star and 97 Bib Gourmands including ten new additions. The guide also recognised twelve establishments that have held a distinction in every edition since 2016.

If you book one meal and the budget allows, Odette at lunch. Around S$298 for the same kitchen and the same room that charges up to S$498 at dinner is the best-value fine dining decision in the country, and it is still the restaurant everything else is measured against.

If you want the thing you could not eat anywhere else, Seroja, which is now the best Nusantara cooking in the world and is the restaurant I would choose over any of the three-stars for a visitor. If you want the story of the year, 1887 by André, where a four-course menu at S$198++ gets you into a two-star room without a tasting menu. And if you want a Michelin star without the bill, Candlenut at S$108++ or Lei Garden at lunch for about S$50.

But the honest answer to what the best restaurant in Singapore is depends on the day, and the reason this list runs from S$620 to S$8 is that both ends are defensible. Hill Street Tai Hwa has held its star for as long as Odette has. Queue for it once and the question stops feeling like it has a single answer.

Two habits across all of it. Book lunch. And set a reminder for the reservation release date rather than trying your luck, because at this level seats go on the hour they open rather than gradually.

One last note for the trade. Working through this cluster, the pattern that kept repeating was not about food at all. It was that the businesses with the best cooking often have the worst web presence: a lapsed domain, a Facebook page standing in for a website, opening hours that only exist on an aggregator and are wrong. For a restaurant living on bookings, that is a direct cost. If your website is the weak link, my web design for restaurants is built around exactly that, or get a quote and I will tell you honestly what would move the needle.

For the wine to go with it, my guide to the best wine shops in Singapore covers the 10.30pm sales cutoff and why duty makes cheap bottles the worst value here.