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Worth having the current picture before the list, because a lot of what ranks for this question is two years out of date.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

Odette holds three Michelin stars, sits at number 19 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026, and remains the restaurant I would book if someone had one meal in Singapore and the budget for it. Julien Royer's cooking is French in technique and unapologetically Asian in its sourcing, and the dining room inside the National Gallery is the most beautiful in the country.

Lunch is around S$298 and dinner runs roughly S$448 to S$498, which makes the lunch menu the single best-value fine dining decision in Singapore: the same kitchen, the same room, at about two-thirds the price. Its sommelier Lesley Liu was named Asia's Best Sommelier in 2026, so the pairing is worth taking.

It dropped twelve places on the regional list this year, which says more about how fast Bangkok, Hong Kong and Seoul are moving than about any decline here. Book well ahead. Reservations open a couple of months out and lunch goes almost as fast as dinner.

Website: odetterestaurant.com
Where: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Road
Price: About S$298 at lunch, S$448 to S$498 at dinner
Recognition: Three Michelin stars, Asia's 50 Best #19, Asia's Best Sommelier 2026
Book: Months ahead, and take the lunch

Zén occupies a three-storey shophouse in Bukit Pasoh, holds three Michelin stars, and charges S$450++ for lunch and S$620++ for dinner, which makes it the most expensive restaurant on this list by a clear margin. It came out of Björn Frantzen's kitchen in Stockholm and is now run day to day by head chef Kelvin Ng.

What you are paying for is not just food. The meal moves through the building, floor to floor, and is closer to a three-hour production than a dinner. Whether that is thrilling or exhausting is genuinely a matter of temperament, and it is worth knowing which you are before spending S$620.

It reopened on 25 August 2026 after three months of renovation, so anything written about the room before this summer describes a space that has changed. If you go, go at lunch, which is S$170 cheaper for the same kitchen.

Website: restaurantzen.com
Where: Bukit Pasoh Road
Price: S$450++ lunch, S$620++ dinner
Recognition: Three Michelin stars
Note: Reopened 25 August 2026 after a three-month renovation

Les Amis has held a Michelin distinction in every edition of the Singapore guide since 2016 and currently holds three stars, which makes it the most consistent fine-dining restaurant in the country. It is classical French, it is not trying to be anything else, and after three decades it does not need to be.

The wine list is the real reason to choose it over the other two three-stars. It is one of the deepest in Asia, with vintages that most restaurants would not risk holding, and the sommelier team will happily take you somewhere unexpected if you let them.

It sits at 38 on Asia's 50 Best 2026, down ten places. Read that as regional competition rather than a change in the kitchen. If you want technique executed without a concept attached to it, this is the table.

Website: lesamis.com.sg
Where: Shaw Centre, Scotts Road
Price: Set menus, at the upper end
Recognition: Three Michelin stars, distinction in every edition since 2016
Best for: Classical French, and one of the deepest wine lists in Asia

The biggest story of the 2026 guide. André Chiang returned to a permanent Singapore kitchen at Raffles Hotel, in the building's century-old formal dining room, and 1887 by André debuted directly at two Michelin stars in under a year while also taking Opening of the Year. Restaurants do not usually arrive at two.

The cooking is described as contemporary heritage gastronomy through a French lens, drawing on the Victorian and Belle Époque eras, the hotel's own archives and Chiang's career. In practice it is more approachable than that sounds, and unusually flexible for a restaurant at this level: you can build a four or five course menu yourself, at S$198++ and S$258++, or take the seven-course degustation at S$368++.

That flexibility is the reason it is on this list above several older two-stars. Being able to eat at a two-star restaurant for S$198++ without a set tasting menu is rare, and it makes the room accessible to people who would not otherwise book one. Reserve early, because the award has done what awards do.

Website: 1887byandre.com
Where: Raffles Hotel Singapore, 1 Beach Road
Price: Four course S$198++, five course S$258++, degustation S$368++
Recognition: Two Michelin stars on debut, Opening of the Year 2026
Best for: A two-star meal you can size to your budget

Seroja was promoted to two Michelin stars in 2026 after three years, and sits at number 20 on Asia's 50 Best. Kevin Wong opened it in 2022 as a tribute to the Malay Archipelago, cooking with regional produce, spices and traditional technique at a level nobody had previously applied to that repertoire.

This is the restaurant on the list doing something that could not be transplanted anywhere else. The French rooms above are outstanding and their language is international; Seroja's is not, and eating there tells you something about this part of the world that a tasting menu in Paris or Tokyo cannot.

If you are visiting and want one meal that is unmistakably of this region rather than a very good version of a European idea, book this one over any of the three-stars. It is also the pick if you have already eaten at Odette and want the next thing rather than the same thing.

Website: seroja.sg
Price: Tasting menu
Recognition: Two Michelin stars, promoted 2026. Asia's 50 Best #20
Since: 2022, chef-owner Kevin Wong
Best for: Cooking that could only exist here

Candlenut is the world's first Michelin-starred Peranakan restaurant and has held a distinction in every edition of the Singapore guide since 2016. It is also, by some distance, the best-value star on this list: the Ah-Ma-Kase tasting menu is S$108++ at lunch and S$138++ at dinner, with an a la carte menu running alongside.

Peranakan food is labour-intensive, built on rempah pastes pounded from scratch, and it is normally home cooking rather than restaurant cooking. What Candlenut did was apply restaurant discipline to it without sanding off what makes it good, which is a much harder trick than it sounds and is why nobody had a star for this cuisine before.

It sits at Dempsey, in the COMO Dempsey complex. Take the Ah-Ma-Kase rather than ordering a la carte on a first visit, because the sequencing is the point. My guide to the best halal restaurants in Singapore covers the certified end of local cooking, which Candlenut is not.

Website: comoepicurean.com
Where: Block 17A Dempsey Road
Price: Ah-Ma-Kase S$108++ lunch, S$138++ dinner
Recognition: One Michelin star, the world's first starred Peranakan restaurant
Order this: The Ah-Ma-Kase, not a la carte

Burnt Ends has held one Michelin star since 2018 and is where I would send someone who wants to understand what fire does to food rather than simply eat an expensive piece of meat. Dave Pynt cooks everything over wood in a custom four-tonne dual-cavity oven, and the kitchen is open, so the cooking is the entertainment.

It is a modern Australian barbecue restaurant rather than a steakhouse in the American sense, which catches out people expecting a list of cuts by weight. Budget S$150 and up. The counter is worth more than a table, because watching the grills is half of what you are paying for.

Getting in is the hard part: reservations open 30 to 45 days ahead and the counter seats go within minutes. Set a reminder for the release date rather than trying a week out. My best steakhouses in Singapore guide covers the rest of that field, including where to eat well for a third of this.

Website: burntends.com.sg
Where: Dempsey Hill
Price: About S$150 and up
Recognition: One Michelin star since 2018
Book: 30 to 45 days ahead, and take the counter

Labyrinth holds one Michelin star, sits at number 40 on Asia's 50 Best, and has spent over a decade since 2014 asking what Singaporean fine dining should actually look like. Chef LG Han made his name on the Neo-Sin concept, which leaned on visual illusion and playfulness, and the 2026 menus have grown out of that into something more restrained and more confident.

What makes it worth a booking is the sourcing. Han works with Singapore producers, which in a country that imports over 90 percent of its food is a genuinely difficult position to take and shapes the menu rather than decorating it.

Come here if the three-star rooms feel like restaurants you could eat in anywhere. Alongside Seroja it is the clearest statement of what cooking here can be, and it costs considerably less than the top of this list.

Website: restaurantlabyrinth.com
Where: Esplanade Mall, Marina Centre
Price: Tasting menu
Recognition: One Michelin star, Asia's 50 Best #40
Since: 2014, chef LG Han

Lei Garden at CHIJMES holds one Michelin star and has held a distinction in every edition since 2016, and its dim sum baskets at lunch run S$6.80 to S$12.80. A full lunch lands around S$50 a head. That is a starred kitchen for roughly a sixth of what Odette costs at lunch, and it is the most under-used piece of information in Singapore dining.

The har gow is the benchmark: skin thin enough to see the prawn through, holding together when lifted. That single dumpling is the hardest thing on a dim sum menu and cannot be faked with a good filling.

One thing that catches people out: dim sum is served at lunch only, 11.30am to 3.30pm. Book dinner and you get an excellent full Cantonese menu that is not the meal you wanted. My best dim sum in Singapore guide covers the whole field, including why a starred lunch here costs less than a hotel dim sum buffet.

Where: CHIJMES, 30 Victoria Street, #01-24
Price: Baskets S$6.80 to S$12.80, about S$50 to S$100 per pax
Recognition: One Michelin star, distinction in every edition since 2016
Dim sum hours: Lunch only, 11.30am to 3.30pm
Order this: Har gow first, and judge the kitchen on it

This is the entry that makes the rest of the list make sense. Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle is a hawker stall in an eating house on Crawford Lane. It sells bak chor mee, minced pork noodles, at S$8, S$10, S$12 and S$15. It has held one Michelin star since 2016 and has never lost it, which is the same unbroken record as Les Amis and Odette.

The bowl is vinegar-sharp, deeply porky, and built on a stock and a chilli that have not changed in decades. It is not a novelty or a guide making a point about accessibility. It is a genuinely great piece of cooking that happens to cost less than a sandwich in the CBD.

The queue is the price. It routinely runs an hour and can reach two, at any time of day, and the stall closes when it closes. Go early, go on a weekday, and go knowing that you are eating at a one-star restaurant for eight dollars. For the rest of the hawker canon, my guides to chicken rice, Hokkien mee and laksa cover the dishes people actually eat here every day.

Website: taihwa.com.sg
Where: Tai Hwa Eating House, Crawford Lane
Price: S$8, S$10, S$12 and S$15
Recognition: One Michelin star, held in every edition since 2016
Expect: An hour of queueing, sometimes two

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.