Where to eat, stay and visit in Singapore
Singapore is compact enough that Marina Bay, Chinatown, Kampong Glam, Little India and Orchard can share one short trip if you stay on the MRT. The Banquet listings split hotel nights between Raffles Singapore, Capella Singapore, NoMad Singapore, The Singapore EDITION and Raffles Sentosa Singapore; museum and garden days between National Gallery Singapore, the Peranakan Museum and Singapore Botanic Gardens; and tables between Odette, Candlenut, Labyrinth, Cherry Garden by Chef Fei and hawker markers such as Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle. Marina Bay covers the skyline postcard circuit; the historic quarters carry hawker food and shophouse streets; Sentosa is a deliberate overnight, not a lunch hop. Three to five nights is the usual window, and Grab fills gaps when heat makes long walks less appealing than a single stop hop.
Hotels · 5
- Capella SingaporeStay notes →
Sentosa resort opened in 2009, integrating restored 1880s Tanah Merah colonial buildings with new wings by Foster + Partners and DP Architects across rainforest grounds. It remains the…
- NoMad SingaporeStay notes →
NoMad’s first Asia-Pacific hotel sits at 230 Orchard Road on the former Faber House site at the Cairnhill intersection, with stays opening from 1 December 2026. UOL Group…
- Raffles Sentosa SingaporeStay notes →
Singapore’s first all-villa resort, opened 1 March 2025 on a forested Sentosa hillside with sixty-two private pool villas designed by Yabu Pushelberg and awarded One MICHELIN Key. The…
- Raffles SingaporeStay notes →
National monument hotel at 1 Beach Road, opened in 1887 by the Sarkies Brothers as a ten-room inn and later gazetted as monument number 20 on 4 March…
- The Singapore EDITIONStay notes →
Ian Schrager’s first Southeast Asian EDITION sits at 38 Cuscaden Road, at the western end of Orchard beside the Botanic Gardens. Safdie Architects and DP Architects delivered the…
Restaurants · 9
- CandlenutTable notes →
Peranakan restaurant by chef-owner Malcolm Lee at 17A Dempsey Road inside COMO Dempsey, the world’s first Michelin-starred Peranakan kitchen since the inaugural Singapore guide in 2016 and still…
- Cherry Garden by Chef FeiTable notes →
Cantonese and Teochew restaurant at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, relaunched on 2 July 2025 as Cherry Garden by Chef Fei after the hotel’s multi-month Marina Bay renovation, reported locally…
- FYSHTable notes →
Seafood-focused steakhouse at The Singapore EDITION, 38 Cuscaden Road, with a menu that moves between ocean and land proteins in a design-led Orchard dining room. Useful when Odette…
- Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork NoodleTable notes →
Bak chor mee hawker stall at 466 Crawford Lane #01-12, one of the first two street-food addresses in the world to receive a MICHELIN star in the inaugural…
- Jin Ting WanTable notes →
Cantonese fine-dining restaurant on Level 55 of Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 1, opened 23 July 2025 as the resort’s own developed-and-operated Chinese flagship rather than a leased…
- LabyrinthTable notes →
Singaporean tasting-menu restaurant by chef LG Han at Esplanade Mall #02-23, 8 Raffles Avenue, focused on heritage dishes rewritten through contemporary technique. The Singapore MICHELIN Guide 2025 lists…
- OdetteTable notes →
Modern French fine dining by chef-owner Julien Royer inside National Gallery Singapore at 1 St Andrew’s Road #01-04, Supreme Court Wing foyer. Royer opened Odette in 2015 after…
- SerojaTable notes →
Malay Archipelago tasting-menu restaurant by chef-owner Kevin Wong at Duo Galleria, 7 Fraser Street, near Bugis. Opened 2022; the Singapore MICHELIN Guide has listed Seroja at one star…
- Yong FuTable notes →
Ningbo cuisine restaurant at Suntec City Mall Tower 5, opened in 2024 as the first overseas branch of the Shanghai Yong Fu brand founded by Weng Youjun in…
Museums · 5
- Kim AssociationVisit notes →
Singapore project space for transnational Asian contemporary art, initiated by the Yenn and Alan Lo Foundation on the ground floor of a River Valley shophouse at 63 Kim…
- National Gallery SingaporeVisit notes →
Southeast Asian art museum in the restored former Supreme Court and City Hall at 1 St Andrew’s Road, joined under studioMilou’s Padang Atrium veil. Typical hours run daily…
- Peranakan MuseumVisit notes →
The Peranakan Museum reopened in February 2023 after a four-year renovation inside the former Tao Nan School at 39 Armenian Street, a national monument since 1998 with a…
- Primz GalleryVisit notes →
Private collection space founded in 2014 by Singapore collectors Linda Neo and Albert Lim at 40 Penjuru Lane, Block 1 #01-06, near Jurong East. Visits are by appointment…
- Singapore Botanic GardensVisit notes →
UNESCO World Heritage tropical botanic garden at 1 Cluny Road, inscribed in 2015, with free main-garden entry daily from early morning until midnight. The National Orchid Garden is…