Singapore is the banquet city where a three-star lunch and a hawker tray can share one EasyCard week without apology.
Odette sits inside the National Gallery Singapore at 1 St Andrew’s Road. Candlenut works Peranakan memory at 17A Dempsey Road. Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle still holds a Michelin star for bak chor mee at 466 Crawford Lane. Book both kinds of meal. They are doing different jobs.
The current map in this chapter is the MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2025, announced 24 July 2025 at Marina Bay Sands: three restaurants at three stars, seven at two, thirty-two at one, plus 89 Bib Gourmand and 157 Selected addresses. The 2026 ceremony was scheduled for 4 August 2026 at Raffles Sentosa, the guide's tenth Singapore edition. If you are travelling after that night, check the new list before you treat these stars as current.
The three-star summit
Singapore’s three-star tier is compact and stubborn: Les Amis, Odette, and Zén. All three retained their stars in 2025.
Odette
Chef-owner Julien Royer cooks modern French at #01-04 in the Gallery’s Supreme Court Wing, named for his grandmother. Lunch runs Tuesday to Saturday with last seatings around noon to 1:00 p.m.; dinner Monday to Saturday with last seatings about 6:30 to 8:15 p.m.; closed Sundays. Published menus recently listed lunch from about SGD 328++ and dinner Épicure about SGD 498++; confirm on odetterestaurant.com before you transfer a deposit. Enter via Coleman Street or Parliament Place, allow time to get lost in the Gallery, and dress for a museum. The door is a civic building.
For stay and neighbourhood logic around the Gallery, read The Banquet Guide to Singapore.
Les Amis
Les Amis at Shaw Centre, #01-16, 1 Scotts Road, opened in 1994 as an independent fine-dining flagship and remains the Orchard-side three-star under culinary director Sébastien Lepinoy. The kitchen flies in French produce and treats classic haute cuisine as a living standard. Book through lesamis.com.sg; groups of six or more go through the reservation concierge at +65 6733 2225.
Zén
Zén occupies a three-storey shophouse at 41 Bukit Pasoh Road, the Singapore outpost of Björn Frantzén, opened November 2018 with Unlisted Collection and lifted to three stars in 2021. Nordic technique meets Japanese produce across floors: aperitif below, tasting menu above. Reservations for the following month typically open on the 1st at 10:00 a.m. Singapore time on restaurantzen.com. Third-party figures recently put lunch near SGD 395++ and dinner near SGD 580++; confirm on the site when the calendar unlocks.
Heritage kitchens that earned stars
The three-star rooms are mostly French and Nordic-Japanese. The banquet argument for Singapore as a diaspora destination lives equally in kitchens that treat local and regional heritage as fine-dining material.
Candlenut
Malcolm Lee’s Candlenut at 17A Dempsey Road (COMO Dempsey) became the world’s first Michelin-starred Peranakan restaurant in the inaugural 2016 Singapore guide and has held one star through 2025. Communal à la carte and a rotating tasting menu translate Straits-Chinese spice pastes, buah keluak, and family technique into a restaurant idiom without turning Nyonya cooking into costume. Book through COMO Dempsey. Dempsey means a taxi or a Grab.
“The Peranakan kitchen is my heritage.”
Malcolm Lee, chef-owner of Candlenut
Labyrinth
LG Han’s Labyrinth at Esplanade Mall #02-23, 8 Raffles Avenue, holds one star for New Singaporean tasting menus built from childhood memory and seafood. Recent Chope listings put lunch about SGD 208++ and dinner about SGD 298++, with dinner running roughly three hours. The kitchen is explicit about dietary limits (seafood-centric; many common exclusions cannot be accommodated). Reserve on restaurantlabyrinth.com and treat the Esplanade as your drop-off, not a guess at Marina Bay.
Seroja
Kevin Wong’s Seroja at Duo Galleria, 7 Fraser Street #01-30/31/32/33, opened 2022 and quickly took a Michelin star, Singapore’s first Green Star, and the Young Chef Award in 2023, retaining star and Green Star through 2025. The Nusantara tasting menu works Malay Archipelago herbs, spices, and ethically sourced seafood; dinner figures in recent coverage sit from about SGD 218++ upward depending on menu version. Bugis MRT is the practical approach. For diaspora tables that want Malay and archipelago flavours at banquet pacing, this is the current starred address to protect.
Hawker culture as the other banquet
On 16 December 2020, UNESCO inscribed hawker culture in Singapore on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: community dining rooms where Chinese, Malay, Indian, and other kitchens share a tray. A tasting-menu week that skips those rooms is missing half the city.
Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle at 466 Crawford Lane #01-12 has held one Michelin star since 2016, the year Singapore’s first guide also starred Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle, known as Hawker Chan. Chan’s stall lost the star in 2021 and sits on the Bib Gourmand list now. Tai Hwa is the hawker star that stayed. The queue is real. Go early, order the bak chor mee, and eat another Bib stall while you are out. The star belongs to this one bowl.
Leave one lunch or one late supper for a hawker centre near the hotel, or for Maxwell after a Chinatown walk. The change of register is the point: a plastic tray, no sommelier, the same seriousness about the bowl.
A week in the city
Lock the three-star tables first. Odette and Les Amis book on their own sites. Zén opens the next month on the 1st at 10 a.m. Singapore time, and a concierge is a weak bet the week you land. Then one heritage menu, Candlenut or Labyrinth or Seroja, and one hawker meal. Maxwell after a Chinatown walk is the easy version. A fifth night can use the 2025 two-star list: Cloudstreet, Jaan by Kirk Westaway, Meta, Saint Pierre, Shoukouwa, Sushi Sakuta, and Thevar.
The ++ prices sit on top of 9 percent GST and a typical 10 percent service charge. Add that before anyone agrees to the table. If the family wants to keep talking afterward, a hotel bar is often the better room. The Hotel Bar as Embassy is that hour.
The Banquet Guide to Singapore has the stays. The Asian Grand Tour has the city in a longer route.
