Singapore packs more Michelin stars per square kilometre than any other Southeast Asian city, 51 stars across 49 restaurants at the last count, and the cuisines on this page are the front rank: French, Japanese, Cantonese, Peranakan, modern European, plus the city's defining Asian-fusion kitchens. Embassy Alliance's curators have eaten through these tables routinely for a decade, and what follows is the working short-list we send to partners and their clients.
The list is organised by cuisine, not by neighbourhood, because Singapore's compactness makes the latter mostly irrelevant, a chauffeur covers the city corner-to-corner in 25 minutes. Pick the kitchen first, the night second. The Michelin badge is shown where applicable but it is not the sorting criterion; Coconut Club's nasi lemak and Brasserie Gavroche's steak tartare carry no stars and deserve every booking they collect.
The list is organised by cuisine, not by neighbourhood, because Singapore's compactness makes the latter mostly irrelevant, a chauffeur covers the city corner-to-corner in 25 minutes.
Every restaurant on this page is on our active booking list, we hold relationships with the maître d's that mean a 24-hour-out booking is possible at most addresses, and a same-day chef's-table opening is possible at a handful. For three-star tables (Les Amis, Odette) plan two weeks out; for two-stars (Waku Ghin, Shoukouwa, JAAN, Saint Pierre) one week; for one-stars three to five days; for the rest, 24–48 hours.
Two practical notes: the local dress code is smart-casual for everything below two stars; jackets are expected at Les Amis, Odette, Waku Ghin and JAAN, and refused at the door if missing. A car-and-driver chauffeur for the evening costs roughly the same as an extra bottle of wine and removes the entire transport question, we recommend it for first-time visitors who want to compress two or three rooms into a single night.
