We're well into the second half of the year, but Singapore's food scene isn't showing any signs of slowing down. September is shaping up to be a good month for diners who like a bit of variety on their plate. We've got everything, from a heritage Korean nooodle restaurant with a 70-year legacy, to unique farm-to-table concepts like a seafood-focused grill house and a promising fine-dining restaurant nestled within the lush forests of Mandai. Over at breezy Holland Village, a cosy new bistro serves up comfort Australian-European fare with a solid cocktail menu to boot, while busy Amoy Street welcomes a sleek new steakhouse with prime cuts worth drooling over. Here are the hottest tables worth snagging a reservation at this month.
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1. Gwanghwamun Mijin
Naengmyeon (cold noodles) is arguably Korea’s most iconic summer food after bingsu, so it’s not hard to see why it makes perfect sense in Singapore’s endless heat. Gwanghwamun Mijin is a noodle restaurant from Korea which has been around since 1954, serving freshly made buckwheat noodles milled in an in-house factory in its basement. Its original branch in Seoul has been listed on the Michelin Guide since 2018. Here in Singapore, the signature buckwheat noodle set ($15) remains the star of the show. Each order comes with two trays of chilled noodles and a kettle of Gwanghwamun Mijin’s signature cold broth, made from dried seafood and a secret blend of 14 ingredients, then boiled overnight. Customise your bowl with condiments on your table, including spring onions, grated daikon, seaweed and wasabi. Apart from cold noodles, you can also dig into a range of side dishes like bossam or boiled pork belly (from $15), buckwheat kimchi pancake ($19) and donkatsu (fried pork cutlet, $18).
Address: 47 Pekin St, Far East Square, #01-01, Singapore 048779
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 11am-9.30pm
Expect to pay: From $15 for the buckwheat noodle set
2. Smolder
The trusty folks behind Ah Hua Kelong and Scaled – one of the pioneers of the farm-to-table movement in Singapore – bring us Smolder, a new barbecue restaurant at Outram Road. The seafood-forward grill house taps into founder Wong Jing Kai's decade-long experience as a fish farmer, so expect nothing less than the freshest catches of the day, seasoned lightly and expertly grilled to let the original flavours shine. Everything is harvested at dawn and delivered to the restaurant by sunrise, and you can pick from varieties like whole seabass ($58), snapper ($68) and pearl grouper ($85), simply salted so you can really taste the sweetness of the fish. If you prefer heavier flavours, go for the blackened seabass ($25) and grilled snapper escovitch ($30) instead, crusted in Cajun spices and paired with a Jamaican spicy and sweet sauce, respectively. There's also the Portuguese seafood stew ($25) featuring wild-caught green-lipped mussels swimming in a tomato-based stew or the grouper piccata pasta ($26) with pan-fried fish in a lemon butter sauce.
Address: 271 Outram Rd, Singapore 169062
Opening hours: Tue-Thu 5pm-11pm; Fri-Sun noon-2.30pm, 5pm-1am
Expect to pay: Around $60 per person for sharing dishes and drinks
3. Chip Bee Bistro
The original co-founders of cult-favourite PS.Cafe might have sold their multi-million dollar enterprise back in 2022, but these days, they are up to something new. Enter Chip Bee Bistro, a new Australian-style, all-day dining venue set within Holland Village's breezy Chip Bee Gardens. The bistro is centered around casual and unfussy food, intended for pairing with cocktails infused with aperitifs, liqueurs and syrups by Distillius Craft Distillery. On the food menu, spot staple bistro fare like the CB Bistro Burger, steak frites, as well as a hefty duck leg confit. And of course, given the God-tier status of PS Cafe's fries, you can expect the same stellar quality here, except that Chip Bee Bistro's version skips the truffle oil. The drinks play an equal if not more important role, with four cocktails that anchor the menu: a refreshing Arveau lychee spritz; chocolate and spice negroni; Arveau espresso martini; and a heady pandan-infused old-fashioned. And if you like your classic cocktails, the bar even does six renditions of the martini.
Address: 44 Jln Merah Saga, #01-48, Singapore 278116
Opening hours: Tue-Wed 5.30pm-10.30pm; Thu 5.30pm-11.30pm; Fri-Sat 11am-3.30pm, 5.30pm-11.30pm; Sun 11am-3.30pm
Expect to pay: Around $60 per person for sharing dishes and drinks
4. 54° Steakhouse
Telok Ayer remains as buzzy as ever, and its latest tenant is a promising steakhouse by Food Concepts Group – the same people behind successful Italian spots like Altro Zafferano and Griglia. The restaurant's name is a nod to the temperature of a perfectly cooked medium-rare steak, and by a stroke of chance, its new address along Amoy Street. Unlike Altro Zafferano and Griglia, 54° Steakhouse will be the first in the group to experiment beyond Italian cuisine, sourcing its meats all over the world. Signature cuts include the Black Onyx Angus by Rangers Valley (from $78 per 250g), Sanchoku wagyu (from $48 per 300g), Satsuma wagyu striploin ($98 per 170g) and USDA Prime Linz Heritage Angus (from $88 per 250g). But the real highlights are the porterhouse ($248 per 900g) and t-bone ($288 per kg) cuts of Black Market beef by Rangers Valley, which are exclusive to the restaurant. Expect your chosen slabs to be coaxed over the open fire grill and infused with the joint's proprietary seven-spice blend.
Address: 54 Amoy St, Singapore 069880
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 11.30am-2.30pm, 6pm-11pm; Sat 6pm-11pm
Expect to pay: Around $100 per person for sharing dishes and drinks
5. Forage
Nestled within the lush forests of the newly opened Mandai Rainforest Resort, Forage is a new fine-dining spot that's dead serious about true farm-to-table dining. Led by Chef de Cuisine Marcus Tan, who brings a wealth of experience across Michelin-starred kitchens, the restaurant leans heavily into hyper-seasonal produce, with much of it grown in the resort's own rooftop edible garden or sourced from local farms like Ah Hua Kelong for seafood and Toh Thye San for poultry. The five-course Discovery menu ($138) and eight-course Experience menu ($158) change with the harvest, so no two dinners are quite the same, except for the basket of freshly-baked bread and butter served at the start of the meal. Staying true to its sustainable ethos, even vegetable stems and skins, which are usually discarded, are given a second lease of life in the kitchen, transformed into rich stocks and sauces, or used as garnishes. The best part? All 40 seats in the restaurant are angled towards a killer sunset view over Upper Seletar Reservoir, making it well worth the journey up north.
Address: 60 Mandai Lake Rd, Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree, Level 4, Singapore 729979
Opening hours: Daily 6pm-10pm
Expect to pay: From $138 per person for the five-course Discovery menu
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