Restaurant reviews and recommendations: how we do it

Time Out’s starred reviews are written by expert local writers with years of experience sampling food from the city's restaurants.

For a venue to make one of Time Out’s recommended lists, the food has to be amazing, that’s a given. But we want more than that. We’re looking for a combination of cooking, atmosphere and experience that makes a place truly memorable. Some of these places are established icons of Singapore’s dining scene, some are instant classics, some are future stars.

We won’t include a place just because it’s innovative, or expensive, or hard to book: it always has to deliver on flavour and value. It’s somewhere you’d tell your friends about; that you can’t wait to go back to.

If a restaurant is star rated, that means a Time Out expert local critic has independently reviewed it. Our reviewers book incognito, and pay their way. We get treated like regular diners – sometimes we even get the table by the toilets.

	Unmissable
	Very good
	Good
	Promising but below average
	Avoid

Prices are based on two people, three courses, drinks and service.

$ = < $60 (affordable)
$$ = $60-$119 (mid-range)
$$$ = $120-$249 (expensive)
$$$$ = $250 (blow-out)