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Modern Barbecue • $$$
Burnt Ends
One-Michelin-star open-fire cooking from an Australian pit-master, counter seating around the custom brick oven on Teck Lim Road.
Best for: Casual Dinner / Date Night
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Counters, dining rooms and neighbourhood favourites, chosen for the way they actually eat — not for how loudly they market.
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Hawker • $
Liao Fan Hawker Chan
The Michelin-starred soya sauce chicken rice stall that made hawker food famous worldwide, now inside Chinatown Complex.
Best for: Casual Lunch / Budget
KEY2 Pick
Contemporary European • $$$
Clog & Bill
Sunny, seasonal European small plates in a Joo Chiat shophouse, one of the East Coast's most-loved neighbourhood tables.
Best for: Date Night / Brunch
Seafood • $$$
Jumbo Seafood
A riverside seafood restaurant at Riverside Point famed for its chilli crab, a Singapore chain original.
Best for: Group Dinner
Seafood • $$$
Jumbo Seafood
The riverside original of Singapore's best-known chilli-crab chain, still the benchmark for visitors at Clarke Quay.
Best for: Group / Casual Dinner
Hawker Centre • $
Lau Pa Sat
A restored Victorian cast-iron market in the CBD that turns into an open-air satay street each evening.
Best for: Casual Dinner
Peranakan • $$$
National Kitchen by Violet Oon
Chef Violet Oon's flagship inside the National Gallery, serving refined Peranakan and Singaporean classics.
Best for: Group Dinner
Hawker Centre • $
Newton Food Centre
Open-air hawker centre near Orchard famous for chilli crab and satay under the night lights, a Singapore rite of passage.
Best for: Casual Dinner / Group
Teochew • $
Song Fa Bak Kut Teh
A long-queued New Bridge Road institution serving peppery pork rib soup since 1969.
Best for: Casual Dinner
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