KEY2 Pick
Modern Barbecue • $$$
Burnt Ends
One-Michelin-star open-fire cooking from an Australian pit-master, counter seating around the custom brick oven on Teck Lim Road.
Best for: Casual Dinner / Date Night
Best restaurants in Singapore
Counters, dining rooms and neighbourhood favourites, chosen for the way they actually eat — not for how loudly they market.
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Hawker • $
Liao Fan Hawker Chan
The Michelin-starred soya sauce chicken rice stall that made hawker food famous worldwide, now inside Chinatown Complex.
Best for: Casual Lunch / Budget
KEY2 Pick
Contemporary European • $$$
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
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 • $
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
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