Since I featured Karla Mendoza who works in Singapore and you might just visit to check her out, I also included some other restos worth visiting! Here's the list as featured in SIM and I added details.
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The Singapore Scene
If you can’t get a reservation at Pizzeria Mozza to taste the cooking of chef Karla Mendoza (and have already made your rounds for Hainanese chicken and chili crab), there are a ton of other places to check out. Singapore has been building itself, very aggressively and quite successfully, as the culinary epicenter of Asia. A few favorites:
*Please note that Robuchon is only for dinner (unlike Hong Kong where it is also open for lunch).
Relish offers creative burgers: blue cheese beef burger with rucola, poached pear & walnut butter burger, a paper-thin omelet-wrapped Ram-Lee burger, a char-siew pork foccacia burger and a curry chicken burger. It’s a great venue for a relaxed lunch with old friends.
This teahouse takes tea appreciation to a different level. They offer over 800 single estate fine harvest teas and exclusive blends, as well as tea patisseries and other tea-infused delicacies. My latest favorite is their chocolate tea: black tea blended with morsels of cocoa beans. They also have chocolate tea pralines that are to die for! Check out TWG Teas at ION on Orchard for this experience.
ION Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn
#02-21 Singapore 238801
Tel: +65 6735 1837 Fax: +65 6736 1837
Showbiz chizms! Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera reportedly dined at this fancy restaurant in Resorts World Sentosa. It offers a spacious setting with clean lines that highlights the open kitchen and specialty ovens that make the restaurant’s signature breads. But the menu is inspired by fresh Australian produce such as Tasmanian milk-fed lamb. A fun order is the Seafood Ice Experience: several tubes are lined before you with various flavors from savory to sweet. And don’t miss out on the Valrhona Hot Chocolate Soup: a scoop of black pepper vanilla ice cream perched on warm molten chocolate. Winner!
Resorts World Sentosa
If Sentosa is a bit too far, right in the heart of the city, with a spectacular view of the F1 track if you are there at that time of the year, is Jaan at the Swissotel. This restaurant takes the “ladies who lunch” experience to a totally different level. From the spectacular view of the city to the (practically) wall to wall Murano crystal and silver free-form chandelier to the educated service of the staff and finally to the carefully and very creatively crafted French cuisine, the restaurant reeks of class. Zucchini is appreciated with burratina cheese and enhanced with almonds and black olives. The otherwise unassuming cod fish is made enthralling with chanterelles and a smoked garlic emulsion. With the chef’s oh-so-pretty plating and sensational combination of flavors, this restaurant will definitely maintain its ranking as one of the 50 best restaurants in the world.
Level 70, Equinox Complex Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore
And that's a wrap! Have fun! :)
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| Art on a plate at Jaan |
If you can’t get a reservation at Pizzeria Mozza to taste the cooking of chef Karla Mendoza (and have already made your rounds for Hainanese chicken and chili crab), there are a ton of other places to check out. Singapore has been building itself, very aggressively and quite successfully, as the culinary epicenter of Asia. A few favorites:
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Yakun Kaya Toast. This establishment started out as a
small coffee shop as early as the 1940s. Over the years, it has not
lost its touch. Imitated but not overcome, the little coffee house
remains a favorite because of its signature coffee and the buttered
toast that you appreciate with coconut jam and soft boiled egg mixed
with soy sauce. I love a good ol’ American breakfast but the kaya toast
is a beautiful thing to wake up to as well!
18 China St | China Town, Singapore, Singapore 6438 3638
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L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon Joel Robuchon’s eponymous restaurant makes its way to Singapore. Now
you can enjoy Robuchon’s famed foie gras burger right in Singapore. The
signature hip red and black interiors by Pierre-Yves Rochon have been
adopted although the vibe is much more lively, thanks in large part not
only to the energetic and charming restaurant manager Diego Requena but
also to the Filipino members of the kitchen team who have taught Atelier
Chef de Cuisine Lorenz Hoja not only adobo but also how to dance the
Otso Otso. At the bar, you can converse with them, kid with them, flirt
with them if you wish, yet they don’t miss a beat in handing out
excellently executed couture cuisine. Have the king crab or the lechon
de lait (lechon na maliit, hehe!) for a most memorable experience.*Please note that Robuchon is only for dinner (unlike Hong Kong where it is also open for lunch).
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RelishRelish offers creative burgers: blue cheese beef burger with rucola, poached pear & walnut butter burger, a paper-thin omelet-wrapped Ram-Lee burger, a char-siew pork foccacia burger and a curry chicken burger. It’s a great venue for a relaxed lunch with old friends.
#02-01 Cluny Court (next to Serene Centre)
501 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259760
501 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259760
Tel: 67631547
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TWG TeasThis teahouse takes tea appreciation to a different level. They offer over 800 single estate fine harvest teas and exclusive blends, as well as tea patisseries and other tea-infused delicacies. My latest favorite is their chocolate tea: black tea blended with morsels of cocoa beans. They also have chocolate tea pralines that are to die for! Check out TWG Teas at ION on Orchard for this experience.
ION Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn
#02-21 Singapore 238801
Tel: +65 6735 1837 Fax: +65 6736 1837
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OsiaShowbiz chizms! Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera reportedly dined at this fancy restaurant in Resorts World Sentosa. It offers a spacious setting with clean lines that highlights the open kitchen and specialty ovens that make the restaurant’s signature breads. But the menu is inspired by fresh Australian produce such as Tasmanian milk-fed lamb. A fun order is the Seafood Ice Experience: several tubes are lined before you with various flavors from savory to sweet. And don’t miss out on the Valrhona Hot Chocolate Soup: a scoop of black pepper vanilla ice cream perched on warm molten chocolate. Winner!
Resorts World Sentosa
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JaanIf Sentosa is a bit too far, right in the heart of the city, with a spectacular view of the F1 track if you are there at that time of the year, is Jaan at the Swissotel. This restaurant takes the “ladies who lunch” experience to a totally different level. From the spectacular view of the city to the (practically) wall to wall Murano crystal and silver free-form chandelier to the educated service of the staff and finally to the carefully and very creatively crafted French cuisine, the restaurant reeks of class. Zucchini is appreciated with burratina cheese and enhanced with almonds and black olives. The otherwise unassuming cod fish is made enthralling with chanterelles and a smoked garlic emulsion. With the chef’s oh-so-pretty plating and sensational combination of flavors, this restaurant will definitely maintain its ranking as one of the 50 best restaurants in the world.
Level 70, Equinox Complex Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore
