Buffet @ Hai Tien Lo
The award-winning restaurant serving Cantonese food features steamed pomfret with the chef’s special spy sauce plus quick fried Hokkaido scallops with seasonal vegetables, alongside all-you-can-eat dim sum.
Brunch @ Keyaki
The eight-course Japanese weekend brunch menu includes items like assorted sashimi, tempura, cod fish with teriyaki sauce, teppanyaki (your choice of beef, pork, chicken or seafood) and matcha ice-cream ($60++). Add $60 and you also get free flow beer, wine and sake.
Sunee Grand Hotel
This hotel features a good business and convention center and is attached to a shopping mall, water fun park and bowling facilities.
The Providore
This gourmet cafe and food store has an industrial vibe with exposed light fixtures, raw wood and metal furnishings. In the kitchen is chef Saffry Rahim (who has 20 years of culinary experience in Singapore and the United States), who puts out simple dishes like Spanish baked eggs ($18.50) for breakfast, light mains such as […]
Crystal Wines
This wine distributor holds educational tastings at least twice a month. Their 2000 sq. ft. retail store stocks big-name brands from France, Italy and Austalia; it also comes with a cozy corner complete with wine magazines and books that make learning (and buying) a relaxing experience.
Pies & Coffee
This pie specialist offers items like open face apple pie ($7.50) and mushroom ragout pie ($7.50). Match it with coffee from Toby’s Estate.
Weekdays Uncorked
At this weekly event by Crystal Wines, try eight specially selected wines for $10. If you like the wines you taste and buy two bottles, they’ll refund the tasting fee.
Platitos
This cozy watering hole (round the corner from the Orchid Hotel and right next to new cake shop Cake Spade) offers small plates (from $4.90) such as spicy chicken wings and tuna ceviche, as well as simple drinks (from $8) including house pour wine, beers and classic cocktails like mojitos.
Cuisine Master Hotpot
The high end hot pot establishment serves premium sets such as the Nutritious Banquet ($138), a nine course meal including double flavored soup, baby lobster and grouper, a vegetarian platter, prawn and beef balls, sliced venison, Australian ribeye and homemade vegetable noodles (in flavors like carrot, red cabbage, egg white and spinach). There are also affordable […]
Sophie Bakery
This first Singapore outlet by the French bakery chain is a convenient place to pick up pain au chocolat ($2.90) or—even better—plush white chocolate-studded buns ($2.00) for breakfast, and crusty baguette ($2.90) to go with dinner.