“Unique dining” is a phrase that gets attached to almost anything with a view or a theme. We wanted a narrower test. A meal counts here only if the format is the experience: something about how you eat is different…
A year ago this month, we were a new restaurant. Habibi-san moved from Haji Lane into a shophouse at 29 Hamilton Road in October 2025, which is long enough to know that a launch article describes a restaurant’s first week,…
“Charcoal grill” is printed on a lot of Singapore menus now, ours included, and it tells you much less than it sounds like it does. A restaurant can mean a four-tonne wood oven, a hardwood fire under an Argentine grill,…
Every Singaporean with friends overseas knows the second-visit problem. The first time they came, you did it properly: chicken rice at a hawker centre, satay after dark, a queue for something famous, a kopi they still talk about. Now they…
Most advice about first dates argues about where. It is the wrong argument. The thing that decides whether a first date goes well is not the cooking — it is the shape of the evening: how long you are committed…
“Worth dressing up for” is the phrase every anniversary list in Singapore reaches for, and not one of them says what it means. Dressed up how? Dressed up by whose standard? The question is not vanity — it is the…
Booking a birthday dinner is not the same job as booking a dinner. The food matters less than you think and the logistics matter far more: whether you can bring a cake, whether anyone will actually bring it out, whether…
There is a number at which a restaurant booking stops being a booking and becomes an event, with a deposit, a set menu and someone emailing you a floor plan. Almost nobody tells you what that number is. You find…
If you search for Middle Eastern food in Singapore, you get Kampong Glam. Bussorah Street, Arab Street, Baghdad Street, the row of shisha terraces near the mosque. That concentration is real and it is worth visiting, and it is also…
Most date dinners are dull because of the format, not the food. Six Singapore restaurants where the meal gives you something to do — each address checked against the restaurant's own website this week.