Late-Night Izakaya Eats in Singapore: Who’s Still Cooking After 10pm

Singapore has a supper culture and a Japanese dining scene, and they overlap less than you would expect. Plenty of izakayas describe themselves as late-night venues while the kitchen actually stops at 9.30pm. If it is 11pm and you want yakitori rather than a prata, the useful question is not “which izakaya is good” — we answered that in our honest izakaya shortlist — but “which izakaya is still cooking”.

So this list is organised by the clock. Every closing time below was re-checked against each venue’s own website on 2 September 2026, and where a venue has no reachable site of its own we say so in its entry. One warning that applies to all of them: closing time is not last order. Kitchens routinely stop taking food an hour before the door shuts, and the later the venue, the wider that gap tends to be. If you are arriving inside the final hour, call.

Still cooking at 2am and later

Shinya Izakaya — 79 Boat Quay

Open daily from noon to 3am, which makes it the latest genuine izakaya we can verify in Singapore. It leans sashimi and charcoal-grilled kushiyaki, with the sort of menu that rewards a table rather than a solo counter visit. This is the one to remember when a night has already gone longer than planned and everything else has shut — a 3am close every day of the week, not just Fridays and Saturdays, is rare here.

Hachimaru Izakaya — 349 Beach Road

Monday to Friday, 6pm to 2am (plus a lunch service from 11.30am). Roughly a seven to eight minute walk from Nicoll Highway MRT, which also puts it within striking distance of Kampong Glam and the Lavender end of town. Standard izakaya range — yakitori, sashimi, grilled skewers — and a room that fills with people who work in restaurants themselves, which is usually a decent signal. Weekend hours were not something we could confirm. Flagged 2 September 2026: we cannot reach a website for this venue at all, under any of the domains we have tried, so nothing in this entry is first-party confirmed. Treat it as a weeknight answer and call before you go.

Midnight to 1am

Neon Pigeon — 36 Carpenter Street

Daily, 5.30pm to midnight. Worth flagging clearly: Neon Pigeon has moved. A lot of guides still list it at 1 Keong Saik Road, and it now trades at 36 Carpenter Street, #01-01. Modern-fusion izakaya cooking rather than a traditional den, and the kind of place where the last hour is more bar than dinner.

The Public Izakaya by Hachi — 100 Tras Street, #01-09

Monday to Thursday until midnight, Friday until 1am, Saturday until midnight. Sunday is 5pm to 10pm, so this is a weekday-into-Friday option. Corrected 2 September 2026: we had the unit number as #01-08. The restaurant’s own site gives it as #01-09, in 100AM Mall, and the closing times above are confirmed there. It is a big, loud room built for groups, which is the specific thing you want at 11.30pm when a table of six has decided the night is not over.

Tachinomiya — 211 Hougang Street 21, #01-285

Open to midnight seven nights a week. The interesting one on this list: a tachinomi — standing-bar — concept sitting in an HDB block in Hougang rather than the CBD. Sake and Japanese street food, run since 2015, and priced for a neighbourhood rather than a Tanjong Pagar expense account. If you live in the north-east, this is the answer to a Tuesday at 11pm that does not involve a taxi into town.

The 11pm tier — later than most, earlier than you think

These three all trade past 10pm without being genuine supper venues. Useful when you want a proper meal at 9.30pm, not when you want a plate at 12.30am.

• Shukuu Izakaya & Sake Bar — 8 Stanley Street. To 11pm, though we should flag that re-checked on 6 September 2026, shukuu.sg has gone further and is now a holding page reading “Coming Soon”, with no address, hours or menu on it at all; the 8 Stanley Street address survives only in the footer of an affiliated site, so that closing time is not first-party confirmed — call before a late arrival. Updated 3 October 2026: the domain no longer opens at all — its security certificate lapsed on 29 September — and our main izakaya shortlist has retired Shukuu for want of any first-party route to it. Treat this entry as unconfirmed until you have spoken to the restaurant. Go late specifically for the sake list, which is the real reason to be there and is best appreciated when the room has thinned out.
• Izakaya Niningashi — 2 Craig Road. To 11pm Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday — widely listed, but flagged here because this venue has no website or booking page of its own that we can reach, so nothing about it is first-party confirmed. Phone ahead. A specialist, quieter room; the late hour suits it.
• Habibi-san — 29 Hamilton Road. Ours, so take the recommendation accordingly. Dinner Tuesday to Sunday, 5pm to 11pm. The late-night argument for us is the charcoal grill: at 10pm the fire is at its best and the kitchen is past the first rush, which is a good time to be eating off it.

Do not bank on these after 10pm

Both of these appear on late-night lists elsewhere. Neither is one, as of this week:

• Kazu Sumiyaki, Cuppage Plaza — listed as Tuesday to Saturday, 6pm to 10pm, closed Sunday and Monday. An excellent old-school sumiyaki den, and it is not a supper venue. Flagged 6 September 2026: Kazu has no reachable website of its own — its Google business page returns a genuine 404 and no other domain resolves — so those hours come from third-party listings rather than the restaurant. The point stands either way, since every listing agrees it closes well before supper.
• Izakaya Nijumaru, Cuppage Plaza — closing at 9.30pm. Cuppage Plaza has a reputation as Singapore’s after-hours Japanese building that its current opening hours no longer entirely support.

How to eat well at an izakaya after 10pm

Late ordering is its own skill, and it is mostly about respecting what a kitchen can still do well at the end of a service.

• Order grilled, not fried. Fryer oil at midnight has had a long day. A grill only gets better as the night goes on.
• Skip the elaborate composed plates. Late is when you want skewers, pickles, something raw and cold, and one hot thing — not a dish with nine components.
• Put the whole food order in at once. If last orders are at 11.30pm, a second round at 11.25pm is a gamble. Drinks usually keep going after the kitchen closes; food does not.
• Ask for last order times when you sit down, not when you are ready to order again. Every venue on this list will tell you straight.

Where this fits

If you are new to the format rather than just late, start with our first-timer’s guide to izakaya in Singapore, which covers how a night is actually structured and what to drink. For the question of what “authentic” even means once a kitchen starts improvising, we have a longer answer here.

And if 10pm at a charcoal grill in Jalan Besar sounds right, our menu is here and tables are on Chope. Last seating is well before 11pm — book rather than walk in, especially at the end of the week.