New Restaurants in Singapore (Autumn 2026), Checked First-Hand

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, not its fifth.

So this is a list of new restaurants in Singapore with one rule attached. Every fact below was read on the restaurant’s own website on 6 October 2026, not lifted from the launch coverage. Where the two disagree, we say so. Where a buzzy new opening has no website we could read, it is named at the bottom rather than quietly included. We will update this post each quarter.

Why the restaurant’s own page matters more when it is new

An established restaurant’s hours are boring and stable. A new one’s are a draft. Of the five places below, one already publishes hours that differ from what its opening coverage printed a few weeks ago, and another publishes no hours at all. Neither is a red flag. It is just what the first quarter of a restaurant’s life looks like, and it is why a guide to new openings goes stale faster than any other kind.

Three things worth checking on the venue’s own page before you go: which days it is closed (new places often close mid-week, not Monday), whether there is a gap between lunch and dinner, and the last seating, which is usually earlier than the closing time.

Árō, 15 Mohamed Sultan Road

The debut restaurant of chef Johanne Siy, which opened in late September according to its launch coverage. The name, its own site explains, joins two words: Latin arō, “to plough, to till, to cultivate”, and áro, “love” in the dialect of the chef’s hometown. The site calls the cooking “Creator’s Cuisine” and describes an ingredient-led tasting menu built around under-recognised produce from the Asia-Pacific.

The practical detail that matters: it is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, and open Thursday to Monday for lunch (12pm to 3pm) and dinner (6pm to 10pm). Address: 15 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore 238964. The site also publishes its seating plan, which is unusually useful: a counter of up to 10, two tables of four, and a private room of four tables for two. If you want the counter, say so when you book. The site does not print a menu price, so ask when you reserve rather than trusting a figure from an article.

Tanica, The Singapore EDITION, 38 Cuscaden Road

The hotel’s new signature restaurant, opened in September according to its launch coverage. Its own site sums it up as “modern Asian flavours, herbs, spices & fire, made for sharing”, which is a sentence we feel some kinship with.

Hours, from its own page: open daily, breakfast 6.30am to 10.30am, lunch 12pm to 2.30pm, dinner 6pm to 10pm Monday to Thursday and to 10.30pm Friday to Sunday. Address 38 Cuscaden Road, Singapore 249731. The breakfast service makes it the only place on this list you can walk into before 11am.

Katsu by Kyu, OUE Downtown Gallery

A tonkatsu restaurant that bills itself as Singapore’s first to serve Jeju pork exclusively; that is its own claim, in its own page title. It opened in the middle of the year, per its launch coverage, so it is the oldest entry here, but it is still settling in and it is the one we would most like to eat at ourselves. Its site says the kitchen dry-ages its pork, mills its rice daily and will “choose charcoal over convenience”. A restaurant that finishes fried pork over charcoal is speaking a language we understand; if fire-cooking is your thing, our guide to Singapore’s charcoal and wood-fire kitchens sorts the city’s grills by what they burn.

Address: 6A Shenton Way, #01-09/10 OUE Downtown Gallery, Singapore 068815, nearest MRT Tanjong Pagar. Hours: Monday to Sunday, 11am to 3pm and 5pm to 10pm. Note the two-hour gap in the afternoon.

Le Ju Xuan, Marina Bay Sands

A Chinese restaurant in the lobby of Hotel Tower 2, opened in August per its launch coverage, cooking across regional Chinese styles; the resort’s page names Marble Goby and Sichuan Mapo Tofu as signatures and chef Simon Tho as the executive director of Chinese and Asian culinary.

This is the entry where the launch coverage and the restaurant’s own page part company. Opening-week write-ups gave a single continuous day: 11am to 10.30pm, or 11pm at weekends. The resort’s own page now splits it: lunch daily 11am to 5pm, last seating 4pm; dinner Sunday to Thursday 5pm to 10.30pm (last seating 10pm) and Friday and Saturday 5pm to 11pm (last seating 10.30pm). It also publishes a casual dress code with exclusions: no swimwear, robes or hotel slippers, and no singlets or tank tops for men. Worth knowing in a building full of pool guests.

Unagi Yondaime Kikukawa, Raffles City

The Nagoya unagi specialist’s second Singapore restaurant. Its own store list dates the opening precisely: 1 October 2026, at #B1-75 Raffles City Shopping Centre, 252 North Bridge Road, Singapore 179103. The first, at Shaw Centre, is listed as opening on 15 April 2025.

What its store page does not give is opening hours for either Singapore outlet, so we are not printing any. If you want a broader sense of where grilled eel and the rest of the Japanese repertoire sit in this city, our guide to Japanese restaurants in Singapore is the longer read.

The ones we could not confirm

Both of these appear on every new-openings list this autumn, and both may be excellent. We just could not read their own facts first-hand on 6 October 2026.

Assaggi, the Italian degustation room on Neil Road. Its domain is live, but opened in a full browser it displays a copyright line and two policy links, and nothing else: no address, no hours, no menu. Reservations, according to coverage, run through its Instagram.
AO, the casual sharing-plates restaurant at 1 Claymore Drive. We could find no website belonging to the restaurant at all, only an Instagram account named in its coverage.

We publish this list for the same reason we publish one in every guide: a list that silently drops what it could not verify looks exactly like a list that never checked.

How to use this list

Book the mid-week gaps deliberately. Árō is shut on Tuesday and Wednesday. If Tuesday is your night, that is one less to fight for.
Treat the last seating as the real closing time. Le Ju Xuan’s dinner ends at 10.30pm on a weeknight, but the last table is seated at 10pm.
Re-check the week you go. Any restaurant in its first three months is entitled to change its hours, and several will.

For the occasion-led version of this question, our pieces on date-night restaurants, group dinners and anniversary dinners apply the same own-website rule to places that have had longer to settle.

And the one that was new a year ago

Yes, this is us. Habibi-san has been on Hamilton Road in Jalan Besar for a year this month, cooking Japanese–Middle Eastern food over binchotan charcoal: mezze, small plates and a grill section, with sake, Macedonian wine and cocktails behind the bar. We are open Tuesday to Sunday, 5pm to 11pm, with brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 2.30pm, and closed on Mondays. We serve pork and alcohol and are not halal. You can read how we got here, look through the menu, or book a table at 29 Hamilton Road.

Sources: each venue’s own website, read on 6 October 2026: arosingapore.com; tanicasingapore.com; katsubykyu.sg; marinabaysands.com (Le Ju Xuan page); yondaimekikukawa.com (store information); assaggi.sg. Opening months are as reported in launch coverage (Time Out Singapore, City Nomads, HungryGoWhere), except Kikukawa Raffles City, whose date is from its own store list. Restaurants in their first months change hours often; confirm before a special trip.