2022's newly-starred Michelin restaurants you need to make reservations at now

A recently-rehomed modern Aussie-style barbeque restaurant in Dempsey Hill, Singapore’s hippest dining enclave, Burnt Ends serves food cooked in its signature four-tonne wood fire oven, best accompanied by complementary boutique wines from the Burnt Ends Cellars.

Here, there isn’t any one dish we recommend, and not for the reason you’d expect — the restaurant actually changes their menu daily. This way, you know you’re getting the best of what’s available, and it gives you another reason to return!

7 Dempsey Road, #01-04, Singapore 249671, +65 6224 3933

Helmed by acclaimed chef Jason Tan, Euphoria along Tras Street is a showcase of the chef’s interpretation of French cuisine, which he calls Gastro-Botanica 2.0. (It’s an improved version of Gastro-Botanica, his original cuisine.) Here, carefully-sourced premium ingredients are used, in a way that emphasises the botanical elements of vegetables, herbs, spices and fruits.

Embark on a 'Journey of Euphoria', the restaurant’s lavish 8-course dinner menu in which you will get to sample chef Jason’s signature dish ‘My Favourite Vegetable’, featuring the Cévennes onion prepared four ways.

76 Tras Street, Singapore 079015

Up the road from Euphoria is Hamamoto by chef Kazuhiro Hamamoto, an elusive 12-seater omakase restaurant that serves only the finest kappo sushi made with seasonal ingredients sourced from Japan. Not quite intimate enough for you? Enquire about their private room which seats anywhere from two to four guests.

Notice the painstaking attention to detail here, like the sake cups — handmade by the chef’s old friend with an ancient technique — that are filled with Hamamoto’s house sake that the chef himself formulated in collaboration with a storied sake brewery in Yamagata.

58 Tras Street, Singapore 078997, +65 9672 7110

Enter the gastronomic world of Anne-Sophie Pic, the world’s most decorated female chef (she holds 10 Michelin stars across her five restaurants in France, Switzerland, Britain and Singapore, the only location outside Europe), at La Dame de Pic, a swanky restaurant housed in a swanky hotel — Raffles Hotel Singapore.

It’s not just the hotel with a rich heritage, as Anne-Sophie Pic hails from a long line of culinary royalty. In 1889, her great grandmother established L’Auberge du Pin, a French restaurant which, under her grandfather, went on to first earn three Michelin stars in 1934. Although the restaurant’s number of stars have fluctuated over the years, it holds three stars today.

At La Dame de Pic, savour Anne-Sophie Pic’s signature dish, the Berlingots, which are exquisite morsels of pasta that can be found in all of the chef’s restaurants worldwide. But in each locale, she puts a spin on it so the seasonal Berlingots reflect each of her five outpost’s characters. This season’s Berlingots are laksa-inspired, incorporating laksa leaves, Indian borage, holy basil and wild pepper.

1 Beach Road, Singapore 189673, +65 6412 1185

Inside Gardens by the Bay’s temperate Flower Dome is the botanical Marguerite by Melbourne-born chef Michael Wilson. Expect bright and clean tasting menus carefully made with contemporary seasonal cuisine that highlights the best of each season.

Opt for the wine pairing, where the drink and dish dance and enchant your palate, or the mixed pairing, where you’ll be wowed by the innovative non-alcoholic drinks such as Granny Smith with Shiso and Strawberry and Rhubarb Jun Tea.

18 Marina Gardens Drive, #01-09, Singapore 018593, +65 6604 9988

NAE:UM features a unique episodic menu, each one reflecting a food story for Gangnam-born chef Louis Han. The restaurant serves modern Korean — specifically, Seoul — cuisine, blending traditional Korean flavours with Western techniques. Dinner’s currently on the third episode, ‘Seaside Dreams’, prominently featuring seafood ingredients while the once-a-week lunch is on the second episode, ‘Mountain Lodge’.

With a name meaning ‘a fragrance that evokes memories’, NAE:UM’s objective is clear — they create comforting yet avant garde dishes that are reminiscent of the past.

161 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore 068615, +65 8830 5016

Savour French cuisine cooked by an award-winning chef, Kawano Masahiko, whose Japanese identity is so strong it can’t help but make its way into his cooking. Not forgetting about its locale, local ingredients are used too.

Take a seat at the sleek black marble counter, and marvel at the chef’s expertise and showmanship as they prepare dishes like duck consommé with whole grain soba and uni with cauliflower mousse.

39 Kreta Ayer Road, #01-01, Singapore 089002, +65 6550 2010

The three restaurants with three Michelin stars

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Les Amis
Odette
Zen

The seven restaurants with two Michelin stars

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Cloudstreet
Jaan by Kirk Westaway
Saint Pierre
Shisen Hanten
Shoukouwa
Thevar
Waku Ghin

The other 35 restaurants with one Michelin star

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28 Wilkie
Alma by Juan Amador
Art
Basque Kitchen by Aitor
Beni
Braci
Buona Terra
Candlenut
Chef Kang's
Cure
CUT
Esora
Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle
Iggy's
Imperial Treasure Fine Teochew Cuisine
Restaurant Jag
Labyrinth
Lei Garden
Lerouy
Ma Cuisine
Meta
Nouri
Oshino
Putien, Kitchener Road
Rhubarb
Shang Palace
Shinji by Kanesaka, Carlton Hotel Singapore
Sommer
Summer Palace
Summer Pavilion
Sushi Ichi
Sushi Kimura
Table65
Terra
Whitegrass