18 great wine bars and wine restaurants in Singapore 2024
Plenty of wine lists with classics from Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne – but also a growing interest for orange wine and pet nat. Singapore is a diverse wine and food city. Here are the best places to go if you are looking for great wine. The guide is created by Alvin Gho, Star Wine List's Singapore ambassador.
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Phone: +65 9199 9008
Address: 2 Stamford Road, Level 70
Jaan is a modern British restaurant serving their interpretation of fish and chips as a snack (not an amuse bouche) and final sweets (not mignardises or petit fours). The restaurant is located on the top floor of Swissotel The Stamford in the City Hall area of Singapore. It has a stunning view of the Singapore River as well as the iconic Marina Bay Sands. The wine list is predominantly French, and the breadth of the regions covered is aptly matched by the diversity of producers in all the regions. The Burgundy selection is the work of a genius, and one thing that often excites me about the Lo...
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Phone: +65 8076 5674
Address: 11 North Canal Road, #01-01 The Offshore
Convivial is the work of passion by sommelier champion Yeo Xi Yang. It is the first and only Champagne-focused bar in Singapore which put many a naysayer to rest. “Asians do not like sparkling wines and bubbles!” is a statement of the past. It is indeed true that sparkling wines as aperitifs were hard sells back when I was working the floor, but Yang stepped in and ripped all these ideas apart. Champagnes are naturally higher value and do indeed create a bigger hole in the pocket. But if it makes you happy, what's the problem? At Convivial, you will also find well-selected bar grubs in the f...
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Phone: +65 6909 8120
Address: 25 Keong Saik Road
This is one of my favourite lists, not just because of the grand selection of Burgundy wines but also for the fun quotes all over the list. Did you for example know that Karl Marx once aptly warned to “be careful to trust a person who does not like wine”?! A Burgundy bistro and wine bar by a native Burgundian Geoffrey Daurelle (owner and General Manager) makes total sense as a concept, and I love strong concepts as much as I love diversity. I’m not the biggest fan of commercialised wine collections purchased just because the owners are super wealthy. I believe in a large diversity within con...
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Phone: +65 6534 8880
Address: 41 Bukit Pasoh Road
When you are looking for an out-of-the-ordinary experience, both food and wine-wise, Zén should be high on your list. The casual and informal treatment by the staff, while at the same time being correct and extremely knowledgable on all aspects of the food, beverages and the pairings, gives this establishment that little extra that you should expect from a three-star Michelin restaurant. The food is very exciting, tasteful and beautiful in a more Asian-inspired way than what might be expected, seeing that the origin of the concept is from Scandinavia. The beverage pairings are, more often than...
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Phone: +65 6789 9801
Address: 10 Jiak Chuan Road
Best Short List of the Year Asia 2023
Bar Cicheti is the first pasta bar concept in Singapore and is situated along Singapore's foodie paradise Keong Saik Road. Bar Cicheti is a restaurant that is equally invested in its beverage program as in the food.
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Phone: +65 6224 3933
Address: #01-04, 7 Dempsey Road, 249671
Aussie BBQ restaurant Burnt Ends has one Michelin star and is one of the most difficult restaurants in Singapore to get a table at. Chef/owner Dave Pynt has successfully introduced this simple, straightforward yet outrageously good cuisine to Singapore.
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Phone: +65 6265 2966
Address: 39C Harding Road
Best Long List of the Year Asia, presented by Domaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné 2024
Claudine is 3-Michelin star chef Julien Royer's second restaurant in Singapore. It is centrally situated in an area called Dempsey Hill, which seems to be an emerging area for top chefs to cluster. The food is classic French, hearty yet elegantly done. The space is grand as it was an old heritage chapel, so when you enter the space, it transports you to a different dimension from what we usually have in our concrete jungle Singapore. If I were on a date at Claudine, I am sure my date would be upset about how much time I will need to read this list. So many gems, yet so little time! The list...
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Phone: +65 6513 7868
Address: 84 Amoy Street, Singapore
Cloudstreet is a restaurant on Amoy Street in Singapore serving modern cuisine with Sri Lankan influence by chef and owner Rishi Naleendra. The space is beautiful and artistic with a counter-style chef’s table as well as tables and private rooms. The service is warm, friendly and totally unpretentious.
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Phone: +65 6513 2286
Address: 128 Tembeling Road
Forma is a passion project by the dynamic trio of the Cicheti group; Liling, Aun, and Ronald. They are now joined by Yum Hwa, pasta maker extraordinaire, to set up Singapore’s hottest table in the ever-growing hipster area of Joo Chiat. You will find this elegant restaurant amongst old shophouses where families live, and old traders are operating shops. But that snaking queue and well-dressed patrons are quite a new sight now on Tembling Road. The Italy-dominated wine list boasts a representation of all of Italy’s 20 wine regions and at least 65 indigenous varieties. To top things up and to...
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Phone: +65 6221 1911
Address: 21 Boon Tat Street
Fool is a Michelin Bib Gourmand wine bar a stone's throw away from their sister restaurant Cloudstreet. They are based very near to Singapore's business district on Boon Tat Street. The space reminds me of a funky, groovy disco lounge with a beautiful sound system and great tunes. Not your run-of-mill wine bar for sure; bright, colourful, and quirky paintings adorn the walls, and the furniture is chic and tastefully designed. The first thing that greets you on the first page of the wine list is bold, cheeky, groovy disco-styled font shouting "WINE". It's amazing how it immediately sets the t...
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Phone: +65 6222 8266
Address: 29 Boon Tat Street, G/F
Le Quinze Vins is situated on Boon Tat Street in the central business district. It’s a really short walk for CBD oenophiles to get inebriated in the afternoon right before work ends. And where else to better do it than here?
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Phone: +65 6224 1490
Address: 29 Club Street
Le Bon Funk, as the name might suggest, is all about the good fun. Chef and owner Keirin Buck and his team whip up a rotating menu of wine-friendly dishes focusing on fresh produce. They are located on Club Street, close to the central business district in Singapore.
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Phone: +65 6224 1838
Address: 38 Craig Road
Ma Cuisine is an outpost of Beaune’s own Ma Cuisine. It is located on Craig Road in Singapore and serves classic French food by co-owner and chef Mathieu Escoffier. Identified as a gastro-wine bar, Ma Cuisine is a pioneer in the city when it comes to making a point about ordering your wines first, then food.
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Phone: +65 6224 2404
Address: 10 Teck Lim Road
Very rarely has a chef in Singapore taken such an interest in wine as chef Nicolas Joanny. Nicolas le Restaurant is situated on the very popular Keong Saik Road in the heart of Singapore and serves set-only menus at very affordable price points.
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Phone: +65 6213 4595
Address: Lobby Level, Tower Wing, 22 Orange Grove Road
A classic yet modern hotel steakhouse within the iconic Shangri-la Hotel Singapore's Orchard area. The restaurant features the best produce from the land, fields and sea and one of the best beef selections. We know that the sommelier is brave when categorising his wine list based on grape varieties. Letting the grapes shine and allowing the grapes to speak for themselves! He has snippets of grape information scattered around the list, sharing things like "what a Pinotage is" and "the meaning of Nero d'Avola". Wine geeks would be pleased to know that they can drink more than 40 varieties ran...
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Phone: +65 6385 0498
Address: 1 Saint Andrew's Road, #01-04 National Gallery
Sparkling Wine List of the Year Asia, presented by Nyetimber 2024
A Michelin three-star French restaurant in the historical former Supreme Court building. Here, chef and owner Julien Royer runs the kitchen with his brigade of talented and young local chefs.
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Phone: +65 6725 3246
Address: 1 Cuscaden Road
International California Wine List of the Year, presented by Louis M. Martini 2024
Park 90 is a wine bar located in a hotel lobby of the Conrad hotel in Singapore, famous for its large wine collection and also a huge team of professional sommeliers. Food is available from the hotel’s kitchens and restaurants.
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Phone: +65 6909 5709
Address: 38 Carpenter Street, #01-01
RVLT is a seriously fun wine bar on Carpenter Street, serving outrageously yummy bar food. This wine bar is unconventional with its industrial setting and curated playlist which people can sing along to. (Alvin Gho, the co-founder at RVLT, is also Star Wine List's Singapore ambassador, Editor's note)