Michelin Announces 2019 Stars for Singapore

Earlier this week, red restaurant guidebook Michelin announced its 2019 starred restaurants in Singapore. For the first time in the Singapore guide’s four-year history, there are two restaurants with three Michelin stars, Michelin’s highest honor.

Both of the newly crowned three-star restaurants are French. (Michelin is, after all, a French tire company with a notable preference for European fine dining.) Les Amis, led by chef Sébastien Lepinoy, opened in 1994 and bills itself as Singapore’s first independent fine dining restaurant. Michelin notes its wine list is “rightly considered one of the most dazzling in the Asian continent.” Odette, Singapore’s second three-star restaurant, combines French techniques with “International flavors,” according to Michelin. Its chef, Julien Royer, named the restaurant after his grandmother. Both restaurants were awarded two stars in the 2018 Michelin guide.

The Michelin Guides’ International Director Gwendal Poullennec says that with the new three-star restaurants, “Singapore enters a new dimension to the eyes and palate of food lovers.” However, this isn’t the first time a restaurant in Singapore has been awarded three stars. Singapore’s first three-Michelin-star restaurant, Joël Robuchon Restaurant, closed last June ahead of the 2018 guide.

The 2019 Michelin guide to Singapore also includes five two-star restaurants, including two new restaurants with two stars: French restaurant Saint Pierre moves up from one star, and Zén from Swedish chef Björn Frantzén makes its debut on the list with two stars after opening in November 2018. At the time, the Nordic-Japanese restaurant made headlines for possibly becoming the most expensive restaurant in Singapore at $450 per head.

There are 37 restaurants with one star this year, seven of these appearing among the starred selections for the first time. This list includes five European restaurants and two restaurants with roots in Australia. Two more newly starred restaurants were bumped up after receiving the lesser Michelin plate distinction last year: Italian restaurant Buona Terra and the unrelated Terra, which describes itself as “Japanese food culture in Italian cuisine.”

Here, the full list of Singapore’s Michelin stars.

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Les Amis

Odette

**

Saint Pierre

Shisen Hanten

Shoukouwa

Waku Ghin

Zen

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Alma

Basque Kitchen by Aitor

Beni

Braci

Buona Terra

Burnt Ends

Candlenut

Cheek Bistro

Chef Kang’s

Corner House

CUT by Wolfgang Puck

Garibaldi

Hawker Chan

Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle

Iggy’s

Imperial Treasure Fine Teochew Cuisine (Orchard)

Jaan by Kirk Westaway

Jag

Jiang-Nan Chun

Labyrinth

Lei Garden

Lerouy

Ma Cuisine

Meta

Nouri

Putien (Kitchener Road)

Rhubarb

Shinji (Bras Basah Road)

Shinji (Tanglin Road)

Summer Palace

Summer Pavilion

Sushi Ichi

Sushi Kimura

Table65

Terra

The Song Of India

Vianney Massot

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