Singapore’s Michelin Guide Turns Ten With Eight New or Promoted Restaurants

Michelin Guide Singapore marked its tenth edition on August 4 at Raffles Sentosa. Across stars, Bibs, and Selected, 307 dining places made the digital guide. The useful news is smaller. Eight restaurants were newly starred or promoted, and those eight say more about where Singapore fine dining is heading than another full directory would.

Two moves define the night. 1887 by André, André Chiang’s heritage-gastronomy room inside Raffles Hotel Singapore, opened only on March 31 and debuted straight at two stars, plus the guide’s new Opening of the Year award. Seroja, Kevin Wong and Andrew Ou’s Malay Archipelago restaurant at Duo Galleria, climbed from one star to two and kept its Green Star. After a lean 2025, the anniversary list finally moved again.

1887 is the headline because speed usually works against inspectors. Chiang, the Taiwan-born chef who once ran Restaurant André in Singapore and still steers RAW in Taipei, built the room as French technique reading Raffles history and local memory, with chef de cuisine Ben Wang and sous chef Roy Kuo running the kitchen day to day. A two-star debut that early is the guide showing unusual confidence in a young room.

Seroja’s promotion is the other kind of confidence. The restaurant opened in 2022 as a modern reading of Malay Archipelago cooking, entered the guide with one star in 2023, and now sits among Singapore’s nine two-star rooms. Wong has talked about dreaming the place with Ou since they were eighteen. A second star, and another Green Star beside Fiz, the contemporary Malaysian restaurant that also kept the sustainability badge, tells diners the guide will treat regional Malay cooking as fine dining that can hold over years.

The six one-star shifts fill out the cuisine map. Hotel Cantonese and Chinese rooms advanced: Jin Ting Wan at Marina Bay Sands and Cherry Garden by Chef Fei at Mandarin Oriental Singapore both took first stars, while Yong Fu moved up from the Selected list. Japanese specialty kitchens landed too: Tenshima for tempura, Sushi Kimura+ for sushi, and Loca Niru, Shusuke Kubota’s Japanese-French tasting room in the House of Tan Yeok Nee, which also won Young Chef of the Year. Read together, the anniversary deepens a few categories: Chinese hotel dining, Japanese craft rooms, and Archipelago cooking strong enough for two stars.

Singapore still has three three-star restaurants, Les Amis, Odette, and Zen, and thirty-three one-star addresses in all. The July Bib Gourmand list already covered the value half of this tenth year. Keep August for the change set: 1887’s fast two-star arrival and Seroja’s climb.