A modern Japanese restaurant that has gained a following amongst elite business travellers and luminaries. Specialising in tempura, Tenshin continues to receive accolades from the culinary community.

Zento is the latest offering at prime chill out and dinner hangout, Dempsey Hill. Serving modern contemporary Japanese cuisines, Zento is home to Chef Gunawan Wibisono who once practiced the fine culinary arts under Iron Chef, Masaharu Morimoto.

Aoki Japanese Restaurant Address
1 Scotts Road, Shaw Centre #02-17
Town/City, Singapore, 228208
Ph. 6333 8015
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Hanabi, situated in the chic Odean towers gets by with a simple yet contemporary décor. Though small in seating capacity, the buffet ($33) menu lists over 100 Japanese dishes that come at a snap of the finger, from your standard sashimi platter, fresh crispy breaded tempura, gooey sweet yakitori, savoury curry udon, to the [...]

Nogawa Japanese Restaurant @ Sentosa
This specialty 40-seater Japanese restaurant is Nogawa San’s third in Singapore, after his outlets at Le Meridien and Japanese Association. Well-known for its authentic Japanese cuisine, Yoshio Nogawa, is also Singapore’s most respected Japanese Chef. Dress code: smart casual.

Location: Sentosa Golf Club
Type of View: Business, Greenery view
Operating Hrs: Tue – [...]

10 Devonshire Road, Singapore. Tel: 6735 5014
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 3pm Dinner: 6pm – Midnight
Here’s my top tip for Japanese restaurants – if they have a counter or a bar, sit at it. And that’s exactly what I did at Sushi Yoshida: not only do you get to dine cheek by jowl with the [...]

#03-15 Wheelock Place, 501 Orchard Road, Singapore. Tel: 6733 6636
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 3pm (Mon – Fri) 11 am – 3pm (Sat – Sun) Dinner: 6.30pm – 10pm (Mon – Thu, Sun) 6.30pm – Midnight (Fri – Sat) Tea: 2.30 – 6.30 (Mon – Fri) 3pm – 6.30pm (Sat – Sun)
Sun with Moon – [...]

Lobby Level, Goodwood Park Hotel, 22 Scott’s Road, Singapore
Tel: 6734 6281/ 6835 0529
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 2.30pm Dinner: 6.30pm – 10.30pm
While Shima continues to draw loyal customers and win new ones with its renowned teppanyaki dishes, the sushi, sashimi, tempura and shabu shabu items are worth a try also. The odd thing here is [...]

#02-26 Amara Hotel, 165 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore.
Tel: 6324 8388 / 6324 5188
Operating Hours: Lunch: 11.30am – 2.30pm Dinner: 6.30pm – 11 pm
Santaro is a good all-round Japanese restaurant – with top-notch service and a wide range of food.The emphasis is on top quality seasonal produce and what one should order really depends on when [...]

#09-00 M Hotel, 81 Anson Road, Singapore. Tel: 6421 6232
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 2.30pm (Mon – Sat) Dinner: 6pm – 10.30pm
This fledgling restaurant, just past its first birthday, is large and well-spaced – a necessity to cater to the massive CBD lunch crowd which comes in for the well­-priced bento lunchboxes. However, I had [...]

Lobby Level, Hotel InterContinental Singapore, 80 Middle Road
Tel: 6825 1064/ 6338 7600
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 2.30pm (Mon – Sat) Dinner: 6pm – 10.30pm (Mon – Sat)
Hidden away inside the Hotel InterContinental, this restaurant is little-known gem. A dish of unagi dōfu (grilled eel and tofu) instantly showed an attention to detail and a flair [...]

#01-07 One Fullerton, 1 Fullerton Road, Singapore. Tel: 6536 3080
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 3pm (closed weekends and PH) Dinner: 6pm – 11 pm
This place has marvellous aesthetics: the food is colourful, elegant and beautiful, the view across the bay is stunning, and the timber accented interior is bright, airy and refined. Expect classic Japanese cuisine, with [...]

#01-18/19 UE Square, 81A Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore. Tel: 6733 4001
Operating Hours: Lunch: 11.30am – 2pm Dinner: 6pm – 11 pm
The wait staff at this excellent do-it-yourself barbecue restaurant are impeccably trained. Besides having a good knowledge of the menu, they are always smiling and ready to change the grill, plates and even advise on wine [...]

#01-57 UE Square, 207 River Valley Road, Singapore. Tel: 6735 2212
Operating Hours: Dinner: 6pm – Midnight (Sun – Thu) 6pm – 3am (Fri – Sat, eve of PH)
Hidden within the slightly careworn entrance is a casual izakaya that serves an amazing variety of delicious bar snacks and main meals. The best bets are the house [...]

#01-05 Park Hotel, 270 Orchard Road, Singapore. Tel: 6737 1160
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 3pm Dinner: 6.30pm – 11 pm
A name synonymous with beautifully fresh sushi and sashimi, Tatsuya has been the choice destination for local Japanese cuisine devotees since its opening. Helmed by chef and owner Ronnie Chia, the cosy restaurant boasts excellent, helpful service; restrained, [...]

29A Cuppage Terrace, Cuppage Road Singapore, Tel: 835 3539
Operating Hours: Dinner: 6pm – 11 pm
The tag `Little Tokyo’ given to this Cuppage enclave is not just a marketing initiative. The area is packed with numerous little eateries, run – and patronised – by the Japanese: and the convivial atmosphere does indeed remind me of the [...]

#01-15 Riverside View, 30 Robertson Quay, Singapore
Tel: 6887 3577
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 2.30pm Dinner: 6pm – 10.30pm (Sun – Wed) 6pm – 11 pm (Thu – Sat)
This restaurant’s feel is akin to that of an izakaya – a traditional Japanese bar – rustic, simple and cosy. Two things strike as you read the menu [...]

#B1-41 Paragon, 290 Orchard Road, Singapore. Tel: 6735 9882
As the name suggests, handmade soba is this restaurant’s specialty. Passers-by can watch the process of making this from start to finish in the impressive glass-walled showcase kitchen – from the grinding of the buckwheat to the resulting flour being kneaded into a dough, then being deftly hand-cut [...]

#05-132 Far East Plaza, 14 Scott’s Rd Singapore. Tel: 6733 5666
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 2.30pm Dinner: 6pm – 10.30pm
Few know that Nanbantei is part of a Japanese chain of restaurants that was the first to expand the repertoire of yakitori beyond the traditional grilled-chicken-on-stick. In the unassuming Singapore outlet, there are more than 50 [...]

Lobby Level, Shangri-La Hotel, 22 Orange Grove Road, Singapore. Tel: 6213 4571
Operating Hours: Lunch: Noon – 2.30pm Dinner: 6.30pm – 10.30pm
One of the premier fine dining Japanese restaurants in town, Nadaman lives up to its established reputation as the top choice for businessmen and ladies of leisure seeking an extravagant Japanese meal. Elegantly furnished, the [...]