Food & Drink

Whether you can travel to a distant isle or just across town, these roarsome Lunar New Year escapes will help you channel your inner tiger like the superstar you are.

From modern Korean and Indian plates to pizza perfection to multi-culti pan-Asian.

Once you read about the simple genius of ecoSPIRITS, you’ll demand your favorite bartender green up your next drink.

Can you guess which country has the most bars on the 50 Best list in 2021? Hint: Cocktail culture is roaring back in this Asian capital.

Chef Han Li Guang of Michelin-starred Labyrinth in Singapore shares his recipe for the prettiest rojak we’ve ever seen.

It’s white-truffle season! Here are some of the best places to indulge in Asia.

Noma’s second iteration takes the crown and Asia claims 8 slots.

Once billed too funky for the ordinary palate, natural wine is now all the rave in Singapore. Here are our fave spots.

Rooted in the melting-pot history of Singapore, Hainanese Western food is a must-try for traveling foodies.

A pandemic can’t stop super-chef Mauro Colagraco from world domination.

High-end hotels are installing high-tech solutions to make their kitchens—and our meals—more sustainable.

These Japanese restaurants in Singapore are bringing the ohhhh! to omakase.

The best part about melting pots is that our taste buds need never get bored. Here are some of our favorite places in Singapore to eat authentic cuisine from elsewhere in Asia.

From climate change to community, these Singapore restaurants are tackling the big issues by supercharging our diets with healthier, eco-friendly, morally minded meals. They’re also delish.

Picture it: you’ll finish that sweaty workout with a satisfying slug of… bug juice?

In honor of the Emerald Isle, we raise a toast to the greenest, most conscientious brewers in our region. Because what’s St. Patrick’s Day without green beer?

These bars reduce, reuse and recycle, plus replant the rainforest on the path to delicious drinks. Here are a few lessons in eco-mixology, complete with climate-conscious cocktail recipes.

If home is where the heart is, these restaurants around our region really set ours aflutter. Here are 7 of our favorite fine-dining spots that deliver Valentine’s Day to your door.

In the run-up to Lunar New Year, we fete everyone’s favorite Chinese imperial dish. These are the tastiest Peking ducks in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok.

Two-Michelin-star Shoukouwa’s new En menu is a whopping S$650 (before drinks and taxes). Is it worth it?

As Singapore’s Chinatown has exploded with great global gastro options, Stanley Street has debuted four of the hottest tables in town.

January 1 isn’t just New Year’s Day; it’s Bloody Mary Day. We’re here to help you nurse that massive hangover from last night — or, let’s be honest, all of last year.

This exhaustively researched list of the best pizza in Singapore features both quick’n’sleazy slices and gourmet pies.

Here are our picks for the most delectable holiday dinners in Singapore.

Whet your Appetite for star chef Ivan Brehm’s super nerdy, border-crossing, culture-merging, artsy, moody community hub. Oh, you can eat there, too.

Across Southeast Asia time-capsule cafés and bars provide a glimpse of—and a reassuring anchor to—neighborhood diners in simpler times.

Everyone knows gin-and-tonic is good for you. But have you ever considered what a truly global invention it is?

How lockdown deepened our love for local eating in some of Southeast Asia’s foodie hubs.

T+L’s monthly selection of trip-worthy places, experiences and events.

Rojak gin? Fancy Thai rum? Bring these bottles home instead of the elephant print pants.

From a funky wine spot in Hong Kong to a bar inspired by Indian heritage in Singapore, these are the new spots where you’ll probably find us drinking these days.

A grande dame made new again and an Old Man transplanted: can you guess our picks for the best new openings in Singapore 2019?

At S$450 a head, newly opened Nordic restaurant Zén easily tops the list of most expensive restaurants in Singapore—and the region.

This stylish restaurant in Clarke Quay takes an innovative, playful approach to regional cooking, with dishes like wok-fried paneer tacos and bhatti murgh tikkas served in Mexican style quesadillas.

Asia’s craft suds scene keeps getting better. We check in with six exciting breweries using local flavors and ingredients to push beer boundaries.

ON THE 70th FLOOR OF Swissotel, The Stamford, the heights that offer killer views act as a metaphor for the theme of elevation that divides the 12-cocktail menu into the categories of sea, rainforest, high desert and alpine. Salty sips Samphire and Buckthorn Cliff change to fruity and herbal gems such as The Shaman (which […]

Mandarin Oriental Singapore’s sophisticated bar has a beguiling cocktail list inspired by the flavors and cultures in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Coral Sea.

Fly high in this live-music bar decorated with golden-age-of-travel paraphernalia, including a cabinet of curiosities featuring rare and exotic spirits (go ahead, ask for a tasting shot). Bartender Andy Griffiths has a few kitchen shenanigans up his sleeve.

DON’T LET THIS BAR’S western outskirts address nor its hidden location in the wine-and-spirits section of a supermarket deter your hunt for it. From toasted sesame seeds in honey lining the glass of a Beehive to a bee smoker sending delicate sandalwood wafts into the Rhubino cocktail with tart rhubarb notes, bar manager Anton Gornev […]

WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT what you get at this rooftop bar with smashing sunset skyline views. New head bartender Jorge Conde conjures up flavor illusions such as a clear Bloody Mary and his weirdly delicious Dali’s Self Portrait, which completely befuddles your mind about the typical Manhattan, as he makes his twist on it […]

Border-jumping tipples and nibbles with an Oriental twist is the mission statement from Italian-Filipino mixologist eye-candy Davide Boncimino. Shoot for the unorthodox (Not) Classic PBJ concocted from peanut butter fat–washed Glenfiddich whisky and caramelized kumquat liqueur, which comes with a bamboo tray of three smoked chocolate-coated macadamia nuts and chili puree.

Industry veteran Kamil Foltan and his wife Zurina Bryant run this lab- bar on the upper floor of a shophouse, spinning odd, local ingredients such as curry leaves, bananas and jackfruits into brilliantly balanced drinks that leave a lingering, often unforgettable, aftertaste.

Sour-cream potato chips, sesame oil and burnt butter are just some of the homey ingredients lending their whiffs to the cocktail list of JAM restaurant and bar in chichi Dempsey’s lifestyle space Siri House.

From saucy to wacky, cleverly concocted cocktails are bringing kitchen techniques behind the bar.

MOVE OVER, SINGAPORE SLING—new twists on gin have edged out the tourist go-to as the nation’s de rigueur drink. Local bars such as Native infuse gin with everything from matcha to laksa leaf, while others, like Atlas (with its staggering 1,000-plus labels), build menus around their sizable collections of mother’s ruin. Now, Singaporean distilleries are […]

There is not a more quintessential dining experience in the city than pulling up a plastic chair to tray full of food at a hawker center. Here, our abridged guide on what to order from the plethora of tasty plates dished out at these colorful outdoor food centers.

Catching the spirit of collaboration, Asian breweries are teaming up with bold beer hounds, artisanal chocolatiers, coffee roasters, and more to produce some serious suds.