Singapore

This is our ulti-mutt guide to petcations in Asia Pacific, the cute kitty corners at Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok just one pawsome example.

These TV shows helped sate our wanderlust during lockdowns, and are inspiring us to travel once more.

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.

It’s about time someone put a new wellness retreat in Singapore’s lush vacation isle.

From living the hotel suite life to perfume classes and private Pilates, daycations are at the top of our local travel bucket list.

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

The top 100 Best Hotels Overall in 2021 as voted by our readers in the World’s Best Awards.

When it comes to air hubs, Asia and the Middle East do it best. These are the top 10 international airports in 2021.

Stately grande dames and names globally known for luxury.

VIDEO: Perk up your ears for an exploration of sound at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore

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

A collaboration with Net-A-Porter and The Meshminds Foundation, “Please Insert Women” is a groundbreaking work.

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

A trio of new boutique hotels will bring modern dazzle to the scene in Singapore.

The luxury resort on Sentosa Island recruited the starchitect to update its suites for the modern traveler. We got a first look.

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

Here are the dishes, drinks, cultural attractions and stays that have us dreaming of booking a plane ticket.

5 luxury brands with new resorts or programs offering high-octane healing in the plushest of places.

Forget Paris and Milan. These days, style mavens are rocking looks that come from much closer to home.

With these two new packages from Sofitel Singapore City Centre you can support the Autism Resource Centre Singapore.

These luxury hotels are all about creature comforts.

With over 1,500 hotels by Wyndham across Asia Pacific—you’ll never be far from an exciting Wyndham Rewards destination.

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

The United Nations World Happiness Report remains dominated by Nordic countries. But there’s a new twist this year, with East Asian nations getting a shout-out for Covid-times quality of life.

It’s been a while since a luxury hotel opened in the Singapore CBD and this one is milking its neighborhood’s rich heritage for all it’s worth.

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?

From bespoke skincare to upcycled backpacks, these sustainable Southeast Asian brands make it easy to be green.

Have you seen the Green Wall of Singapore? The new Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay is the latest lush example of biophilic hotels, designed to immerse us in nature inside and out.

Karana is producing ‘pork’ out of jackfruit from Sri Lanka and Singapore’s top chefs are eating it up. We taste-tested them all.

Experience the Singapore Zoo when you stay at the Sofitel Singapore City Centre.

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.

The T+L 500 are the world’s best hotels in 2021, as voted by T+L’s discerning readers.

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.

The Year of the Ox starts February 12. Here’s a look at the celebration plans, Covid regulations and best restaurants for new year’s dinner in Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore and Taipei.

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?

We asked our writers for their favorite places to travel domestically. Here, Christian Barker tells us where he fancies in Singapore.

The new requirement is meant to help stem the spread of new coronavirus variants.

Governments around the region got you locked in? With Michelin meals, multimedia escapes and even leopard-spotting excursions, these hotels will (almost) leave you wishing that quarantine would never end.

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

Two championship golf courses, a heavenly spa, a sparkling silhouette and acres of verdant quiet. We check in to the first luxury hotel to open in Singapore during the pandemic.

Over the past few months, staycations and domestic travel have pushed round-the-world journeys off our agendas. Check out these deals that make it easier—and cheaper—to travel in your home country.

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.

St. Andrews this is not, but plenty of dedicated pros have managed to coax some stunning, challenging championship courses out of our tropical environs. These five are way above par (or should we say under?).

Lamaze classes are so last century. The new Kai Suites in Singapore has a mommy spa, Michelin meals, and TCM to go with its maternity ward.

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

If you’ve ever dreamed of mastering calligraphy, drumming or gardening—all while staying in style—Capella Singapore has you covered.

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

From mile-high dating games to temple flybys, airlines are pooh-poohing Covid border closures with plane tickets that go roundtrip in a single flight.

Three cities are tied in the number one spot. Can you guess what they are?

Now that we are living in the new normal, hospitality power players, tech entrepreneurs, and governments around the globe have been coming up with out-of-the-box solutions to keep people safe.

Singapore’s super cute critically endangered monkey species has a new safe haven–and a new fresh baby.

A lesser used tool in the men’s grooming arsenal, facials are frankly awesome.

We check in to some of Singapore’s most iconic hotels to get away without going far.

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?

Singapore is reopening unilaterally to visitors from Vietnam and Australia (excluding Victoria state) this week.

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

Here’s when and where you might be able to travel again in Asia.

No need to live out of a suitcase: extended stays these days mean city-center locations, spacious modern abodes and top-notch 24-hour dining.

High-contrast mid-city stays that deliver stylish comfort without breaking the budget.

Bohemian isles, castaway retreats, adults-only hideouts—make it a magical couple’s getaway in one of these lush luxury escapes.

All work and no play is no way to do business travel. Mix up your next corporate trip with rooftop cocktails, sightseeing or soaking up the sun.

This is not the kind of dog you want to pet.

Apart, but somehow not alone. Here’s what lockdown looks like for 10 people across the globe.

Mix things up on your next family trip with activities that get the imagination—and the adrenaline— flowing.

Happier days are ahead! For now, virtually escape to these 10 cheerful places.

It’s a surprisingly splendid time to travel domestically.

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.

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

The old school rules in Geylang, where a colorful jumble of heritage shops, ornate temples, bustling kopitiams and legendary eateries invites a closer look at Singapore’s grittiest neighborhood.

A funky crop of co-living spaces is transforming millennial travel across Asia. We find sharing is caring in Singapore’s newest community-hotel hub

The Capitol Kempinksi Hotel Singapore is a cozy complex spanning three historic buildings. Jeninne Lee-St.John makes herself at home.

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

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.

One of Ascott’s six serviced residences in Singapore, Ascott Orchard stands out for its fashionable pedigree. Set in the heart of famed shopping belt Orchard Road, it’s the island’s first serviced residence to offer eight Fendi Casa–furnished penthouse suites.

Designed to warm the cockles of any card-carrying millennial’s heart, The Great Madras is a colorful 35-room conservation project that fully embraces its history and location in vibrant Little India.

Festive Hotel scores points with families for the smorgasbord of activities available within a stone’s throw: it’s just steps away from Southeast Asia’s only Universal Studios theme park, S.E.A. Aquarium (one of the world’s largest aquariums) and Adventure Cove Waterpark (where high-speed waterslides and swimming with dolphins and sharks await).

A study in updated nostalgia, the first urban hotel from the wellness-focused brand is a natural fit for Duxton Hill, where steely towers loom over Chinatown shophouses.

Low-budget, high-design, next-gen hotels have begun to sweep Asia, an on-trend fit for digital nomads, flashpackers and aesthetes alike.

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 […]

With designer digs and creative spaces, a new crop of hotels is making it easier than ever to ditch the nine-to-five and embrace the digital nomad lifestyle.

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.

Once a gritty complex surrounded by illegal distilleries and secret societies, this industrial building has found new life as an industrial-chic 37-key boutique.

In the 1950s, heritage building in the heart of the CBD was once the tallest and most prestigious in Southeast Asia. After much painstaking restoration, it reopened as the Ascott Raffles Place Singapore.

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.

The 38-story Pan Pacific Singapore has more to offer than a prestigious address. Many of the 790 rooms and suites feature killer views and the entrance sports a mod design scheme from John Portman.

An older hotel by comparison, the Shangri-La is still a gem, neatly tucked into a green corner in the center of Singapore. Its entirely renovated Garden Wing is surrounded by 6 hectares of landscaped greenery, most notably a waterfall and a koi pond.

The glitzy W Singapore – Sentosa Cove is just the spot to indulge your inner rock star. Designed by renowned architect firm WAT G and the Rockwell Group, the glamorous property features 240 multi-colored rooms decked out in creature comforts like rain showers, 101-centimeter HD TVs and Wi-Fi. wsingaporesentosacove.com

Perched high atop a cliff amid landscaped tropical gardens, The Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort & Spa, is one of Asia’s best kept secrets.

Located in the heart of the city’s business, shopping and entertainment district, Singapore Marriott Hotel is best known for its iconic green pagoda roof at the corner of Scotts Road and Orchard Road.

Singapores mammoth Marina Bay Sands casino complex may be the city’s most talked-about debut, but the real gem is hidden in its shadow across the bay.

Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the 855,000-square-meter MBS rises from reclaimed land in the city’s downtown, with three 55-story towers capped by a 340-meter-long cantilevered floating garden.

With its monied, Old World atmosphere and emphasis on bespoke service, the St. Regis Singapore seriously raises the stakes in this city’s already crowded luxury market.