Just Opened August 2026: New Restaurants, Cafes and Bars in Singapore

Unagi Yondaime Kikukawa

MICHELIN Selected Unagi Yondaime Kikukawa has opened its second Singapore restaurant at Raffles City, following its Shaw Centre debut in April 2025. The Nagoya-born chain traces its roots to Nakasho Shoten, an unagi wholesaler founded in 1932, and is now led by fourth-generation owner Kikukawa Yuhei. Live eels are grilled to order over binchotan charcoal, finished with the house tare and served on Koshihikari rice from Uonuma in Niigata. The Kabayaki Ippon Jyu Set (S$48++) lays a whole eel over rice, while the Hitsumabushi Set (S$37++), a Nagoya speciality, is eaten three ways: plain, with condiments like wasabi and spring onion, then with dashi poured over as ochazuke. Through October, the outlet is also serving the Unagi Mountain (S$88++), two whole kabayaki eels stacked tall over rice for sharing. The 84-seat restaurant is run with Les Amis Group, also behind NamNam and Mui Kee in the same mall.

Address: 252 North Bridge Road, #B1-75, Raffles City Singapore, Singapore 179103
Website: yondaimekikukawa.com/en

AO

AO has opened at 1 Claymore Drive, a casual, sharing-led restaurant from Cloud Restaurant Group. Culinary Director Takeshi Araki, formerly of Michelin-starred modern kappo restaurant Esora, applies Japanese technique to dishes drawn from across Asia and Europe, and the à la carte menu is set up for ordering a few plates at a time. Plates run from a sukiyaki wagyu maki roll (S$28) finished with egg yolk sauce and garlic chips, to chicken wings stuffed with black truffle mochi rice (S$22) and a “Sakura-dai” sea bream ramen (S$28) with swordfish chashu and black garlic oil. Off the charcoal grill, yuzu kosho teriyaki chicken (S$32) comes with charred Padrón peppers, while dessert brings a black sesame tiramisu (S$16) or dairy-free tofu ice cream. Diners walk in through the Cloudmills bakery counter, and the alfresco seating facing Claymore Road is dog-friendly. Open daily, 11am to 10pm.

Address: 1 Claymore Drive, #01-01, Singapore 229594
Website: instagram.com/ao.restaurant

Árō

Árō has opened at 15 Mohamed Sultan Road, the debut restaurant of chef Johanne Siy, formerly head chef of Lolla and named Asia’s Best Female Chef in 2023. In the shophouse that previously housed Esora, Siy serves a 12-course tasting menu (S$268++) she calls “Creator’s Cuisine”, built around ingredients and producers from her travels rather than any single national cuisine. Much of it leans on Philippine produce rarely seen outside Southeast Asia: stingless bee honey over a cheese cracker, a pili nut milk custard finished with Ossetra caviar, and spanner crab enriched with aligue, a prized Filipino crab fat. Her avocado with smoked eel and jalapeño granita, familiar to Lolla regulars, makes the move too. Desserts are finished with Asín Tibuok, a hand-made sea salt from Bohol. The 26-seat room, designed by Keiji Ashizawa Design, centres on a ten-seat chef’s counter. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Address: 15 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore 238964
Website: arosingapore.com

Yamamoto’s Hamburg

Yamamoto’s Hamburg has opened its first Singapore outlet at Lau Pa Sat, soft-launching on 22 September ahead of an official opening on 5 October. Known in Japan as Yamahan, it’s the first restaurant concept from Shohei Yamamoto, who started it in Ebisu, Tokyo, in 2005, well before his Hikiniku To Come landed here in May. The focus is Japanese hamburg steak, hand-formed from a blend of beef and pork. The signature Yamamoto Hamburg (S$19.90) is stuffed with Gorgonzola and mushroom cream sauce under a miso and dashi demi-glace, while the Kimchi Cheese Hamburg (S$19.90) arrives hot pot-style in kimchi broth. Lighter picks include the Oni Oroshi Ponzu (S$15.90) with grated daikon, plus a chicken patty developed only for the Singapore menu. Rice and salad sets come with a small glass of the house vegetable juice, made daily from seasonal produce.

Address: Lau Pa Sat, 18 Raffles Quay, Stall 96-103, Singapore 048582
Website: instagram.com/yamahan.sg

Fico

Fico has opened its second home at Tanjong Beach Club, bringing chef-partner Mirko Febbrile’s Puglian cooking from East Coast Park to Sentosa with The Lo & Behold Group. The original picked up a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2024, and the beach outpost keeps its cucina povera roots while leaning lighter and more coastal. The signature focaccina, a cross between focaccia and pizza made with Puglian flours, gets a site-exclusive version with pesto, mortadella, stracciatella and pistachios (S$25), while the paccheri for two (S$42) brings clams, squid and prawns in a tomato sauce enriched with lobster bisque. New to this site is a two-metre charcoal barbecue dome, used for a seafood platter of squid, scallops, octopus, prawns and lobster (from S$108) and a dry-aged catch of the day (S$42). A separate beach menu brings some dishes out to the daybeds, and the 130-seat room opens onto a poolside terrace.

Address: Tanjong Beach Club, 120 Tanjong Beach Walk, Sentosa, Singapore 098942
Website: tanjongbeachclub.com/ficomasseria

WHUCHU Beer Garden

WHUCHU has opened a beer garden in the outdoor space beside its Korean ssam and barbecue restaurant at UE Square. The draw from 5pm is draught beer, either Cass, Krombacher Pils or Krombacher Dark, poured into mugs frozen at −86°C, from S$8. Makgeolli comes in matcha and ube versions coloured by the real ingredients (S$38 each), alongside soju, somaek and Korean highballs flavoured with bokbunja black raspberry, ginseng or Earl Grey (S$14). Five sharing plates are served only in the garden, including a chicken pancake with leek salad (S$14), bulgogi-topped fries (S$12) and a platter of fried chicken gizzard and soy-garlic chicken with wasabi mayo (S$20). The restaurant’s aged Jeju pork barbecue is grilled indoors and brought out to the tables too. Cornhole, giant noughts and crosses and a shuffleboard lane keep groups busy, and the outdoor seating is pet-friendly.

Address: UE Square, 81 Clemenceau Avenue, #01-18, Singapore 239917
Website: whuchu.sg

Yeast Side

Yeast Side, the sourdough pizza and craft beer spot with outlets in Serangoon Gardens, King Albert Park and Farrer Park, has refreshed its daytime menu with new focaccia sandwiches and an expanded matcha line-up. New on the focaccia list are Turkish-style shish taouk chicken thigh with hummus, za’atar and plum tomato, a fried portobello with house-made romesco, arugula and parmesan for non-meat eaters, and a cold cut trio of Kurobuta leg ham, honey-baked ham and pork salami with wholegrain mustard. The Bestside, maple-glazed bacon with egg mayo, gherkins and fried onion rings, stays on. The matcha foam series now includes a sparkling apple version, a strawberry one built on house-made jam, and the Very Dirty, matcha foam and a double espresso poured over cold milk, served only at Serangoon Gardens. Daytime service starts at 9am on weekends, with pizza and beer taking over in the evening.

Address: 1 Maju Avenue, #01-26/27/28 myVillage, Singapore 556679; 9 King Albert Park, #01-09 KAP Mall, Singapore 598332; 2 Perumal Road, #01-06 lyf@Farrer, Singapore 218773
Website: yeastside.sg

Sospiri

Sospiri, ilLido Group’s Southern Italian restaurant and rooftop bar at IOI Central Boulevard Towers, has refreshed its à la carte menu with new dishes and reworked signatures. New starters include white asparagus and confit leeks under a gratin finished with black truffle, and a sunchoke soup with mushroom flan and saffron crema. Both new pastas are homemade: pappardelle with slow-braised rabbit ragù, guanciale and cardoncelli mushrooms, and venison ravioli in a sage sugo with Castelmagno fonduta. Pan-seared Atlantic cod over trombetta zucchini in San Marzano sauce joins the mains. Among the returning dishes, the bluefin tuna battuta now swaps lemon salmoriglio for fresh fennel, and the former grilled lamb has become a roasted lamb fillet with eggplant caponata and vincotto jus. The Amalfi lemon soufflé with limoncello crema stays put for dessert. Weekday set lunches start from S$45++ for three courses.

Address: IOI Central Boulevard Towers, Level 7, 2 Central Boulevard, Singapore 018916
Website: sospiri.sg

Ingleside

Ingleside on Tras Street has introduced Embers, a new seasonal tasting menu running until December, alongside a refreshed à la carte. The 32-seat restaurant, listed in the MICHELIN Guide Singapore in 2025 and 2026, is run by co-founders Jana Jusman, a food scientist who leads its fermentation programme, and Louis Chan, who handles the wood-fire cooking and dry-ageing. Embers opens with amuse-bouches including flambadou greenlip abalone and the returning truffle toast, its brioche miso now aged 16 weeks, before a barley koji taco shell filled with smoked pork belly. Horse mackerel is brushed with scallop garum and charred over charcoal, and the True North wagyu striploin is now dry-aged for 32 days. New on the à la carte are a grilled shoyu koji duck heart with quail egg and pancetta, and a 14-day dry-aged duck breast with pumpkin miso fermented in-house for six months.

Address: 49 Tras Street, Singapore 078988
Website: ingleside.com.sg

Kee’s Restaurant and Bar

Kee’s Restaurant & Bar has launched a new daytime menu at 21 Carpenter Street, inside the restored 1936 home of Chye Hua Seng Wee Kee, a former remittance house. Open from 8am, the kitchen is now led by Executive Chef Sujatha Asokan, previously at Quenino and Botanico, who draws on her Malaysian Chinese and Singaporean Indian heritage. Brunch brings a chicken curry shakshuka with coin prata, a Benedict with Chinese olive, enoki and calamansi brown butter hollandaise, and a bubur cha cha French toast of kaya-stuffed brioche with ube, sweet potato and glutinous rice dumplings. At lunch, the Filet-O-Kee’s pairs crisp cod with mango slaw and curry leaf, while the Cham-Misu works kopi, teh peng and Horlicks into dessert. Weekday set lunches start from S$42. Coffee is a custom blend from Singapore roaster Glyph, served classic or as a piccolo with coconut, gula melaka and sea salt.

Address: 21 Carpenter Street, Singapore 059984
Website: kees.com.sg

If you missed last month’s edition, here’s our guide to new restaurants, cafes and bars that opened in Singapore in August, from a Botanic Gardens dining house to a National Gallery rooftop.