3 Best Restaurants in Singapore

Mingle with Singaporean tycoons and celebrities at the island's finest French restaurant, where you can admire the adjoining bar's grand chandelier and curtain-draped wine cabinets before adjourning to the intimate dining area. The breathtakingly expensive seasonal menu changes regularly, but expect such exquisite French classics as foie gras, roasted whole pigeon, and white asparagus. Their wine list is considered one of the best in Asia, with more than 1,800 Old World wines, 90% of which are from France (in particular Burgundy and Bordeaux).

Honest, home-style French cooking set in a converted chapel needn’t be this good, but chef Julien Royer and his team deliver with this "neo-brasserie" concept on Dempsey Hill. From the beef and onion soup to the apple tart with salted caramel, the dishes are refined versions of the classics. There’s a touch of theater, too, in dishes such as the shared pepper steak, which is flambéed tableside. The space is gorgeous, with light pouring through the old chapel windows onto blue and tan pastel shades.

Potted plants line the entrance of this chic, Parisian-style restaurant, and, in its casual dining area, French film posters cover the walls from floor to ceiling. Daily specials are scrawled on chalkboards, but the set menu includes meat, seafood, and such French specialities as snails, foie gras, and crème brûlée, and there's an exhaustive selection of French wines, as well as a large range of whiskies, vodkas, gins, liqueurs, rums, and Armagnacs.