Nae:um's team opened a Korean-Italian osteria next door, and lunch has now started

A Michelin-group chef, trattoria prices and a door you can just walk through: the CBD's easiest new table.

Osteria Da Su opened on Friday at 163 Telok Ayer Street, next door to its sibling Nae:um, and it is built for people who don't plan dinner a fortnight ahead. The restaurant says half its seats are always kept for walk-ins, and that if you can't find a table online you should just come by. It opens Tuesday to Saturday from 5.30pm to 10pm, and the lunch the group promised for November is now on the restaurant's own page: Thursday to Saturday, 11.30am to 2pm, which makes it one of the few new CBD rooms you can try on a Friday lunch hour without a plan.

The chef is Suji Park, who cooked at the three-star Da Vittorio in Bergamo and at Sadler in Milan, and this is the Nae:um group's first restaurant that isn't Korean, though the Korean part hasn't gone far: the tortelli are filled with galbi-jjim, the fritto uses Korean peppers, and the tiramisu is dalgona. It's a 34-seat room of sharing plates, most of them priced in the teens and twenties before service and GST, so a table can order across the menu rather than one main each.

The restaurant's own rules are worth knowing before you turn up: reservations open 30 days ahead, only complete parties are seated, a reserved table is held for 15 minutes and then released to walk-ins, and it suggests booking for four or more. That last point is the tell. A pair at 6pm on a Wednesday will get in; a birthday for six on a Saturday will not without the reservation page.

Our advice: go early in the week for dinner, when the walk-in half of the room is easiest to get, or try the new Friday lunch, which is the cheaper way to meet Suji Park's pasta. Order the tortelli and the vongole between two and leave room for the dalgona tiramisu. It's a short walk from Telok Ayer MRT on the Downtown Line. We've put it in our November eating guide as the walk-in pick, and it is on the new restaurants page; its neighbour Nae:um has its own page.

Good to know Osteria Da Su, 163 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore 068616. Tue–Wed 5.30–10pm; Thu–Sat 11.30am–2pm and 5.30–10pm; closed Sun–Mon. Half the seats are kept for walk-ins; reservations (30 days ahead) via the restaurant's site; complete parties only, tables held 15 minutes. Opened 23 October 2026. Nearest MRT: Telok Ayer.

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Osteria Da Su, 163 Telok Ayer Street | 163 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore 068616