Restaurants

The ultimate Singapore brunch guide

Edited by Jamie 15 October 2026

In Singapore, brunch is less a meal than a way of spending a Sunday.

Decide what kind of brunch you want before you book, because in Singapore the word covers everything from eggs and a flat white to a four-hour hotel buffet with a Champagne tier. This guide is sorted by appetite rather than postcode: the slow, quiet ones where the coffee matters, the dim sum brunches (one of them with a jazz band), and the big hotel blow-outs, which are less a meal than an afternoon's plan, ideally followed by a nap. The catch with the good ones is the booking: the popular tables go early in the week, so book on Monday for Sunday.

Singapore takes brunch seriously, perhaps too seriously. Hotel ballrooms lay out seafood on ice, rooftop bars pour Champagne by the hour, and cafés fill up along the five-foot way. A few of these are new to the city, including a breakfast menu in a 1936 remittance house and a leafy Sunday semi-buffet that replaced one of Orchard's loudest party brunches.

Free-flow packages, prices and timings change often, so check the restaurant's own page before you go.

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The roundup

1. Kee's Restaurant & Bar
Clarke Quay
The Singapore brunch on this list, and our pick if you want something you can't get in any other city. A restored 1936 remittance house on Carpenter Street serves chef Sujatha Asokan's Malaysian Chinese and Singaporean Indian brunch. Order the chicken curry shakshuka with coin prata or the bubur cha cha French toast, and a cup of the custom Glyph blend. It opens early, so go for a breakfast-time start before the riverside heat gets going.
2. Tanica, The Singapore EDITION
Sundays · Orchard
The grown-up Sunday on this list. The EDITION's dining hall has gone from party brunch to a calmer semi-buffet, with carving, pasta and dessert stations and a menu that leans on spice-led Asian plates. The room, wrapped in greenery, is the reason to choose it. Book for a long lunch rather than a quick one, and check the current price with the hotel before you go, since semi-buffet packages change.
3. Kaya at The Standard
Orchard
The brunch for people who want to linger rather than party, and the one to bring the dog to: there's a dog-friendly terrace. It's a relaxed, multi-course brunch with avocado and banana French toast, salmon chazuke and an ogura croffle, so order across sweet and savoury and share. Book a terrace table if the dog is coming, and go early; a terrace in the Orchard heat is a shorter sit by noon.

4. Lulu's Lounge
Chinatown
Our pick for a birthday: free-flow dim sum to a jazz soundtrack on South Bridge Road, with Champagne, beer or wine upgrades if the afternoon calls for it. The band means you'll stay longer than planned, so don't book anything straight after. Go with a group big enough to order across the dim sum list and make the free-flow worth it.
5. Madame Fan
Civic District
Cocktail yum cha for late risers inside the old NCO Club on Beach Road, and the dim sum brunch for a couple rather than a family. The menu runs to salted egg yolk custard buns and a drinks list that includes a Rooibos Americano, which is proof that dim sum and a Portofino cocktail can share a table. The late start suits a Saturday night that ran on.
6. Yan Ting, The St. Regis
Orchard
The refined end of dim sum brunch, and our pick for a family celebration with grandparents: crystal shrimp dumplings with caviar, bird's nest egg tarts and double-boiled abalone consommé. There are packages with and without alcohol and a children's price, so nobody pays for drinks they won't have. Check the hotel's page for current rates, and book ahead for a big table.
7. Firangi Superstar
Saturdays · Tanjong Pagar
The Saturday option, for people who like their Sundays free: a modern Indian brunch on Craig Road. The menu runs to a prata waffle with Madras fried chicken and a steak and eggs with an Indian accent, so it suits a group that wants big flavours rather than a long, slow afternoon. Check the current price before you book, and enjoy having Sunday back.
8. Restaurant Sospiri
Saturdays, 11.30am–3pm · CBD
A southern Italian sharing brunch seven floors above Central Boulevard, on Saturdays only (the restaurant is closed on Sundays), relaxed rather than rowdy, with optional Prosecco or Champagne packages. Think Parma ham with roasted egg, chitarra with black truffle, cacio e pepe and a pistachio dessert. It's built for sharing, so come as two or more, and pick it over the hotel blow-outs when you want to talk rather than graze. Check the current price and package terms before you book.
9. Claudine
Dempsey
The French brunch for an occasion: a 1930s conservation building on Harding Road, with Billecart-Salmon to drink. The menu runs to a truffled croque madame, grilled Spanish octopus and Angus prime rib. It's a boozy one, so plan the ride home rather than the drive, and book ahead for Sunday; Dempsey on a Sunday rarely gets more elegant.
10. Colony, The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia
Sundays · Marina Bay
The big Sunday blow-out, done properly, and the one to book when the occasion justifies a nap afterwards. Seven conservatory kitchens, an ice bar of oysters, snow crab and langoustine, and a wok station turning out chilli crab and laksa. The top tier pours vintage Barons de Rothschild Champagne; check current prices with the hotel, because the tiers are where the bill moves. Arrive hungry and pace yourself.
11. Estate, Hilton Singapore Orchard
Sundays · Orchard
The answer for parents who still want a proper brunch. The adults get a seafood and oyster bar, butter-poached lobster Benedict and a live DJ; the children get a Junior Corner with a playhouse, PS5 and face painting. That corner is the reason to pick it over Colony if your children won't sit through seven kitchens. Check the current price with the restaurant and book ahead for Sunday.
12. New Ubin Seafood, CHIJMES
Daily · Civic District
The most Singaporean free-flow on the list, served every day rather than just Sundays: over 200 à la carte dishes, crab, curry fish head and the heart attack fried rice. The Champagne brunch needs a group of five, so this is a plan for the group chat rather than a date. Check the current price before you rally anyone, and leave the white shirt at home.
13. Moutarde, Resorts World Sentosa
Sentosa
A slow French bistro-style brunch at RWS, with a carving station, French onion soup, cheese soufflé and croque-madame. It's the one to pick if you're on Sentosa anyway; we wouldn't cross the bridge for it alone, but paired with a lazy afternoon on the island it makes sense. Check the current price before you go.
14. Common Man Coffee Roasters (Martin Road)
River Valley
If you just want excellent coffee and a plate of eggs without a free-flow in sight, this is the one: the riverside café that helped make Martin Road a brunch address. It's the antidote to everything above it on this list. Go early on weekends, when the good tables go first, and walk it off along the river afterwards.