Spago by Wolfgang Puck

Fifty-seven floors is a long way to go for kaya toast. Ask for a window and it starts to make sense.

Spago is the Marina Bay Sands table to book when the view has to do some of the work and the food still has to hold up: Level 57 of Hotel Tower 2, up on the Sands SkyPark, with a California kitchen that knows exactly which city it is cooking in. It suits a birthday, a visiting parent or a lunch that needs to impress without a three-hour tasting menu. The compromise is the hotel-tower bill and a strict door: no children under eight in the dining room, and smart casual dress.

It is billed as the first international outpost of Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills flagship, and the hotel pitches it as a garden in the sky. Greg Bess runs it as executive chef of both Spago and CUT, Puck's steakhouse downstairs; he joined the original Spago in Beverly Hills in 2004 and moved to Singapore in 2010 to open the restaurants here. It has held a Forbes Travel Guide four-star rating every year from 2017 to 2026, and had a MICHELIN Guide Selected listing in 2025.

The cooking is cosmopolitan and California-inspired, with an East-meets-West streak, and the dishes to order are the ones that wink at Singapore. Start with the Big Eye Tuna Tartare Cones, then the Sea Bream "Laksa". The kaya toast is the conversation piece: an earlier version came with a foie gras–espresso mousse, and the reworked one uses pandan-coconut jam. Finish with the kaiserschmarrn, the soufflé-like Austrian pancake, which is the best argument for staying for dessert at 57 floors.

There are two ways to do it. The dining room is the sit-down version, with set lunches and set dinners. Spago Bar & Lounge, on the same level, is the looser option: cabanas, plush cushions and sharing punch bowls, which are the order at sunset, plus cocktails that borrow Thai basil, calamansi and lychee. The infinity pool is next door, so the occasional swimmer may drift into view; treat it as part of the entertainment.

How to do it well: book through the Marina Bay Sands site, check set-menu prices when you do, and ask for a seat facing the skyline, because that is what you came up for. Take the lounge for a sundowner before dinner elsewhere or the dining room for lunch. Bayfront MRT is closest. Leave the slippers and singlets at home.

Good to know Spago is on Level 57, Hotel Tower 2, Marina Bay Sands; Bayfront MRT is closest. The dress code is smart casual (no slippers, singlets, swimwear or gym kit), and children under eight are not admitted to the dining room. Book through the Marina Bay Sands site and check set-menu prices when you do.

Spago by Wolfgang Puck | Hotel Tower 2, Level 57, Sands SkyPark, Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956 | Nearest MRT: Bayfront