After the year we've had, we deserve to loosen our belts and enjoy the best the city has to offer with our closest friends and family this festive season. The celebrations might be quieter and cosier this year, but the festivities are no less merry when MICHELIN star restaurants across Singapore have pulled out all the stops for indulgent Christmas feasts and sparkly New Year menus.
CURE
MICHELIN Plate, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
Celebrate Christmas as the Irish do with chef-owner Andrew Walsh's newly launched Nua Irish cuisine at CURE. Start the festive meal with the familiar Irish staple of Soda, Stout & Treacle Bread, followed by hearty courses of A Porridge of Grains, Organic Egg Yolk, Aged Beef as well as Turbot, Irish Whelk, Pine. The season is encapsulated in sweets like Spiced Candied Pumpkins and Oat Cookie & Blackbush Egg Nog.
Christmas dinner from 24-26 December
$268++ per person, Beverage pairing at additional $170++ per person
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CUT
One MICHELIN Star, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
For a special celebration, look no further than CUT, the luxurious steakhouse from Wolfgang Puck. For the month of December, indulge in CUT's 3-course Festive Special featuring dishes such as USDA Prime cuts, New York Sirloin, Coffee Hazelnut Yule Log and more.
CUT 3-course Advent Menu, $125++ per person
Sun-Thurs, 5-6.30pm; Fri & Sat, 5-6pm
New Year's Eve dinner, 31 December
A la carte menu: 1st seating 5-6.30pm
4-course set menu: 2nd seating from 7.30pm, $325++ (inclusive of a glass of champagne)
New Year's Day brunch, 11.30am-2pm, , $98++ per person
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Saint Pierre
Two MICHELIN Stars, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
Spend Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve at one of the best vantage points of the Marina Bay waterfront complete with a two MICHELIN star dining experience with Saint Pierre. On Christmas Eve, Saint Pierre presents a luxe Christmas Eve seven-course dinner menu featuring premium delicacies such as Gillardeau Oyster, Hokkaido Snow Crab, Nagasaki Seabass and Omi Beef. The New Year's Eve dinner menu is an exquisite eight-course indulgence with the likes of Kuruma Prawn with N25 aged Keluga Caviar, and Hakodate Squid with Oxtail, and Black Winter Truffle with Celeriac.
Christmas Eve 7-course menu, $380++ per person
New Year's Eve 8-course menu, $480++ per person
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Gaig
MICHELIN Plate, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
The relaxed restaurant on Stanley Street is still run by the same family behind MICHELIN-starred Gaig in Barcelona opened by celebrated chef Carles Gaig. Highlights of the Christmas Eve menu are Gaig’s traditional cannelloni, made with the same family recipe from 1869, as well as Monkfish Suquet, a traditional seafood stew that is a must-have for Catalan families at Christmas. Enticing tapas open the New Year's Eve menu while the Spanish tradition of enjoying prawns on New Year's Eve is honoured with the carabinero paella.
Christmas Eve 7-course dinner, $118++ per person
New Year's Eve 7-course dinner, $150++ per person
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Béni
One MICHELIN Star, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
It's intimate, counter seat dining at French contemporary restaurant Beni helmed by Japanese chef Kenji Yamanaka, where the festive menu for Christmas and New Year will feature top quality seasonal ingredients from France and Japan.
Available on 23, 24, 25, 31 Dec & 1 Jan
6-course lunch, $188++
7-course dinner, $388++
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Braci
One MICHELIN Star, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
Celebrate Christmas and ring in the new year with an Italian degustation experience paired with spectacular views overlooking the city at Braci. Luxurious seasonal ingredients such as black winter truffle, artichoke and Comice pears make their appearance in the multi-course menus that reflect Italian festive traditions.
7-course Christmas Eve dinner, $248++ per person
5-course Christmas Day lunch, $158++ per person
7-course Christmas Day dinner, $248++ per person
7-course New Year's Eve dinner, $350++ per person
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Pollen
MICHELIN Plate, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
Soak in some cool weather in the temperate gardens of the Flower Dome at Pollen. The five-course Festive Menu includes a glass of champagne and features newly appointed chef Michael Wilson's deft take on contemporary Mediterranean cuisine in dishes like duck neck and foir gras sausage and poached Toretama Japanese egg with black Perigord truffles.
Festive Menu $208++ per person
Available on 24 Dec dinner, 25 Dec lunch and dinner
and 31 Dec dinner, 1 Jan 2021 lunch and dinner
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Jag
One MICHELIN Star, MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2019
Jag's one-night only festive menus for Christmas and New Year are one for the books. Chef Jeremy Gillon will present eight expressions of his Savoie-herb led recipes featuring seasonal ingredients from the pristine mountains and farms in Northern France with a special spotlight on winter black truffles. On Christmas eve, diners will go home with a Christmas breakfast hamper of fresh bread, homemade butter, the chef's mother's jam, a handwritten menu and a bottle of personal Maison 21G scent. New Year's Day breakfast is also sorted for diners on the eve with bread, butter, jam and free-range Japanese Toretama eggs complete with a video tutorial by chef for making the perfect omelette.
Christmas Eve 8-course dinner, $350++ per person
New Year's Eve 8-course dinner, $498++ per person
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