It’s the most wonderful time of the year and we’re looking forward to filling our calendars with festive parties, and our bellies, too. What better excuse to gather than with a feast? Bookmark this story for our favourite dining options this season, from luxurious afternoon teas and holiday buffet spreads to delightful takeaways for at-home soirées.
1. Festive Afternoon Tea at The Fullerton Hotels Singapore
Head to The Landing Point for a festive afternoon tea that reimagines a Christmas feast in bite-sized treats. Expect savoury highlights including Madras curry turkey with pineapple chutney and smoked paprika, and smoked salmon trout with lemon jelly and capers. Complete the experience with desserts such as lychee rose ‘bauble’ and pistachio vanilla briolette ‘Christmas tree’. Each set comes with freshly baked scones, clotted cream, and jam. For a celebratory touch, guests can opt for a glass of champagne, in addition to beverage selection from TWG Tea and Bacha Coffee.
Takeaway highlight: Coconut snow pandan yule log, $82
Classic Peranakan flavours take centre stage in this yule log, which features silky coconut mousse, pineapple and passion fruit compote, and pandan chiffon. Lightly sweetened with gula melaka, the dessert is dusted with a blanket of shredded coconut ‘snow’.
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2. Private Dining at One Farrer Hotel
For an intimate dining experience, make a beeline for Nest at One Farrer Hotel. Diners will enjoy a multi-course meal in the comfort of the hotel’s private studios and villas, including Orchid, Lotus, Jasmine, Peony, and the luxurious Presidential Villa. Curated by executive chef Marcus Tan and pastry chef Wee Pai Hau, the festive menu includes savouries like duck liver terrine with port wine jelly, roasted butternut velouté, wagyu beef sirloin, and roasted roulade of turkey. For dessert, there’s a beautifully crafted Christmas Sleigh, which features ginger flower parfait, pear compote, and apple calvados sorbet.
Takeaway highlight: ‘Delicioso’ Mexican style turkey, $158
If you’re feeling adventurous, try the Mexican style turkey, which is roasted and paired with homemade mole, a traditional dark chocolate sauce flavoured with Mexican chillies. Sides include tortilla skin, tomato salsa, jalapeno, gherkin, and cheese sauce.
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3. Festive Buffet at PARKROYAL on Beach Road
Big appetites will enjoy the festive buffet spread at Ginger, which features both local favourites and Western delights. From the roast carvery comes traditional roasted turkey with ginger flower and cranberry sauce, alongside holiday classics like beef wellington, salt baked salmon with dill hollandaise, and barramundi with local spices and pickles. For meat lovers, there’s black angus prime rib, Australian lamb chops, alongside Singaporean dishes like old-school chicken wings, otah otah, and satay. Asian delights like Hainanese chicken rice and laksa round up the feast.
Takeaway highlight: Traditional roast turkey, $138
Perfect for large gatherings, the traditional roast turkey comes with cranberry port sauce, roasted turkey gravy, chestnut stuffing, baby potatoes, and a hearty side of seasonal vegetables.
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4. Sunday Champagne Brunch at InterContinental Singapore
From November 19, usher in the festivities at LUCE’s celebratory Sunday champagne brunch. Make merry with an international buffet spread of Italian specialities and seafood, such as Boston lobster, Australian rock oysters, and snow crab leg. Aside from sashimi and gourmet soups, highlights include dry-aged grain-fed Angus striploin, traditional roasted U.S tom turkey, and creamy saffron risotto in a parmesan cheese wheel. Be spoilt for choice by sweet treats like forest cherry gateau, crunchy chocolate choux puff, and Christmas fruit spiced plum pudding.
Takeaway highlight: Grandeur blue yule log, $108
Shaped like an adorable log house, this 1kg dessert comes with layers of coconut mousse, mango-passion crémeux, attap seed (palm seed), and pandan genoise.
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5. Festive Buffet at Hilton Singapore Orchard
Estate, the hotel’s all-day buffet restaurant, is presenting a month-long Christmas feast featuring roasts and desserts, in addition to signature regional favourites. On Fridays and Saturdays, fresh seafood enjoys the spotlight alongside free flow of red and wine wines during dinner. Don’t miss out on the weekly grand Sunday champagne brunch, which will feature festive dishes like wagyu prime rib and porchetta with gremolata and pine nut stuffing. On Christmas eve and Christmas day, the feast becomes more extravagant with Maine lobsters, Alaska crab legs, a raclette station, roasted turkey, as well as 32 types of artisanal European cheese. Look out for a surprise visit from Santa Claus.
Takeaway highlight: Homemade panettones, from $38
Available in flavours including chocolate, rum, and pistachio, the Italian sweet bread is a must-try this festive season.
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6. Heritage Flavours at Rempapa
Damian D’Silva’s signature heritage cuisine at Rempapa is a wonderful mash-up of Chinese, Peranakan, Eurasian, Indian, and Malay cooking. Inspired by the warmth of neighbourly feasts, the restaurant’s festive menu includes the pork knuckle debal, which is traditionally an amalgamation of leftover meats from festive feasts. His rendition of the Eurasian classic features roast pork, smoked pork knuckle, and potatoes richly flavoured with a rempah of shallots, Bombay onions, ginger, and dried chilli. Another highlight is the sugee cake, which is moist and buttery. Topped with a crumble of Biscoff cookies, fragrant bake comes with light sugee frosted and filled with gula melaka buttercream.
Takeaway highlight: Rempapa’s heritage gift box, $98
A thoughtful gift for avid cooks, this gift box comes with two variations of curry powder, spice mixes for meat and fish curry, as well as balanced and masterful blends of aromatics such as cumin, fennel, coriander, black peppercorn, fenugreek, and turmeric. Two signature sambals furnish the curation.
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7. Holiday buffet at Andaz Singapore
On Christmas Eve and Day, head to Alley on 25 for its annual holiday buffet feast. The all-day dining restaurant will kick off with a selection of salads, Norwegian salmon sashimi, as well as fresh seafood like shucked Fine de Claire rock oysters, organic blue mussels, and half-shelled scallops. For hearty classics, relish in a veal osso buco, which has been braised to tender perfection for 14 hours, or a claypot-baked chicken infused with lemon, garlic, and rosemary. Whole-roasted turkey, honey-glazed bone-in ham, and classic seasonal sides also make an appearance in the line-up. For the grand finale, there’s fruit cake, artisanal cheese, soft serve ice cream, as well as a Panettone French Toast made à la minute.
Takeaway highlight: Signature carousel cake, $85
Inspired by Christmas markets and childhood memories of the festivities, this photo-worthy cake features earl grey milk chocolate, forest berry marmalade jam to balance the 70% Grand Cru dark chocolate, and crunchy hazelnuts.
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8. Festive Afternoon Tea at Pullman Singapore Hill Street
Presented in a vintage leather trunk at the Porter Lounge, the hotel’s jingle and mingle: savour the season afternoon tea is a collaboration with tea company Dilmah. Each set comes with a choice of tea, tea-inspired cocktail, or mocktail. Our pick is the Signature Pullman Singapore Hill Street Tea, a comforting blend that harmonises black tea, frangipani, and mango. Inside each drawer lies savoury canapes such as foie gras terrine, caviar on blinis and gammon ham sliders, alongside sweet treats like milk chocolate gingerbread tart and chestnut cream puff.
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9. Festive Omakase at The Gyu Bar
If you prefer Japanese style festive dining, The Gyu Bar will not disappoint. The Christmas omakase menu starts off with “happy holidays”, a bubbly concoction of peach, shochu, umeshu, and soda. After which, guests will tuck into the restaurant’s signature Hokkaido uni wagyu yukke cone, and a quartet of seasonal starters including Hibiki whiskey marinated wagyu and shirako tempura. Other highlights include grilled Hokkaido king scallop and A5 Kagoshima karubi (short rib) yakiniku prepared on smokeless Shinpo grill. A festive exclusive carbonara pasta ensures satisfaction, while Japanese fruit parfait rounds up the meal.
Takeaway highlight: Festive bento set, $88
Housed in an elegant wooden box, the compendium of signatures and seasonal picks is presented with a chirashi don. Inside, you’ll find awabi isoyaki, a dish of tender abalone slow-simmered in a special sauce of sake, mirin, and soy sauce; Hibiki whiskey marinated Kagoshima A5 wagyu tataki, and more.
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10. Cherry wine festive afternoon tea at the Westin Singapore
Hot mulled wine may be perfect for winter but in sunny Singapore, why not celebrate Christmas with cherry wine? The Lobby Lounge at The Westin Singapore serves a festive afternoon tea set, accompanied by a tasting flight of Frederiksdal cherry wine. Revel in an assortment of savory delights, such as foie gras terrine on brioche, turkey rilette, beef cheek tart, and more. Sweet treats like scones and tarts also pair well with the spakling sparkling RØD cherry wine. The critically acclaimed world-class Danish cherry wine has received numerous Danish and International awards.
Takeaway highlight: Classic Christmas hamper, from $198
Surprise your loved ones with a hamper of Rothbury Estate premium shiraz cabernet, gingerbread men cookies, Virginia raspberry amaretti, TWG Classic Teabag collection, Christmas stollen, and more.
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11. Starry night yuletide delights at Osia Steak and Seafood Grill
From now until January 3, Osia Steak and Seafood Grill will be serving a festive menu with sumptuous platters. Must-try dishes include the Osia Black Angus beef wellington, a mouthwatering tenderloin with mushroom duxelles encased in golden, buttery puff pastry, and flamed drunken festive pudding. The sweet finale of warm sticky toffee date pudding comes with cognac brandy butter scotch sauce and roasted wattleseed ice cream to delight one’s tastebuds.
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12. “Drag Me To Brunch” Christmas edition At M Social Singapore
For a boisterous festive fun, check out “Drag Me To Brunch” at Beast and Butterflies, M Social Singapore. Happening on December 16, the Christmas edition feast comes with a salad station, a la minute eggs and waffles, live carving station, cheese selection, and hot mains. Best of all, diners will get to meet and mingle with four of Singapore’s most well-loved drag queens, namely @kenhermanns, @vivih0e, @mistress_kiramoon, and @iamsammizhen. They’ll elevate the brunch experience with glitzy performances, from lip syncs to extraordinary high kicks and dips.
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13. Surf and Turf at The Feather Blade Steakhouse
Head to The Feather Blade if you’re eyeing a classic steakhouse experience without breaking the bank. Its second outlet in the East is home to a seafood bar, which means diners can celebrate the festivities with fresh oysters, zesty Norwegian salmon carpaccio, as well as jumbo crab or shrimp cocktail. The restaurant’s signature feather blade steak is glazed with a sweet and savoury tare and grilled on binchotan for a pleasant whiff of smokiness. Steak aside, the meaty swordfish belly sando is a must-try. Sides like charred white corn with taragon cream sauce and decadent triple cooked beef fat fries complete the experience. From now until end-December, diners can enjoy 15 percent off lunch when they order from the ala carte menu.
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14. Christmas Wonderlust Bombes at Sourbombe Artisanal Bakery
To mark the opening of its Wisma Atria outlet, Sourbombe Artisanal Bakery will be launching five new milk jam Snow Bombes exclusive to the Orchard Road location until the end of year. Hot picks include the semi-sweet genmaicha latte, which boasts nutty flavours and is dusted with matcha icing; sesame kinako, which combines the richness of black sesame with roasted soybean; as well as white coffee, a crowd-pleaser with its sweet and creamy filling.
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15. Chocolate Coated Ginger Bread Cookies at Lebkuchen-Schmidt
Gingerbread might be a festive favourite but truly delicious ones are far and few. Check out Lebkuchen-Schmidt for gingerbreads that capture the essence of traditional European Christmas with its blend of ground ginger, cinnamon, and molasses. The German bakery with a rich 90-year legacy is bringing its well-loved, chocolate-coated nuremberg gingerbread to Singapore for the first time.
Available until December 26, exclusively at the Christmas Market in Takashimaya Basement 2.
16. FESTIVE AFTERNOON TEA AT Raffles Singapore
Perfect for a casual catch-up, the festive afternoon tea is held at The Grand Lobby. Expect a hearty spread of finger sandwiches, handcrafted pastries, and sweet delights presented on a three-tier silver stand. Highlights include mini mincemeat pie, verbena raspberry Christmas ball, salted caramel pecan roll cake, and evocao chocolate profiterole. Guests can enhance the merriment with a glass of Billecart-Salmon champagne.
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17. Greenwood Fish Market at Quayside Isle
If seafood is preferred over turkey, head to Greenwood Fish Market for their festive specials. The Alan’s Seafood Feast includes a generous platter of the restaurant’s popular homemade salmon wellington, as well as a plethora of all-time favourite dishes, alongside classic Christmas log cakes.
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18. Afternoon Sea Experience at Jumbo Seafood Ion Orchard
Looking for a switch up from Christmas roasts and western spreads? Try the seafood-themed afternoon tea experience offered exclusively at Jumbo Seafood‘s ION Orchard outlet. The 12-course set features prized delicacies like crab, lobster, scallop, and abalone in tasty, bite-sized portions. Favourites include shelled prawn fried with cereal, scallop wrapped in yam ring, and chilli crab meat sauce with fried mantou. Savour the chilled lime jelly with mixed fruits for a refreshing end to your meal.
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