It is one of the most exciting nights in Singapore’s cooking scene and after two years, the Michelin Instruction 2022 has came back with a physical event for the sixth release of its annual celebrity revelation.
Fittingly, this particular year’s ceremony happened on Tuesday evening (Jul 12) at Singapore’s iconic Marina Bay Sands. The final physical event for your guide’s release was in 2019 at Capella Singapore. For 2020, the star revelation was cancelled because of restaurants’ prolonged COVID-19 closures and in 2021, the guide was revealed online via a livestream.
This year, 52 restaurants were awarded their stars, upward from 49 last year. Seven new restaurants made it onto the one-star list. These included Burnt Ends (which relocated to Dempsey in December last year), Raffles Hotel’s La Dame de Pic, Japanese cafe Hamamoto and French-Japanese restaurant Reve.
Also attaining their first one-star were gastro-botanical eating place Euphoria, helmed by chef Jason Color (formerly of Part House fame), plus modern Korean cafe Nae: um, helmed by chef Louis Han. Han was also awarded the Younger Chef Award pertaining to 2022.
Located at Backyards by the Bay, Marguerite, led by chef-owner Michael Wilson, also got its first star.