Marina Bay sits right against Singapore’s Central Business District, so the two overlap more than most visitors expect — a Michelin-starred dining room can be a five-minute walk from a $42 business lunch set. This guide to restaurants in Marina Bay and the CBD covers both ends of that range, from rooftop tasting menus at Marina Bay Sands to the waterfront spots locals actually use for client lunches.
Michelin-Starred Dining at Marina Bay Sands
Marina Bay Sands alone holds several of the Michelin Guide‘s Singapore picks, spread across its hotel towers. CUT by Wolfgang Puck is Singapore’s only Michelin-starred steakhouse, serving beef sourced globally including premium Japanese cuts, with a one-star rating it’s held since 2016. Waku Ghin, chef Tetsuya Wakuda’s omakase counter, has also carried a Michelin star continuously, with a Chef’s Table format built around Japanese ingredients flown in seasonally. Newer to the tower is Jin Ting Wan, a Cantonese restaurant 55 floors up that earned its first Michelin star in 2026 under executive chef Albert Li. For French, Maison Boulud — Daniel Boulud’s Marina Bay Sands restaurant, which opened in 2024 in the former db Bistro & Oyster Bar space — holds a Michelin Guide recommendation, with waterfront seating and a weekend brunch.
Two-Michelin-Star Fine Dining at the Waterfront
A short walk from Marina Bay Sands, two of the area’s most decorated tables sit at older, established addresses. Saint Pierre, at One Fullerton overlooking the bay, holds two Michelin stars for modern French cooking with a strong seafood focus — one of only a handful of two-star restaurants in Singapore. At the Mandarin Oriental, Cherry Garden by Chef Fei serves Cantonese-Teochew cuisine under a chef who has held two Michelin stars elsewhere in his career, with a menu built around double-boiled soups and barbecued meats rather than the more common dim sum format.
Restaurants in Marina Bay with a View
For diners who want the skyline as much as the food, a handful of restaurants in Marina Bay build the whole experience around height. Zafferano, on the 43rd floor of OCBC Centre, serves seasonal Italian food with an open view across the bay toward the Sands towers — a popular pick for both dinner and business lunches that still want a view attached. Back inside Marina Bay Sands, Spago, Wolfgang Puck’s other restaurant in the complex, sits 57 storeys up and has held a Forbes Travel Guide four-star rating for ten consecutive years alongside its Michelin Guide recommendation.
Casual and Business-Lunch Options in the CBD
Not every meal near Marina Bay needs a jacket and a tasting menu. At the Fullerton Bay Hotel, The Clifford Pier serves Asian-Western fusion — wagyu beef rendang and prawn laksa with quail eggs among the signatures — in a restored 1930s pier building, with a more relaxed dress code than its Michelin-starred neighbors. In Raffles Place proper, The Black Swan runs an Art Deco dining room built around a steakhouse-bistro menu, with a two-course lunch set priced around S$42 that’s become a standard choice for CBD business lunches rather than an evening destination.
| Tier | Examples | Typical Per-Person Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Michelin tasting menu | Saint Pierre, Waku Ghin, CUT | S$150–S$400+ |
| Upscale with a view | Zafferano, Spago, Cherry Garden | S$70–S$150 |
| Business lunch / casual | The Black Swan, The Clifford Pier | S$35–S$70 |
More CBD Options Worth Knowing
Beyond the standouts above, the CBD has a deep bench of reliable lunch and dinner spots that don’t need a special occasion attached:
- Wakanui — a New Zealand steakhouse near Marina Bay with private meeting rooms, popular for client lunches that need a bit more privacy than an open dining room.
- Jade — modern Cantonese with dim sum and set lunches in the S$58-68 range, a step down in price from the hotel-tower fine-dining rooms without losing much in quality.
- Osteria Art — Italian near City Hall running a S$48 three-course power lunch on weekdays, a straightforward option when the meeting needs a table rather than a destination.
Getting There and Booking Tips
Marina Bay Sands’ restaurants cluster around Bayfront MRT, while the CBD and Raffles Place spots sit closer to Raffles Place and Telok Ayer MRT stations — most of the venues above are a 5-15 minute walk from one of these three stations, so a taxi is rarely necessary during the day. Michelin-starred tables in this area — Saint Pierre and Waku Ghin especially — routinely book out 2-4 weeks ahead for weekend dinners, so reserve early if a specific date matters. Weekday lunch sets are almost always the cheapest way into a kitchen that’s expensive at dinner; several of the restaurants above, including Saint Pierre and Cherry Garden, run set lunch menus at a fraction of their tasting-menu dinner price. If you’re staying at one of the Marina Bay hotels covered elsewhere on this site, most of these restaurants are within a 10-15 minute walk of the bay’s main hotel cluster.
For the wider area these restaurants sit in, see this site’s Marina Bay travel guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the best Michelin-starred restaurant in Marina Bay?
Saint Pierre at One Fullerton holds two Michelin stars for modern French cuisine, the highest rating of any restaurant covered here. CUT by Wolfgang Puck and Waku Ghin, both at Marina Bay Sands, each hold one star.
Are there affordable restaurants in Marina Bay and the CBD?
Yes — The Black Swan in Raffles Place runs a two-course lunch set around S$42, and several fine-dining kitchens in the area, including Saint Pierre and Cherry Garden, offer set lunch menus well below their dinner tasting-menu price.
Do I need to book in advance?
For Michelin-starred restaurants, yes — 2-4 weeks ahead for weekend dinners is a reasonable buffer. Casual and business-lunch spots generally take walk-ins on weekdays outside the core 12-1:30pm rush.
Bottom Line
Restaurants in Marina Bay and the CBD cover a genuinely wide range — from two-Michelin-star tasting menus to S$42 business lunch sets within a few minutes’ walk of each other. Book the tasting menus early, use weekday lunch sets to try the expensive kitchens on a budget, and lean on Raffles Place’s business-lunch spots when you just need a good meal without the occasion attached. Whichever tier you pick, the density here means you rarely need to travel far between where you’re staying and where you’re eating.