Best Private Dining Rooms in Singapore 2026
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Singapore is built for private dining. The three-star French houses keep small jewel-box rooms for a dozen guests, and the hotel Cantonese restaurants run banquet salons that seat forty under a single lazy susan. The trick is matching the room to the party: a sealed cellar for a board dinner, a skyline floor for a celebration, a tatami suite for a quiet deal. Below are seven rooms worth booking, with who runs the kitchen, the capacity, the spend, and the route to reserving the room rather than a corner of the dining room.
Singapore's private rooms split between the three-star French houses and the hotel Cantonese halls. Les Amis and Odette hold the most coveted small rooms; Shisen Hanten, Imperial Treasure and Summer Palace run the big banquet salons; Jaan and Waku Ghin own the views.
Few cities make private dining this easy. Singapore packs three-Michelin-star French rooms and grand hotel Cantonese halls into a few square kilometres, and almost all of them keep dedicated private spaces with their own service, their own set menus, and in the Chinese rooms their own karaoke and tea service. What follows is not a list of restaurants that will squeeze in a long table. It is seven rooms designed from the start to be closed off, ranked by how well they handle a real occasion, with capacity, the typical minimum spend, and the person to email to lock the room.
Les Amis
French · Shaw Centre, Orchard · $$$$
Les Amis holds three Michelin stars on Scotts Road, and chef Sebastien Lepinoy keeps two private rooms that are the most requested small spaces in the city. The Magnum Room seats around ten and feels like a private wine cellar, the right room for a proposal or a board of directors. Bookings run on the Classic or Degustation menu as a per-head minimum, roughly S$395 and up before wine, and the cellar is one of the deepest in Asia. Email the reservations team and name the Magnum Room directly; it goes weeks ahead for prime dates.
Odette
Modern French · National Gallery, City Hall · $$$$
Odette earned three Michelin stars under chef Julien Royer inside the National Gallery, and its private room carries the same blush-and-bronze calm as the main dining room. It holds a small party for the full tasting menu, with the gallery setting doing the work most rooms need flowers for. This is the room for a milestone the guests should remember, a significant birthday or an anniversary, rather than a working dinner. The tasting is the only format, so the minimum is the menu times the seats, and the room books far ahead. Reserve through the Odette team and ask for private dining.
Shisen Hanten
Sichuan · Orchard · $$$$
Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro sits on the 35th floor of the Hilton on Orchard with two Michelin stars and a row of private rooms built for exactly this. The Sichuan banquet format is made for sharing, so the rooms scale from an intimate eight to a full corporate table, each with its own service and a set banquet menu you agree in advance. Views over Orchard Road and a kitchen that can pitch the chilli heat up or down make it the easiest high-end room for a mixed business group. Call the restaurant, give a head count and a budget, and they build the banquet.
Imperial Treasure Fine Chinese
Cantonese · ION Orchard · $$$
Imperial Treasure Fine Chinese Cuisine at ION Orchard is the default grand-Cantonese choice for a Singapore family banquet, with private rooms seating round tables of ten to twelve. The Peking duck and the double-boiled soups are the order, and the rooms come with the lazy susan, the tea service and the quiet that a wedding lunch or a milestone dinner needs. The spend is friendlier than the French houses, which is why locals book it for the large multi-generation events rather than a splurge. Reserve a private room directly with the restaurant and confirm the table size and any duck pre-order.
Summer Palace
Cantonese · Regent, Tanglin · $$$
Summer Palace at the Regent Singapore is the one-Michelin-star Cantonese room that hotel concierges send their best clients to, and it keeps several private rooms off the main hall. The cooking is classical and precise, the service is the polished hotel kind, and the rooms suit a discreet business lunch as easily as a family dinner. Because it sits inside a hotel on Cuscaden Road, parking, valet and a quiet entrance are all sorted, which matters for an older or VIP guest list. Ask the Regent's restaurant team for a private room and agree the set menu in advance.
Jaan by Kirk Westaway
Modern British · Swissôtel, City Hall · $$$$
Jaan by Kirk Westaway sits on the 70th floor of Swissôtel The Stamford with two Michelin stars and the best skyline in any private-dining conversation in Singapore. The Reinventing British tasting menu is the format, and a small private setting up here turns a celebration into an event before the first course lands. It is the room for impressing a visiting client or marking a promotion, where the view is the centrepiece. Seats are limited because the whole restaurant is small, so a private booking means reserving early and confirming the menu. Contact Jaan and ask about private and chef's-table options.
Waku Ghin
Japanese · Marina Bay Sands · $$$$
Waku Ghin is Tetsuya Wakuda's two-Michelin-star room at Marina Bay Sands, and it is built around private space from the start: the meal moves your party between an intimate counter and a private dining room as the courses change. That structure makes it one of the most exclusive private experiences in the city for a small group, with a set degustation built on luxury Japanese-European produce. It is the room for a high-stakes, small-headcount dinner where the cost is the point. Book through Waku Ghin well ahead and specify a private group; the format is fixed and seats are few.
Booking a private room in Singapore
The pattern splits by cuisine. The French and Japanese rooms, Les Amis, Odette, Jaan and Waku Ghin, are tiny, so a private booking usually means the set menu times the seats and a reservation weeks ahead; email the restaurant and name the room. The Cantonese halls, Shisen Hanten, Imperial Treasure and Summer Palace, are the flexible ones: give a head count and a per-head or per-table budget and they build the banquet, with the lazy susan, tea and duck pre-orders sorted. A 10 percent service charge and prevailing GST apply across the board. For the wider scene, see our Singapore dining guide and the rooms that stay open early in the week in Singapore restaurants open Monday.
Frequently asked questions
Which Singapore restaurants have private dining rooms?
Most of the city's top rooms do. Les Amis keeps the small Magnum Room, Odette has a private room inside the National Gallery, and Jaan and Waku Ghin offer intimate private settings high above the bay. For larger parties, the hotel Cantonese halls Shisen Hanten, Imperial Treasure and Summer Palace run full banquet rooms. See our Singapore dining guide for the rest.
How much does private dining cost in Singapore?
It depends on the room. The three-star French and two-star Japanese rooms charge the set menu per head, roughly S$395 and up at Les Amis before wine, so the minimum spend is the menu times the seats. The Cantonese banquet halls are friendlier, built around per-table sets, which is why families book them for large parties. A 10 percent service charge and GST apply on top.
What is the minimum spend for a private room in Singapore?
There is rarely a flat fee. Instead the room comes with a set menu and a guaranteed head count, so the minimum spend is effectively the per-head menu multiplied by the seats you confirm. At Les Amis that starts around S$395 a head; the hotel Cantonese rooms set a per-table banquet price. Always confirm the number in writing when you reserve, because no-shows still count toward the minimum.
Can you book a private room for a corporate dinner in Singapore?
Yes, and the Cantonese halls are built for it. Shisen Hanten on the 35th floor of the Hilton and Summer Palace at the Regent run private rooms that scale from a small board dinner to a full corporate table, with their own service. For a client dinner with a view, Jaan on the 70th floor is the move. Give the team a head count, a budget and any dietary notes when you book.
Do Singapore private rooms have their own menu and AV?
The set menu is standard; audio-visual depends on the venue. The hotel-based rooms, Shisen Hanten, Summer Palace, Jaan and Waku Ghin, can usually arrange a screen or microphone through the hotel's events team, which makes them the safer pick for a presentation. The standalone fine-dining rooms keep things quieter and may not have full AV. Ask specifically when you reserve, and book early for prime dates.
Rooms, capacities and minimum spends change with the season and the menu. We confirmed each restaurant and its private-dining format against its own listing before publishing; always reconfirm capacity and the set menu when you book. Affiliate links may earn Restaurants for Kings a commission at no cost to you.