Nouri

Book the chef's counter — and plan for at least two visits

If you can only act on one piece of advice about Nouri, make it this: request the marble chef's counter when you reserve. The main dining room at 72 Amoy St is good, but the counter puts you directly in front of the kitchen action and gives you the kind of context that makes Ivan Brehm's cooking land at a different level. Now for the harder truth: getting a table at all requires planning. Nouri is one of the most consistently sought-after bookings in Singapore, and the counter fills fastest. Reserve a minimum of three to four weeks out for weekday lunch, longer for Friday and Saturday dinner. If your preferred date is gone, the Sunday lunch service is your leading secondary option — it runs the same menu with slightly more availability than weekend evenings.

What Nouri actually is

Nouri is a fine-dining restaurant built around a concept Ivan Brehm calls "crossroads cooking" , the idea that cuisines, ingredients, and geographies intersect and always have. In practice this means a tasting menu that moves through dishes drawing on multiple culinary traditions simultaneously, not in a fusion-for-novelty way but in a way that treats shared culinary DNA as the subject matter. Motifs , vanilla and turmeric are documented recurring examples , thread through multiple courses, so the menu functions more like a structured argument than a sequence of plates. The experience builds: lighter flavours in early courses give way to a more intense, concentrated climax. This is not a restaurant where you graze; it's a restaurant where you pay attention.

Opinionated About Dining ranked Nouri #52 in Asia in 2024 and #64 in 2025 , a slight slip in ranking but still firmly in the top tier of the continent's most scrutinised restaurants. The Google rating sits at 4.6 across 433 reviews, which for a $$$$ tasting-menu format is a reliable signal that the execution is consistent rather than occasionally brilliant. The OAD ranking in particular carries weight here: it's a critic-sourced list that skews toward technical restaurants where the cooking holds up under close examination. Nouri belongs on that list for conceptual rigour, not just polish.

For the food-focused traveller comparing this to the broader Asian creative-cuisine tier, the useful peer context is that Nouri operates in a similar register to Gaggan Anand in Bangkok or Mosu in Hong Kong , restaurants where a strong intellectual framework shapes the menu from the first course to the last. If you've eaten at Bo Innovation in Hong Kong and found the concept-forward approach rewarding, Nouri is squarely in that camp. If you found it exhausting, recalibrate expectations accordingly.

A multi-visit strategy worth planning

Nouri's menu structure , with recurring motifs that develop across a meal , makes it one of the few Singapore restaurants where a second visit within the same year is genuinely worth considering rather than just possible. The crossroads cooking concept is deep enough that a different menu iteration will read differently once you understand the framework. First visit: take the full tasting menu at the counter, ask questions, let the progression land. Second visit: if a lunch format is available, the pacing is different and lets you notice what changes and what persists. A third visit, if you're a serious follower of this type of cooking, is reasonable if you're tracking the seasonal menu evolution , lunch service runs Wednesday through Friday and Sunday, giving you more scheduling flexibility than dinner alone.

This multi-visit logic applies especially if you're already planning to eat at Odette, Born, or Les Amis on the same trip. Those restaurants represent different philosophies , Odette is more classically French-inflected, Born is sustainability-focused, Les Amis prioritises the wine programme , and eating at two or three of them in sequence gives you a sharper read on what Nouri is doing that is specific to Brehm's approach. Singapore's upper end is dense enough that spacing your visits across lunch and dinner formats, across different restaurants, gives the kind of comparative context that makes each individual meal more legible.

Hours, access, and what to expect logistically

Nouri is closed Monday and Tuesday. Lunch service runs Wednesday through Friday and Sunday, 12 PM to 2:30 PM. Dinner runs Wednesday through Sunday, 6 PM to midnight. Saturday is dinner-only. The address is 72 Amoy St in the Tanjong Pagar/Telok Ayer area, a short walk from Telok Ayer MRT. The neighbourhood has a strong concentration of serious restaurants and bars, which makes it practical to build an evening around the area rather than treating Nouri as an isolated destination. For bar options before or after, see our full Singapore bars guide. For hotels within proximity, our Singapore hotels guide covers the options across price tiers.

The $$$$ price designation places this at the leading of Singapore's restaurant pricing tier. At that level, you are in the same bracket as Zén and Waku Ghin, both of which run at comparable price points with very different experiences. For the explorer who wants to map the full range of what Singapore's top tier looks like, Nouri, Zén, and Jaan by Kirk Westaway together give you three meaningfully different answers to the question of what fine dining looks like in this city. See our full Singapore restaurants guide for a broader view of the category. For comparable creative-cuisine experiences elsewhere in Asia, Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet in Shanghai is the most theatrical end of the spectrum; Nouri is more restrained and intellectually focused by comparison. Globally, if you've eaten at Atomix in New York or Lazy Bear in San Francisco and valued the way those restaurants make the diner feel like a participant rather than an audience member, Nouri operates in a related mode.

Quick reference: 72 Amoy St, Singapore | Wed–Fri & Sun lunch 12–2:30 PM, Wed–Sun dinner 6 PM–midnight, Sat dinner only, Mon–Tue closed | Price tier: $$$$ | Booking difficulty: hard , reserve 3–4 weeks minimum, request the chef's counter.