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10 Best Buffets in Singapore That Are Worth Every Dollar and Calorie

Deng Xiang

November 18, 2025

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Singapore in 2025 is living through a golden age of excess. Hotel buffets have become the new national sport: weekends are booked solid ninety days out, corporate cards are bleeding, and everyone has that one friend who keeps a spreadsheet of lobster-per-dollar ratios. These are the ten buffets that still make grown adults set alarm clocks, fake food poisoning at work, and willingly loosen their belts in public. All prices quoted are adult dinner rates for Friday–Sunday or eve of/public holidays after taxes, unless stated otherwise.

1. Colony – The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore

$198++ (Champagne brunch $238++)

You walk in past the Chihuly glass waterfall and immediately face seven open kitchens that look like food theatre on steroids. The seafood section alone justifies the price: whole Boston lobsters steamed, grilled, or served as sashimi, Alaskan king crab legs cracked to order, Gillardeau oysters shucked in front of you, and a laksa station where the broth is cooked in individual claypots with fresh prawns the size of your palm. The meat station introduced 30-day dry-aged Tajima wagyu tomahawk in 2025, carved tableside by a chef who knows exactly how pink you want it. The heritage corner still does Hainanese chicken rice better than most hawkers, and the dessert room has a working chocolate fountain fed by Valrhona. Bookings open exactly ninety days ahead at 10 a.m.; slots vanish in four minutes.

2. Edge – Pan Pacific Singapore

$188++ (Sunday Champagne brunch $208++)

Edge wins the sheer-variety crown with fourteen live stations and over two hundred items nightly. The seafood bar stretches twelve metres: Canadian oysters, snow crab clusters, red king crab if you’re lucky, and a sashimi counter that refreshes every twenty minutes. The Indian theatre is legendary for its truffle butter naan and black-pepper crab masquerading as butter chicken. Ask politely after 9 p.m. and someone will magically appear with durian pengat that never makes the official menu. The view of Marina Bay fireworks from the window seats is free, but you’ll pay for it with your waistline.

3. Estate – Hilton Singapore Orchard

$168++ (Champagne included on weekends)

The 2024 opening that instantly dethroned several veterans. Estate turned the old Hilton shopping podium into a sprawling greenhouse of indulgence. The centrepiece is the walk-in cheese room kept at 12 °C with over forty wheels, plus a sustainable caviar station where blinis are griddled fresh. Tajima wagyu ribeye is sliced to order, lobster comes poached or grilled with miso butter, and the lobster laksa station now has a permanent queue of influencers taking overhead shots. Free-flow Perrier-Jouët Champagne is included on Friday–Sunday dinner in 2025, which explains why the 8:30 p.m. seating is harder to get than concert tickets.

4. The Line – Shangri-La Singapore

$172++

Sixteen stations, twenty years of muscle memory, and still the most consistent seafood spread on the island. The two-metre seafood pyramid collapses and is rebuilt twice nightly: Boston lobsters, Alaskan king crab, Japanese hamachi collars grilled over binchotan charcoal, and French fines de claire oysters that taste like the sea. The Hokkien mee uncle at the back wok station uses so much pork lard that the aroma reaches the entrance. Skip the roast beef and head straight for the local section; the chilli crab here is legitimately better than many dedicated restaurants.

5. Oscar’s – Conrad Singapore Orchard

158++(158++(60++ alcohol add-on)

The sleeper hit that tourists still haven’t fully colonised. Oscar’s feels like a secret because it’s hidden in the basement, but locals know the roast wagyu trolley is carved medium-rare with bone-marrow gravy, the laksa is served in claypots, and the chicken rice beats Tian Tian on certain days. From June to August the durian corner goes unlimited Mao Shan Wang and D24 pengat, causing actual traffic jams inside the restaurant.

6. Ginger – PARKROYAL on Beach Road

$138++

The best-value five-star buffet in the country. Sri Lankan mud crabs prepared four ways every night, Boston lobsters on rotation, satay grilled non-stop, and a Peranakan corner that changes monthly. Monday to Wednesday 6:30 p.m. walk-ins are still possible in 2025, which feels like cheating when everything else requires military planning.

7. Melt Café – Mandarin Oriental Singapore

$178++

Marina Bay views and a tandoor oven doing whole lobster tails wrapped in naan. Sagadawa snow crab legs arrive on ice beds, foie gras is pan-seared to order with apple chutney, and the dessert station has a nitrogen ice-cream cart. Sunday brunch upgraded to free-flow Dom Pérignon in 2025; bookings open 120 days ahead and disappear in eleven minutes flat.

8. Town Restaurant – The Fullerton Hotel

$165++

Old-school grandeur with waiters in white gloves. The roast beef trolley still comes with Yorkshire pudding and bone marrow, the kueh pie tee station is assembled live, and the Peranakan ayam buah keluak tastes like it time-travelled from 1950. The Singapore-style roasted duck rice alone is worth the heritage building entrance fee.

9. AquaMarine – Marina Mandarin

$148++

Friday–Sunday dinner features all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab legs alongside Boston lobsters and abalone porridge. The Japanese counter flies in fresh produce three times a week, and the halal section is large enough to be its own buffet. First seating at 6 p.m. means the crab legs are at maximum plumpness.

10. J65 – Singapore Marriott Tanglin

$128++ (lobster nights Thursday–Sunday)

The buffet that breaks economics. Thursday to Sunday you get unlimited Boston lobsters prepared six ways, Canadian oysters, wagyu cuts, and a Hainanese curry rice corner that locals queue for longer than the seafood. It shouldn’t exist at this price, which is why the restaurant is perpetually packed with people wearing elastic-waist pants.

The 2025 Buffet War Table (Adult Dinner, Fri–Sun/PH after ++)

Total financial and arterial damage if you attempt all ten in one month: approximately $1,650 and one new pant size.

Eat strategically, repent on the treadmill, repeat next weekend.