The best restaurants with private dining rooms in Singapore

Here’s a room with a view: Level33’s Baron Philippe de Rothschild private dining room. There’s versatility in this exclusive space, where it alone can host a grand soiree of 30 guests, or partitioned up into smaller rooms to fit parties of 11 for a minimum spending of $75 and $160 per person (min. 6 persons) for lunch and dinner respectively. Guests are treated to the aforementioned view of the sweeping Singapore skyline scene that will surely heighten one’s merriment. With that saying, the stunning panorama is just but one aspect of the Level33’s experience.

The lofty restaurant holds bragging rights of being the world’s highest urban microbrewery, where imbibers can guzzle down freshly brewed beers of Blond Lager, English-style India Pale Ale and more. The food menu equally excites with its focus of Modern European cuisine that holds ‘craft brewery’ elements. Some highlights include Quail ($27) that is marinated in stout, and the hearty Pork Intercostal ($37), featuring muscles in the ribs that are marinated in IPA and spices.

A bit of navigation may be required to locate Maggie Joan’s, a cosy restaurant seemingly hidden out of plain sight in the back alley Gemmill Lane. Upon walking through its nondescript entrance of a single steel door, Maggie Joan’s reveals to be quite an underground character, where glittering crystal chandeliers juxtapose the rustic dark wooden fixtures and the exposed brick wall, adorned with vintage posters.

Modern European creations are dished out at this stylish hole-in-the-wall, where the bounty from land and sea is distinctly highlighted by likes of the yuzu shimichi, dill and ikura plated on rice crackers ($3 each), the beef tarte ($18) served with a single egg, duck breast ($36) with carrots and plums, and barramundi ($34) doused in creamy parsley nage. For rambunctious get-togethers, Maggie Joan’s has a private dining space that seats ten persons, partitioned by a velvet curtain so that merrymaking can be done without minding your manners.

If Cantonese delights are your favourite among the rest of the remaining Chinese dialects, then head on down to Yàn, located within the very beautiful National Gallery Singapore. While many may be familiar with the traditional Cantonese sweet and sour sauce-glazed pork ribs, or even the localised lip-smacking coffee-rubbed ribs, the restaurant uncovers a lesser-known side of the Canton culinary realm with delights such as house special baked pork ribs with black olive ($13.80) and baked crab shell with crab meat and onion ($18). For those who are creatures of habit, Yàn’s signatures such as the signature crispy roast suckling pig served in three ways, and the Insta-worthy steamed thousand layer beancurd ($22) are still on its menu.

If you ever need to contain the cacophony of your Cantonese family tree, the restaurants comes with three private dining rooms, of which two can be combined to form a massive space. Fitted with oak timber strips, each room, which seats seven people with a minimum spending of $600, is homey and inviting, with swallows adorned on walls to signify grace and beauty in Chinese customs.

Dine amongst the clouds when you head up to Zafferano, perched on the 43rd floor of Ocean Financial Centre. Thanks to its floor-to-ceiling windows, the restaurant grants a stunning view of the Singapore cityscape that truly sweetens ongoing convivial affairs at the abode. However, it is unwise to let the arresting panorama overshadow the restaurant’s exquisite Italian fare.

Spotlighting the flavours of Tuscany to be precise, the culinary highlights include piquant starters of Mazara Red Prawns ($32), Saffron sauce-drizzled raw Hokkaido scallops ($32) and comforting pastas such as the squid-stuffed gundi ($26) and the saffron-laden risotto ($32) that glitters with a single 24 karat gold leaf. Need a space to celebrate a milestone? Zafferano has its roomy private dining room that seats up to 22 people with the minimum spending from $1500 (min. 8 people). But if you feel comfortable in the company of wine bottles, opt for the private Wine Room that holds 12 people with minimum spending of $1200.

Many restaurants have made promises of offering an immersive gastronomic experience. But the one to beat can well be Stellar at 1-Altitude and its latest Dom Pérignon Plénitude Suite. Together with the prestigious champagne house, Singapore’s highest restaurant comes fitted with a private dining space that is something of a secret. Therefore, visuals of the said hideout may be of a challenge to uncover. From what is gathered, the entire dining suite, which seats eight, is aglow with multimedia projections – the walls twinkle with constellation of stars and a virtual school of fish dart across the table.

Paired with the Dom Perignon champagne (P1, P2 and Rose), the seasonal-changing 10-course menu highlights the best ingredients from France, featuring charcoal bread served with olive oil and truffle oil snow, egg custard topped with Sturia caviar and aged comte cheese espuma and comte crackers. A minimum spending of $1,500 is required to partake in this multi-sensorial experience.

Grocery shopping has gotten exciting at Plentyfull. Airy, spacious and splashed out in, as the outlet likes to put it, ‘vegetable-dye colours’, the dual-concept destination comes fitted with a gourmet grocer and a full-fledged restaurant that offers yummy brunch items and healthful quick-fix lunches in the afternoon, alongside an irresistible dinner range when things wind down with the night. Abiding by its wholesome approach to food, Plentyfull dishes out sharing plates that are set to give your gut a nourishing hug.

Available from 6pm onwards, the communal feast can be built on the likes of house flat bread ($8) with nori butter ($8), fried tempeh ($8) with homemade sambal belachan, charcoal grilled house bacon cubes ($10), deep fried brussel sprouts ($8), before you obliged to sweets of Kefir lime curd ($14) and the unusual Miso soufflé ($14) served with caramelised walnut ice cream. Because Plentyfull’s space is beauty in its own right, its only private dining room, which seats up to 12 persons for a minimum spending of $400, is entirely made up of glass panes so that you can gaze out into its calming abode.

Like a moth to a flame, Xin Divine will most likely draw in those whose careers run on Instagram with its pastel-splashed venue that is fitting for a whimsical wedding reception. With natural light streaming through its floor-to-ceiling windows, the space completes the fairy tale setting with the bells and whistles of textured posh chairs, hanging chandeliers, ribbon drapery and glints of gorgeous metallic hardware such as gold-foiled cutlery and rose gold centrepieces.

Once you’ve captured the perfect OOTD shot, it’s fine time you obliged to the restaurant’s rather progressive menu, where you’ll find Chinese dishes given that ang-moh touch. Some instances include Szechuan-style tortellini ($18) that stuffs kurobuta pork in wanton skins,  before moulded to resemble the Italian pasta, the East-West mashup of Poulet De Bresse ($35), featuring roulade of decadent foie gras and Chinese wine-spiked chicken thigh that touts a crispy tempura hide. Xin Divine’s private dining space is very roomy, with a capacity of up to 16 persons for a sit-down meal.

Private dining room? More like private dining dome. Located at the rather ulu area of Seletar, multi-concept gastronomical destination The Summerhouse has recently introduced a trio of Garden Domes where guests can quite literally dine in the estate’s lush edible garden and under the stars.

Designed in three different themes of Bohemian, Scandinavian and Lounge, these bubble-like structures, which seat up to eight persons each, are not only fully air-conditioned, but also wired up with music to set the mood. A minimum spending of $300 is required for food and drinks from The Summerhouse Dining Room, where the culinary highlights of charcoal grilled slipper lobster ($16) and wood-fired free-range French Poulet ($28) can be brought directly to the dome enclosure.

From the industrial-chic main dining hall to its elusive medieval pharmacy-themed bar Apothecary, Oxwell And Co is filled with storied spaces at every floor. Even then, the multi-levelled restaurant follows the thread of an endearing British debonair, indicated by its good ole’ English nosh and design elements of hardwood flooring and arresting antler chandeliers.

At the Study on the third floor, you’ll find a private dining space that can seat up to 14 people, or 30 for a standing soiree. There’s no minimum spending if every person has a set menu if not, it’ll be at least $3500 from alacarte menu. Oxwell And Co is quite perfect for long nights, where dinner of Oxwell Angus Beef Burger ($24) and the Roast Belly of Pork ($28) can later be adjourned to drinks at the restaurant’s rooftop bar.

It is common for a Peranakan family to get quite rowdy during mealtime. So where else better than Violet Oon Bukit Timah outlet’s private dining room to hold this family affair? Seating up to 12 persons for a minimum spending of $500, the restaurant gives you the much-needed privacy in its beautiful gold-trimmed Peranakan tiled-clad space, while you tuck into refined local fare of kueh pie tee ($17), buah keluak ayam ($23), udang goreng chilli ($32), and dry laksa ($24).

Extravagance is commonly deemed as gleaming gold accents and twinkling bejewelled trimmings. Then there is The Black Swan that decided to do away with the sparkle and shine, and instead followed an art décor elegance theme by embellishing its private dining space with exposed light bulbs hanging off the ceiling like epiphanies, hardware fixtures such as a single black lacquer table fitted with rattan armchairs to accommodate 12 guests, and peculiar portraits of bird-man hybrids in suits adorning the fern-printed-clad walls.

The dining setting alone is worthy of a conversation. A minimum expenditure of $1000 is required to cover food and drinks alone, so when in doubt, opt for the three-course ($88 per person) that includes a steak or rainbow trout main.