Fine Dining Near Me: Odette's S$498 Menu in Singapore's Old Supreme Court

Odette holds three Michelin stars for 2026 and serves its S$498++ Épicure dinner menu inside the former Supreme Court wing of National Gallery Singapore. The address is 1 St Andrew's Road, #01-04 National Gallery Singapore, Singapore 178957, in the Civic District facing the Padang. Dinner runs Monday to Saturday from 6:30pm, with last seating at 8:15pm, and every booking needs a non-refundable S$200 per person deposit. For fine dining near me around City Hall, this is the room Asia's 50 Best named Singapore's best in 2026.

Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 and named it after his grandmother, who cooked for a family of fourth-generation farmers in Cantal, France. His first kitchen job was under Michel Bras in Laguiole, and his career moved through the French West Indies and London before he landed in Singapore in 2008. Today he is co-owner of Odette and chef-patron of Claudine, and he founded Louise, a one-star bistro in Hong Kong.

The restaurant's own timeline lists two Michelin stars in 2016, 2017 and 2018, then three stars in 2019 and every guide since, including 2026. Odette was No. 1 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants in 2019 and 2020, and No. 19 on the 2026 list with the title of Best Restaurant in Singapore. In 2025 it closed for about three months to mark its tenth year and reopened on 11 December 2025 with a refreshed room and menu.

Dinner offers two menus: Épicure at S$498++ and the vegetarian Nature & Découverte at S$398++. Two classics survived the 2025 rewrite, according to The Peak and Asia's 50 Best. One is the Kampot pepper-crusted pigeon. The other is the Jeju abalone and foie gras duo, served in a yuzu-touched pork broth that Royer modelled on the bak kut teh he ate in his early years in Singapore.

Newer dishes from the reopening include Hokkaido botan ebi glazed with yuzu kosho over dashi jelly and crème fraîche, topped with Maison Kaviari caviar, and Crab Contrast. That dish serves Norwegian king crab slow-cooked at 63°C beside a tiny chilli-crab bun, with tarragon béarnaise and Normandy brown crab remoulade. A FACT Magazine review in May 2026 described the pigeon arriving in a little garden of foliage before it is carved.

Dessert belongs to pastry chef Louisa Lim, named Asia's Best Pastry Chef in 2023. Her LOULOU Lemon hides Amalfi lemon curd, basil sorbet and genmaicha crème fraîche inside a meringue rind shaped like the fruit. The reopening also added a temperance drinks programme built on oolong, beetroot and lapsang for guests who skip wine. The wine list is organised by style rather than region, and sommeliers Hailey Huang and Wu Boxun work the floor.

Bookings go through SevenRooms, and the card is charged S$200 per person on the spot. The deposit comes off the final bill, but reservations are final: you can transfer the table to someone else or move the date, and any change must be made at least 72 hours ahead. Exclusive use of the private dining room needs a deposit of S$3,500 at lunch or S$5,000 at dinner. All listed prices carry service charge and GST on top.

The dress code is smart casual, with a request to dress up. Men are asked to wear trousers and proper shoes, and sportswear, shorts and flip-flops are not allowed. The restaurant only accepts children above the age of nine. A birthday cake from the pastry team costs S$78++ with 72 hours' notice. Odette serves tasting menus only, and guests who avoid raw seafood can swap in dishes from the plant-forward menu.

Honest advice: do not book Odette if anyone at the table has a dairy allergy or intolerance, because the restaurant states it cannot cater to it. Skip the bring-your-own-bottle route too. Corkage is S$200++ per 750ml for each of the first two bottles and S$300++ for every bottle after that, so a modest bottle from home ends up costing more than one from the list.

Interior designer Sacha Leong of Nice Projects and artist Dawn Ng, who both worked on the 2015 room, came back for the 2025 refresh. The old pastel palette has given way to pale beurre and tawny umber against oyster and cherry timber veneers, with mohair velvet, cast mirrored glass and a new marble-topped wine station. The Michelin inspectors noted that every table now has sofa seating, which makes the room feel smaller and calmer.

Hanging near the entrance is Ng's Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall (2025), a ceiling of paper sculptures made from pressed paper platelets in colours drawn from petal, root, leaf and spice. Seating in the main dining room, La Salle à Manger, is assigned on a first-come basis, and the booking page warns that table requests are not guaranteed. On a weeknight the tables are mostly couples marking anniversaries, business dinners on expense accounts and food travellers who planned Singapore around this booking.

The nearest station is City Hall MRT on the North-South and East-West lines. Take Exit B and follow the Art Connector to the gallery, about a seven-minute walk. Clarke Quay MRT, Exit E, is a 10-minute stroll along the Singapore River. By bus, routes 32, 51, 63, 80 and 851 stop opposite Peninsula Plaza, five minutes from the Coleman Street Entrance, and routes 75, 100, 107, 130, 131 and 167 stop outside Victoria Concert Hall.

For dinner, use the Coleman Street Entrance, the gallery's main door, which stays open late; the Padang Atrium Entrance on St Andrew's Road closes at 7pm. Michelin notes the restaurant is reached through the Supreme Court wing's foyer. Drivers enter the gallery car park from Coleman Street, park near the exit, take the lift from Lobby B to B1 and follow the signs to the Supreme Court Wing foyer.

Arrive early enough to see the building. The gallery is open daily from 10am to 7pm with last admission at 6:30pm, so a 4pm visit leaves time before a 6:30pm seating. Look up at the five frieze panels on the Supreme Court facade, which show construction, rubber tapping, fishing, trade and the 1819 treaty signing. Under the copper dome sits the Rotunda Library, a former law library with its circular balcony restored.

The Supreme Court, designed by Frank Dorrington Ward, was finished in 1939 and built to match the height of Alexander Gordon's City Hall from 1929. studioMilou Architecture won a field of 111 entries to join them under one canopy. Plan B: if Odette is full or it is Sunday, National Kitchen by Violet Oon at #02-01 in the City Hall wing serves Peranakan dinners every night from 6pm, with last orders at 9:30pm.

Odette, 1 St Andrew's Road, #01-04 National Gallery Singapore, Singapore 178957. Lunch Tuesday to Saturday, last seating 1pm. Dinner Monday to Saturday from 6:30pm, last seating 8:15pm. Closed Sunday. Lunch menus: Delight, four courses, S$288++; Indulgence, six courses, S$468++; vegetarian Nature & Découverte S$348++. Dinner: Épicure S$498++, vegetarian Nature & Découverte S$398++. Deposit S$200 per person, changes 72 hours ahead. Nearest station: City Hall MRT, Exit B.