The World's Best Restaurants · 2026
Singapore, Singapore
Odette tempers French contemporary formality with Singaporean warmth and careful sourcing.
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Odette has matured from a pale, formal room into a warmer expression of Julien Royer’s French foundations and long life in Asia. The current menus show restraint rather than novelty for its own sake: precise sauce work and exceptional produce are lightened by Asian acidity, texture and seasoning. A decade of staff continuity gives the restaurant a rare institutional memory, while the 2025 refurbishment deliberately returned attention to care around the table. The Plate reaches the highest threshold, but the complete dossier does not: an unresolved 2026 allegation about handling a guest’s bottle makes the conflict review unclean and keeps Experience below the required total.
Royer’s cooking uses classical structure without pretending Singapore is France; Asian products and habits have entered the cuisine through years of practice rather than decorative fusion.
Senior cooks and service leaders have grown inside the restaurant over many years, giving daily execution continuity beyond one visible chef-owner.
The recent room and menu refresh seeks greater warmth, lighter pacing and more direct care, showing an institution willing to revise itself rather than preserve a successful formula untouched.
Four independent professional ownership groups provide unusually current reporting on the post-refurbishment restaurant, but the conflict record includes one material allegation available primarily through user-generated publication. It is recorded as an allegation, not fact. The lack of an independent resolution blocks Three while avoiding an unsupported adverse conclusion.
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