Overview
Restaurant Views: 3,538
Awards
- MICHELIN Guide
- OAD
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Asian Restaurants 2026, 4
- The World’s50 Best
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Asia`s 50 Best Restaurants 2025, #79
- La Liste
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La Liste, #62
- Restaurant Ranking
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Restaurant Ranking 2024, #33, PRO #19.83, USER #0.00
Chef
T.C. Chua
Cuisine
European Contemporary
Foodle Reviews
Back in January I finally made it to @restaurantzen.sgp Zén in Singapore, Björn Frantzén’s three-Michelin-starred sister restaurant to Frantzén in Stockholm.
It’s one of those restaurants where the experience starts to feel different almost immediately. Set inside a beautiful old shophouse on Bukit Pasoh Road, dinner unfolds across three floors — beginning with snacks and opening courses downstairs, moving upstairs for the main part of the menu, and eventually finishing in the... More
Back in January I finally made it to @restaurantzen.sgp Zén in Singapore, Björn Frantzén’s three-Michelin-starred sister restaurant to Frantzén in Stockholm.
It’s one of those restaurants where the experience starts to feel different almost immediately. Set inside a beautiful old shophouse on Bukit Pasoh Road, dinner unfolds across three floors — beginning with snacks and opening courses downstairs, moving upstairs for the main part of the menu, and eventually finishing in the living room with desserts and petit fours.
The cooking follows the Frantzén DNA but very much has its own identity: Nordic at its core, with French technique and a strong Japanese influence running through the menu. Beautiful produce, big flavours, plenty of luxury, but without everything feeling overly serious.
What I particularly enjoyed was how relaxed the whole thing felt. For a restaurant operating at this level, there’s a warmth and informality to the service and surroundings that makes the evening feel less like a conventional fine-dining experience and more like being very well looked after in somebody’s rather spectacular home.
A seriously good meal and comfortably one of the highlights of that Singapore trip.
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Michelin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Best Chef Awards - 🔪🔪🔪
OAD - 2 (Asia list)
Asia’s 50 Best - 21
La Liste - Best restaurant in Singapore 2025
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#ZenSingapore #RestaurantZen #BjornFrantzen #SingaporeFood #SingaporeRestaurants Less
Follow me to @restaurantzen.sgp by @bjornfrantzen - the only chef in the world currently with 3 Three Michelin Starred restaurants - Frantzén in Stockholm, Zén in Singapore, and FZN in Dubai! Similar to the flagship Frantzén, Zén offers Nordic cuisine with a touch of Japanese elegance and Asian influence. The dining experience spans across 3 floors in the classic shophouse that used to house Restaurant Andre, starting in the kitchen with a showcase of the day’s ingredients.... More
Follow me to @restaurantzen.sgp by @bjornfrantzen - the only chef in the world currently with 3 Three Michelin Starred restaurants - Frantzén in Stockholm, Zén in Singapore, and FZN in Dubai! Similar to the flagship Frantzén, Zén offers Nordic cuisine with a touch of Japanese elegance and Asian influence. The dining experience spans across 3 floors in the classic shophouse that used to house Restaurant Andre, starting in the kitchen with a showcase of the day’s ingredients. Here, I enjoyed an aperitif and a series of amuse bouche before heading to the dining room on the second floor for the main part of the meal. Highlights included the chawanmushi with grilled abalone and guinea fowl with Sichuan pepper, along with the Frantzen signature onion soup with liquorice and truffle French toast. Lastly, my lunch ended in the living room on the top floor with petit fours and tea. Complemented with an impressive mixed pairing (in particular the non-alcoholic drinks) and top notch hospitality, this was a splendid way to spend an afternoon in Singapore!
The menu:
“The Kitchen”
- Yuba cancoillotte & broccoli
- Croustade veal & lovage
- Tartlet crustacean, hibiscus & kohlrabi
- Beignet foie gras & champignon de Paris
“The Dining Room”
- Crudo: Amberjack, heart of palm, leche de tigre
- Marron, lardo, turnip dashi, wasabi
- Chawanmushi, abalone, 100 days aged pork, ikura
- Onion, almond & liquorice
- Monkfish, asari clam, buttermilk whey, Zén Réserve caviar
- Guinea fowl, Szechuan pepper, nduja, morel
- French toast, ‘Grande Tradition 2008’
- Kinako, cherry, batak pepper
- Beetroot, violet, blackcurrant
“The Living Room”
- Amaou strawberry & bergamot
- Kontai kinkan & clove
- Crown muskmelon & Manzanilla
- Macaron cardamom & roasted yeast
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3*, Zén
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Experience @restaurantzen.sgp ✨
- Turbot, razor clam, yoghurt whey, artichoke -
- Scallop, foie gras, kampot pepper, blackcurrant -
- A4 Wagyu, kabu, wasabi, gyoja ninniku -
- French toast grande edition 2008 -
- Carrot ice cream, hoshigaki, mikan, jin xuan oolong -
Great experience by @toraikc @martinofner_ @bjornfrantzen
Experience @restaurantzen.sgp ✨
- Aged cheese cracker & spices -
- Beer tartlet, poached crustacean, dill -
- Pelle Janzon blini, wagyu, vendace roe -
- Croustade manganji & fontina -
- Vol au vent, cep, galangal -
- Crudo, caviar, chutoro, argan oil, myoga -
- Chawanmushi, king crab, sea buckthorn, uni, saffron -
- Onion, almond, liquorice -
Great experience by @toraikc @martinofner_ @bjornfrantzen 🙏
As always, the Zén team were flawless in their narrative driven presentation of each dish—drawing your attention to the seasonal ingredients, their origin and preparation🙌🏻. Loved the regular appearance of sake varietals which were used to great effect in the pairing👏🏻.
Notable pairing: Akamutsu, Roasted Cauliflower Dashi, Zén Reserve Caviar x Shichihonyari Kokoku Yamahai 2018 🍶🐟
Moments of Zén😌. I was eager to return to Zén, after a long, memorable dinner there in 2019✨. 4 years, almost to the day, later we began our meal—as one does at Zén—with a delightful selection of amuse bouche and bubbles🫧, before ascending the stairs to the dining room where our culinary adventure continued. 🍄🦞🍶
Notable pairing: Kuruma Ebi & Buckthorn x Tamagawa & Zén Time Machine ‘88 (Kinoshita Shuzō • Kyoto)
Moments of Zén😌. I was eager to return to Zén, after a long, memorable dinner there in 2019✨. 4 years, almost to the day, later we began our meal—as one does at Zén—with a delightful selection of amuse bouche and bubbles🫧, before ascending the stairs to the dining room where our culinary adventure continued. 🍄🦞🍶
Notable pairing: Kuruma Ebi & Buckthorn x Tamagawa & Zén Time Machine ‘88 (Kinoshita Shuzō • Kyoto)
Totally Zen @restaurantzen.sgp
- Chawanmushi, matsutake, foie gras, cabbage -
- Lobster, carrot curry paste, saffron -
- Onion, almond, liquorice -
- Kinki, blue mussels, lardo, galangal sabayon -
- Quail, lemon, vanilla, long pepper -
- French toast, double marinated beef -
- Yuzu marshmallow, buntan, coconut -
- Beet, raspberry, balsamic, violet -
Foodtastic experience by @tristinfarmer ✨
Totally Zen @restaurantzen.sgp
- Råraka -
- Choux de bourgogne, hazelnut -
- Croustade, artichoke, shiroita kombu -
- Tartelette, crustacean, strawberry hot sauce -
- Kombu beignet, truffle, nutmeg -
- Crudo saba, wasabi, fermented strawberry, coffee -
Perfect start of a foodtastic experience by @tristinfarmer ✨
Lunch service(on fridays) and the Spring menu arrives at Zen, and the vibe feels much more laid back with the natural light coming in, plus I think I may have found the spot with the best lighting just in time for dessert-
Beet and raspberry sorbet buried under a tea infused mousse, dusted with beet powder and painted with aged balsamic vinegar, served alongside pistachio waffles. Looks just like a painting 💯
Restaurant Zen, the Singapore offspring of Michelin-starred Frantzén and serves a fabolous meal by Frantzén’s head chef Marcus Jemmark. Stunning ingredients, impeccable presentations.
Just a small snapshot of what to expect at @restaurantzen.sgp. I always worry when I visit a place and the first time is magic — can they keep it up and wow me again? For the whole Zén team, it was an emphatic yes.
An excellent outpost of Frantzen in Stockholm with same high standards of execution and flavors
Frantzen's outpost in Singapore, same concept but independent interpretation. They move you from floor to floor, show you the ingredients in an ice box and they have a same interieur feeling.
The could not get rid of the famous truffle toast, but apart from that they have entirely different dishes.
The set-up forces them to bring a lot to the table and do quite some plating there, which makes it a very interactive experience.
Overall a very pleasant experience with excellent food and great hospitality.... More
Frantzen's outpost in Singapore, same concept but independent interpretation. They move you from floor to floor, show you the ingredients in an ice box and they have a same interieur feeling.
The could not get rid of the famous truffle toast, but apart from that they have entirely different dishes.
The set-up forces them to bring a lot to the table and do quite some plating there, which makes it a very interactive experience.
Overall a very pleasant experience with excellent food and great hospitality. Less
Restaurant Zén was such a great experience that I ran out of superlatives. I love this kind of fine dining - unabashedly modern, without sacrificing quality and style. Reminds me a lot of why I fell in love with Saison years back. Not posting too much of the food to keep it a surprise, but everything I ate was basically perfect. Outstanding, smart pairings. Brilliantly cool staff. I left after 5.5 hours only because jet lag was kicking my ass. Also, I don’t believe in God, but I do believe in... More
Restaurant Zén was such a great experience that I ran out of superlatives. I love this kind of fine dining - unabashedly modern, without sacrificing quality and style. Reminds me a lot of why I fell in love with Saison years back. Not posting too much of the food to keep it a surprise, but everything I ate was basically perfect. Outstanding, smart pairings. Brilliantly cool staff. I left after 5.5 hours only because jet lag was kicking my ass. Also, I don’t believe in God, but I do believe in Zén waffles and wild strawberries. Go now, before it’s impossible to get in and they get all the international accolades. Less
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Address
41 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore
Hours
Tuesday: 12:00 - 17:00
Wednesday: 12:00 - 17:00
Thursday: 12:00 - 17:00
Friday: 12:00 - 17:00
Saturday: 12:00 - 17:00
Sunday: Closed
Phone
+6565348880
Price Range
Based on country average
$$$$ (SGD 100+)
