#food

Singapore turned 61 on 9 August 2026, and every SG61 National Day food special on this list has now closed. The last one standing, Swensen's SG61 menu ($18.61 Singapore Laksa Pizza and Jumbo Blue Prawn Hokkien Mee, $61 Family Set for three), ran to 9 September and has been taken off Swensen's promotions page. Five others ended on 31 August: Springleaf Prata Place's free teh tarik with the $8.90 Prata Smash Burger, Pizza Maru's Chilli Crab and Salted Egg New Menu Special, the $61-spend freebies at Tonkatsu ENbiton and Tamago-EN, and Dian Xiao Er's three new dishes with the MerDuck keychain. Guzman y Gomez's Butter Chicken filling never had an end date, but it no longer appears on GYG's menu page. We re-checked all seven on 21 October against each brand's own site or ordering menu. Below is the standing deal each brand runs now, from Swensen's weekday Lunch Treat to Dian Xiao Er's 30% Early Bird, plus the full record of what SG61 offered.

Matcha is having its biggest moment yet in Singapore, and if you want the real, stone-ground, umami-rich stuff (not the sweet powdery kind), these are the best matcha cafés to know in 2026. We rounded up the 9 best matcha cafés in Singapore, each re-verified against its own official channels on 21 October 2026, from whisked-to-order ceremonial-grade specialists to affordable Hokkaido soft serve: Hvala (handcrafted matcha and tea-inspired desserts across four outlets, with the Odeon 333 flagship); Matchaya (the local pioneer since 2015, at Tiong Bahru and Suntec City #02-737); Tsujiri (the Kyoto Uji house dating to 1860, now eight outlets including three Premium tea houses, one of them the only matcha specialist in Holland Village); Matsu Matcha (the CBD kiosk at Guoco Tower stone-milling its own matcha on a Kyoto mill, lattes from $7.90); Kurasu Singapore (a minimalist Kyoto specialty-coffee café at 261 Waterloo Street with an off-menu 'Dirty Matcha'); Nana's Green Tea (the Japanese café chain at Plaza Singapura, DUO Galleria and Guoco Tower doing matcha lattes, parfaits and savoury sets); 108 Matcha Saro (the cheapest soft serve here, and the one that moved: it has left Suntec City and now runs kiosks at ION Orchard, Bugis Junction and Tampines One); Kyō Teahouse (the Cross Street grab-and-go bar pouring JAS organic Okumidori matcha, 9am to 9pm daily); and ECHO @ KADA (ceremonial matcha and a proper seat in a restored 1920s building beside Maxwell Food Centre). Below: what each is best known for, exact outlets, where to find matcha near you by area (Holland Village, Suntec, the CBD, Orchard, Bugis, Chinatown and the heartlands), and how to order a proper matcha latte.