Christmas 2025 in Singapore is shaping up to be a feast for food lovers, with several restaurants unveiling festive menus across the city. The first to catch attention is Publico, an Italian dining venue at the InterContinental Robertson Quay, offering a riverside setting for holiday gatherings.
Publico’s Christmas Sharing Set
The restaurant’s Christmas sharing set, priced at $128 per person for a minimum of four guests, features a curated selection of Italian classics. The menu begins with colorful antipasti, including creamy burrata with datterino tomatoes and seared scallops and octopus insalata with soppressata.
Pasta courses showcase house-made tortellini with confit duck and black truffle, spinach tagliolini arrabbiata with stracciatella, and a hearty beef lasagna.
Main dishes include slow-roasted crackling porchetta with citrus asparagus, roasted potatoes, and chimichurri, alongside a pizza agnello topped with braised lamb, mascarpone cream, roasted mushrooms, and parmesan. Dessert rounds out the feast with a classic fruit cake served with luscious zabaglione and a hazelnut semifreddo.
The venue invites guests to linger with aperitivo-style cocktails, featuring options like the Clover Sparks—bright with raspberry and sparkling wine—and the Quay Pine, laced with melon liqueur and triple sec. The pet-friendly garden area provides a relaxed alternative to the indoor dining space, which overlooks the Singapore River.
Publico To-Go for Home Celebrations
For those preferring to celebrate at home, Publico To-Go delivers comforting classics and flavourful creations, ideal for family gatherings. The takeaway option ensures that traditional flavors and seasonal specialties remain accessible without the need to dine out.
To reserve a table or arrange for takeaway, visitors can visit the restaurant’s website. The sharing set is available through December 31, 2025, allowing diners to plan their end-of-year celebrations well in advance.
Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay’s Festive Celebrations
Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay infuses the holiday spirit into its interiors with carollers entertaining guests in the spacious atrium. The venue enhances the experience with festive photobooths, live tableside performances, and meet-and-greet opportunities with Santa and Santarinas.
At Peppermint restaurant, the Joyful Harvest Festive Feasts offers sustainable, farm-to-table dining from now until January 1, 2026. The lunch menu costs $72 while dinner options are priced at $98. Signature dishes include wagyu beef belly, lamb T-bone, Russian snow crab, and slow-cooked turkey seasoned with panch phoron spice. Hay-smoked salmon and other seasonal offerings highlight the menu’s focus on quality ingredients.
Shangri-La’s Origin Grill and Peranakan Delights
Shangri-La’s Origin Grill presents Christmas set menus from December 24 to 28, 2025, with six-course ($178) and eight-course ($198) options. Dishes feature Amelie Fine de Claire oysters, butter-poached Boston lobster tail, and roast turkey roulade with truffle jus. Premium cuts like Sanchoku Full-Blood Wagyu Tenderloin and Tender Valley Black Angus Striploin complete the offerings, each course paired with Penfolds Champagne or a festive mocktail.
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The Lobby Lounge at Shangri-La serves a Peranakan-inspired Christmas Day Semi-Buffet Breakfast ($68) on December 25. Highlights include Charcoal you tiao with mackerel otah, mee siam, and sambal sotong ball, paired with kopi tarik.
The Christmas Day lunch buffet ($118) features babi pongteh, nyonya snapper curry, and other traditional Peranakan dishes.
Maison Boulud’s French Elegance
Maison Boulud offers an elegant Christmas Eve set menu on December 24, priced at $168. The course begins with a choux pastry filled with cheese and truffle, followed by marinated Hokkaido scallops with caviar and dill-gin emulsion. The Soupe VGE “Élysée 1975” combines chicken, root vegetables, foie gras, and black truffle topped with a golden pastry crust.
Main choices include Rock Lobster Thermidor with creamy spinach or wagyu beef striploin with potato gratin and black garlic sauce. Dessert features white wine poached pear with French vanilla sablé, pear sorbet, and Poire William gel.
CUT by Wolfgang Puck’s Luxury Feast
CUT by Wolfgang Puck hosts a Christmas Day lunch at $145, starting with seven starters such as prime sirloin steak tartare with herb aioli. Mains spotlight Japanese Wagyu grilled over binchotan charcoal, with an optional upgrade to UK Earl Stonham Full Blood Wagyu. Desserts include Basque-style cheesecake and Peanut Caramel Bar.
Straits Kitchen and Pete’s Place Buffets
Straits Kitchen’s “A Grand Stage” theme includes lavish buffets with turkey twists like Tandoori Turkey Breast and Turkey Korma. Other highlights feature scallop tauhu telur and wok-fried salted egg yolk lobster. The buffet is priced at $130 per adult, available on Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day lunch and dinner.
At Pete’s Place, Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day lunch cost $150 per adult. The menu starts with Aragosta and Gamberi Cocktail, followed by Italian Prime Rib Roast with Tuscan rub and Vitello Tonatto. A Panettone dessert concludes the meal, with an optional free-flow beverage package including Moët & Chandon Impérial Brut.
Portman’s Bar Holiday Feast and Afternoon Tea
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, traditional favourites include the classic beef Wellington, whole duck stuffed with morel mushrooms and pistachios, and baked lobster yuzu thermidor. New Year’s Eve unveils a 45kg slow-cooked whole wagyu beef leg alongside salmon coulibiac crowned with caviar.
Over at Portman’s Bar, the Nature’s Enchantments Afternoon Tea features handcrafted savouries and whimsical pastries. Sweet surprises include the Green Tea Christmas Tree Cheesecake and Chocolate Chestnut Reindeer. Seasonal cocktails such as Tipsy Elf and Jingle Juice complement the celebrations.
