Barnacles Restaurant and Bar (main picture)
At: Rasa Sentosa Resort, Singapore
Tel: 6371-2930
Open: Noon to 3pm, 6.30 to 10.30pm
Serves: Mediterranean dishes and Asian-inspired specialities
Must-try: Chef's seafood platter ($225) and the tuna carpaccio ($22, marinated raw tuna with seaweed, basil, lemon and virgin olive oil)

Bosses
At: 02-156/157 VivoCity
Tel: 6376-9740/41
Open: 11am to 10pm
Serves: Cantonese and Shanghainese cuisine
Must-try: Xiaolongbao or soup dumplings in lobster bisque ($8) and aromatic crispy duck ($25 for half a duck)

Go India
At: 01-152/155 VivoCity
Tel: 6376-9644
Open: Noon to 11pm
Serves: Authentic Northern Indian cuisine
Must-try: Three Pepper Lamb Sheekh Kebab ($18) and Shabnum Purluft ($16, mushrooms stuffed with cottage cheese)

il Lido
At: Sentosa Golf Club, Bukit Manis Road
Tel: 6866-1977
Open: 11.30am to 2.30pm, 6.30 to 11pm
Serves: Traditional Italian food
Must-try: Pigeon two ways with pan-roasted breast and confit legs, roast figs and sage mashed potatoes ($68) and traditional piedmontese veal ravioli (right, $32)

Malan Yi Pin Feng Wei
At: 01-13C, Colours by the Bay, Esplanade
Tel: 6835-7988
Open: 11am to 11pm
Serves: Northern Chinese cuisine such as dimsum and handmade noodles
Must-try: Oxtail and ox ligament noodles ($12.80) and beef brisket claypot ($12)

Pier Eleven
At: 02-07 Marina South Pier
Tel: 6532-6950
Open: 11.30am to 3pm, 6 to 11pm
Serves: Modern European and Mediterranean delights
Must-try: Crispy skin cod with miso and ginger soy ($28) and pan-roasted scallion with candied walnut ($12)

Villa Seafood Galleria
At: 30 Labrador Villa Road
Tel: 6337-0351
Open: 11.30am to 3pm, 6 to 10.30pm
Serves: Fusion Chinese seafood cuisine
Must-try: Fried noodles with seafood (from $18) and chilled pumpkin mango sago ($5)

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