☕ Cafes in Singapore
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About Singapore for Solo Travelers
The world's most efficient city — spotlessly clean, impeccably connected, and home to the hawker centre tradition where solo travelers eat some of Asia's finest food at communal tables for under $5.
Solo Travel Tips· Solo Friendly
Singapore is the world's most efficient solo travel city — the MRT covers everything, English is official, hawker centres are designed for solo eating (just point at what looks good and take any available seat), and the city is extraordinarily safe at any hour. Gardens by the Bay at night, the Marina Bay skyline, and Chinatown's Maxwell Food Centre are all perfect solo experiences. It's expensive by Southeast Asian standards but world-class by any measure.
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Great infrastructure, English-friendly, well-established solo traveler culture.
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Chye Seng Huat Hardware Singapore
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A celebrated specialty coffee bar in a converted hardware shop in Jalan Besar, known as CSHH, serving exceptional single-origin filter coffees, experimental espresso, and a brunch menu in a cavernous industrial space that launched countless Singapore coffee trends.
📍150 Tyrwhitt Road, Singapore 207565
Curious Palette Singapore
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A light-filled all-day brunch cafe at One-North business park with an artsy, gallery-like interior, excellent specialty coffee, and creative brunch dishes that attract Singapore's creative and tech industries. Known for the truffle scrambled eggs and the matcha latte with house-made oat milk.
📍54 Beo Crescent, Singapore 160054
Maison Ikkoku Singapore
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A four-story cocktail bar and cafe in Kampong Glam with excellent specialty coffee on the ground floor, a speakeasy bar above, and a penthouse with Arab Street rooftop views. The house espresso cocktail - vodka, coffee, vanilla foam - is Singapore's most requested coffee drink.
📍20 Kandahar Street, Singapore 198885
Nylon Coffee Roasters Singapore
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One of Singapore's smallest and most respected specialty coffee roasteries with a tiny cafe counter in a Everton Park HDB block, serving some of the city's finest pourovers. Nylon roasts twice weekly and the tasting notes on their single-origins are some of the most accurate in Singapore.
📍4 Everton Park, Singapore 081004
Papa Palheta Singapore
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Singapore's most influential specialty coffee roastery, which single-handedly built the island's third-wave coffee culture. The Tiong Bahru cafe serves immaculate pourovers and espresso from beans sourced on annual origin trips to farms in Myanmar, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
📍150 Tyrwhitt Road, Singapore 207565
Tiong Bahru Bakery Singapore
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The beloved Singapore outpost of the famous French baker Gontran Cherrier, with the best croissants and kouign-amann in Southeast Asia alongside excellent specialty coffee. The Tiong Bahru original location in a 1930s art deco precinct is the quintessential Singapore Sunday morning experience.
📍56 Eng Hoon Street, Singapore 160056