Nordic with Japanese touches · Bukit Pasoh · Singapore, Singapore
How to book Zén
The drop
Tables for the coming month open on the 1st of each month at 10:00 Singapore time.
Rule from the restaurant's own site, last read by us 30 September 2026.
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- the 1st at 10:00, next month (Singapore time)
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About Zén
Zén is the Singapore restaurant of Swedish chef Björn Frantzén, whose Frantzén Group also runs Frantzén in Stockholm and FZN in Dubai, all three holding three Michelin stars1. It opened in late 2018 in the three-storey Bukit Pasoh shophouse that once housed Restaurant André, and it was Frantzén's first restaurant in Asia3. The Michelin Guide gave it three stars in 20211,2. In 2024 Toraik "TC" Chua and Martin Öfner were named its executive chefs and introduced a new menu5.
The cooking is a set menu built on Nordic cuisine with Japanese touches, and Michelin describes it as leaning towards seafood1,2. Frantzén signatures such as the "French Toast", on his menus since 2008, sit beside newer dishes3,5. The restaurant lists a lunch menu at SGD 450++ and a dinner menu at SGD 620++, with alcoholic and non-alcoholic pairings1.
The meal moves through the building. Guests start with snacks and an aperitif in the ground-floor kitchen, go up to the dining room for the main courses, and finish with dessert and tea in a living room upstairs2,3,4. The restaurant gives its size as 23 seats over three floors and asks guests to allow about three and a half hours1. It serves lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday and opens the next month's tables on the 1st of each month at 10 am local time1.
What people like
- The onion course, which the Michelin Guide calls a tour de force for its play of textures and temperatures.2
- The non-alcoholic drink pairing, with unusual combinations that critics say still work.2,4
- Service: a 2019 review called it outstanding, and Time Out praised its convivial tone.4,5
- Moving from the kitchen to the candlelit dining room and on to the living room, so the meal feels like a visit to a home.4,5
- Particular dishes, among them the potato wafer with vendace roe, grilled kinmedai, and a sea buckthorn sorbet dessert praised as balanced.4,5
Pictures
Sources
Last checked 30 September 2026.
- restaurantzen.com official: Release rule (1st of each month at 10 AM local time for the coming month), party size 5-8 contact, prices, days, newsletter, checked 2026-09-30
- restaurantzen.com official: Embeds the restaurants.sg booking widget (SG_SG_R_Zen), checked 2026-09-30
- guide.michelin.com secondary: Three Stars in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide, checked 2026-09-30
- theworlds50best.com secondary: Not on The World's 50 Best 2025, 1-100, checked 2026-09-30
Sources for the description and pictures
- restaurantzen.com official: Restaurant Zén
- guide.michelin.com guide: Zén – Singapore - a MICHELIN Guide Restaurant
- theworlds50best.com guide: Zén - Singapore - Restaurant - The 50 Discovery
- robbreport.com.sg press: Restaurant Zén review: The fine-dining restaurant by Swedish chef Björn Frantzén on Bukit Pasoh in Singapore doesn't take itself too seriously
- timeout.com press: Three-Michelin-starred Restaurant Zén Launches New Menu By Freshly Appointed Executive Chefs