13% Wine Bistro @Telok Ayer

Sick of Singapore’s half-baked wine bar concepts? Gagging on cookie-cutter tapas-y, share-plate-like scraps culled from better establishments’ compost heaps? Forget the rest, go the whole hog and reserve a complete oenological and gastronomic experience with 13% Gastro Wine. For sommelier Bruno Vaillant and award-winning chef Geoffrey Weckx, who can tot up a grand total of a quarter-century or more in the bar and restaurant business, the glass is always more than half full, but that means there’s always room for their entrepreneurial spirit and cuisine-mad passion to grow and keep them going the whole nine yards. Find their often completely full wine bar in a classic Kampong Glam heritage shophouse along Aliwal Street, closest to Bugis MRT, for fulsome comfort food, cheese platters and other dividable portions of European delight plus, naturally, an incredibly well-considered selection of fine wines.